From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 19 12:10:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA28867 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 12:10:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from corphq1.harding.com ([144.195.64.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA28841 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 12:10:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lfloyd@harding.com) From: lfloyd@harding.com Received: by corphq1.harding.com with VINES-ISMTP; Thu, 19 Mar 98 12:09:55 -0800 Date: Thu, 19 Mar 98 11:59:31 -0800 Message-ID: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) To: Reply-To: Subject: Re: bsd install X-Incognito-SN: 1021 X-Incognito-Version: 4.10.130 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I had some difficulties installing version 2.2.5 in that the floppy boot kernel wouldn't recognize my ATAPI CD-ROM (I was trying to install from the CDs). I ended up installing from a DOS partition, which worked fine. One thing to note, if you do a minimal install to get things up and running, planning to go back and install a more robust package, be warned that your original setup will be wiped out! I tried this to save time/space installing from DOS. I think I installed a more or less minimal package. After I got things running, I found that there were no man pages. Ack! So I did a /stand/sysinstall to install the package that included man pages, etc. This completely wiped out my original configuration, such as users, etc. So, in short, the only problem I had was getting the installation to recognize my ATAPI CD-ROM. - Larry ------------- Original Text From: "Brandon Lockhart" , on 3/19/98 11:49 AM: To: SMTP@CorpHQ@Harding["Tony Cappellini" ] Cc: SMTP@CorpHQ@Harding["Brian W." ], SMTP@CorpHQ@Harding["Freebsd Newbies List" ] To install FreeBSD, I found it easy to look at the FreeBSD Handbook found on www.freebsd.org, then I followed the directions, and it was easy as pie. I personally feel that the Linux install for Slackware was easyier, but I guess that is because it took me about 10 installs before Linux worked properly. But with FreeBSD, one try was all it needed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message a To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message