From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 2 13:59: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A261A37B502 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 13:59:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 24385 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2000 22:59:00 +0200 Received: from bb-62-5-4-193.bb.tninet.se (HELO marbsd.tninet.se) (62.5.4.193) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 2 Oct 2000 22:59:00 +0200 From: Mark Rowlands To: xavian@professional3d.com, xavian anderson macpherson , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: I NEED TO INSTALL FREEBSD TODAY Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 22:45:36 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <39D8EE44.C9DAC336@home.com> In-Reply-To: <39D8EE44.C9DAC336@home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00100222563300.11416@marbsd.tninet.se> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, xavian anderson macpherson wrote: > > i got my freebsd box saturday by fedex, and have been reading the manual > since then. i want to setup vinum on my system at installation. > someone said that this is not possible. what then do i have to do setup > vinum, so that i don't have to (re)start the (real) installation process > after the (first, ie half-assed) `installation process'? is there > anyway that i can access the vinum specification mechanism during the > install? i understand that freebsd only uses the floppies for > installation, and reserves the cd's for simply storing the packages and > ports to be loaded into the system. are you folks telling me that with > ten cd's, no one has figured out how to put a comprehensive installation > program on one of the cd's? i am currently using suse-linux. they have > an awesome installer called YaST. it does all of this at the beginning > of the install. but then i have 256MB's RAM into which suse loads > 48MB's for controlling the installation process. don't talk about your > technological superiority, when you can't even manage a comprehensive > install in one step. > > i am really getting pissed with linux. i am having nothing but > continuing problems with system errors and crashes. i keep experiencing > random failures. i don't if this is a linux problem or netscape's; but > the last email i tried to send crashed netscape, and it didn't send or > save it in the `sent folder'. i need to get freebsd running as quickly > as possible. someone with real solutions, contact me. > with attitude like that, I dont give much for your chances see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html and then maybe try again These are just my opinions you are free to disagree please do so quietly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message