From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 19 21:34:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87F9616A4E1 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:34:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danger@FreeBSD.org) Received: from virtual.micronet.sk (smtp.micronet.sk [84.16.32.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EF3A43D8D for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:34:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danger@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by virtual.micronet.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3252010E7E4; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 23:34:07 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at virtual.micronet.sk Received: from virtual.micronet.sk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (virtual.micronet.sk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id FWyT2p1Lb+fh; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 23:34:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from danger.mcrn.sk (danger.mcrn.sk [84.16.37.254]) by virtual.micronet.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id F376A10E7E5; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 23:34:05 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 23:34:03 +0200 From: Daniel Gerzo Organization: The FreeBSD Project X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <47858746.20060819233403@rulez.sk> To: conrad sobol In-Reply-To: <1156020734.5785.13.camel@paddy-desktop> References: <1156020734.5785.13.camel@paddy-desktop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: user level X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Gerzo List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:34:15 -0000 Hello conrad, Saturday, August 19, 2006, 10:52:13 PM, you wrote: > Dear Sir: I assembled my first computer in March of 2005. I am 56 years > old. Since that time, I have built one tower and built a computer for > myself. I have tried several times to install and run FreeBSD and ran > into trouble configuring my internet connection via DHCP. I have started > studying an older manual for BSD by Greg Lehey for 4.4BSD. I have a lot This must be pretty old, you should rather start reading our Handbook located at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/. It's full of very good set of examples describing a lot of things you can do with FreeBSD. > to learn and I would love to install FreeBSD, but I am begining to > wonder if I"m in over my head. Would it be necessary for me to take > college courses in order to function in a BSD enviroment? I have > survived some major problems with other operating systems. I have run > and used:Fedora Core, Xandros, Ubuntu, installed Debian, DesktopBSD, and > PCBSD; but, my dream is to run FreeBSD, but I have to be connected to If you were able to live with operating systems listed above, you will be surely able to install FreeBSD. There is no magic, believe me. Also PCBSD and DesktopBSD are "forks" of FreeBSD so it's pretty much possible that the configuration is the same, although I've never seen these two. > the Internet to conduct personal business. What must I know to configure > sbcglobal.net to operate FreeBSD. And, do you think I need to learn a If DHCP is all you need to setup your internet connection, there is nothing easier you can have. Just put the installation CD into your drive, boot it and when the sysinstall will ask you "Do you want to try DHCP configuration of the interface?" you will choose [ Yes ] button. That's all. > lot more, or should I scrub the whole idea because it was meant for a > educated programmer? If you find the time to answer me I'll be very > grateful. I'll understand if you just refer me to the proper man or info > pages. Thank you for your time. Yours, Conrad -- Best regards, Daniel mailto:danger@FreeBSD.org