From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 7 17:51:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F71937B502 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 17:51:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001008005044.DQMC27630.femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 17:50:44 -0700 Message-ID: <39DF6263.FBCBA866@home.com> Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 17:50:27 +0000 From: rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer Cc: Matt Rudderham , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD? References: <14815.42726.976853.807442@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Meyer wrote: > > 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! > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message I had to give cylinder numbers with OpenBSD. I sat there with a calculator turning cylinders and sectors into Mb, but it gives you lots of time for really thinking about your partitioning :) Rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message