From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Jul 22 7: 1:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from slkcpop2.slkc.uswest.net (slkcpop2.slkc.uswest.net [206.81.128.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8877C37B401 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 07:01:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eccheadle@qwest.net) Received: (qmail 91734 invoked by alias); 22 Jul 2001 14:01:10 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 91727 invoked by uid 0); 22 Jul 2001 14:01:10 -0000 Received: from slkc6400gw1poolc84.slkc.uswest.net (HELO galatea) (63.226.102.84) by slkcpop2.slkc.uswest.net with SMTP; 22 Jul 2001 14:01:10 -0000 Message-ID: <000a01c112b6$ff419340$3300000a@echeadle.com> From: "Edward Cheadle" To: Subject: Installation of FreeBSD 4.3 Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 08:02:51 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0007_01C11284.B43AA5D0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C11284.B43AA5D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I just installed FreeBSD for the first time on a AMD 350 MHZ K6 PC. I = couldn't get RedHat 7.1 to install, so decided to try FreeBSD. It = installed and worked flawlessly. The amazing thing about it is that I = always thought X windows was slow-- not so with FreeBSD. KDE / FreeBSD = running on my 350 MHz K6 seems much more responsive and faster than my = 500 MHz machine running either SuSE 7.2 or RedHat 7.1. The installation seems more difficult than necessary. The Kernel = configuration did not list my 3Com Card in list of availible cards and = yet everything still works. I read the installation, document and it = says get rid of cards that you do not have in order to resolve = confilicts. But the list did not have my card. I selected and out of = luck it worked. Other than that the dialog boxes are not consistant as to when they = close or how you go backwards After a few trial and errors, I finally got everything right and when I = did , it is impressive. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C11284.B43AA5D0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I just installed FreeBSD for the first = time on a=20 AMD 350 MHZ K6 PC. I couldn't get RedHat 7.1 to install,=20 so decided to try FreeBSD. It installed and worked = flawlessly. The=20 amazing thing about it is that I always thought X windows was slow-- not = so with FreeBSD. KDE / FreeBSD running on my = 350 MHz=20 K6 seems much more responsive and faster than my 500 = MHz=20 machine running either SuSE 7.2 or RedHat 7.1.

The installation seems more difficult = than=20 necessary. The Kernel configuration did not list my 3Com Card in = list of=20 availible cards and yet everything still works. I read the = installation,=20 document and it says get rid of cards that you do not have in order to = resolve=20 confilicts. But the list did not have my card. I selected and out = of luck=20 it worked.

Other than that the dialog boxes are = not consistant=20 as to when they close or how you go backwards

After a few trial and errors, I finally = got=20 everything right and when I did , it is = impressive.

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