From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 6 06:40:17 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id GAA12728 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 06:40:17 -0800 Received: from lupine.nsi.nasa.gov (lupine.nsi.nasa.gov [198.116.2.100]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA12722 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 06:40:16 -0800 Received: (from mnewell@localhost) by lupine.nsi.nasa.gov (8.6.9/8.6.9) id JAA14458; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 09:39:09 -0500 Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 09:39:05 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael C. Newell" To: village idiot cc: FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: a new convert... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 5 Feb 1995, village idiot wrote: > i have gone to your ftp site but find it rather daunting to download tens > of megabytes of binaries! where can i get the cdrom??? Both Walnut Creek and InfoMagic sell FreeBSD V2.0 CD-ROMs. Check out Walnut Creek at "http://www.cdrom.com"(no, I'm not affiliated with either company...) > 1) will i still be able to retain my WFW3.11 files on my hard drive (in > other words, can i boot FreeBSD from a diskette)??? You can install a boot manage that allows you to select which OS you want to boot when you start up your system; you don't need to boot from floppy. Info is contained in the FAQ; see "http://www.freebsd.org". > 2) exactly how much of my hard drive is FreeBSD going to eat away??? Anywhere from 80Mb to 300Mb+, depending on what you load. Thanks, Mike +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ |Mike Newell | The opinions expressed herein are | |NASA Science Internet Network Systems | my own, and do not necessarily | |Sterling Software, Inc. | reflect those of the NSI program, | |MNewell@nsipo.nasa.gov | Sterling Software, NASA, or anyone | |+1-202-434-8954 | else. | +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+