Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 08:08:37 -0500 From: "EDWIN R. PYLE" <erpyle@panama.c-com.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: DO I KNOW SOMETHING Message-ID: <199711031300.IAA25447@internet.panama.phoenix.net>
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I DO HAVE AN INTEREST IN UNIX... HOWEVER I'M CONFUSSED ABOUT ALL THE PROGRAMS THAT CLAIM TO BE UNIX BUT ARE NOT CALLED UNIX ( FREEBSD - LINUX - ETC )... I VISIT YOUR SITE OFTEN HOPING FOR INLIGHTENMENT BUT I DON'T SEEM TO BE GETTING ANY WHERE ON MY OWN.... I HAVE IN THE PAST BEEN ABLE TO FIGURE OUT MOST COMPUTER STUFF ON MY OWN, BUT NOT IN THIS CASE.... I DO WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT UNIX. BUT I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START... YOUR SYSTEM IS FREE, I CAN CERTAINLY AFFORD THAT, BUT I DON'T SEEM TO HAVE A STARTING DOWNLOAD POINT... MOST OTHER SOFTWARE HAS SEVERAL DISKS NUMBERED DISK 1. DISK 2., ETC... THERE IS A BEGINNING A MIDDLE & AN END OF INSTALLATION... UNIX SEEMS TO BE A COLLECTION OF FILES DOWNLOADABLE VIA FTP... BUT WHERE DO I START ? WHAT DO I LOAD FIRST ? SECOND ? ETC.................. I EXPECTED TO FIND SOMETHING LIKE : " TO DOWNLOAD TO 1.4 DISKS GO TO THIS PALCE ( HYPERTEXT ) " DISK - 1 DISK -2 DISK - 3 ETC............ " TO DOWNLOAD TO HARD DRIVE YOU MUST HAVE XXXXX AMOUNT OF HARD DRIVE SPACE AVAILABLE. AFTER DOWNLOADING GO TO THE DIRECTORY, INSTALL THE PROGRAM , FOLLOW THE ON SCREEN INSTRUCTIONS " THIS IS NORMAL TO ME...... I'M AFRAID OF RANDOM DOWNLOADING ANYTHING WHEN I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOWNLOADING, NOR DO I KNOW WHAT IT'S FOR, NOR WHAT IT WILL DO, NOR WHAT AFFECT IT WILL HAVE ON MY CURRENT SYSTEM....... IT'S PRETTY SCARY STUFF TO A POOR OLD FAT BOY........ IS THERE SOME WAY THE FILES CAN BE ORGINIZED INTO A LOGICAL INSTALL FORMAT FOR DUMMIES LIKE ME ??? I LOVE COMPUTTING, & I REALLY WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT UNIX.... PLEASE HELP..... THANKS IN ADVANCE ED PYLE THE COMPUTER JUNKIE
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