From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 25 8:47: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Mailbox.mcs.net (Mailbox.mcs.com [192.160.127.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07083151AC for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 08:47:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tforrest@mcs.net) Received: from Mars.mcs.net (tforrest@Mars.mcs.net [192.160.127.85]) by Mailbox.mcs.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA13013; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 10:47:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tforrest@mcs.net) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 10:47:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM To: CKimmerl@SARCOM.COM Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "easy installation"!!!!! yeah right In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 The web site is pretty outdated as I learned the hard way about my SCSI controller (but I can learn to live w/o a CDROM).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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Email - tforrest@mcs.net - Tommy - KE4PYM www.mcs.net/~tforrest To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message