From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Mar 18 17:58:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from intrigue.willinet.net (intrigue.willinet.net [198.49.30.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C38537B71A for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 17:58:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lute@willinet.net) Received: (qmail 31834 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2001 19:58:20 -0600 Received: from ps22sux.willinet.net (HELO gomer) (205.163.104.23) by intrigue.willinet.net with SMTP; 18 Mar 2001 19:58:20 -0600 Received: from lute by gomer with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14eosy-0000QH-00 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 19:55:04 -0600 Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 19:55:04 -0600 From: Lute Mullenix To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Just getting started Message-ID: <20010318195504.C1601@willinet.net> Reply-To: lute@willinet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Spam-Rating: intrigue.willinet.net 1.6.2 0/0/N Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I'm just getting started with FreeBSD, so am going to have a bunch of questions in the near future. I have just installed FreeBSD 4.1.1 on my 486 test machine, and so far, so good. The installation was done from a CD that my brother sent me, and I plan on ordering a CD of 4.2 in the next couple of days. The first things that I will be wanting to get done are, learning how to install apps that I didn't get installed with the system, (off the CD, and online) getting the system configured to go online (e-mail, and web browsing), and getting my printer to work. I do have a couple of questions to start off with though. First on boot up I get a message about boot sector write, possible virus. This being a fresh install off the CD I figure there isn't a virus, so I just tell it to continue. How can I make it stop giving me this warning? Second, the install hangs for a long time when it gets to the part of: starting standard daemons: inetd cron sendmail Is that normal? I'm currently running Linux, so am hoping that the switch to FreeBSD will not be too big of a pain. I am not going to get too involved with this install, want to wait till I get the 4.2 CD. After checking out the web site a few times, I don't see any reason why FreeBSD can't be used as my only OS, it seems to have all the ports that are needed to have a completely functioning system, and that is what I hope to accomplish. I do have one hang-up though, it must be all native FreeBSD code apps. No Linux binarys. Don't foresee a problem there though since in going through the web site, it seems my most used stuff has been ported, the exception being Netscape. Don't really like Mozilla at this point, but may have to learn to live with it. Well that's sort of an intro as to what I aim to get done, hope to have a long and happy future with FreeBSD. -- >Lute< Hey! It happens. Well it does... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message