From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Aug 3 21:17:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from fellspt.charm.net (fellspt.charm.net [199.0.70.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29C1314DED for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 21:17:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from treecat@charm.net) Received: from charm.net (coretel-116-014.charm.net [209.143.116.14]) by fellspt.charm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA06396; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:17:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <37A7BEC7.BA3012E4@charm.net> Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 00:17:11 -0400 From: Dutch Collins X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brett G. Castleberry" Cc: Dutch Collins , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: basic info on freebsd needed... References: <19990803120725.N62948@freebie.lemis.com> <37A79EAA.49C4D47B@charm.net> <012201bede2b$f2b71f80$d223c992@s1o3q0> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Brett G. Castleberry" wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dutch Collins > To: Greg Lehey > Cc: Peter McGarvey ; David Kudrav > ; ; > Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 10:00 PM > Subject: Re: basic info on freebsd needed... > > > Does this mean that when I install Red Hat 5.2 (on CD) and XFree86 I will > > have nothing but problems. I am running netscape and X (this msg) on > > FreeBSD with only a strange Netscape crash to figure out. Easy stuff kill > > -9 > > to remove netscape. So, if I have this little problem now .... > > > > Plan, when I get some parts. One win98 box, one RH 5.2 box, and this box. > > -dutch > > Maybe, with 5.2.. From the RH6.0 manual, "Installation-Related > Enhancements." > "Xconfigurator is now run at the very end of the install, after all > filesystem components have been installed. In the past, if Xconfigurator > were to hang, you would likely have to start the installation over. Now it > is possible to boot Red Hat Linux and configure X after the installation has > completed" > When I tried the Xconfigurator probe, my monitor crashed, but I went > back and skipped the probe, and had no trouble with the manual selection of > my video card, monitor, etc.. > Now, I'm not a Serious User. I'm just practising commands and snooping > around in the files, but I have discovered that the Linuxes did not just > spring full-blown from the forehead of Zeus. I was reading the inetd.conf > file, trying to solve a mail problem, when I found a line at the end > stating that this file had been adapted from a file in, guess what? FreeBSD, > by way of Debian. > > Brett G. Castleberry > bcc9746@garnet.acns.fsu.edu > Tallahassee, Florida > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message Well all that is real nifty. FreeBSD 3.2-R generic (lazy me) sysinstall in full graphic mode, when configuring X, had a tendency to forget what it was doing (on this machine). Command Line worked just fine. Sooo, looks like convergence is creeping up on everyone, Linux trying to be BSD. I will find out. The Red Hat box is almost done, short a bigger drive and network card. 170mb is just a headache. If you are messing around try Communicator 4.51 (walcreek CD). It has a couple of interesting 'features'; a) mail windows use micro size print, b) time looks funny but I'll check it for a *me* error, c) stops working for no reason and it takes a kill -9 to get rid of it. All these features I am talking about are on this machine - don't have a known good setup to compare it to. Argh! -d To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message