From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 28 19:29:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server4.reno.powernet.net (server4.reno.powernet.net [208.226.189.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 157C315709 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 19:29:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trzy@powernet.net) Received: from brzuszek (p3-11.reno.powernet.net [208.226.189.131]) by server4.reno.powernet.net (8.9.0/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA19846; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 19:28:32 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990328192518.00848e00@powernet.net> X-Sender: trzy@powernet.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 19:25:18 -0800 To: bearmaps@berkeleycs.ml.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Bart (The Good Guy) Trzynadlowski" Subject: newbie: need help with installation and booting FBSD3.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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- emacs-dl- 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