On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Chris Cooper <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello All, > > I hope someone out there has plenty of patience and understanding. I have > been playing > with open source for a number of years without much success. The closest I > have come > to success is with Suse 10.2, but it is very unstable. I have mouse > freezes, > icon > disappearances, and at times the screen goes negative on me-white becomes > black etc. > I have downloaded PCBSD and DesktopBSD to where I had the desktop, but > neither > would connect to the internet. And I could delete less from these OS than > I > could from Windows. The smaller and much more secure OpenBSD seemed to fit > the > bill. However, I need help. Nothing I do seems to work. I have five > books > on > FreeBSD and "Absolute OpenBSD" by Lucas. I can do simple stuff like pwd, > cd, > ls, > mnt CD, etc., but I cannot pkg_add from the 4.3 CD or run executable files. > What > I would like to do is add a browser and get on the web. My computer needs > are > small; 95% of my time is following the markets. I do not have three > degrees > in > computer science, in fact I only have one degree and it is in economics. I > do > well in the market, but BSD really has me confused. I know the OpenBSD > community > does not like to deal with simpletons like myself, but I would appreciate > enough > help to get me started. I have OpenBSD on my spare HP Pavilion N5250 > notebook > with > an Intel pentium CPU but it is not connected to the internet. > > Thank you. > > FYI -- I'm no dev, but they're definitely going to ask for a dmesg (pasted to the body of the email, not attached). Even with my limited "expertise," I would need more info. Also, expect a fair amount of pointing to man pages and oBSD FAQ. -- www.nealhogan.net
