From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 19 20:34:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA29543 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 20:34:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thevine.net (GRAPEVINENT1.SCVGVINE.COM [207.155.40.3] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA29538 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 20:34:20 -0700 (PDT) X-ROUTED: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 20:33:26 -0800 X-TCP-IDENTITY: Atgrim Received: from Nibbles.thevine.net [207.155.40.233] by thevine.net with smtp id BEALDAEC ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 20:11:48 -0800 Message-ID: <3423400B.6233D3FA@thevine.net> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 20:16:27 -0700 From: Vincent Rodriguez X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to install... (It's a newbie thing...) ;) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I wanted to say thanks to everyone who helped me a gave advice on how to resolve my issue. I was the individual who couldn't get FBSD 2.2.2 installed after a month and a half. :-( I was finally able to get it installed and was even able ( after a couple minor setbacks) get XFree86 configured. I had to use /stand/sysinstall. For a newbie like myself, it seemed the easiest way. I did, however, determine that, contrary to all the advice I was given, Booteasy _did not_ give a full options menu at reboot. What I mean is that, I was told that when I reboot after the installation, that I would see a menu similar to what is below... F1...DOS F2...BSD F3... I think that maybe I had been unclear in expressing what it was I was doing. I have 3 hd's. Win95 is on the first, FreeBSD is on the second, and currently the third is a second DOS partition (although I will shortly be installing WinNT on it). Every time that I would complete the installation, all I would see is F1...Win95. I was stumped. I tried other keys and nothing seemed to work. After much frustration and yet another installation, I just finally started going through all the function keys. Low and behold when I reached F5, I received a new option... F1...BSD When I hit F1 this time I was greeted with my system being probed and all sorts of gobble-de-goop showing up on the screen!! I was and am ecstatic!! 8^D (Now I get to learn how to move around). I tried to confirm my discovery with all the various sources of information and could not. Is this how it is supposed to work or is it just a fluke?? I have since purposely killed FBSD numerous times and reinstalled trying different options and receive the same boot selection process. Also, one more question. I feel silly about having to ask it, however, I have not been able to find clear instructions on how to install programs(e.g. Netscape 3 in the ports collection). During the installation process, I selected the 'Full Install' option. As far as I know I have all that I need to get started. I just don't know how to load any of the ports or distributions or packages. Could someone point me in the right direction?? I am sorry to bother y'all with this newbie question. Much thanks for the assist, Vince Rodriguez UN*X Newbie Extraordinare 8^) -- It is not whether or not you die, we all die eventually. It is, in fact, how you have lived, that will make the difference. No matter how small.