From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 27 12:42:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03403 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 12:42:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.impulse.net (mail.impulse.net [204.188.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA03396 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 12:42:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reader@newsguy.com) Received: (qmail 8494 invoked from network); 27 Sep 1998 19:42:38 -0000 Received: from sb1-59.impulse.net (HELO chub.local) (204.188.6.59) by mail.impulse.net with SMTP; 27 Sep 1998 19:42:38 -0000 Received: (from reader@localhost) by chub.local (8.9.1/8.9.1) id MAA00675; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 12:40:05 -0700 To: dan@math.berkeley.edu (Dan Strick) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New install / Unrecognized fdisk terms References: <199809271138.EAA03195@math.berkeley.edu> From: Harry Putnam Date: 27 Sep 1998 12:40:02 -0700 In-Reply-To: dan@math.berkeley.edu's message of "Sun, 27 Sep 1998 04:38:58 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.43/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG dan@math.berkeley.edu (Dan Strick) writes: > > Attempting to install 3.0-19980923-BETA > > Since you are apparently new to FreeBSD, perhaps you should avoid > unstable code by using 2.2.7-RELEASE or one of its successors in the > "stable" snapshot series at ftp://releng22.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/. Yes indeed... Thank you posters, for not horse laughing me off the list. Looks like I may be in over my head. May I stretch your patience for some further comments regarding what is especially good about FreeBSD as compared to other OSs. I haven't been able to see enough of it yet to know. Are their aspects that make FreeBSD a desirable OS to run? -- Harry Putnam reader@newsguy.com Running Redhat Linux-5.1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message