From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Mar 18 23:04:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA03539 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 23:04:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from miro.bestweb.net (miro.bestweb.net [209.94.100.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA03525 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 23:04:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from prw@bestweb.net) Received: from default (fwibbly@bofh.ircadmin.org [209.94.111.12]) by miro.bestweb.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA26270 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 01:30:23 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980319013506.0086dbc0@pop.bestweb.net> X-Sender: prw@pop.bestweb.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 01:35:06 -0500 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG From: Paul Wilson Subject: Re: Get the ball rolling... In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980319012552.007b6380@mail.aei.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I didn't even get that far the first try. I hate instructions, I want everything done *now*. I tried copying the boot disk to an MSDOS formatted floppy and booting it without raw writing it first. Of course, that didn't work. So, when I did finally get FreeBSD installed, I configured stuff so wrong that my HD light stayed on constantly and trashed my Win95 partition... Ack. Paul. At 01:25 AM 3/19/98 -0500, Steven wrote: >I will get the ball rolling and give everyone a good laugh... > >When I first installed FreeBSD, all went fine and then the logon screen >appeared and I sat there for ten minutes trying to figure out what the >password was for root. > >I actually reinstalled the system, by the way I didn't even have the CD >then so I downloaded the whole thing by ftp through my 28.8 modem and while >I was surfing the net the next day after giving up I saw that you just hit >the enter key. > >Now lets see someone top that! > >Steve > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message