From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 30 03:40:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85A7F16A4D0 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 03:40:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98709445FD for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 03:14:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id s1so299143nze for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:14:15 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kkRMgeL//fSTJwDv1Z6TA0gYGSPE8KRbH2hJvlgRa0nsxqoWkxbK2g49tSsBdI8CW/48542Wbs5q+eQI55n/23TSNsKHmWXGqQfVahU2XJ6dAA7JHZWVX3MaYE4wZaxSICy01f3hmxVuz4SGC0g4LRenTIbeHcIeHX5nw1xoJm0= Received: by 10.36.67.7 with SMTP id p7mr200123nza; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:14:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.12.11 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:14:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:14:15 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Fernando Pinguelo" In-Reply-To: <000601c69bf0$060d9e90$01ea2444@new48wv7crnbbw> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <000601c69bf0$060d9e90$01ea2444@new48wv7crnbbw> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Frustration X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 03:40:04 -0000 On 6/29/06, Fernando Pinguelo wrote: > I am writing to you because I need to vent. I have tried installing version 5.3 of FreeBSD on a Pentium III machine. I thought I succeeded in doing it so, but when I tried to build xOrg I realized that I did not have all the ports installed and that some other dependencies were also missing. I realized then that the installation had not been as successful as I first thought. > So, I tried to re-install the ports from the CD, since I didn't have an Internet connection to that machine. Well, I kept getting more and more hardware/software errors. I then tried to upgrade FreeBSD to version 6.1. And that was what I did; I tried. > > Well, I kept getting more errors, as usual. The more I tried to install/reinstall/upgrade/fix FreeBSD, the more I was realizing that anything that had to do with FreeBSD that could go wrond would go wrong, be it the software installation or hardware behavior. The amount of work and headache that I have been experiencing to move a single 'inch' towards a working Unix environment has been enourmously frustating. The worst part of it all is that I have not accomplished anything tangible at all. > > I think now it is time for this boy to abandon the 'Unix' bandwagon for good and move back to MS Windows. At least I will be able to concentrate on doing real productive work, instead of dealing with temperamental hardware and software every time I touch the PC. > > Good luck to those heroic individuals who stick with the configuration fight to the end. I failed to see the 'Power to Serve'. > How come you never asked for help?: http://groups.google.com/groups/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22Fernando+pinguelo%22&qt_s=Search You do realize that's what this list is for, correct? anyways... good bye and good luck. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/