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?
It sounds like what you want to do is to follow along with the DVD while
doing their examples on a UNIX machine. Assuming this is the case, I
would try do dig up another computer somewhere and install FreeBSD on
it. For this sort of purpose, it doesn't need to be very fast or new. My
mailserver is running 6.1 on a K6-2 at 400 MHz, and it's fine. Or, treat
yourself to a new PC and then you'll have the P3 for experimenting.
It is certainly possible (subject to available disk space) to
repartition your existing drive and install FreeBSD on it as others have
suggested, but then you'd be dual-booting. That is, you'd have to reboot
to switch between FreeBSD and Windows, so you wouldn't be able to see
both at once. I think this would be really tedious for what you're
describing.
Finally, I would not install X on the "practice" machine unless/unitl
the tutorial has you do that. For "a basic UNIX system" in the form of
FreeBSD, I would install the "developer - full sources, but no X" option
from the CD. (That may not be worded quite right, it's from memory.)
Hope this helps. Good luck, and welcome! Give us a shout when further
questions arise.
Almost forgot: another possibility is that some kind soul (or
not-so-kind hosting company?) would be willing to give or rent you a
shell account, so you could explore around on a remote system. The
machine wouldn't be physically on your desk, but it would be in a window
on your desktop.
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Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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