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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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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
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