From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 20 18:34: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web21001.mail.yahoo.com (web21001.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.227.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6991237B400 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:33:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20020321023357.6889.qmail@web21001.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.148.4.115] by web21001.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:33:57 PST Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:33:57 -0800 (PST) From: Rick K Subject: Re: Unbeliveable! To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020320191146.009a5b40@pop.netzero.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A friend of mine helped me install. Ask around. Every Linux group usually has a few BSD people in it. I have always found people willing to help me get going in Linux/BSD. I still have to get X configured properly. Everything looks like junk in Mozilla, like I didn't select enough colors or something. But, at least I've gotten started. --- Lord Raiden wrote: > I second that motion. It's not the easiest > installer in the > world, nor the easiest to understand, and definitely > not the most > forgiving, but if it was, we'd be using microsoft > linux. (shutter) Eww, > that's a scary thought. :) The setup software in > some ways assumes that > you already know kinda what you're doing. When I > was a greenhorn to Fbsd > that was the one program I dreaded getting into. > Now there are times I'd > rather use it than figure out how to do it by hand > at the command prompt. > > Considering you're using such a powerful OS > that's not for > computer newbies, I guess the installer kinda > follows that > pattern. Powerful, yet not oversimplified. > > At 09:15 AM 3/20/02 -0500, John Bleichert wrote: > >On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, atfox solution wrote: > ><...> > > > Please do something for this installation > software! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message