From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 25 9:12:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pan.ch.intel.com (pan.ch.intel.com [143.182.246.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 604AE151EB for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:12:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com) Received: from sedona.intel.com (sedona.ch.intel.com [143.182.218.21]) by pan.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.10 1999/10/20 18:19:05 spurcell Exp $) with ESMTP id JAA03982; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:12:18 -0700 (MST) Received: from hip186.ch.intel.com (hip186.ch.intel.com [143.182.225.68]) by sedona.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: sendmail.cf,v 1.8 1999/04/16 15:25:49 steved Exp steved $) with ESMTP id JAA20637; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:12:17 -0700 (MST) X-Envelope-From: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com Received: (from jreynold@localhost) by hip186.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: client.m4,v 1.3 1998/09/29 16:36:11 sedayao Exp sedayao $) id MAA07850; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 12:12:32 -0400 (EDT) From: John Reynolds~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14356.33135.596679.225864@hip186.ch.intel.com> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:12:31 -0700 (MST) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "easy installation"!!!!! yeah right X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 19.34.1 Cc: CKimmerl@sarcom.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 The above is clearly draw out of frustration (I know how frustrating computer stuff can be--I've been using FreeBSD for almost 5 years now and there are still things I don't know about it). As one other person said, perhaps you could try and look around the website more for some more information before continuing. The following URL is a bit out of date, but not too bad: http://www.freebsd.org/~rpratt/31/index.html The most frustrating thing for people (I've found) is getting slices and partitions on disks done correctly (and setting things up correctly for dual-booting into Ebola '98--which you didn't say you were doing). Once you get past this, the basic installation should be the "bin" package (and probably the kernel source) along with X windows. Try reading through the entire URL above as it's pretty good (we just need to update it with 3.3 stuff--which isn't much). -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds CEG, CCE, Next Generation Flows, HLA | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message