Re: Newbie Experience (As promised)
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. My hardware is unsupported and despite my best efforts, I decided it would be better to expedite the process and I installed Mepis Linux. Which version of FreeBSD did you install. 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. What was the problem? I am a newbie too ... my second week on FreeBSD. I could manage mounting my 1G Memorex traveldrive without a bother. The usbd daemon is configured to run on boot. Depending on which USB port I connect it to, I do something like: mount -t msdosfs [-o ro] /dev/da0s1 my_mount_point I prefer to use -o ro whenever I mount a file system on some directory and I don't want to take any kind of risks. Thanks for any help you've offered, Joel Joel J. Adamson Arlington, MA Just to share it with you. I had a couple of other fixes to do. I could not get my AMD PcNet 97c79x ethernet card to work with my FreeBSD 6.1 installation, although the device could be detected and configured through sysinstall / ifconfig. My packets just won't get past the LAN card on to the wire. So I swapped it with another card I had on a different PC which dual boots to RHEL and Windows. That is a Realtek card, and it worked fine with FreeBSD. The other issue I faced was with configuring my old 3-button Logitech mouse. But even that works now on X - some configuration changes. I disabled moused by removing moused entries from /etc/rc.conf - I felt it was making the mouse freeze in the X term. Get some of the window managers - they help. Afterstep / XFCE / FVWM are good points to start. Cheers, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Experience (As promised)
On 2006-09-17 12:22, Joel Adamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newbie Experience (As promised)
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. My hardware is unsupported and despite my best efforts, I decided it would be better to expedite the process and I installed Mepis Linux. 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. Thanks for any help you've offered, Joel Joel J. Adamson Arlington, MA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
