From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 7 15:42:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D851337B503 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 15:42:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 66533 invoked by uid 100); 7 Oct 2000 22:42:47 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14815.42726.976853.807442@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 17:42:46 -0500 (CDT) To: "Matt Rudderham" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Installing FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <104543750@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt Rudderham writes: > >I'm sure that many moore people are just waiting for an friendlier > >version of Freebsd. I know I do. > > > Yes, I know what you mean, when I first wanted to learn more about Unix, I > remember buying an Easy to Install Linux Distribution, I think it may have > been Corel. It was supposed to have a nice easy installation, very > graphical. After booting from the CD, it would start to load, the screen > would go blank, then reboot my machine, it would do this in a never ending > process. As it turns out I was told by corel it was because my ATI video > card was not supported. I would much rather have an installation that is > guaranteed to work as apposed to one that is guaranteed to look nice if it > does. If you're having problems with the FreeBSD installation, please ask > questions on the list, the people here are more than willing to help you. Sounds like Corel went full bore graphical, instead of doing it halfway. Personally, I don't want/need a graphical install, but it would be nice - so long as it's *optional*. If I can't install without plugging in a video card, something is broken. Of course, anyone who thinks FreeBSD is hard should give Sun $75 for Solaris 8 and install that. It asks you for *cylinder* numbers. Talk about a blast from the past!