New to FreeBSD/UNIX

[P.U.Kruppa]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Edward and Nancy Powers wrote:

>
>  I am new to UNIX, and want to download a basic UNIX system, just to
>  run commands and become familiar with the system.  I wish to use this
>  system as a companion piece to a UNIX tutorial which I have on DVD. I
>  do not want to replace Windows at this time.
>
>  My PC has:  Pentium III Processor at 1GHz, 128MB RAM at 133 MHz,
>  Windows ME operating system.
>
>  What course of action do you recommend that I take?
>
>  Thanks.
Another idea:
First try a live CD (Freesbie), as recommended above, to
get used to everything (won't do any harm).
Then get a second hard drive and install freebsd on this
(should be cheaper than buying Partition Magic).
You can "dual boot" both systems then and leave your XP
installation as is.

Regards,

Uli.


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>  Ed Powers
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 	  Peter Ulrich Kruppa
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