From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 25 14:15: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4BB515256 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:15:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA00554; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:08:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:08:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: CKimmerl@SARCOM.COM Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "easy installation"!!!!! yeah right In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 CKimmerl@SARCOM.COM wrote: > books, that's for sure. Throughout the entire installation I 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. > > Sincerely, > -ChadK > chadk@freewwweb.com Okay. First, you should get the set of 4 cdroms from Walnut Creek. You should print out the text files on the first cdrom, and you should read those files, noting especially anything applying to your own hardware. This set is useful so you can, if necessary, reinstall or use the live file system or install ports from the cd's without a great deal of download time. You should find the FAQ and the handbook on www.freebsd.org and look at the information on installing. It really isn't easy; a great deal of it will be entirely unfamiliar if you have no unix experience. As someone told me, it is a different way of thinking about things, so trying to apply analogies from Windows9x or dos may lead you astray. There's a freebsd-newbies mailing list where you may find some empathy and also a "newbies" section on www.freebsd.org, where there are links helpful to new users. While it isn't easy, it should be fun. If you don't enjoy it and the process of figuring it out, it may be that it's just not the sort of thing you want to spend time with. Annelise To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message