From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 17 19:22:46 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 EBAAB16A403 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 19:22:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trashbird1240@yahoo.com) Received: from web50413.mail.yahoo.com (web50413.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.38.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D31FC43D53 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 19:22:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from trashbird1240@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 94858 invoked by uid 60001); 17 Sep 2006 19:22:45 -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; b=MAlMZdKKZaF4bvrnibp8PDqa+OxJs+Gc7fXm6tQUAIHQe44DsMLpnAVycWiTx9sytaAUF4znONiWc2HC4tW/UHaKwoLtbwSadcCPeFPWQDhCIkjlz/AC276YY7JdDUQYmRv2sW9SkkeDbFBG3Wo6cLHBf2AJ24DUiIl1WDywfc8= ; Message-ID: <20060917192245.94856.qmail@web50413.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [71.192.88.47] by web50413.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:22:45 PDT Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:22:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Joel Adamson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Newbie Experience (As promised) 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: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 19:22:47 -0000 Dear Very Helpful and Informative FreeBSD List,=0A=0AI installed FreeBSD on= Friday Night and tried very hard to get it all working. My initial X prob= lem actually fixed itself (you can imagine my surprise), however, even with= that, our computer is useless as a desktop (or anything else) without an i= nternet connection. My hardware is unsupported and despite my best efforts= , I decided it would be better to expedite the process and I installed Mepi= s Linux.=0A=0AI would hardly describe it the way another newbie did one wee= k ago. It was a good challenge. I'll wait until I'm a better administrato= r and there's more support for hardware I might have.=0A=0AThe only really = annoying thing was that I perpetually had trouble mounting my usb flash dri= ve. I think this was a filesystem problem.=0A=0AThanks for any help you've= offered,=0AJoel=0A =0AJoel J. Adamson =0AArlington, MA=0A=0A=0A=0A