From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Aug 9 13:08:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18637 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 13:08:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA18624 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 13:08:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA18649; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:07:21 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199808092007.IAA18649@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: Sue Blake Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:07:19 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: receiving mail directly Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19980809234513.30027@welearn.com.au> References: <199808091312.BAA06784@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>; from Dan Langille on Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 01:12:42AM +1200 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 9 Aug 98, at 23:45, Sue Blake wrote: > > http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd : my [mis]adventures > > Eh, what's this? Thought nobody would read down that far, eh? I know I > shouldn't laugh at your misfortunes, but, well, some of it's just so close > to the bone! The casually curious heading "Where's my file system?" and > matter of fact observations like "mounting fd0 without a floppy gives a > GPF" really cracked me up... still wiping the coffee off the monitor... > Not that anything like that has *ever* happened to me. Oh no, not in the > last week, anyway. Well, the diary is actually self-serving. I have a terrible memory when it comes to figuring out what I did. I was keeping a notebook, but I can't use the search engine on my notebook . And I figured that if I was typing my notes into the computer, it wasn't much more work to put them onto the web site. So I did. The diary has been useful when trying to explain to helpers what I've done. Also, the examples [how to install something] should prove useful to people who are doing the same things I'm doing. And I'm not doing anything that other newbies won't be trying. As usual, the biggest problem is figuring out *what* to do. Once you know that, the rest is pretty straight forward. OH, and yeah, I don't mind putting in the stupid stuff. Because that's what makes for the best reading. Glad you enjoyed it. Sorry about the coffee. You'll know next time. -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd : my [mis]adventures To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message