From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jan 24 13:45:47 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2463E37B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:45:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from orngca-mls02.socal.rr.com (orngca-mls02.socal.rr.com [66.75.160.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87C9143ED8 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:45:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gwschenk@socal.rr.com) Received: from pavilion (sc-24-165-65-83.socal.rr.com [24.165.65.83]) by orngca-mls02.socal.rr.com (8.11.4/8.11.3) with SMTP id h0OHT0n27273 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:29:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <004501c2c3ce$6ab94040$6501a8c0@socal.rr.com> From: "Gary Schenk" To: References: <20030124072324.88278.qmail@web41106.mail.yahoo.com> <20030124113234.GH86853@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Subject: Re: your mail Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:31:18 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roman Neuhauser" To: "Benjamin Smith" Cc: Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 3:32 AM Subject: Re: your mail > # decrock@yahoo.com / 2003-01-23 23:23:24 -0800: > > Heya. I'm definitely a newbt. It took me two (full) days to get > > FreeBSD running over FTP and I almost took the Good Lord's name in > > vain regarding your OS. However, it works now, somewhat, and > > I'm appreciative, seeing the hefty sack of potential in the tidy > > package. > > as someone else wrote either here or in questions@ a few days ago: > you will do yourself a favor if you consider this installation a > throwaway. that way you won't be scared of breaking anything, and > then you won't be scared to explore new stuff either. the more you > break it in the beginning the less you'll break it in the future. > > > Now back to the hair-pulling. > > yeah, I remember the adrenaline rush when I saw the os boot from the > cd for the first time. I miss it. :) > > -- > If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore > your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html Yep, it's a rush all right. What Roman says about throwaway installations is right on. I just threw away my first install. I had deleted fetchmail trying different things to get my mail working, then could not reinstall it. Got an error code 1 that said check the debug screen. I looked on all sides of my monitor and could not find a debug screen, so I just trashed the whole thing and am now starting over. I learned a lot from my first install. Already I have a smaller kernel. Hopefully on this install I'll solve the problem I have receiving email. Then, I'll be free of the microsoft upgrade demon. I have a P3 600 mhz 128 mb machine. It is a fine computer. It handles anything I want to do, but Bill is about to force an upgrade on me. Win98 will no longer be supported soon. Software is now coming out requiring XP. In Bill's world my 'puter will be obsolete, and soon. I tried Linux, but it seemed kind of chaotic. FreeBSD seems to fit the bill for me. If I can just get my email working! Going to try postfix, fetchmail and Pine this time. Gary PS As Roman can tell you, learning how to use email properly is a real challengs for me ! :-| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message