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MICHAEL J. OKEEFE

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May 19, 1995, 3:00:00 AM5/19/95

I am sick of sick computers the next time I get it working I promise not
to fix it.
Tell me can I get this unix or BSD for free?
Can I run it on a partition on my dos pc?
I have a pentium66 /w 8 megs ram,pci ati mach64 /w 2 megs dram, enhanced
540 meg hard drive /w 230 megs free.
also have a 386 20mhz, 8 megs ram, ati vga stereo f/x card /w 1meg ram,
40 meg hdd, both have ethernet cards (thinnet no hub) can this all
work?EVER? gIVE ME SOME ADVICE please!!
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Michael J. Okeefe
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Cochrane, Alberta, Canada
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e-mail; oke...@cadvision.com
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Julian Elischer

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May 20, 1995, 3:00:00 AM5/20/95

In article <3ph24r$p...@huey.cadvision.com>,

MICHAEL J. OKEEFE <oke...@cadvision.com> wrote:
>I am sick of sick computers the next time I get it working I promise not
>to fix it.

well, we all have days like that :)

>Tell me can I get this unix or BSD for free?

yes.
there are actualy TWO versions for free.
I recommend getting the FreeBSD version, but NetBSD would probably
do you as well. (There is also Linux, but hey I'm a BSD type)

you can get a CD from walnut creek cdrom
(in...@cdrom.com or sa...@cdrom.com I think)
also go to the newsgroups comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce anmd
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc....
notice the sibling newsgroups for netbsd.
you can also get it off the net by ftp if you have enough bandwidth..
check out
http://www.freebsd.org/ and
ftp.freebsd.org

(also similar Netbsd versions )

the next 'release' of FreeBSD is 'imminant'.. look for 2.0.5

>Can I run it on a partition on my dos pc?

yes

>I have a pentium66 /w 8 megs ram,pci ati mach64 /w 2 megs dram, enhanced
>540 meg hard drive /w 230 megs free.

sounds just fine, but you'll fill up the 230 MB quickly :)

>also have a 386 20mhz, 8 megs ram, ati vga stereo f/x card /w 1meg ram,
>40 meg hdd, both have ethernet cards (thinnet no hub) can this all

yo can run FreeBSD on 40 MB but you'll have to PRUNE to do so..
It would make a good xterm though and you can always NFSMOUNT
more space form the other system.

>work?EVER? gIVE ME SOME ADVICE please!!

should work fine..

julian

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