From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 7 14:42:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA15379 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 14:42:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cerberus.partsnow.com (gatekeeper.partsnow.com [207.155.26.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA15372 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 14:42:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bin@localhost) by cerberus.partsnow.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) id OAA21469; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 14:42:38 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: Cerberus.partsnow.com: bin set sender to using -f Received: from hq.partsnow.com(192.168.100.9) by cerberus via smap (V2.0) id xma021458; Mon, 7 Apr 97 14:42:16 -0700 Message-ID: <33496915.28A@PartsNow.com> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 14:37:25 -0700 From: Don Wilde Organization: Soligen, Incorporated X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01E-NOV-NOV (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Carl Schwehr CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for information References: <1351704530-42082671@[204.244.146.5]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Ok, I've got the idea now.. I was also going to ask, should I set it up as >a secondary partition or on a different computer till I get the hang of it? >Or should I just do the emmersion thing? I've done it both ways, both work, although I have seen some newbies have screaming fits with partitioning and boot managers. If you can, just scrap one (or 2) of your 486 PCs (or swap a new hard disk in temporarily (hah!)), and load BSD as the sole OS. I haven't yet had time to get SAMBA to work for netware/Wintel integration, but that's the fault of all the Micros**t stuff I'm fighting all the time. DO set yourself up with TCP/IP and a 'Net connection, that's part of the power of UNIX is its connectivity. Also, get yourself a copy of UNIX SA Handbook (ISBN 0-13-151051-7) by Nemeth et al (Prentice Hall), it has enough advice about everything to get you going, along with subscribing to these lists. If you've got that much systems experience you should be a real power user in 6 months. It's also fun, because the FBSD people here are more than willing to share the inside tradeoffs they've fought over in the OS design, it's very educational. -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ ___==_ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo