Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 16:24:58 -0000 From: Les Lytollis <les.lytollis@morse.com> To: "Freebsd-Newbies (E-mail)" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: first post Message-ID: <0F59E973A6C7D511886F00508BFC92971618B0@DBYEXCH1>
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> > I'm trying to search the mailing list archives before I go
> posting to the
> > questions list.
> > Can anyone tell me why a search for (e.g) Maxtor returns a
> resultset no
> > problem - but a search for something like an error string
> ("ad0: READ
> > command timeout")or "MAKE DEPEND" returns nothing?
> Everyone.... please, please, please ask questions in
> -questions.
OK, sorry
I assumed because this was a non-technical v. newbie question it was
appropriate here.
Newbie thoughts then, by way of apology:
I started using freeBSD partly because it was used as our web server at an
old workplace and was rock solid at its job. Secondly (and thirdly), because
I have such limited hardware to put it on (Cyrix PR200, AT mobo, 1.4GB HDD,
no CD-ROM) and I only wanted to setup a firewall/gateway and leave it
running quietly in a corner, while learning a little more *nix during the
process.
The initial install was a breeze - download the floppies via my windows box
- plug my cable modem into the proposed external NIC on the gateway and boot
up.
I followed one of the numerous guides out there and installed a basic setup
with kernel source from ftp via my CM - pretty cool!
Now, though - I'm trying to build a custom Kernel in order to strip the
whole thing down and turn it into a firewall, as soon as I ran into an error
I've found it very difficult to resolve. Nothing appropriate in the
Handbook, nothing (so far) in the archives and never *quite* the same
problem on any web/usenet searches.
Maybe I've just been unlucky - but I'm surprised that running into an error
so early on isn't a well documented newbie pitfall.
I'll stick with it though, just because I'm a stubborn s@d ;)
Cheers
Lez
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