From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jun 16 12:47:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA08939 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 12:47:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA08926 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 12:47:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fewtch@serv.net) Received: from desktop-pentium (dialup535.serv.net [207.207.70.100]) by mx.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA29403 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 12:47:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980616124709.007ebb90@mx.serv.net> X-Sender: fewtch@mx.serv.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 12:47:09 -0700 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG From: Tim Gerchmez Subject: I did it... BSD is on my main PC... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've decided on a complete reorganization of my main PC (it was about time for a Win95 re-install anyway). I now have BSD up and running on my P200MMX box (vs. the 486DX2-66 on my other machine), and what a difference it makes speed-wise... also, it's nice to have the modem connection now. I have a dual boot between BSD and Win95 using the OS/2 boot manager included with Partition Magic (which I happen to like quite a bit - very configurable, and only takes a 0.3 meg partition). It's amazing how much better X-windows works on a Tseng ET-6000 PCI based card vs. an ATI Mach32 VLB card... there's no comparison. This machine blows the other one away completely. I still have no sound card that works with BSD, although I don't care much... I'm not much of a gamer, and will use Windows for sound-related stuff. I still haven't gotten the ppp0 device connected to my modem up and running yet either... more configuration to do :-) I also plan to build a custom kernel on this machine as well. Only 850 megs of space dedicated to BSD on this PC, but it should be enough - I'll do text-based C programming on the other machine (more source installed), and use this one more for fun X-Windows stuff and for modeming around the Net. Tim -- My web site starts at http://www.serv.net/~fewtch/index.html - lots of goodies for everyone, have a look if you have the time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message