Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 11:31:20 -0800 (PST) From: William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com> To: tom brown <tmcb1971@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Is the PAO install always this hard? Message-ID: <XFMail.000308113120.wwoods@cybcon.com> In-Reply-To: <20000308191018.11037.qmail@web115.yahoomail.com>
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Hi, I also have FreeBSD on a laptop....I did not use the pao install at all...I found it a pain. There are a couple options I can suggest: 1) If your Laptop has a CDROM, install a 3.4 from there and cvsup to the latest sources. 2) Install -current (which I am running). It detected my pcmcia NIC right off the bat with the boot floppies. What card do you have that you think may not be seen or hard to configure? It took me about 3 hrs to get my system to see both my NIC and PCMCIA modem after the install...it wasnt that difficult. On 08-Mar-00 tom brown wrote: > Hi, > > I'll keep this short and sweet. > > I've been using FreeBSD for 3 years and I would say I > am quite familiar with it. > > I just made the mistake of trying to install in on a > Laptop. > > Inially encoraged by the sucessful recognition of my > card I continued only to get some message about paobin > not being available from the main site. > > So I try to change the site and pick up hte extra > components and ....... I can't unbelieveable!!!!! > > Then I try to go back into the install and collect > them from the new session and I get a file transfer > erroe because the file system is full (not rw mounted > I'll bet!)....... unbelieveable !!!! > > So I back off and try again from fresh (2hours later > that is!). This time I select the pao site for the > full install and guess what.... I can't get the > bin's. > > This is a joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > I'll also bet that if I ever get the full sources etc > together on the same machine at the same time, it will > take be four days to get the card recognised. > > I'm sure the technology all works but this is even > worse than trying to get windows to work properly. > > Get your act together!! > > T > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: bwoods2@uswest.net Date: 08-Mar-00 Time: 11:28:22l ---------------------------------- NOTICE TO BULK E-MAILERS: Pursuant to US Code, Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, 227, and all unsolicited commercial e-mail sent to this address is subject to a download and archival fee in the amount of $500 US To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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