From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Mar 22 11:46:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA19133 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 11:46:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (root@gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA19014 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 11:46:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kaput@whoever.com) Received: from whoever.com (kaput@aeiusrG-41.aei.ca [206.186.205.91]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA11700; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 14:44:59 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3515694A.EFA5DACB@whoever.com> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 14:40:58 -0500 From: KapuT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Capriotti CC: Karen White , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie Manual References: <3.0.32.19980323035935.009d3a50@pop.mpc.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 2 month for me :-) It can be because I was stupid ;-) and another month to add a window manager so your not alone :-) KapuT Capriotti wrote: > Ahmmm... You're not related to doug White, are you ??? heheh just kiding. > > Karen: You're lucky ! it took you only one week to get X running ? I took > something about 1,5 year to put things to work ok with FBSD ! hehehe > > I mean it. My first free version was 2.0.5, which wouldn't recognize my > CD-ROM installed on the 2nd IDE controller and so on... It was hard, but > here we are, making history :) > > Welcome to the group, and talking about newbies, whenever someone say > something you just can't get, help us: say something like "Too tech stuff ! > I need more reality here, guys/gals !!!" ok ? > > At 11:36 AM 3/22/98 -0600, you wrote: > >If you are interested in using someone that is a TRUE newbie as a "gage" on > >how > >helpful your new manual will be.. please do not hesitate to use me. > > > >I am completely brand new to the Unix world and so far I have only been > >able to > >setup the basics on my FreeBSD. It took me 1 week just to get X-Windows to > >work > >and another 4 days to figure out how to change the window manager. I am still > >trying to figure out how to get my PPP to work 100% correctly. > > > >Anyways... like I said, if you would like to have someone that you can use > >to see > >how helpful the new manual really is to a TRUE Newbie.. please let me know. > >Besides, > >I could use all the help I can get :) > > > >Thanx,. > > Karen > > > > > >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 -- *************************** kaput@whoever.com www.aei.ca/~malartre/ ICQ #4224434 IRCNet #quebec #wage #mid Undernet #FreeBSD Windows95 Unix-Version FreeBSD-2.2.6 *************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message