Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 17:37:50 -0500 From: kevin09gol@hotmail.com To: <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: got a question for you Message-ID: <DAV734VYbb0fBGr4zL700023f6a@hotmail.com>
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Hi,
I am not sure who is reading this but I saw some FreeBSD people on the screensavers a few weeks back and I must say you seem like some good guys. I tried to install FreeBSD because of that appearance but I was not sure about my Ethernet card config. and some other stuff. I looked at the documentation you have which is very helpful but not enough for me I guess. When I tried to boot up in FreeBSD after a full install I get all the way to the thing that says some something something then, sleeping waiting for something. This is in the initial load screen, I would guess just before it boots up into the graphical user stuff. I can type things in on that black screen but it does nothing else. I am thinking the message means it is waiting for me to kick the computer, but that may come in due time. But for now, I am running an AMD 1.4 with 256 MB of RAM dual booting (or attempting to) with Windows XP (or the devil as I like to call it) and FreeBSD. I used to run Red Hat but it has been giving me some trouble so I may upgrade to 7.3 if all else fails. My network card is a 3 COM something, I forget what, but it is the normal 3 COM card sold all over that is very simple with know extra crap, normally very simple to install and run with drivers and stuff. I am kind of confused at why FreeBSD is so strange to install as well with all the screens, please give me some help so I can go back and fix what I have broke. I will check the web site again to see if I can fix it (this has been the third day of searching for a solution), and you may even see another email from me depending. Thank you for your time and have a good day. Thanks again.
Kevin
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am not sure who is reading this but I saw some
FreeBSD people on the screensavers a few weeks back and I must say you seem like
some good guys. I tried to install FreeBSD because of that appearance but I was
not sure about my Ethernet card config. and some other stuff. I looked at
the documentation you have which is very helpful but not enough for me I guess.
When I tried to boot up in FreeBSD after a full install I get all the way
to the thing that says some something something then, sleeping waiting
for something. This is in the initial load screen, I would guess just
before it boots up into the graphical user stuff. I can type things in on that
black screen but it does nothing else. I am thinking the message means it
is waiting for me to kick the computer, but that may come in due time. But
for now, I am running an AMD 1.4 with 256 MB of RAM dual booting (or attempting
to) with Windows XP (or the devil as I like to call it) and FreeBSD. I used to
run Red Hat but it has been giving me some trouble so I may upgrade to 7.3 if
all else fails. My network card is a 3 COM something, I forget what, but it is
the normal 3 COM card sold all over that is very simple with know extra
crap, normally very simple to install and run with drivers and stuff. I am kind
of confused at why FreeBSD is so strange to install as well with all the
screens, please give me some help so I can go back and fix what I have
broke. I will check the web site again to see if I can fix it (this has been the
third day of searching for a solution), and you may even see another email from
me depending. Thank you for your time and have a good day. Thanks
again.</FONT></DIV>
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Kevin</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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