From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 28 05:01:49 2005 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> 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 1E10E16A4CE for <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 05:01:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-hub2.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp-hub2.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.76]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E73C43D55 for <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 05:01:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from crzdgns1@starpower.net) Received: from ms07.mrf.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.4.13]) by smtp-hub2.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #7) id 1CuOGR-0006G3-00 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:01:47 -0500 Received: from 216.15.60.30 by ms07.mrf.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.5.6-GR) with HTTP/1.1; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:01:47 -0500 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:01:47 -0500 From: <crzdgns1@starpower.net> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Mirapoint Webmail Direct 3.5.6-GR MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <8e97bec7.c591c815.81b3300@ms07.mrf.mail.rcn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Where can I find more information X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users <freebsd-newbies.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies>, <mailto:freebsd-newbies-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-newbies> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-newbies-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies>, <mailto:freebsd-newbies-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 05:01:49 -0000 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