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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!quagga.ru.ac.za!Braae!g89r4222 From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 Date: 24 Sep 1994 10:21:48 GMT Organization: Rhodes University Computing Services Lines: 38 Message-ID: <360ujs$mf6@quagga.ru.ac.za> References: <360092$7a6@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> Reply-To: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za NNTP-Posting-Host: braae.ru.ac.za X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #4 (NOV) In <360092$7a6@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> ecrampto@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Eric S. Crampton) writes: >I've read the FAQ's on FreeBSD, but being new to FreeBSD and relatively new >to UNIX, I'm still a little baffled. So was I when I first came into contact with UNIX ;-) >- Is FreeBSD 2.0 the current release version? The absolute latest full >release? The latest *released* version of FreeBSD is version 1.1.5.1. >- I have DOS on this machine now. In the process of putting on FreeBSD, I >understand that I boot from a floppy to get things installed from there. Are >there some exact docs that tell me what to do? Is FreeBSD really hard to >install? <grin> You should not have any trouble installing FreeBSD. There is a full set of installation notes available. (Email me if you want a copy.) Installing FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 on a system which also has DOS on it is relatively straight forward. The only real catch to watch out for, is to make sure that FreeBSD uses the same disk geometry that DOS does. >- What window managers are available? Feeble? You can use twm (if you really want to :-)). Fvwm and other nice ones are also available. >- Is there a list that denotes ALL the archives I should get for a full >FreeBSD installation? Refer to the installation notes. (They should give you a good idea.) >If this information is in a FAQ that I have missed, please direct me to >where I can get it and all the other files necessary for an installation. Yes, there is a FAQ for FreeBSD -- check out freebsd.cdrom.com geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, Computer Science Department, Rhodes University, South Africa FreeBSD core team: csgr@freebsd.org | ____ _ o /\ csgr@cs.ru.ac.za, geoff@neptune.ru.ac.za |___ _-\_<, / /\/\ finger rehmet@cs.ru.ac.za for PGP public key | (*)/'(*) /\/ / \ \