From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 19:46:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA25887 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 19:46:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from intrepid.axess.com (root@intrepid.axess.com [204.19.206.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA25611 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 19:43:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mzac.axess.com (GreatOne@mzac.axess.com [204.19.207.171]) by intrepid.axess.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA22403 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 22:42:47 -0500 Message-ID: <313D3377.114D@axess.com> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 22:40:55 -0800 From: Zachary McGibbon Organization: Dawson College X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: A few questions.... X-URL: http://www.freebsd.org/mailto.html Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello there.. first off, I'd like to ask the following... would it be practical to use FreeBSD on my home pc? what can I use it for? Currently, I am using ms-dos ver. 6.2 with win 3.1... I read thru some of your docs on how to install the program and such, but it confuses me! I know a bit about unix, so, some of it was familiar, but not all... the only thing I could figure out how to do was to download two exe files.. one for a setup disk, and one to partition my hd? that's another problem. I have two hard disks.. my first (drive c) is 131 megs, with 80 megs free, and my second is a 730 meg, that has to have a driver loaded into mem for it to work. what I would LIKE to possibly be able to do is to put BSD on my d drive.. how could I do that? last time I did something like that (installing mini linux on my d drive) the drive crashed and I had to format? could you help me out? thanks.. also, if I install it, can I have a sort of dual boot feature so I can still use dos and win 3.1? thanks.. could you reply asap? and I can't figure out how download the program itself! Zachary McGibbon mzac@axess.com