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From: alexandr@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu (Jerry Alexandratos)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Help With Installation
Date: 9 Nov 1995 20:39:23 GMT
Organization: Mos Eisley Candy Store
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Message-ID: <47totr$f9f@louie.udel.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: stimpy1.eecis.udel.edu
I'm about to install FreeBSD on a machine via FTP. Since I've never
done this before, there are a few questions that I'm hoping some kind
soul can help me with.
How much swap space do I need. I've used Linux before and know that
they recommend 16M. Is there a specific value that I should use for
FreeBSD, or is any size okay?
My ethernet card is a NE2100-compatible. However it's on a
non-standard port. I'm not sure if the probe on the bootdisk is
finding it. When I give the -c option to manually configure something,
I was wondering, which device is the ethernet card?
Any tips or tricks that I should keep in mind?
Thanks in advance...
--Jerry
ps-When is FreeBSD v2.1.0 being released anyway?
--
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