From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 11 18:13:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.email.msn.com (cpimssmtpu03.email.msn.com [207.46.181.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E8E14C15 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 18:13:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from LaForgery@email.msn.com) Received: from default - 153.37.117.132 by email.msn.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 18:12:57 -0800 Message-ID: <000701be6c2d$d7c9b040$84752599@default> From: "Prantik Kundu" To: Subject: i need some advice Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 21:12:54 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, im a unix/linux newbie, and im really interested in learning this stuff, a friend gave me a copy of freebsd, i installed it (probably incorrectly, since it didnt work), it erased my extended partition (FAT) and i lost all my programs. that happened a while ago, and ill give it another try and this time ill prepare so, i have a handful of questions, it would be really appreciated if you could try answering them i have a parallel zip drive, is there any freebsd driver that can let me use it? can freebsd read the files on a FAT16 drive? 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 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? 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? 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message