From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Dec 28 8:18:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from nexttown.buckhorn.net (nexttown.buckhorn.net [207.18.130.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EA9314C99 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 08:18:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bob@buckhorn.net) Received: from buckhorn.net (nexttown.buckhorn.net [207.18.130.2]) by nexttown.buckhorn.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA00216; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 10:18:45 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bob@buckhorn.net) Message-ID: <3868E2E5.F9B63E03@buckhorn.net> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 10:18:45 -0600 From: Bob Martin Reply-To: Bob@buckhorn.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: schilling Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggestion References: <3.0.6.32.19991228162053.007973e0@kalmar.schill.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org schilling wrote: > > It feels like i'm missing something ... > For exampel : i can't find any doc that says > how to bring up your ethernet card ?! > Nor how to set the IP, route and netmask etc etc > I see these thing like vital things ... > Can't you put up a "step by step" thing ?! > Like first you learn the commands; syntax, why using them etc etc > and then exampels on how to use the commands... > My biggest problem is that i can't get my NIC to work > And i think this is the most important on a freebsd machine ?! > In the begging of the installation i walked through the > "kernel settings" (almost the beginning of the inst.) where > I could choose NIC and set the port of the NIC .... > I was never able to get back to that setting-page so I > had to reinstall over and over and over again .... > That's all .... (i'm a really newbie to unix ... i know :)) > > /schilling > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message You can get back to the "setup screen" at any time by logging in as root, and typing /stand/sysinstall -- "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message