From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 7 12:53:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA22352 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 12:53:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoom.bga.com (root@zoom.realtime.net [205.238.128.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA22346 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 12:53:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wep54-133 (wep54-133.camel.com [204.251.34.204]) by zoom.bga.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA13063 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 14:53:51 -0500 Message-ID: <32595FA8.220A@camel.com> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 14:53:12 -0500 From: d b dews X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.Org Subject: 30 day Installment Plan Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.Org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This marks my thirtieth day attempting a successful install of BSD and here's a couple lessons learned for other newbies: 1. Don't try using an old machine to save money. BSD don't like old hardware. 2. Don't try using fips.exe to create a BSD partition on an existing DOS/NT disk on a new machine to save money. The install gobbles up the boot sector and you'll have to fdisk it out, reformat, and re-do all the DOS and NT stuff. Finally, after I forewent it all and got BSD installed (on a new machine by itself), it says my 3com 3c5098 network card has a 10Base2 adapter for the lo0 (gets the ep0 right as a 10BaseT) so that $1800 adapter and the $400/month dedicated ISDN line are just overpriced night lights. Couldn't figger out how to break that cycle, so never got on the net and, consequently, have yet to achieve a successful install of BSD. Windows NT marched out without a hitch on the same machine. I even have a DOS tcp-ip stack (with packet driver) that runs beautifully on it. But from what I can tell this BSD will be incredible when and if I can get by all these little problems. Yes, I bought the WC cd-rom and read the whole book. 10BaseT is never once mentioned that I can find.