Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 11:27:03 -0500 From: "Wills, Ken" <kwills@gflesch.com> To: Michael Grommet <mgrommet@isiar.net>, "'CKimmerl@SARCOM.COM'" <CKimmerl@SARCOM.COM>, "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: "easy installation"!!!!! yeah right Message-ID: <058BE165CBA8D111A82E0008C79F9E35024881@gfc-mad-dc.gflesch.int>
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> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of > Michael Grommet > Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 10:52 AM > To: 'CKimmerl@SARCOM.COM'; 'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG' > Subject: RE: "easy installation"!!!!! yeah right > > However, I believe you owe the group, and Greg especially, a > very sincere > apology. > I agree with this completly. You (CKimmer) will not receive any assistance mailing flames to the list. This is a volunteer project, it's nobody's problem but your own if you don't understand what you are trying to do. A simple admission of "I have no idea what I am trying to do..", would have pointed you to the FAQ and handbook ( http://www.freebsd.org/faq http://www.freebsd.org/handbook ). > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of > CKimmerl@SARCOM.COM > Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 10:31 AM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: "easy installation"!!!!! yeah right > > > 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. If you think it is supposed to be easy, then you have made a mistake before you even started. I thought it was easy, the first time I installed, but I certainly went into the process with my eyes open and with no preconceptions of what I was about to experience. It's certainly no more difficult to set up than linux, and the installer makes quite a bit more sense in some places. Again check the handbook and faq before attempting to repeat. > 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 I was completely new to unix when I installed it. It went fine for me. I am not a 'super-geek' (beep). > 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 Again, not true :). The interface does exactly what it is designed to do --> faq and handbook before you start. > 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 'Beginner Books'? The book guides you through the whole installation process as I recall. Do you want him to come to your house and do it for you? > 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. Everybody 'figures it out', in the same way the get through what they can by themselves, read the faq and handbook and look in the mailing list archieves for similar problems. This is unix you know, so you are expected somewhat resourceful :) Others do what you have done, flame the list with gibberish, before looking at the available help resources. If you stick with freebsd and 'figure it out', you will look back and be embarrassed by that message... Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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