Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:21:45 +0200 From: "Eelke Blok" <e.blok@student.utwente.nl> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: intranet with FREEBSD Message-ID: <003e01c0feea$96ae94c0$0215e50a@hotrod> References: <813232E3AA09D5118E240080C848291A0D9AF1@exchange.fab.hvu.nl>
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From: "Albert Paijmans" <A.Paijmans@itsupport.hvu.nl> > I have a WIN98 computer and I'am interested in BSD. I create my own website > but not hosting. > Wat I want to do with BSD is a local PC say a 486 or a bit faster to be a > file and printer server. Sounds like a job for Samba (on FreeBSD, that is :) > So this second machine should contain a couple of > harddisks and the printers. But can the file format only be NFS EXT2 and > FAT16 or is FAT32 also an option? Well, FreeBSD can access FAT16 and FAT32 partitions, but I don't think it's a good idea to install it on either. Think of it as a tool to be able to relatively easily share files between your OS's. > Win 98 does use FAT32 for drives bigger > than 2GB. If possible can I use harddisks of 20GB or above or must it be > small drives like 2GB. As big as you can get :) > When this is set up I can use it to locally test my > website. And how does installation work? Must BSD itself be installed on a > seperate driveformat (fileformat EXT2) or just C with FAT32 and can windows > remain on this drive aswell? I'm pretty sure FreeBSD requires it's own seperate disk slice. Windows can be on the same disk, but needs to be on a different slice (unless there is some way to install it on a "virtual disk", which really is a file on a FAT-system, that I am unaware off - I wouldn't want it that way, though). FreeBSD comes with a really nice boot manager, so dual boot is no problem. But you'll need to repartition, unless you happen to have a chunk of unused space on your HD (but who would?) > Is it graphic installation or textbased such as > linux? Graphic, basically, although the "graphics" are made up of coloured characters and the control takes a bit of getting used to. No point-and-click mousey stuff. > And finally what is the best way to start, wich FREEBSD package schould I > get? And what would be a good book to learn more about it? The latest RELEASE is a good starting point, I suppose. I think you need to first install RELEASE anyway before you can upgrade to STABLE or CURRENT (but I think that is a bit of a bad idea for newbies like us). If your network-connection is any good, you could try a network-install, for which you will only need to create bootfloppies. Have a look in the Handbook at http://www.freebsd.org, it's all there. Cheers, Eelke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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