Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 10:47:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM <tforrest@mcs.net> To: CKimmerl@SARCOM.COM Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "easy installation"!!!!! yeah right Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910251037040.10534-100000@Mars.mcs.net> In-Reply-To: <A18002DDE56DD21184050008C7B1601401CADEF4@SNOHEX16.sarcom.com>
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Chad -
I am sorry that you ran into problems with FreeBSD. I am extremely new
(read: 1 week) to unix administration myself (tho I am a pretty
knowledgeable Unix end user, and an advanced computer user/administrator)
and had a pretty easy install. Installed everything over the internet.
My biggest gripe about the install was the partitioning. I did not
understand BSD' (or unix in general) drive mapping. I did not understand
the /var, /usr, etc, etc. So I had a friend help me out. Once I had that
correct its been pretty easy ever since. The web site is pretty outdated
as I learned the hard way about my SCSI controller (but I can learn to
live w/o a CDROM). I had BSD up and running in a day and had it acting as
my proxy server 6 days later (I work 75 hours a week, so give me a break
;).
I've still got a long way to go before this box is where I want it. I
have thoroughly enjoyed setting FreeBSD up, and look forward to finishing
my install. I did not use any books for my install. I relied solely on
the man pages, FreeBSD's web site and the read-mes (also this mailing
list and my FreeBSD guru of a friend). Didnt even touch the howto files.
Tho, I suppose if I would have looked at the howto stuff I would not have
needed help with the partitioning.
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
> what it was doing. It installed, I just didn't know what. It is so geared
> 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
> 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"
> help as I do not want to give up on FreeBSD.
>
> Sincerely,
> -ChadK
> chadk@freewwweb.com
>
>
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