From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 12 22:58:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA05680 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:58:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from random.tpgi.com.au (random.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA05594 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:57:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eirvine@tpgi.com.au) Received: (from smtpd@localhost) by random.tpgi.com.au (8.8.4/8.8.6) id RAA08964; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 17:57:44 +1100 (EST) Received: from tar-ppp-170.tpgi.com.au(203.26.26.170), claiming to be "gretchen" via SMTP by random.tpgi.com.au, id smtpdAAAa002Ba; Fri Feb 13 17:57:38 1998 From: "Eddie Irvine" To: "Scott Myron" , "Michael Doyle" Cc: Subject: Re: installing Freebsd Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 17:39:07 +1100 Message-ID: <01bd384a$15ac7140$aa1a1acb@gretchen> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 5 days is about right for the first time. I have set up FreeBSD 2.2.5 as a web server for a lan, with DNS, and proxy services for a high school. I have an engineering background and, before embarking on the project, used to speak a bit of unix some ten years ago. The second time is more like a few days, in my experience. Yes it will take time. If you expect it to be time consuming, and expect lots of frustrations the battle is half over. A very steep learning curve - more like rock climbing than walking up a hill. But the view at the top is worth it. FreeBSD is not, however, for the non- technical user IMHO. Cheers Eddie. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message