From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 11 19: 9:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E58015278 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 19:09:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from pandora.home (jgl.reno.nv.us [207.228.2.142]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA02712; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 19:09:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from danco (danco.home [10.0.0.2]) by pandora.home (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id TAA39854; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 19:09:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Message-ID: <0d3d01be6c35$b172a660$0200000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Prantik Kundu" , Subject: Re: i need some advice Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 19:09:05 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Prantik Kundu wrote: >i have a parallel zip drive, is there any freebsd driver that can let me use >it? Yes, you can use your parallel Zip drive. In FreeBSD 3.1, it runs off the ppbus as device vpo. You'll have to build a custom kernel to activate it (building a custom kernel is not hard to do, and desirable as well). >can freebsd read the files on a FAT16 drive? Yes, you can mount msdos filesystems. >the copy i have is 2.2.7 with the 4 cds and the book in a txt file, as a >newbie, do you think i should bother getting 3.1? I'd recommend getting 3.1 on CD's ($40 from http://www.cdrom.com/ ). You could install 2.2.7 and then upgrade your sources, but you'll avoid the painfull a.out-to-elf transition if you start fresh with 3.1. >I have 4 partitions C,D,E,F: D,E, and F are in my extended partition. I dont >use my E: partition, so should i delete it under fdisk and then will the >FreeBSD installer show that E: is unused? Ummm, you have *two* partitions and four *logical drives*. Drive C: is the Primary DOS Partition, and D:, E:, and F: are on the Extended DOS Partition. You could use Partition Magic to free the space taken up by your empty E: drive and make the Extended DOS Partition smaller. FreeBSD can then use this free space for its partition (called a *slice* in Unix-speak). Note that when you get rid of E:, Windows will start calling drive F: drive E:, so you'll want to check if this is going to affect any Windows shortcuts or programs. Also, you'll need to install a boot manager so you can boot to Windows or FreeBSD at will. And of course, the standard advice is: Make a backup before you do any of this! See the FreeBSD Handbook section "MS-DOS User's Questions and Answers" (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook19.html#21) and the tutorial "Installing and Using FreeBSD With Other Operating Systems" (http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/multios/multios.html) for more info. >a friend of mine told me that there is a linux emulator for freeBSD, is it >on 1 of the 4 cds on the 2.2.7 package? If I remember correctly, you can turn-on Linux emulation from within the installation program (sysinstall). >im sick of nt, it crashes demands a hoard of RAM ( i have 64) and doesnt >work with half the stuff out there, and its too complicated for primitivity >please, help me out Well, if you're sick of NT now, wait 'till you get used to FreeBSD! :-) Good luck, --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message