Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 11:58:24 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Eric Hodel <hodeleri@seattleu.edu> Cc: "Cruz, Lito [IBM GSA]" <LCruz@vcomcss1.telstra.com.au>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing freeBSD3.2 Message-ID: <19990816115823.G31798@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <37B763AA.12609DCB@seattleu.edu>; from Eric Hodel on Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 06:04:42PM -0700 References: <199908160020.KAA07360@mail.cdn.telstra.com.au> <37B763AA.12609DCB@seattleu.edu>
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On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 06:04:42PM -0700, Eric Hodel wrote: > > This is described in TROUBLE.TXT on the root of your HDD. Thanks for the pointer, though I think you meant to say the root of the installation CD or FTP site for that release. > It also is reported in the mailing list archives. Always RTFM. It's hard to know how to do that when you're so new, you just can't figure out where to go for answers. If they send a first installation support question to free-newbies (instead of freebsd-questions) you can be pretty sure they haven't yet worked out where all the support resources are. Most of us would rather save face by looking something up ourselves, if we knew how. When someone like that has a problem, tell them that they can discover the best ways to find quick answers themselves in the Newbies First Aid Kit http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/newbies Then they can look at http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html for links to more self-help information as they go along. While reading these they will discover how to use the FAQ, Handbook, the *.TXT files, freebsd-questions, the mailing list archives, and all the good stuff we take for granted. Lito, please come back and tell us if you have any problems with the above resources. If they're not easy to use, we want to know about it. Another little tip: If you're writing to a FreeBSD mailing list such as freebsd-questions from work, see if you can get rid of any "attachments" to your email. Some people get really annoyed by them when they appear in mailing lists. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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