Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 14:03:36 -0600 From: Hamilton Hoover <hamilton@twopoint.com> To: xavian anderson macpherson <professional3d@home.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing freebsd from windows nt without using boot disks Message-ID: <3A280418.6E3AB212@twopoint.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012010643530.38897-100000@MyFreeBSD.ispchannel.com> <001401c05bc8$0c20d900$40461418@salem1.or.home.com>
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xavian anderson macpherson wrote: > > it didn't take six days to install NT. I INSTALLED IT IN ONE HOUR, after > spending six days trying to get freebsd to run. freebsd was running after > my first attempt. Your first attempt took six days? I just started using fbsd three weeks ago. I got my first system up and running in one day. I loaded my box off the ftp site. It was a very nice experience for me. I have loaded many many Win9x/nt systems in the past few years. An nt install should only take an hour or so, but getting the damm thing to run right takes weeks. > i am no idiot. see below > i tried to install xfree86 version 4.0 > after having first installed version 3.3.6 or whatever it was that was the > base package. after trying to do that, i nolonger had use of the > x-terminal. i tried to remove the version 4.0, but i got nowhere with that. > i didn't want to erase everything that i had installed, just to start all > over again. i had downloaded over 8 GB's of software from the web. i did > not want to go through that all over again. I would suggest you look in the mail list archive and see if somebody has had a similar problem. The help is there if you look for it. Instead of coming on this list and ripping about fbsd perhaps you should have come here first and asked for help. As a new fbsd user I have had great ammount of personal success and gotten a great benefit in the list. I worked on a project for where I work for six month, when I moved to fbsd three weeks ago my problem has been solved. It was that easy to do with the help I got from this list and with the fbsd o/s. > > i got freebsd on SEPTEMBER 30. i got WINDOWS NT on OCTOBER 5. after > removing the linux boot sector on the disk i wanted to use, it took me less > than one hour to format and install NT. i have been running it ever since. Perhaps you should just stay with nt and forget all about unix. you got fbsd on sep 6 and your just now getting here? and I'm a little confused about your linux boot sector. > I DON'T WANT TWO SEPARATE OPERATING SYSTEMS, I WANT ONE WHICH WILL GIVE ME > UNIVERSAL COVERAGE OF BOTH WINDOWS AND UNIX. perhaps you should look at vmware? THAT IS WHAT I BELIEVE > MICROSOFT IS INTENDING TO DO WITH INTERIX, WHEN THEY PUT IT INTO THE > SERVICES FOR UNIX PACKAGE. THERE WILL BE ONLY ONE! LONG LIVE THE > HIGHLANDER `GATES'. as for your aforementioned claim as to not being an 'idiot', you don't pass. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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