Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 10:28:24 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Sogn <sogn@c2i.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie help Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810281026370.29272-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <01bdfeb3$232b8e20$d325d8c1@default>
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Outlook is sending wierd end-of-line characters; please reconfigure to not send HTML mail. On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Sogn wrote: > I have gotten a FreeBSD CD-rom for a friend, and I want to install it > on an Olivetti p75 computer (formated hard drive, but DOS (only on > bootdisk) and win95 are avilable). I have a boot disk for FreeBSD as > well. > > So me having made up my mind about UNIX being totally cool thing to > have on my machine I put in the boot disk and the CD-rom, wait and > suddenly I am told that I should configure kernel. HELP!!! If you don't know just skip it, but I'd suggest reading the Handbook at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ to get you acquainted. Also read/print your device settings in Win95 so you know what to feed to the kernel configurator. > I understand that I should identify the hardware I have, but don't > know what half of the options mean. (I know that I have Creative > CD-rom, and that's about it) It might be an IDE CDROM. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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