Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 13:19:24 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> To: Gerald Beisch <b1@ncn.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Freebsd Installation Message-ID: <354396CC.5038B424@san.rr.com> References: <01bd7070$388f37c0$372148ce@generic>
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> Gerald Beisch wrote: > > I currently am a user of Windows95 and am looking for something > better. Ok, step one into your windows-free world, please don't send html-encoded mail to public lists. A lot of people can't or won't read it, so your questions will go unanswered. > Trying to install this OS is very difficult without having either some > prior > of BSD or Unix. While install directions may seem pretty simple I > believe they are > hard to follow. First question, which documents did you read? If you haven't already go to ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.6-RELEASE and read all of the *.TXT documents. After you read those if you still have questions, please write to me privately since I am working on improving those documents. > I have downloaded all bin, doc, man, and src files to > hard and > floppy disks. The problem comes in while trying to reboot with a valid > kernel, I'm not sure what you might have read that would suggest that this is the way to install FreeBSD, but I think I can safely say that we've identified your problem. :) The docs that I referred to above will probably help you a lot. > I have read and reread all pertinent info with little added > help. Are there any books that > show exactly when and where and how to make all necessary inputs to > get the system up and running or other sources short of buying a > cdrom. There is an excellent book available on getting started with FreeBSD, it's called "The Complete FreeBSD, Second Edition" and it's by Greg Lehey. You can order it from your local bookstore or visit http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/bsdbook2.htm Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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