From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 21 20:30:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75F2416A4CF for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 20:30:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-d22.mx.aol.com (imo-d22.mx.aol.com [205.188.144.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2430743D31 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 20:30:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from NeuralDecimation@aol.com) Received: from NeuralDecimation@aol.com by imo-d22.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v36_r4.14.) id n.1df.19cab953 (4222) for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 23:29:49 -0500 (EST) From: NeuralDecimation@aol.com Message-ID: <1df.19cab953.2d698a3d@aol.com> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 23:29:49 EST To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5007 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: downloading/installing GNOME X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 04:30:01 -0000 i've tried all this stuff with creating my own installation media and trying to download the program. i have no idea what to substitute for an ARCH, dont know what that is although i can figure out kinda for the version i wanted the disc1.iso i can't figure half of this stuff out and generally i take pretty quickly to this type of stuff. but it seems that alot of the information on these pages is pretty vague to me and i dont know alot of these terms and finding a download site that actually downloads. i've already been here (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html) and i couldn't find a place to download from that actually worked. i dont know if you can help me at all or if you even want to, but if you could i'd greatly appreciate it. also, is there a place where i can order a copy of GNOME with an image already burnt to a CD? thanks