From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 16 8:17:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web613.mail.yahoo.com (web613.mail.yahoo.com [216.115.104.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F14537C374 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 08:17:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lylejorgensen@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20000816151710.2223.qmail@web613.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [165.88.113.91] by web613.mail.yahoo.com; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 08:17:10 PDT Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 08:17:10 -0700 (PDT) From: lyle jorgensen Subject: have i got it right To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1804289383-966439030=:2215" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --0-1804289383-966439030=:2215 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I am enrolled at UMSL (University of Missouri, St Louis) in a basic programmers class. We will be using the C language on a UNIX server. I am a little farmiliar with "C" but know nothing about UNIX. I desire to load freebsd on my computer to learn "everything you always wanted to know about UNIX but were to dumb to ask" in one week. Tell me if I understand this thing correctly, please. I have downloaded and I believe understand how to build the 2 floppies. I have downloaded the "BIN" files to my c drive. I am running win98 on a DFI AT motherboard with a AMDK6 450 processor, with two IDE hard drives and 32M memory. I plan to make my secondary hard drive, a 450M IDE, my freebsd drive. Here is my plan of attack: First make the two floppies. Turn off my machine and reconfigure so that the 450 drive is master and my normal drive slave. boot with the first floppie in the A drive. steer the program to my normal drive where the BIN files are downloaded. Will this work? Can freebsd read DOS drives? Is there a whole bunch of stuff I still don't properly understand? How can I be sure that I won't wipe out my normal C drive? Thanks in advance. lyle --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. --0-1804289383-966439030=:2215 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

I am enrolled at UMSL (University of Missouri, St Louis) in a basic programmers class. We will be using the C language on a UNIX server. I am a little farmiliar with "C" but know nothing about UNIX. I desire to load freebsd on my computer to learn "everything you always wanted to know about UNIX but were to dumb to ask" in one week.

Tell me if I understand this thing correctly, please.

I have downloaded and I believe understand how to build the 2 floppies. I have downloaded the "BIN" files to my c drive. I am running win98 on a DFI AT motherboard with a AMDK6 450 processor, with two IDE hard drives and 32M memory. I plan to make my secondary hard drive, a 450M IDE, my freebsd drive.

Here is my plan of attack:

First make the two floppies. Turn off my machine and reconfigure so that the 450 drive is master and my normal drive slave. boot with the first floppie in the A drive. steer the program to my normal drive where the BIN files are downloaded.

Will this work? Can freebsd read DOS drives? Is there a whole bunch of stuff I still don't properly understand? How can I be sure that I won't wipe out my normal C drive?

Thanks in advance. 

lyle


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