From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 11 15:48:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00D4314DFE for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 15:48:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA27786; Tue, 11 May 1999 18:11:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 18:11:04 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: "Lasse G. Dahl" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: Installation hangs at "Probing Devices" In-Reply-To: <001401be9bfd$0b4bc9e0$6725d8c1@bestportable> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 12 May 1999, Lasse G. Dahl wrote: > After searching through freebsd.org with no luck, I write to this list hoping there is anybody out there that might give me a hint or two. > > I need an "UNIX like" system in some classes I am taking, and was recommended FreeBSD since it it supposed to be easy to install and run on low-end machines. But I am a completely newbie in this world (that's why I'm taking the classes), my computing ex perience is from the dos/windows/basic world. please tell your mailer to wrap lines at 75 characters. anyhow, how much ram does this box have? it needs at least 8. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message