From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 15 13:57:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA02031 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:57:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nefertiti.lightningweb.com (nefertiti.lightningweb.com [198.68.191.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02026 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:57:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keith@lightningweb.com) Received: from localhost (keith@localhost) by nefertiti.lightningweb.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA23680; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:56:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:56:17 -0800 (PST) From: Keith Woodman To: David Greenman cc: "Jason C. Wells" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot disk In-Reply-To: <199812152148.NAA29984@root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well. It's installing well now over the net at a scnat 25k. Looks like i'll be here for a bit.. Thank you for the info and advise. Once again, my appologise to all I offended by jumping to the defensive so quick. Keith ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Keith Woodman Technical Coordinator Keith@lightningweb.com Lightningweb LLC pid 7962 (sniffit), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, David Greenman wrote: > > It is a fair observation you must admit that FreeBSD does cater > >more to the experienced users and hackers of a different ilk than does > >other flavors of Unix. My appologise to anyone that took that posting > >wrong. > > That is probably true, but it isn't because of snobery. I think it's > because of several factors, with the most important being that the people > who develop and document FreeBSD aren't newbies themselves and, that being > the case, it is natural for them to assume knowledge of some things that > perhaps shouldn't be assumed. > We can only improve on this type of problem by having newcomers politely > suggest, to the right people, improvements to the documentation and/or > organization of the FTP/WWW sites. For the WWW stuff, you might try sending > suggestions to www@freebsd.org. > > -DG > > David Greenman > Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message