Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 11:41:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Ada <acheng@barrow.uwaterloo.ca> To: CKimmerl@SARCOM.COM Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "easy installation"!!!!! yeah right Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.991025113543.20461A-100000@barrow.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <A18002DDE56DD21184050008C7B1601401CADEF4@SNOHEX16.sarcom.com>
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On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 CKimmerl@SARCOM.COM wrote: > You people are so far into this stuff that you don't know what "easy" means > anymore. I tried to install FreeBSD 3.3 last night. It was the most > difficult install I've ever seen. Problems? How would I know- I never knew Difficult to install? I find that hard to believe and I am not an `experience geek' either. > what it was doing. It installed, I just didn't know what. It is so geared Well, during installation you pick what you want to install right? So how is it possible that you don't know what they are installing? > towards unix experienced geeks that a person unfamiliar with Unix is totally > lost. Microsoftcopy sucks but they've got no competition from unix yet. No > one can understand it and unix people can't make it understandable. I > picked stuff from the menu, but the interface sucked so bad I wasn't sure > what I had installed. I was so pissed that I erased it. I chose FreeBSD > over Linux because it is supposed to be more stable, but only a hacker geek > can install this OS. I'll try Linux, maybe it will be more easily > understood. Greg Lehay's book was useless- it was so far up in geek land it I am normally very polite but maybe you should try spelling his name correctly first! I read part of Greg's book this weekend. Certainly a beginner cannot expect to understand everything in the book but I think you should at least be able to get an overview on how things are done. >was amazing. Of course, what can you expect from a guy who speaks 3 > languages and went to school for chemistry, etc. He can't write beginner > books, that's for sure. Throughout the entire installation I found myself > wondering how anybody figures this shit out. I'd appreciate any "PRACTICAL" Well, why don't you try surfing around the web to look for more beginners unix help? They are around, I have found plenty of help both on the freebsd homepage and by posting polite, clear messages to this mailing list Ada > help as I do not want to give up on FreeBSD. > > Sincerely, > -ChadK > chadk@freewwweb.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > ============================================================================ Ada Cheng http://www.grad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~acheng Department of Applied Mathematics acheng@barrow.uwaterloo.ca University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ont. N2L 3G1 Canada ============================================================================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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