I have installed FreeBSD, which I gave myself for Christmas. The installation was easy, chosing what packages to installed took a long time, as there is a lot to choose from, but the installation as such went smoothly. The only problam I have is that i can not add FreeBSD to OS/2 bootmanager, as OS/2 Fdisk considers the partition table corrupt. This is probably an OS/2-problem, which can be solved by using Booteasy of FreeBSD in stead. Putting DOS and FreeBSD one one disk should not be a problem anyway. A practical minimum for running FreeBSD with X on a PC is 80486DX/2-66, 16Mb RAM, 2Mb SVGA-card and 200Mb Harddiskspace. There are some one- and twofloppydistributions too, without X, but with networking. (I think it is called PicoBSD). The only "official" distribution is on 4 CD with or without a 700p manual (which is very good) from Walnut Creek. The setupprogram has some eight options, different "typical users" and one to choose exactly what you want to install (using the "novice" install, there is a quick install for the impatient and an custom install for the experts too). There are three programs to set up X, I would recommend to have the specifications of the monitor and graphics card at hand, and use XF86Config, which is text only. Even though I have not done much in FreeBSD yet, my first impression is that there is more power in it than in Linux Merry Christmas to you all! Per B. ************************************************************ The PHOTO&NATURIST page; In English, auf deutsch, po polsku; http://hem.fyristorg.com/pbackman/ ICQ UIN; 40714141 ************************************************************ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
