Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 12:47:33 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Sebastian Reichelt" <SebastianR@gmx.de>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FreeBSD Installation Horror Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKEEPFBAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050505155602.556d2a3c.SebastianR@gmx.de>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Sebastian > Reichelt > Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 6:56 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation Horror > > > Now I got the CD from someone else, and finally the installation went > well. It would still have been nice if all the things I described had > just worked. I was able to install Debian without any problems, even > though I didn't have any Unix experience at all. Compared to that, the > FreeBSD installation should have been a piece of cake for me now. If I > have to spend several days on it, I think a normal computer would give > up without getting very far. > FreeBSD isn't written for normal computer users. It's not deliberately written to be difficult, but it simply is difficult for normal users, in the same way that a Formula 1 race car would be rather difficult for your mother to drive, I'd wager. If you put the effort and time into it you will learn a lot and get many benefits. However most normal computer users don't want to put a lot of time into a computer, they just want it to "work" meaning work in whatever definition of work that they have for a computer. Many of the Linux distributions have chosen to make a special effort to cater to these people, and that is fine for them. FreeBSD has chosen not to make a special effort to cater to this group, and that is fine too. You as a user need to choose which approach you want to take and use the appropriate operating system for that approach. > Anyway, trying to establish a PPP connection still crashes the entire > system. Actually, it's probably the serial port driver: It > also crashes > when I just do: > echo "Hello" >/dev/cuaa0 What is your dmesg output? The above should not crash the computer. Ted
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