From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 19 13:29:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10235 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 13:29:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mserv1b.u-net.net (mserv1b.u-net.net [195.102.240.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA10213 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 13:28:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peterg@mildewh.u-net.com) Received: from mildewh.u-net.com [194.119.189.62] by mserv1b.u-net.net with esmtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0yFmjI-0003HQ-00; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 21:20:00 +0000 Message-ID: <3511FE64.980A6BAA@mildewh.u-net.com> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 21:28:04 -0800 From: Peter Garner X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tony Cappellini CC: "Brian W." , Freebsd Newbies List Subject: Re: bsd install References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I started out with Caldera, which was my "first " Linux, and it took 6 or 7 tries before I had it "just right". Then I tried RH Linux, and for me at least it all went horribly wrong. There were so many subtle differences between that and Caldera - FreeBSD was fun though. Very straightforward. Tony Cappellini wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Brian W. wrote: > > > Ive been wanting to try freebsd for a little while now. I'm kind of annoyed > > with some of the Linux distributions. Can someone tell me which > > files/directories I need to download to complete the install. > > That's odd. I was considering Red Hat Linux, before I decided on BSD. > The Linux people were saying RH Linux has a real easy install utility, and > the BSD people were saying just the opposite. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message