Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 05:43:03 -0700 From: Donald <druid@eoe-magical.org> To: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: Smc659@aol.com, newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: it just goes on and on....... Message-ID: <37E23757.E16470DF@eoe-magical.org> References: <535d819f.25134568@aol.com> <008801bf0141$78229ea0$827e03cb@apana.org.au>
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well let me say that I run NT and two versions of Unix. And in all cases I always install dos and get the nic cards and cd roms working first. This way I know that my hardware is in good shape. I have installed freebsd with two nic's at one time. The thing I dont see in this thread is a description in step by step of what he did to install. Let me say that at this point he should install dos and verify that his hardware is working. Then one of us can tell him what to do to install freebsd in a step by step logical manner. need a full description of his hardware also. It is very difficult to help him over email and emotions tend to get bloated. Doug Young wrote: > I need to clarify an apparent misunderstanding here .... our colleague > lalala@globalserve.net > seems to believe I started this thread, when in fact I was merely responding > to the guy who > posted the question in the first place. Be that as it may ..... I can > sympathize to some extent > with the guy trying to figure how to do things in FreeBSD, since for anyone > from a Win9x > background the move to any *nix tends to be traumatic. My personal > experience with FreeBSD > has not been excessively bad, but then I messed around with linuxes for > months getting nowhere > fast. Whilst the BSD docs are infinitely better than the linux equivalents > they still represent a > culture shock to those of us with experience in other operating systems .... > a fact that is all to > often overlooked by some unix experts. One major difference I have noticed > with the FreeBSD > mailing lists is that the majority of (but not all ) contributors are much > more openminded as to the > relative advantages of other operating systems (eg the usability issue) than > certain of their more > fanatic linux brethren who tend to view Linus Torvalds as some sort of major > deity and Bill Gates > as the Antichrist. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Smc659@aol.com> > To: <lalala@globalserve.net> > Cc: <newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 7:19 AM > Subject: Re: it just goes on and on....... > > > I think the solution would be to use winNT... It's not as good as > > FreeBSD, but might be more appropriate to your skill level if the maturity > > of your discourse is any indication. > > > > Dont rub his nose to hard into the ground Martin. Also, FreeBSD is no > better > > than WinNT and its not for the immature. Also this guys making an attempt > at > > installing FreeBSD and is asking for help, if you cant help him dont > reply. > > We both would probably be this way if we spent hours try to install > something. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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