From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 5 15:24:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA28887 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 15:24:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA28836 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 15:24:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA28602; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 15:24:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 15:24:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Barry Grotjahn cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the CD-ROMīs : In-Reply-To: <3577BB0A.1B71EE80@swn.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id PAA28848 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Barry Grotjahn wrote: > A question to the CD-ROM-Set : > I got four CDīs with the FreeBSD-package : when I make my choice while > installing by booting from CD-ROM I need only the first CD : > so what is on the other ones ? Maybe all is allright because my choose > is selecting only packages from the first CD but Iīm not sure . Thta's correct. The second CD contains a fully installed system you can use as a reference (and just about boot from); the third disc contains the ports tree; and the fourth disc has some extras on it. > When I start with the installation booting from CD-ROM the first > question comes about the kernel : > when I donīt know about this because Iīm a beginner : is it O.K. when I > choose īskip kernel conf ...ī and the hardware will detect automaticly ? More or less. You should find the details on your hardware (the irq/port settings) then enter the visual configuration. Remove what you don't have (but leave sc0 and psm0!) and configure what you do have so they are at the proper settings. > P.S.: ... what other advices can you give me for installing and > configuration (for me as a beginner) / what packages would be neccessary > for best > performance ... ? By package, do you mean third-party programs? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major NOTICE: gdi.uoregon.edu is going down, please use dwhite@resnet! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message