From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 23 0:55:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B09C1118B4 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 00:55:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.210.87]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990223085702.MQWS3226200.mta2-rme@wocker>; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 21:57:02 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: "A.K" Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 21:55:50 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: This sucks! Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <36D1F163.BC852E00@biosys.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990223085702.MQWS3226200.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23 Feb 99, at 1:08, A.K wrote: > I purchased FreeBSD because my ISP runs it on my dedicated servers. So i > thought why not use it at home on my LAN for testing and stuff. > I invested the 40 bucks and ordered FreeBSD 3.0. But now after 8 hours > of work and installation I'm kinda fed up with it. Nothing works. Apache > doesn't work, Xwindows doesn't work (although I updated it to support > all my hardware) and the whole directories and everything look different > from my webserver. And I also want to complain about all the hardware > and installation routines. They suck. I guess you have to be an expert > already only to get FreeBSD installed and working. > I recommend you take a look at Turbolinux. They know how to make the > installation easy and understandable for non linux/unix experts. > So I will delete FreeBSD and install Turbolinux again if I can't find > help with these problems anywhere. I should have given the 40 bucks to a > bum this would have been a better investment. Pity. Giving up after only 8 hours. Shame. Have you been to my website? It might help. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message