From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Feb 10 2:48:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe42.law12.hotmail.com [64.4.18.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AFEE37B419 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 02:48:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 02:48:15 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [4.41.159.196] From: "Shawn Halloran" To: "freebsd-newbie" Subject: Aarghh !! Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 02:53:10 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_000B_01C1B1DE.137252C0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Feb 2002 10:48:15.0279 (UTC) FILETIME=[714F13F0:01C1B220] 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 ------=_NextPart_001_000B_01C1B1DE.137252C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I guess, since I can't ask questions hear (pun), I can simply state that = I am beginning to feel extreme discouragement. =20 I keep hearing how wonderful this system is, but the most Ive been abel t= o do is generate a list of the /usr directory. My mouse won't configure, = X won't configure, Heck! I can't even figure out how to load a simple wor= d processor. Uuumph! I've spent hours reading. I've spent hours on the net. I've loaded this O= S several times (which has been a learning experinece - I can now create = partitions in my slice). So far, the best I can achieve is a barren scree= n similar to the ominous cursor that greeted my when I first loaded DOS 5= .0. I certainly hope that all this effort is going to be fruitful - I can thi= nk of several people that would tell me I'm absolutely insane for trying = to learn this OS. ShawnGet more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer= .msn.com ------=_NextPart_001_000B_01C1B1DE.137252C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I guess, since= I can't ask questions hear (pun), I can simply state that I am beginning= to feel extreme discouragement.

I keep hea= ring how wonderful this system is, but the most Ive been abel to do is ge= nerate a list of the /usr directory. My mouse won't configure, X won't co= nfigure, Heck! I can't even figure out how to load a simple word processo= r. Uuumph!

I've spent hours reading. I've sp= ent hours on the net. I've loaded this OS several times (which has been a= learning experinece - I can now create partitions in my slice). So far, = the best I can achieve is a barren screen similar to the ominous cursor t= hat greeted my when I first loaded DOS 5.0.

= I certainly hope that all this effort is going to be fruitful - I can thi= nk of several people that would tell me I'm absolutely insane for trying = to learn this OS.

Shawn

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