Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:01:47 -0500 From: <crzdgns1@starpower.net> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Where can I find more information Message-ID: <8e97bec7.c591c815.81b3300@ms07.mrf.mail.rcn.net>
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Hello, My name is Mark. I recently banished windows and windows-based programs from my (ancient) computer because it is too slow to handle windows XP and all of the attendant programs required to keep it virus and ad-free. I have installed FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE on my computer (Intel Pentium II Celeron, 330 MHz, ~500 Mb Ram, Western Digital Hard Disk (40 Gb, Master), Western Digital Hard Disk (6 Gb, Slave), floppy disk (1.44 Mb), IOMega ZIP-Drive (100Mb, IDE), Hitachi CD/DVD-ROM, Memorex CD-RW, Diamond Multimedia Viper v550 video card, and a few other ancient goodies). I am having great difficulty mounting and unmounting floppies, zips, and CDs from my system. I have done my best to follow the recommendations in The Handbook, The FreeBSD FAQ, and the documentation that came bundled with FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE, all to no avail. I have also searched the archives that I could find using the queries "mount" and "unmount", but didn't find anything that seemed to fit. I have no trouble mounting and unmounting CDs if I use the device manager in KDE, but have had no luck trying to do the same from the command line. Can someone out there recommend additional, better, or easier-to-understand sources of information for someone who is essentially a complete beginner in UNIX and FreeBSD? Alternatively, if I were to post a technical question to a mailing list, which mailing list would be appropriate? Thanks Mark
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