From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 17 17:52:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cmr2.ash.ops.us.uu.net (cmr2.ash.ops.us.uu.net [198.5.241.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D4B937B417 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 17:52:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from csserve0.corp.us.uu.net by cmr2.ash.ops.us.uu.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: csserve0.corp.us.uu.net [153.39.88.140]) id QQmgqp11303; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 01:52:36 GMT Received: from haiti.corp.us.uu.net by csserve0.corp.us.uu.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: localhost [127.0.0.1]) id QQmgqp18475; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 20:52:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (jamgill@localhost) by haiti.corp.us.uu.net (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g2I1q7616292; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 20:52:16 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: haiti.corp.us.uu.net: jamgill owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 20:52:07 -0500 (EST) From: "jamgill@uu.net" X-Sender: jamgill@haiti.corp.us.uu.net To: Steve Bertrand Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie Question... In-Reply-To: <3C949497.1010309@northnetworks.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Steve, On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Steve Bertrand wrote: > and would like to know if BSD will install on such hardware and how I go > about installing it using minimal resources. See the handbook to answer your every question! Read through Chapter two: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html and when you get to section 2.6 it will show you how to do a "minimal install" That is probably what you want, but you will likely want to add the ports and the kernel sources as time goes by. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --gill | Tatu Ylonen, SSH 1.2.12 README: "Beware that the most effective | way for someone to decrypt your data may be with a rubber hose." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message