Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 18:43:06 -0400 From: Mike Jennings <jennings@post.kosone.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: freebsd Message-ID: <19990417224408.6AE3C14FAA@hub.freebsd.org>
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Hello there. I have been a Linux user for over a year and a half. By using the documentation project docs I have been able to get myself out of many sticky problems. Lately, I have switched from Redhat to Slackware, to run my home intranet on a pentium 233 machine w/64M ram. Two client machines, 1 W98 and 1 NT4 wkstn connect over ethernet. All worked until my HD crashed and lost all 86 mb worth of on-line files! Don't feel to bad for me though, I got the wife to help me purchase a diamond fireport 40 scsi controller and a Yamaha 4416s cd-rw for backups. Now, Why have I bored you with all this! It seems my ISP has increased my online time, thus giving me more time to browse the web, when I have a spare minute. I found FreeBSD web site. Have since then been fascinated with the possibility of getting FreeBSD up and running on my server. I am now on my 3rd install. During the installation everything is great, mouse is there, ed0 setup ok, video etc. But then of course you must reboot the GENERIC kernel. Did I tell you I printed out the first 160 pages of the handbook to give me some guidelines. Tried 3 times to rebuild the kernel, with a little better success each time, but it still does not fully compile. Anyway, before I lay $109.00 CDN for the one and only Complete FreeBSD Reference book, I would like to get this OS up and working. Is there any other sources for information on FreeBSD! I would really like to get this OS up and running. I do not easily give up, but I would like to get my server up and running again. Thanks MJ ps I selected the Auto configuration for my 1.6Gb partition and since trying to rebuild the kernel I seem to have filled the /var directory to 101%. Any ideas about that. the /var is currently set to 80Mb. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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