Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 05:54:39 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: xavian anderson macpherson <professional3d@home.com> Cc: Christopher Rued <c.rued@xsb.com>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: vinum question Message-ID: <20001004055439.A27898@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <39D932AC.4D3D9C06@home.com>; from professional3d@home.com on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 06:13:16PM -0700 References: <39D8FAA6.3C2CE669@home.com> <14809.216.377993.679478@chris.xsb.com> <39D90385.C9397AEA@home.com> <14809.1418.335403.207878@chris.xsb.com> <39D932AC.4D3D9C06@home.com>
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On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 06:13:16PM -0700, xavian anderson macpherson wrote:
> let me state once more that i have the book and am reading it!
... "state once more" ?
But i do not seem to recall you writing anywhere that you have got the
book. You only wrote in your first posting:
i got my freebsd box saturday by fedex, and have been reading
the manual since then.
Which manual? The manual pages that come with an installed
version of FreeBSD? The handbook that you can find online at
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ ? The FreeBSD FAQ (also available
online)?
> so much for the guy who said i was lazy for not reading.
Yes. So much for the poor guy. He will probably be very annoyed by the
tone of your messages by now, and never be helpful to you again :-/
> if i didn't want to read, and didn't think that i should have to, i
> wouldn't have brought the book.
Buying the book is one thing. Reading it is another. Understanding
what is written in the book, is yet another thing, on it's own.
> i tried to download the freebsd kernel from the web.
You really don't have to. The 10-cdrom set you claim to have bought,
includes all you need to install FreeBSD and get it running.
> but i could make heads or tails of
> it. i was expecting to find the kernel to be one contiguous unit as it
> is in linux. now maybe it is. but what i found was kernel modules as
> they would appear in linux after the kernel and it's components had been
> compiled. i didn't find any file of the size that i expected the kernel
> to be (17-21MB's for linux).
FreeBSD is *not* Linux. They do have some differences. This is a fact
that you should get acquainted with, and once you stop comparing these
two and trying to find their differences, you might be able to focus on
their similarities better.
> it was because of this recognition, that i
> was erroneously applying concepts from one system to another, that i
> chose to admit that i don't know what i am doing. it is also because of
> this that i am approaching this (installation) with great trepidation.
Read the installation instructions in the book you bought. If you feel
that you are unsure about what you should do next, read them again. And
again, and again...
Try to install FreeBSD.
Even then, if something goes wrong, this list is here to help you.
But *please*, show some respect to the people on this list that are
willing to help you. Do not write in such an offensive tone, and try to
come up with as specific questions as you can. Yelling at people's
faces that "your FreeBSD thing is nothing close to my Linux, and I
really hate it's installation" will not get you anywhere far. We can
not help you with your installation, if we don't know what exactly your
problem with it was.
Try to start the installation process. It should not be that hard to
understand how this is done. It's described in INSTALL.TXT of the first
disk in your cdrom-set.
Then, and only then.. after you have attempted to install and failed at
some subtle point, the people on this list will be able to help you go
on with the installation, if "The Complete FreeBSD" does not seem to be
enough to get you started.
Ciao.
--
Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr >
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