Dear Peter &/or Miscelleneous @ bsd, I purchased my HP Pavilion in India, (it was actually a present from Dad) had the full version of MS media centre edition.Due to various reasons I had to uninstall it...did however back it up to external drives.
I've tried loading Debian 6.5 (Squeeze), Fedora 18 but they refuse to install, Even Knoppix 6.5 refuses... I have bought the following card for the PCI-E slot > HEATSINK! Asus GF 210 PCI-E 2.0 1GB DDR3 64-bit, 589/1200MHz. DVI,VGA,HDMI, > DX10.1, SUPPORT LOW PROFILE SILENT > Asus GF 210 PCI-E 2.0 1GB DDR3 64-bit, 589/1200MHz. DVI,VGA,HDMI, DX10.1, > SUPPORT LOW PROFILE SILENT > (LP brackets to be invoiced separately as FOC, Part numbers are: > LP-BRACKET-D-Sub and LP-BRACKET-HDMI-DVI) For internet access I only have the University wireless service provider, so therefore I bought; > TP-LINK TL-WN951N Advanced 300M wireless N PCI Adapter, Atheros, 3T3R, > 2.4GHz, 802.11n/g/b, with 3 detachable antennas $39 > TP-LINK TL-WN951N Advanced wireless N PCI Adapter, Atheros, 3T3R, 2.4GHz, > 802.11n/g/b, with 3 detachable antennas > * 300M wireless transmission rate > * 3 transmitting and 3 receiving MIMO infrastructure compared with the > common 2 transmitting and 3 receiving infrastructure brings improved > wireless transmission rates and stability. > * SST technology promotes high wireless transmission performance in long > distance and high interference environments > * Compatible with 11g and 11b equipment, Intel Centrino Compatibility > tested My HP specs although the minitower version, should be the same as this (at least I am hoping so...) http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&o bjectID=c00763695&jumpid=reg_r1002_usen_c-001_title_r0002 Please advise on which version of BSD would be best for my machine. I can also be reached on; 17260...@uws.edu.au Thanking you all, Rajneesh http://my.opera.com/shettyrn/about/ tel :+61402350315 Rajneesh N. Shetty >________________________________ > From: Peter N. M. Hansteen <pe...@bsdly.net> >To: TRUNASUCI TRUNASUCI <trunas...@mail.com> >Cc: misc@openbsd.org >Sent: Wednesday, 8 May 2013 2:49 PM >Subject: Re: OpenBSD official reference book ( like FreeBSD handbook / NetBSD Guide ) > > >"TRUNASUCI TRUNASUCI" <trunas...@mail.com> writes: > >> I just wanna ask if there is a project for this official refernce book >> for all users ( if any please inform ). Since i cant find any kind of >> like this on openbsd web. Just my reference is on FAQ and some other >> doc. > >The closest thing to an official 'handbook' that the OpenBSD project >offers is the FAQ, http://www.openbsd.org/faq/. That one should take you >some way, supplemented with a bit of man page reading now and then. For >actual books, well, as others have mentioned, the more recent titles >from http://www.openbsd.org/books.html are generally considered useful. > >- Peter > >-- >Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team >http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ >"Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" >delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.