From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 3 05:00:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA29728 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 05:00:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from internet.panama.phoenix.net (internet.panama.c-com.net [204.95.131.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA29709 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 05:00:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from erpyle@panama.c-com.net) Received: from erpyle (dial53.panama.c-com.net [204.95.131.83]) by internet.panama.phoenix.net (8.8.7/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA25447 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 08:00:24 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199711031300.IAA25447@internet.panama.phoenix.net> From: "EDWIN R. PYLE" To: Subject: DO I KNOW SOMETHING Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 08:08:37 -0500 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I DO HAVE AN INTEREST IN UNIX... HOWEVER I'M CONFUSSED ABOUT ALL THE PROGRAMS THAT CLAIM TO BE UNIX BUT ARE NOT CALLED UNIX ( FREEBSD - LINUX - ETC )... I VISIT YOUR SITE OFTEN HOPING FOR INLIGHTENMENT BUT I DON'T SEEM TO BE GETTING ANY WHERE ON MY OWN.... I HAVE IN THE PAST BEEN ABLE TO FIGURE OUT MOST COMPUTER STUFF ON MY OWN, BUT NOT IN THIS CASE.... I DO WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT UNIX. BUT I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START... YOUR SYSTEM IS FREE, I CAN CERTAINLY AFFORD THAT, BUT I DON'T SEEM TO HAVE A STARTING DOWNLOAD POINT... MOST OTHER SOFTWARE HAS SEVERAL DISKS NUMBERED DISK 1. DISK 2., ETC... THERE IS A BEGINNING A MIDDLE & AN END OF INSTALLATION... UNIX SEEMS TO BE A COLLECTION OF FILES DOWNLOADABLE VIA FTP... BUT WHERE DO I START ? WHAT DO I LOAD FIRST ? SECOND ? ETC.................. I EXPECTED TO FIND SOMETHING LIKE : " TO DOWNLOAD TO 1.4 DISKS GO TO THIS PALCE ( HYPERTEXT ) " DISK - 1 DISK -2 DISK - 3 ETC............ " TO DOWNLOAD TO HARD DRIVE YOU MUST HAVE XXXXX AMOUNT OF HARD DRIVE SPACE AVAILABLE. AFTER DOWNLOADING GO TO THE DIRECTORY, INSTALL THE PROGRAM , FOLLOW THE ON SCREEN INSTRUCTIONS " THIS IS NORMAL TO ME...... I'M AFRAID OF RANDOM DOWNLOADING ANYTHING WHEN I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOWNLOADING, NOR DO I KNOW WHAT IT'S FOR, NOR WHAT IT WILL DO, NOR WHAT AFFECT IT WILL HAVE ON MY CURRENT SYSTEM....... IT'S PRETTY SCARY STUFF TO A POOR OLD FAT BOY........ IS THERE SOME WAY THE FILES CAN BE ORGINIZED INTO A LOGICAL INSTALL FORMAT FOR DUMMIES LIKE ME ??? I LOVE COMPUTTING, & I REALLY WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT UNIX.... PLEASE HELP..... THANKS IN ADVANCE ED PYLE THE COMPUTER JUNKIE