From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 22 21:05:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 300BD16A4B3 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:05:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from digitelone.com (mail.digitelone.com [202.138.128.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E72443F93 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:05:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gihl@digitelone.com) Received: from [203.175.2.233] (account ) by digitelone.com (CommuniGate Pro WebUser 3.5.9) with HTTP id 3812501; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:56:42 +0800 From: "Gil Agno Virtucio" To: ajaxmunroe@hotmail.com X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro Web Mailer v.3.5.9 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:56:42 +0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD,Linux and any other os besides Microsoft. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 04:05:29 -0000 Did you download the ISO to make the installer? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/ i'd suggest that you browse this first before you try the installation... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html with regards to the partitioning of the hard disk if you are kinda lazy to define the partitions just use the option that will make the fdisk set the auto-defaults but this is sometimes not a recommended option though. hope this helps... :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ajax Munroe" To: Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 9:52 PM Subject: FreeBSD,Linux and any other os besides Microsoft. > Hello, > > I dont have a question but I would like to make a statement. I downloaded Freebsd version 5.0 release > and unpacked it in great anticipation. I made a bootable CD (the best I could, It's not as easy as making > a bootable windows CD) put the cd in my rom and found that BSD is not for me. Look, Im not trying > to put BSD down or anything, I would love to have it on my computer fully working so that I could > use something other than Windows! Im by no means bored with Windows, I find new and exciting > things out with it all the time.I feel that im pretty literate when it comes to computers, which brings > me to this: You people have to make a product that is just slightly more user friendly.Cant you > think of a way to auto-mount your os like windows? Setting up your os is like trying to work your > way through a jigsaw puzzle.(Windows even partitions your drive for you) If someone expects to > challenge the makers of Windows they are going to have to come up with a user friendly system > like Windows where you have an easy command format instead of what your trying to do. I mean > come on, first you have to figure out what to partition the drive in because you dont explain any > of this, then you have to mount everything,which is beyond the average users comprehension, > then you have to figure out commands to pass along to the kernel..etc...etc...etc. With Windows > all you do is stick in the disk and it's all pretty straight forward from there on out. > > > Please, if you could just tell me of one of your systems thats a little more user friendly I would > love to use it, and tell all my friends about it too so that they can spread the word about the new > operating system thats fun and easy to use. > > > Your Friend; > > AJAX > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ____________________________________________________________________ ** Get your free E-Mail account at WWW.DIGITELONE.COM **