From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 2 03:42:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA25929 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 03:42:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA25873 for ; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 03:41:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA02959; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 22:40:29 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199808021040.WAA02959@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: Greg Lehey , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 22:40:28 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Why is it so hard to find information? Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz In-reply-to: <19980802120114.W11960@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199808020157.NAA09439@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>; from Dan Langille on Sun, Aug 02, 1998 at 01:57:01PM +1200 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2 Aug 98, at 12:01, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 2 August 1998 at 13:57:01 +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > > Is anyone else finding it difficult to find information? > > > > For example, I went to install apache today. I had to search the > > mailing list archives to find a list of steps to follow in order to > > install it. That's great! > > > > But then apache reports that I must have DES first. Not a problem. But > > I've just spend two hours trying to find instructions on how to install > > DES. I've found nothing. It's so frustrating! > > > > I can't be the only one that finds this difficult to the extreme of > > frustration. I can follow instructions. If only the instructions are > > there to be found. > > If it makes you feel any better, I find the Apache documentation a > *real pain*. IMO it's a good example of how HTML is used to produce > something worse than what we had before. Well, I did it. I gave up on the original approach, on the advice of someone in #freebsd on efnet, and tried ports. For full details of the adventure, try the following URL: http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd/apache.htm cheers. -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd : my [mis]adventures To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message