From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 27 19:39:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA21302 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 19:39:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from bbs.dcoisp.net (bbs.dcoisp.net [208.128.192.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA21295 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 19:39:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ringlord@bbs.dcoisp.net) From: ringlord@bbs.dcoisp.net Received: from MHS by bbs.dcoisp.net with MHS id BECJBOBB ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 20:41:38 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 20:41:30 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: my undying thanks to all! To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I would just like to take this time to thank everyone who has assisted me over the last few days in my installation of FreeBSD. For those of you who have not followed my threads lately, I am a totally bind system administrator who wanted to switch over from slackware linux to freebsd. Unfortunately, from the things I had been told by other users in the past, I didn't think that I could route my freebsd box through a remote serial terminal during the installation process. Well, the more I learned from other people on this list, the more I learned that this was in fact possible, and all I had to do was time the boot: prompt and hit -h and enter. Of course, it took a little practice for me to get the timing down since all I have to go on is sounds of my floppy drive. :) It was frustrating for me over the last few weeks, because I was dealing with someone else as they were trying to get the system installed for me, because I didn't think I could install this alone with speech access through a remote serial terminal. Another thanks for those who helped me and gave advice for setting up my network configurations in rc.conf. Once I was able to read all the docs on the boot floppy, and really "see?" the installation program for myself, all was well. Freebsd is installed successfully, and I even tried the ftp installation. Once again, thanks to all for your patience. And for those developers out there, :) The installation program did go pretty smoothly with speech, however, it would be nice to have a strictly text-based installation option with no full screen editing. Although I was finally able to navigate around, it would be nice to have something that is similar to the slackware linux text.gz root disk. But, all in all, great work, and thanks again. Jeremy Hartley