From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 29 2: 4: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E0D437B401 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 02:03:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp08.wxs.nl (smtp08.wxs.nl [195.121.6.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47B8443E42 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 02:03:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl) Received: from cybertron.kruijff ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp08.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H36ZUJ01.DLE; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 11:03:55 +0200 Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 11:01:57 +0200 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: freebsd-reply@akruijff.dds.nl X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <362184601.20020929110157@dds.nl> To: Patrick Klee Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New to BSD. Need help with install. In-Reply-To: <0D238431-D367-11D6-A880-003065440C60@sbcglobal.net> References: <0D238431-D367-11D6-A880-003065440C60@sbcglobal.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sunday, September 29, 2002, 6:51:00 AM, you wrote: Dear Patrick, PK> On Saturday, September 28, 2002, at 11:49 PM, Patrick Klee wrote: >> Hi, >> I have been lurking on this list for quite some time. >> I have been a happy Linux user since Red Hat 4.2, however a lot of >> people have convinced me to switch. As of right now, I am on my iMac >> sending email, while I am installing FreeBSD 4.7 RC2. RC stands for Release Candidate. There can be some problems with it since its not jet approved. Something like 5 RC can come across before a final release. The latest release is 4.6.2. >> I have red the manual, but I have had problems installing 5.0 5.0 is still alpha (or beta) software. >> snapshots. Something with the INDEX file missing so I had to try and >> reinstall again. >> Can someone give some pointers on making this run as smooth and >> painless as possible? :-) >> One more thing. A friend of mine got his GeForce4 Ti 4600 to work >> before the NVIdia drivers came out. I have a 4200, and so not only am >> I scared about the install, but I don't want to have to compile and >> tweak everything like Debian or Red Hat and it still doesn't work. FreeBSD comes right off the shell for most cases. Editing the kernel file and compile everything gives you a smaller kernel and more specific code for your processor, but isn't necessary. >> >> >> ALL pointers appriciated. Please be gentle, I have NEVER touched BSD. >> :-) >> I guess my footnote would be right for you. -- Best regards, Alex The FreeBSD handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message