Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:14:12 -0400 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Sogn" <sogn@c2i.net> Subject: Re: Newbie help Message-ID: <199810231936.PAA07030@laker.net>
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--_=_=_=IMA.BOUNDARY.HTML_4862544=_=_=_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --Original Message Text--- >From: Sogn >Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 20:29:57 +0200 >I have gotten a FreeBSD CD-rom for a friend, and I want to install it on an Olivetti p75 computer >(formated hard drive, but DOS (only on bootdisk) and win95 are avilable). I have a boot disk for >FreeBSD as well. >So me having made up my mind about UNIX being totally cool thing to have on my machine I >put in the boot disk and the CD-rom, wait and suddenly I am told that I should configure kernel. >HELP!!! >I understand that I should identify the hardware I have, but don't know what half of the options >mean. (I know that I have Creative CD-rom, and that's about it) >So what do I do, and how? Sogn sogn@c2i.net >P. S. I'm sorry to bother you with such idiot questions, but I tried to RTFM; in the one online I >couldn't find anything explaining what I should do, and the one offered in the program, well...) I >hope that you'll excuse my ignorance. Ignorance is excusable, stupidity is not. Ignorance is being unaware of something, how could we hold someone responsible for something they've never known existed? Stupidity is making the same mistakes after having learned the lesson many, many times. It's cool that you tried to figure it out by reading the available info. That's why I'm responding to you. I usually ignore questions from people who have obviously not read anything at all. You should first attemp to install with making any changes and see if the GENERIC kernel can probe/detect your hardware for you. If it's successful, you can build a custom kernel after the install. If the GENERIC kernel doesn't find your CDROM, then you may have to try a different method to install. Over the Internet is pretty convienient if you have an ISP with unlimited access (no per hour charges). Try without making the changes, and then email back to me and/or the list. Then we'll go from there... Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. --_=_=_=IMA.BOUNDARY.HTML_4862544=_=_=_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <HTML> <FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" DEFAULT="FACE"><FONT SIZE="1" POINTSIZE="8" DEFAULT="SIZE">--Original Message Text---<BR> <B>>From:</B> Sogn<BR> <B>>Date:</B> Fri, 23 Oct 1998 20:29:57 +0200<BR> <BR> <FONT COLOR=000000 DEFAULT="COLOR"><FONT SIZE="2" POINTSIZE="10">>I have gotten a FreeBSD CD-rom for a friend, and I want to install it on an Olivetti p75 computer<BR> >(formated hard drive, but DOS (only on bootdisk) and win95 are avilable). I have a boot disk for <BR> >FreeBSD as well.<FONT SIZE="1" POINTSIZE="8" DEFAULT="SIZE"><BR> <BR> <FONT SIZE="2" POINTSIZE="10">>So me having made up my mind about UNIX being totally cool thing to have on my machine I >put in the boot disk and the CD-rom, wait and suddenly I am told that I should configure kernel. >HELP!!!<FONT SIZE="1" POINTSIZE="8" DEFAULT="SIZE"><BR> <BR> <FONT SIZE="2" POINTSIZE="10">>I understand that I should identify the hardware I have, but don't know what half of the options >mean. (I know that I have Creative CD-rom, and that's about it)<FONT SIZE="1" POINTSIZE="8" DEFAULT="SIZE"><BR> <BR> <FONT SIZE="2" POINTSIZE="10">>So what do I do, and how?<FONT SIZE="1" POINTSIZE="8" DEFAULT="SIZE"><BR> <BR> <FONT SIZE="2" POINTSIZE="10">Sogn<FONT SIZE="1" POINTSIZE="8" DEFAULT="SIZE"><BR> <FONT SIZE="2" POINTSIZE="10">sogn@c2i.net<FONT SIZE="1" POINTSIZE="8" DEFAULT="SIZE"><BR> <BR> <FONT SIZE="2" POINTSIZE="10">>P. S. I'm sorry to bother you with such idiot questions, but I tried to RTFM; in the one online I >couldn't find anything explaining what I should do, and the one offered in the program, well...) I >hope that you'll excuse my ignorance.<FONT SIZE="1" POINTSIZE="8" DEFAULT="SIZE"><BR> <BR> <FONT COLOR=000000 DEFAULT="COLOR">Ignorance is excusable, stupidity is not. Ignorance is being unaware of something, how could we hold someone responsible for something they've never known existed? Stupidity is making the same mistakes after having learned the lesson many, many times.<BR> <BR> It's cool that you tried to figure it out by reading the available info. That's why I'm responding to you. I usually ignore questions from people who have obviously not read anything at all.<BR> <BR> You should first attemp to install with making any changes and see if the GENERIC kernel can probe/detect your hardware for you. If it's successful, you can build a custom kernel after the install. <BR> <BR> If the GENERIC kernel doesn't find your CDROM, then you may have to try a different method to install. Over the Internet is pretty convienient if you have an ISP with unlimited access (no per hour charges).<BR> <BR> Try without making the changes, and then email back to me and/or the list. Then we'll go from there...<BR> </HTML> <HTML> <LEFT> <FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" COLOR="#000001" SIZE="1" POINTSIZE="8" DEFAULT="ALL"> Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes.</HTML> --_=_=_=IMA.BOUNDARY.HTML_4862544=_=_=_-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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