Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 00:07:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: bbcat@netonecom.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On Track disk manager. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960920000647.1049A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199609200412.VAA25324@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, 20 Sep 1996 bbcat@netonecom.net wrote: > I have a 1.2GB hard disk and cannot install the slackware version that > is available on Internet. If I put my 170MB hard drive as the second > drive I can install Linux on it and then upgrade to be able to see my > first drive which has Dos 6.2 and 3 versions of OS/2. I want to add a > second hard disk and it would then be impossible to have have Linux > because the current installation diskette don't provide any support for > my system. I can't change the controller on my PC which is on the > motherboard and I wouln't even if I could since it works very well with > OS/2 and DOS and the extra expense would be stupid as it would not > improve my PC's performance to justify the said expense. > > My question: Does FreeBSD has the same restriction and what is the > advantage or disadvantage of FreeBSD versus Slackware. Well, not knowing what the offending hardware controller IS, I can't say if we support it or not. FreeBSD vs. Linux will start religious wars. Check the questions archives at http://www.freebsd.org for some good past responses. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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