Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:33:48 +1100 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@qcsn.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hi Message-ID: <19980319173348.15569@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.3.95.980318221534.-8793C-100000@greymouser.circle-path.org>; from Rick Hamell on Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 10:16:06PM -0800 References: <Pine.WNT.3.95.980318221534.-8793C-100000@greymouser.circle-path.org>
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On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 10:16:06PM -0800, Rick Hamell wrote:
>
> Sue Blake said:
> > 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?
If you can spare a few dollars at some stage, get the book The Complete
FreeBSD. It covers it step by step, leap by leap, forwards, backwards, and
all the little bits in between. But it sounds like you're all done now.
> 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. :)
Well I read that bit of paper that comes with the CD, and the FAQ and the
handbook and whatever else was there, and then pretend-installed a few times
reading the "help" style doccos that are available during installation, and
got it all muddled up. I can't say what it was that did it for me, but I did
take a week off work and spend all of every day and night reinstalling, so I
guess I was on the wrong track :-) Now I can do it in a couple of hours.
In fact, I've done more installing than actually working with it!
Did you really need to do a custom installation? You mean, on that menu
where you can choose Novice, Custome or <something else> ? I reckon you
could have changed the IRQ with UserConfig (you know, when you get the Boot:
prompt and you type -c and change hardware things). Or am I missing
something?
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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