From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 17 21:52:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA01021 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 21:52:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA01016 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 21:52:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA00759; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 21:46:50 -0800 Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 21:46:50 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Sandip Srivastava cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD 2.1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 17 Mar 1996, Sandip Srivastava wrote: > I came to a point in the installation process where I chose the following > option: > > Making a link tree from /cdrom/ports to /usr/ports. > > The documentation said that this process could take anywhere from 15-20 > minutes, depending on the speed of the cd-rom drive. It was 50 minutes > into this process and it still was not complete. It seemed as if it > became hung at this point. I had to reboot the computer to get out of it. :-/ that's a pretty extensive tree to lndir, I would have let it run a bit longer. (Did the machine actually stop working?) > Another question I have is about the mouse. I have a Logitech two button > mouse with a round circular plug that connects to the back of the > computer. Is this a bus mouse or a PS/2 mouse? Well, it's both :-) Those are synonyms. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major