From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 28 21:51:36 2002 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 3F78637B401 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 21:51:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pimout3-ext.prodigy.net (pimout3-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0F5943E42 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 21:51:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from misterp@sbcglobal.net) Received: from sbcglobal.net (adsl-64-123-112-75.dsl.wchtks.swbell.net [64.123.112.75]) by pimout3-ext.prodigy.net (8.12.3 da nor stuldap/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8T4pXI8532686 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 00:51:33 -0400 Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 23:51:00 -0500 Subject: New to BSD. Need help with install. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v546) From: Patrick Klee To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <0D238431-D367-11D6-A880-003065440C60@sbcglobal.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.546) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, September 28, 2002, at 11:49 PM, Patrick Klee wrote: > Hi, > I have been lurking on this list for quite some time. > I have been a happy Linux user since Red Hat 4.2, however a lot of > people have convinced me to switch. As of right now, I am on my iMac > sending email, while I am installing FreeBSD 4.7 RC2. > I have red the manual, but I have had problems installing 5.0 > snapshots. Something with the INDEX file missing so I had to try and > reinstall again. > Can someone give some pointers on making this run as smooth and > painless as possible? :-) > One more thing. A friend of mine got his GeForce4 Ti 4600 to work > before the NVIdia drivers came out. I have a 4200, and so not only am > I scared about the install, but I don't want to have to compile and > tweak everything like Debian or Red Hat and it still doesn't work. > > > ALL pointers appriciated. Please be gentle, I have NEVER touched BSD. > :-) > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message