From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 23 12:37:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA02865 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 12:37:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA02845 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 12:37:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-166.laker.net [208.0.233.66]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id PAA07030; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:36:51 -0400 Message-Id: <199810231936.PAA07030@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "Sogn" Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:14:12 -0400 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_=_=_=IMA.BOUNDARY.HTML_4862544=_=_=_" Subject: Re: Newbie help Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --_=_=_=IMA.BOUNDARY.HTML_4862544=_=_=_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --Original Message Text--- >From: Sogn >Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 20:29:57 +0200 >I have gotten a FreeBSD CD-rom for a friend, and I want to install it on an Olivetti p75 computer >(formated hard drive, but DOS (only on bootdisk) and win95 are avilable). I have a boot disk for >FreeBSD as well. >So me having made up my mind about UNIX being totally cool thing to have on my machine I >put in the boot disk and the CD-rom, wait and suddenly I am told that I should configure kernel. >HELP!!! >I understand that I should identify the hardware I have, but don't know what half of the options >mean. (I know that I have Creative CD-rom, and that's about it) >So what do I do, and how? Sogn sogn@c2i.net >P. S. I'm sorry to bother you with such idiot questions, but I tried to RTFM; in the one online I >couldn't find anything explaining what I should do, and the one offered in the program, well...) I >hope that you'll excuse my ignorance. Ignorance is excusable, stupidity is not. Ignorance is being unaware of something, how could we hold someone responsible for something they've never known existed? Stupidity is making the same mistakes after having learned the lesson many, many times. It's cool that you tried to figure it out by reading the available info. That's why I'm responding to you. I usually ignore questions from people who have obviously not read anything at all. You should first attemp to install with making any changes and see if the GENERIC kernel can probe/detect your hardware for you. If it's successful, you can build a custom kernel after the install. If the GENERIC kernel doesn't find your CDROM, then you may have to try a different method to install. Over the Internet is pretty convienient if you have an ISP with unlimited access (no per hour charges). Try without making the changes, and then email back to me and/or the list. Then we'll go from there... Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. --_=_=_=IMA.BOUNDARY.HTML_4862544=_=_=_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --Original Message Text---
>From: Sogn
>Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 20:29:57 +0200

>I have gotten a FreeBSD CD-rom for a friend, and I want to install it on an Olivetti p75 computer
>(formated hard drive, but DOS (only on bootdisk) and win95 are avilable). I have a boot disk for
>FreeBSD as well.

>So me having made up my mind about UNIX being totally cool thing to have on my machine I >put in the boot disk and the CD-rom, wait and suddenly I am told that I should configure kernel. >HELP!!!

>I understand that I should identify the hardware I have, but don't know what half of the options >mean. (I know that I have Creative CD-rom, and that's about it)

>So what do I do, and how?

Sogn
sogn@c2i.net

>P. S. I'm sorry to bother you with such idiot questions, but I tried to RTFM; in the one online I >couldn't find anything explaining what I should do, and the one offered in the program, well...) I >hope that you'll excuse my ignorance.

Ignorance is excusable, stupidity is not. Ignorance is being unaware of something, how could we hold someone responsible for something they've never known existed? Stupidity is making the same mistakes after having learned the lesson many, many times.

It's cool that you tried to figure it out by reading the available info. That's why I'm responding to you. I usually ignore questions from people who have obviously not read anything at all.

You should first attemp to install with making any changes and see if the GENERIC kernel can probe/detect your hardware for you. If it's successful, you can build a custom kernel after the install.

If the GENERIC kernel doesn't find your CDROM, then you may have to try a different method to install. Over the Internet is pretty convienient if you have an ISP with unlimited access (no per hour charges).

Try without making the changes, and then email back to me and/or the list. Then we'll go from there...
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