Re: Newbie Experience (As promised)

On 2006-09-17 12:22, Joel Adamson <trashbird1240@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear Very Helpful and Informative FreeBSD List,

I installed FreeBSD on Friday Night and tried very hard to get
it all working. My initial X problem actually fixed itself
(you can imagine my surprise), however, even with that, our
computer is useless as a desktop (or anything else) without an
internet connection.

Well, maybe not completely useless. You can still grab packages
from the network, using another system, transfer them to the
target installation with a CD-ROM disk or other medium and
install without a network connection.

In general, though, a FreeBSD system without any sort of network
connection is (IMHO) something like a 'crippled' computer. In
fact, these days, *any* desktop system without some sort of
access to a network is crippled in one or more ways.

My hardware is unsupported and despite my best efforts, I
decided it would be better to expedite the process and I
installed Mepis Linux.

What hardware are you talking about? Maybe it *is* supported,
but it was not very obvious how to configure or set it all up.

If you still want to give FreeBSD a try, please try to install
it, then run the following commands, saving their output to a
file and find a way to post these files to us (i.e. use a floppy
disk or something else, like a USB stick):

# dmesg
# pciconf -lv

I would hardly describe it the way another newbie did one week
ago. It was a good challenge. I'll wait until I'm a better
administrator and there's more support for hardware I might
have.

The only really annoying thing was that I perpetually had
trouble mounting my usb flash drive. I think this was a
filesystem problem.

Mounting filesystems is probably not as intuitive or automatic as
it could have been. If you give FreeBSD another try, as I said
above, then you can try showing us the output of:

# usbdevs -v

Run this command when logged in as `root', save its output to a
file and post this file to us as a text attachment. We'll help
you with the rest of the things needed to discover more about
your USB flash disk and how to mount it.

Thanks for any help you've offered,
Joel

You're most welcome. You know how to find us if you need more
help with FreeBSD either some time soon now, or later :-)

Regards,
Giorgos

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