Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 21:48:51 -0500 From: Jerry Dunham <jerry@dunham.org> To: James Diefenderfer <james@worldly.org> Cc: cal@rushe.aero.org, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Michael Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>, Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: installation problems Message-ID: <20000611214851.Y22659@rider.dunham.org> In-Reply-To: <3943EB0B.CB3B5B61@worldly.org>; from James Diefenderfer on Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 01:40:11PM -0600 References: <200006100634.XAA15122@calamari.aero.org> <20000610202611.H22659@rider.dunham.org> <3942F563.9613BCE7@worldly.org> <20000610212117.N22659@rider.dunham.org> <3942FA1C.68246759@worldly.org> <20000610213641.P22659@rider.dunham.org> <3943EB0B.CB3B5B61@worldly.org>
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On Sun, 11 June 2000 at 13:40:11 -0600, James Diefenderfer wrote: > for those of you that are following my introduction to the installation > of FreeBSD on the Dell Latitude LM laptop. the reason for my previous > errors was that i was only selecting the enter key when making menu > selections. i needed to use the space key to actually make the > selection. i would have thought that somehow the installation menus > would have given me some sort of "hey dummy make a selection" error box > instead of moving forward. This is EXACTLY one of the major problems I had a few months ago when I first installed FreeBSD on a notebook. I complained at the time, but was basically told that the deficiencies of sysinstall were well known and would be worked as the knowledgeable people have time. While I certainly understand that, it doesn't change the frustration newbies feel when they can't figure out how to get past something that seems trivial to the more experienced folks. I wish I were smart enough to work on this problem myself. > this window is where i seem to get lost. "Package Selection", do i have > to go through each of these and select the ones that i want ? how do i > know what i want/need ? i thought i told it what i wanted when i > selected the "x-developer" option under the "Choose Distro" window. I tripped over this one, too. My recollection is that "Package Selection" is just an opportunity to modify what you already picked as a group when you picked "X-developer", but my recollections are too often faulty to trust. I'm Cc:ing the newbies list, as you did, because that seems a reasonable place for this discussion, but if anyone expects me to see replies there it won't happen. I've tried twice to subscribe and it never seems to take, though majordomo replies to me like it has. -- Jerry Dunham FreeBSD (512)335-0674 (H) jdunham@fc.net jerry@dunham.org To vacillate, or not to vacillate, that is the question ... or is it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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