From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Mar 27 7:33:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (unknown [194.128.198.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E567F37B719 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 07:33:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f2RFF1f41700; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:15:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:15:01 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Lute Mullenix Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Just getting started Message-ID: <20010327161500.A41687@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20010318195504.C1601@willinet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010318195504.C1601@willinet.net>; from lute@willinet.net on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 07:55:04PM -0600 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 07:55:04PM -0600, Lute Mullenix wrote: > I do have a couple of questions to start off with though. First on boot u= p I > get a message about boot sector write, possible virus. This being a fresh > install off the CD I figure there isn't a virus, so I just tell it to > continue. How can I make it stop giving me this warning?=20 Almost certainly a setting in your PCs BIOS. You'll need to check there. > Second, the install > hangs for a long time when it gets to the part of: > starting standard daemons: inetd cron sendmail >=20 > Is that normal? It's a DNS timeout. Searching the mailing list archives for "DNS sendmail timeout" should turn up the information you need. > After checking out the web site a few times, I don't see any reason why > FreeBSD can't be used as my only OS, it seems to have all the ports that = are > needed to have a completely functioning system, and that is what I hope to > accomplish. I do have one hang-up though, it must be all native FreeBSD c= ode > apps. No Linux binarys. Don't foresee a problem there though since in goi= ng > through the web site, it seems my most used stuff has been ported, the > exception being Netscape. Don't really like Mozilla at this point, but may > have to learn to live with it. There's a BSD/OS version of Netscape which also runs on FreeBSD. N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjrArnQACgkQk6gHZCw343WdGgCgkq0dmEnTgmbcOlWmSErccznK onUAni9waJ4VNpuworTbw4Jl4DAZfL0u =pKsy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message