From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 19 14:46:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA07642 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 14:46:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from srv.net (snake.srv.net [199.104.81.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA07635 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 14:46:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from darkstar (pmif164.ida.net [204.228.203.164]) by srv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA06196 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 15:36:00 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 14:35:25 -0700 (MST) From: Charles Mott X-Sender: cmott@darkstar To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: I'm Mad! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I would say that "Crayon1997@aol.com" is entirely missing the point of free software. It could also be a troll. I hate to say it, but the problems of usenet are infiltrating mailing lists. The whole tone of the original message was very disappointing to me. On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Goeringer, Michael wrote: > Since you have the CD-Rom you have all of the documentation on the live > file system disk. Look under /usr/share/doc/handbook. Since your on a > friends system you can also go to www.freebsd.org and browse the > handbook and mailing lists. Without specific hardware configurations > and what you did there is no way for anyone to help you. > > Michael G. > > ---------- > From: Crayon1997@aol.com[SMTP:Crayon1997@aol.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 1997 4:23 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: I'm Mad! > > I was installing my FreeBSD that I got from Walnut Creek CD ROM and In > the > proccess I called for help and they told me to get a book to intall it > first > and My computer is broken and it keeps on saying No botable partition. > How do > you think I can get it fixed cause my computer is broken and it is a > big part > in my busseness and I can use it anymore All my very important data is > gone > and it's thanks to your software that dosen't even come with a mannual. > I'm > useing my friend computer to write this letter to you please write back > I > really need help My computer is very important to me and I really need > it all > my data was erased installing your freebsd software. and I'm mad > >