Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 06:46:01 -0600 From: Joe Warner <jswarner@uswest.net> To: James Diefenderfer <james@worldly.org> Cc: Jerry Dunham <jerry@dunham.org>, 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: Still No FreeBSD Message-ID: <3944DB89.A73B48A0@uswest.net> 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> <20000611214851.Y22659@rider.dunham.org> <3944530C.D6EAE346@uswest.net> <3944661B.9F849F25@worldly.org>
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James, It can be pretty discouraging when you're having problems but don't give up. Be persistent and you'll eventually solve the problem. I don't know about anybody else but I had my share of bad weekends when I tried to install Linux for the first time. In my case, I was installing it on my PC at work to dual boot with WIN 95 and thought I was going to have a heart attack when I thought I had it installed properly, rebooted and saw the message "Operating system not found". At the same moment, which is often the case, users were calling in for assistance and I desperately needed to get to the email and documents on my WIN 95 partition. Fortunately, I had created a ghost image of my PC and put it on CD ROM before the install. Each install after this, I became less and less apprehensive. One of the real joys I have found with using FreeBSD/Linux/Unix is that it forces you understand the inner workings of your PC and software on a much deeper level. I've gotten a great amount of satisfaction when I struggle with a problem for a few days and finally come up with the answer and fix it myself. In fact, I actually look forward to solving problems now. My only limitation is time. If you're getting too frustrated, take a break, do some more research and go back at it. I'm confident you'll eventually get over this hurdle. Doug Young has written an excellent tutorial, geared towards newbies on installing and configuring FreeBSD. The install instructions focus on installing from floppy but you can ignore this if you're installing from CD. The jpg's are a little too big and take a little bit to load but, in my opinion, they are quite helpful. Take a look---->http://www.apana.org.au/FreeBSD/FreeBSD_Tutorial/ Good luck and don't give up. 8^} Joe James Diefenderfer wrote: > Well, it's been a very frustrating weekend. I have tried to install > FreeBSD from Greg's book and have been extremely unsuccessful. This > makes the 6th time that I have tried and failed. This time I got as far > as making the root password. Once I did that I was kicked back to the " > /stand/sysinstall Main Menu". Thinking this must mean I was done I > removed the boot floppy and the CD and rebooted. I was greeted with > "boot error". > > I am extremely tired of anything FreeBSD at the moment ! > > I love my Apple Powerbook G3 even more now, > > James -- Only two things are infinite, the Universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -Albert Einstein. 1879-1955. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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