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Date:      Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:12:31 -0700 (MST)
From:      John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        CKimmerl@sarcom.com
Subject:   Re: "easy installation"!!!!! yeah right
Message-ID:  <14356.33135.596679.225864@hip186.ch.intel.com>

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> You people are so far into this stuff that you don't know what "easy" means
> anymore.  I tried to install FreeBSD 3.3 last night.  It was the most
> difficult install I've ever seen.  Problems?  How would I know- I never knew
> what it was doing.  It installed, I just didn't know what.  It is so geared

The above is clearly draw out of frustration (I know how frustrating computer
stuff can be--I've been using FreeBSD for almost 5 years now and there are
still things I don't know about it).

As one other person said, perhaps you could try and look around the website 
more for some more information before continuing.

The following URL is a bit out of date, but not too bad:

  http://www.freebsd.org/~rpratt/31/index.html

The most frustrating thing for people (I've found) is getting slices and
partitions on disks done correctly (and setting things up correctly for 
dual-booting into Ebola '98--which you didn't say you were doing). Once you
get past this, the basic installation should be the "bin" package (and probably
the kernel source) along with X windows. 

Try reading through the entire URL above as it's pretty good (we just need to
update it with 3.3 stuff--which isn't much).

-Jr

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