Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:09:44 -0700 From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> To: ProzacSixtymg@cs.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hello. Message-ID: <3B27AC68.6560E5C4@acuson.com> References: <fc.7aef6e2.2858c01f@cs.com>
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ProzacSixtymg@cs.com wrote: > I have no clue as to what Unix is, but I hear the FreeBSD is very stable, and > much more secure than Windows ever has been. I am also scared of Internet > Trojans, and hackers, and think FreeBSD might be an option. > Can you give me any information? Two comments: 1) Read the Handbook first. Browse the FreeBSD site. Have some sort of idea of what you're doing before you do it. 2) If you can wrangle it, get a second hard disk and use it for FreeBSD while keeping the first for Windows. If you can't get a second disk, then consider Partition Magic. It's always a pain blowing away one OS only to encounter installation troubles with the other... David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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