From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Mar 18 22:14:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA26294 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 22:14:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from polymorph.qcsn.com (root@polymorph.qcsn.com [207.149.233.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA26252 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 22:14:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamellr@qcsn.com) Received: from greymouser.circle-path.org (ami-chan.circle-path.org [207.149.233.16]) by polymorph.qcsn.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA29345 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 22:22:12 -0800 Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 22:16:06 -0800 () From: Rick Hamell To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hi Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@mail.qcsn.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sue Blake said: > Don't worry about being flooded by mail. It's going to take a while for > newbies to pluck up the courage to join and then I bet most of them will be > too chicken to speak up and say hello for a while :-) Well, as a newbie to FreeBSD, I'll be saying hello to y'all! :) I > Some people have been talking about how to read documents like the handbook > and FAQ under windoze before installing. I dragged them into a good text > editor and spent hours reformatting, but I'm sure that's not the best method > (I usually pick the hardest method for everything. One day I'll learn!). How > did you read the stuff that's on the CD? Speaking of reading manuals, anyone know of a good, step-by-step FreeBSD Installation guide? I've looked over Freebsd.org again and again, and have yet to find something like this. Being of that type that seems to be eternally poor, *grin* certain pieces of my hardware are stripped from where I could get them, for instance, an old 3-com Etherlink II card. It took me over four hours to figure out that I needed to do a custom installtion because FreeBSD was looking for the card on IRQ5, not IRQ9. It would help a bit, as I don't like to bug Rod over trivial stuff like that. :) Rick Hamell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message