From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 4 23:08:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 0C4B316A4DA for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 23:08:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sanabriamusic@yahoo.com) Received: from web35902.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web35902.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.163.179.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 874F643D49 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 23:08:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sanabriamusic@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 85633 invoked by uid 60001); 4 Aug 2006 23:08:02 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Sqq7lmWPxHwQU5fSK3+29ed88oDgy+ldWpsBkXG6eFxchY/zRqSPy61ra8dhKTjBjZ3f6dI4dFUXbrcqlrQ+sPmgP8ieuhMpQmdFyayWF1VxOblg1mOrJ/yimWV9dP2/B/JWWffV4dZ4Ns2JYTiTqA7kmIoRzigKP43aKlVvYMk= ; Message-ID: <20060804230802.85631.qmail@web35902.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [69.37.130.142] by web35902.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:08:02 PDT Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 16:08:02 -0700 (PDT) From: tony sanabria To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: hi X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 23:08:03 -0000 Hi, I have a sony vaio that used to run windows me. the system no longer wants to recognize the restoration cd. I am not a microsoft lover so i decided to use something else. my cdrom didnt want to read any of the iso's i downloaded before like ubuntu, dream linux and so forth. i went to the library and found a book tittled "freebsd in 24hrs" with companion cd. my pc read the cd and i was able to install freebsd i believe version 4 or something like that. I am very happy with it but would like to update the freebsd. I tried to get the freebsd to see the internet connection so that i can update from within freebsd but i havent been able to get it to see the dsl connection that is connected to a linksys router. I was hoping you can help me either set up the internet connection in freebsd or at least suggest which of the files I should download from this xp machine so that i can burn a cd and upgrade my freebsd machine. i dont know if its alpha, amd or which of the files. and also when i select the one you may suggest do i click iso link, and also..do i burn all the files shown for that option? i.e. bootonly, cd1, cd2, checksum and so forth. thank you. i hope to hear from you soon. i am very happy that my dead pc is alive again. thank you. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs.Try it free.