From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 23 11:35:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA28464 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:35:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from falk.c2i.net (mail.c2i.net [193.216.100.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA28458 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:35:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sogn@c2i.net) Received: from default ([193.216.37.211]) by falk.c2i.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA11581 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 20:31:02 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Sogn" To: Subject: Newbie help Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 20:29:57 +0200 Message-ID: <01bdfeb3$232b8e20$d325d8c1@default> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0004_01BDFEC3.E6B45E20" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BDFEC3.E6B45E20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, I have gotten a FreeBSD CD-rom for a friend, and I want to install it on = an Olivetti p75 computer (formated hard drive, but DOS (only on = bootdisk) and win95 are avilable). I have a boot disk for FreeBSD as = well. So me having made up my mind about UNIX being totally cool thing to have = on my machine I put in the boot disk and the CD-rom, wait and suddenly I = am told that I should configure kernel. HELP!!! I understand that I should identify the hardware I have, but don't know = what half of the options mean. (I know that I have Creative CD-rom, and = that's about it) So what do I do, and how? Sogn sogn@c2i.net P. S. I'm sorry to bother you with such idiot questions, but I tried to = RTFM; in the one online I couldn't find anything explaining what I = should do, and the one offered in the program, well...) I hope that = you'll excuse my ignorance. ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BDFEC3.E6B45E20 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
Hello,
 
I have gotten a FreeBSD CD-rom for a = friend, and=20 I want to install it on an Olivetti p75 computer (formated hard drive, = but DOS=20 (only on bootdisk) and win95 are avilable). I have a boot disk for = FreeBSD as=20 well.
 
So me having made up my mind about = UNIX being=20 totally cool thing to have on my machine I put in the boot disk and the = CD-rom,=20 wait and suddenly I am told that I should configure kernel. = HELP!!!
 
I understand that I should identify = the hardware=20 I have, but don't know what half of the options mean. (I know that I = have=20 Creative CD-rom, and that's about it)
 
So what do I do, and = how?
 
Sogn
 
P. S. I'm sorry to bother you with such idiot = questions, but I=20 tried to RTFM; in the one online I couldn't find anything explaining = what I=20 should do, and the one offered in the program, well...) I hope that = you'll=20 excuse my ignorance.
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