Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 19:25:18 -0800 From: "Bart (The Good Guy) Trzynadlowski" <trzy@powernet.net> To: bearmaps@berkeleycs.ml.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: newbie: need help with installation and booting FBSD3.1 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990328192518.00848e00@powernet.net>
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Hello, I have gone through the entire FBSD installation but it (version 3.1 of FreeBSD) did not install properly and the boot manager didn't install so I have deleted what did get installed. I have several questions that have not been answered. 1) What is up with that Bootmngr installation thing? It asks me to select a hard disk and to press "Q" at the FDISK screen so I do so and it asks me the same thing again. I don't get it. In the end I seemed to get past it but it never installed the boot manager. 2) What is up with all the ports and packages? I don't know what a LOT of them do. And how come when I select a pre-installed system like "Developer" I have to go through ALL that DEC encryption stuff? Can I install more than one of these systems? 3) As far as ports and packages go... How do I figure out WHAT to install? I noticed a lot of stuff like this: emacs-<version_number> emacs-dl-<same_version_number_as_above> What's the difference? What is GLIBCII (I saw something like that) and there was also a GLIB_something_++ I have no clue what to install. But my biggest problem is the boot manager installation, I can't figure it out :( I wish there was an alternative. The boot manager didnt even boot once, when i rebooted it went straight to Win95. Thanks, Bart Trzynadlowski To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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