From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 27 10:42: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nautilus.shore.net (nautilus.shore.net [207.244.124.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EC9014BE5 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:41:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rothenberg@automationonline.com) Received: from shore.shore.net [192.233.85.136] by nautilus.shore.net with esmtp (Exim) for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG id 11gX50-0004qU-00; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 13:41:46 -0400 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by shore.shore.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id NAA14052 for shore!FreeBSD.ORG!freebsd-questions; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 13:41:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from baffle. automationonline.com by slider.automationonline.com via SMTP (911016.SGI/911001.SGI) for shore!FreeBSD.ORG!freebsd-questions id AA14974; Wed, 27 Oct 99 13:26:45 -0400 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19991027132239.007385ec@slider> X-Sender: rothenberg@slider X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 13:22:39 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Michael Rothenberg Subject: RE: Installation Ease In-Reply-To: References: <199910271638.MAA11217@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As a newbie I felt that the installation was not so bad. It is not as nice as windows. Sorry, but hey, I'd rather you put your time into the OS then the install anyway. Worst part was trying to figure out which netcard driver to keep when my specific 3com was not listed and the xfree stuff. I dont know if I got the right net driver yet either. We'll see shortly. After that the XFree install section needs some work. It is hard to figure out if you need the server or some other combination. In the end I just installed everything figureing that I can remove it later if I have too. It was confusing if the version numbers are shown. At least to a windoze user because versions never really make sence to them. Perhaps an option to just install the minimum needed to get a multi-user login without the net support or xfree would be best. This would put all the docs on with an additional readme for istalling the other main parts to the system: most ports,net stuff and xfree. Then us newbies can play with a base system before going on to the next step: connection to the net or xfree cfg. As a newbie I think thats what I ended up with on my machine... hehehe and thats what I was going for. Next stop, XFree cfging! Woo hoo! -m To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message