From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 22 10:40:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-131.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBDE837B404 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:40:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6320766EE7; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:40:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:40:18 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Douglas R. Spindler" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A question from a convert from Windows to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020122104018.C21075@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <0ffe01c1a371$661d1b20$6600640a@attbi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="dkEUBIird37B8yKS" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <0ffe01c1a371$661d1b20$6600640a@attbi.com>; from spindler@dnai.com on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:19:58AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --dkEUBIird37B8yKS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:19:58AM -0800, Douglas R. Spindler wrote: > I've been in the industry for 10 years now and have seen the light > of FreeBSD. I know a few Unix commands and know DOS very well. >=20 > Here's my question, why do you guys make converting so difficult? That's a very subjective question, wouldn't you say? Since FreeBSD is a community supported project, obviously some people in the user community thought the directions were fine. > Sorry to be so stupid, but I can't follow the easy directions. I > can't even find what files I need to FTP. I also am finding the > floppy disk installation incomplete. Following through the instructions, one of the steps is the following: ---- In general, to create boot floppy images, follow these steps: 1. Acquire the Boot Floppy Images The boot discs are available on your installation media in the floppies= directory, and can also be downloaded from the . ---- The last two words are a link which take you to the download site for the boot floppies for the latest release. That's all you need. If you have more specific questions please ask them here, and if you can come up with concrete suggestions about how the documentation could be improved then please send them to doc@FreeBSD.org. Your feedback on how the installation guide can be improved would be appreciated. Kris --dkEUBIird37B8yKS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8TbIRWry0BWjoQKURAnu3AKDmRaFBufrswxh0u8U7kc+mSjLCPwCghxpi mQgSSbPObl5Uyz+iZCViAm8= =c/cU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dkEUBIird37B8yKS-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message