Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 08:02:51 -0600 From: "Edward Cheadle" <eccheadle@qwest.net> To: <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Installation of FreeBSD 4.3 Message-ID: <000a01c112b6$ff419340$3300000a@echeadle.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C11284.B43AA5D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I just installed FreeBSD for the first time on a AMD 350 MHZ K6 PC. I = couldn't get RedHat 7.1 to install, so decided to try FreeBSD. It = installed and worked flawlessly. The amazing thing about it is that I = always thought X windows was slow-- not so with FreeBSD. KDE / FreeBSD = running on my 350 MHz K6 seems much more responsive and faster than my = 500 MHz machine running either SuSE 7.2 or RedHat 7.1. The installation seems more difficult than necessary. The Kernel = configuration did not list my 3Com Card in list of availible cards and = yet everything still works. I read the installation, document and it = says get rid of cards that you do not have in order to resolve = confilicts. But the list did not have my card. I selected and out of = luck it worked. Other than that the dialog boxes are not consistant as to when they = close or how you go backwards After a few trial and errors, I finally got everything right and when I = did , it is impressive. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C11284.B43AA5D0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4616.200" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I just installed FreeBSD for the first = time on a=20 AMD 350 MHZ K6 PC. I couldn't get RedHat 7.1 to install,=20 so decided to try FreeBSD. It installed and worked = flawlessly. The=20 amazing thing about it is that I always thought X windows was slow-- not = so with FreeBSD. KDE / FreeBSD running on my = 350 MHz=20 K6 seems much more responsive and faster than my 500 = MHz=20 machine running either SuSE 7.2 or RedHat 7.1.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The installation seems more difficult = than=20 necessary. The Kernel configuration did not list my 3Com Card in = list of=20 availible cards and yet everything still works. I read the = installation,=20 document and it says get rid of cards that you do not have in order to = resolve=20 confilicts. But the list did not have my card. I selected and out = of luck=20 it worked.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Other than that the dialog boxes are = not consistant=20 as to when they close or how you go backwards</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>After a few trial and errors, I finally = got=20 everything right and when I did , it is = impressive.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C11284.B43AA5D0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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