Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 08:14:43 +1100 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: "John M. Purser" <jpurser@wilcofarmers.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Newbies (E-mail)" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: One step forward.... Message-ID: <19980327081443.17249@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <01BD5893.418C6A40.jpurser@wilcofarmers.com>; from John M. Purser on Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 08:43:29AM -0800 References: <01BD5893.418C6A40.jpurser@wilcofarmers.com>
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On Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 08:43:29AM -0800, John M. Purser wrote:
> I figured that the easiest thing I could possibly do is load and run a game.
> Couldn't be that big a deal right?
Famous last words :-)
> I spent three full days trying different things, whining to the newsgroup
> ...FreeBSD.Misc, and combing the archives before I ran across a line that said
> the /CD-ROM was a separate file system and had to be mounted. I mounted it and
> boom I could read my CD.
Ooohh, isn't it awful when that happens, slog, slog, lots of helpful advice,
and it turns out to be something so "simple and obvious"... to everyone else!
> That happened this morning. I used add_pkg to add the lynux libraries
> then tried the next step in the emulation directions and found that the
> directory I was trying to cd to didn't exist. I did eventually find a
> similar directory but the make there can't find lynux_lib.tar.gz (I think)
> and it really really wants it.
Does that involve /cdrom and mounting your CD there, perchance? :-)
(BTW, unmounting is discussed in the errata, and details of its location are
hidden right at the beginning of the book, where none of us thought to look)
> It even tries to got the FreeBSD ftp site but since I was trying to set up
> the game to get enough confidence to set up the internet portion it can't
> dial out.
Setting up PPP should be fairly straightforward, and there's a lot of
extra documentation around. Why don't you work through the PPP section in
the book first and see how you go? Setting up Doom could be a lot trickier.
> On the brighter side the pine e-mail program came right up and if I ever get to
> the point where I can connect to my ISP I should have no trouble responding to
> this group in proper fashion.
As we saw in your demos (thanks for that!), the problems occur mainly when
deep into a conversation with multiple quotes. You should be able to edit
yourself out of any mess, now that we know what tricks it plays.
Did any other microsoft users here have any ideas for you?
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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