Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 20:31:11 -0600 From: "James, guilty until proven innocent" <icon@cyberramp.net> To: <www@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: FreeBSD Message-ID: <199711260229.UAA00892@mailhost.cyberramp.net>
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I'm really interested in installing FreeBSD, but am a little overwhelmed with all the instructions at your site. Basically, here's the deal: Right now, I'm on Windows 95(ack! MS products bite!) I have another computer with a formated hard drive, and no OS installed. I would install FreeBSD as the ONLY OS on a MS-DOS partitioned drive. However, I'm not bound to it being MS-DOS partitioned. I will partition it with FreeBSD if necessary, or recommened(or possible). I have DOS drivers for all my hardware, except for the video card, S3 virge DX chipset. Now, please tell me how I would install FreeBSD, pointing me to the appropriate sites when needed. Does FreeBSD come with modem drivers? I read somewhere on the site that I would download some image to a disk, and it would setup from there, continuing the download of the actual OS. Now, how would this work? How many megs is the official(stable) release of FreeBSD? Is FreeBSD linux, or UNIX compatible? Hope you can help. P.S. Please help me get away from MS, I'm getting sick of thier so-called "OSes". They're too slow to cut it. And NT....it should be called "NOT".
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