From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 23:58:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A496337B419 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 23:58:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 56580 invoked by uid 100); 5 Mar 2002 07:58:43 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15492.31410.219242.379055@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 01:58:42 -0600 To: David Herman Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I bought your system and am not so happy! In-Reply-To: <77692413@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.48 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) 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 David Herman types: > Some background, I have used an Amiga since 1992. I like mice, (I'm a hunt > and peck typist). When my wife got fed up w/ her mac and made me buy a m$ pc > I purchased mandrake 7.0 even before we got he m$ box home. I bought my first one in '86, and kept on using them until '98, when I switched to FreeBSD. > There was nothing that I ever read that said, "Just go do it, This will > replace windows and the mac. Nothing will go wrong and you won't need to > learn anything." Good. That's not something that should be said. > Now the good news. I finally did get freeBSD running. I believe all of my > problems came down to a combination of 2 things, Congratulations. > 1) xfree86 still has a way to go as far as being easy to set up. > I kept thinking this was the source of my failures. FYI, xfree86 is not part of FreeBSD. > 2) There was nothing to warn me that choosing high security (rather than > moderate) in sysinstall would keep the xserver from being able to start. > THIS WAS A BUGGER. Security levels is a recent addition to the install process. And yes, this one is a bugger. That needs to be added to the documentation. Please feel free to use send-pr - there's a man page for it - to suggest that the text in the installation process be changed to note this. For that matter, the last time I checked the init page, *it* didn't say anything about it either. Not good. I may fix that one, except I'm not sure exactly what else breaks. > Anyway all is well, I look forward to a more "Desktop" related distribution > but by the time it arrives I hope I won't need it. That's actually a sticky subject. The install process *has* to be able to run over a serial line. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message