From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 11 16:17:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA12063 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 16:17:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.interlog.com (root@smtp.interlog.com [198.53.145.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA12058 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 16:17:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gold.interlog.com (root@gold.interlog.com [198.53.145.2]) by smtp.interlog.com (8.7.4/8.7.4) with ESMTP id TAA04817 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 19:07:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bcrosby.interlog.com (bcrosby.interlog.com [205.206.70.59]) by gold.interlog.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id TAA02735 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 19:15:47 -0400 Message-Id: <199609112315.TAA02735@gold.interlog.com> X-Sender: bcrosby@mail.interlog.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 19:15:40 -0400 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Blake Crosby Subject: Installing Free BSD Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello! My name is Blake Crosby and I about to purchace Free BSD from you CD-ROM Distributor (can't remember the name). But before I do, I would like to ask some specific questions. Currently I am Running Win95 on a 486 DX2/66 with 8 MB of RAM, and a 14.4 bps modem. I know that this is not nearly enough power to successfully maintain a server to the www. But when I signed up with my service provider (Interlog [www.interlog.com]) they gave me my own static IP address (205.206.70.59), and I dont want this to go to waste. The reason why I want to get Free BSD now is because in the future I will be upgrading my bandwith to atleast 500kbps. I am comfertable with adding and removing partitions but What I would really like to know is if I am able to run Free BSD with win95, will the Free BSD partition(s) interfere with the booting/operation of win95. Here is the following file system on my computer: Drive Comments A: 3.5" Floppy 1.44 MB B: 5.25" Floppy 1.22 MB C: MS-DOS Drive 511 MB *Compressed with Stacker* D: CD-ROM Drive 2x speed E: Subst Drive 407 MB I: Host for drive c: 406 MB I would also like to know if that Free BSD will be compatible or have a smiliar program to MS-DOS' "Laplink". So that I cam update files from my laptop to the Free BSD system. Any other information that will help me will be very greatfull, thanks for your time and I await your responce! Regards, Blake Crosby. bcrosby@interlog.com ***Star Wars: Mercenaries: www.interlog.com/~bcrosby/game *** Personal Page: http://www.interlog.com/~bcrosby/home.html Maintains the Tie Fighter CD Homepage: http://www.interlog.com/~bcrosby/tiecd/tiecd.html