Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 13:13:34 -0800 (PST) From: bmk@dtr.com To: mikepery@mcs.com (Mike Perry) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Congradulations on A good job with the DOC's Message-ID: <199503062113.NAA17042@dtr.com> In-Reply-To: <m0rlgsu-0006oJC@mars.mcs.com> from "Mike Perry" at Mar 6, 95 11:47:55 am
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> I am so pleased with the easy-to-find info on how to install FreeBSD. > "EASY for experts and novices alike" It was very inclusive and detailed. > The step-by-step instalation features were the best I've ever seen. I am so > pleased. I read the doc on how to install it and BAM I was up and running. > By now you should have figured out that this is blatent sarcasm. I > looked for three days for the install documentations and found NONE. I have > read 10 pages of SHIT and still don't have a single command on how to set > up FreeBSD on ANY SYSTEM!!!! This is the worst case I have seen so far. > All of the files to install are scattered through the FTP site and there > is no DOC on how to collect them and which ones were manditory. I tried your > WWW sites, your info@freebsd.org service, your FTP docs, your FAQs, your > manual pages, etc. It seems to be a national secret or something. > Please send me the top-secret info on how to install FreeBSD 2.0. I can keep a On ftp.freebsd.org in /pub/FreeBSD/2.0/RELASE. Files ROADMAP, README, RELNOTES and INSTALL. Forgive my ignorance, but in what way are these hard to find? total 52 -rw-rw-r-- 1 jkh wheel 22629 Nov 28 08:49 INSTALL -rw-rw-r-- 1 jkh wheel 142 Nov 24 22:06 LATEST -rw-r--r-- 1 jkh wheel 3400 Nov 22 04:46 README lrwxrwxr-x 1 jkh wheel 49 Jan 4 07:15 RELNOTES -> ../FreeBSD-current/src/share/FAQ/RELNOTES.FreeBSD -rw-r--r-- 1 jkh wheel 2250 Nov 22 17:29 ROADMAP drwxr-xr-x 2 jkh wheel 1536 Feb 2 23:31 XFree86-3.1 drwxr-xr-x 2 jkh wheel 1536 Nov 22 04:29 bindist drwxr-xr-x 2 jkh wheel 512 Nov 23 07:14 compat1xdist drwxr-xr-x 2 jkh wheel 512 Nov 22 04:18 dict drwxr-xr-x 4 jkh wheel 512 Dec 5 01:58 floppies drwxr-xr-x 2 jkh wheel 512 Nov 22 04:16 games drwxrwxr-x 2 jkh wheel 512 Dec 4 03:56 kerndist drwxr-xr-x 2 jkh wheel 512 Nov 22 04:17 manpages drwxrwxr-x 2 jkh ports 3584 Mar 6 07:53 packages drwxr-xr-x 2 jkh wheel 512 Nov 22 04:18 proflibs# drwxr-xr-x 2 jkh wheel 512 Nov 22 04:15 secrdist drwxr-xr-x 2 jkh wheel 2560 Nov 22 04:42 srcdist drwxr-xr-x 3 jkh wheel 512 Jan 12 13:09 tools
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