Re: Newbie Experience #2

2006-09-12 Thread Bob M.
On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 08:46 -0400, Bob Walker wrote: Thanks to *all* who responded to my whining -- you've been great, and I am going to give FreeBSD another try. Apologies to all if I sounded like a twit... I was just eager to try something new as I have had it with MS products. Regards,

Re: Newbie Experience #2

2006-09-12 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
Must have missed your rant Bob. You may want to check out PC-BSDhttp://www.pcbsd.org, a graphical installer that loads the KDE desktop on completion and rides on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p2. If your hardware is supported in FreeBSD then it's pretty painless. I dropped Windows at my home over 4 months

Newbie Experience #2

2006-09-11 Thread Bob Walker
Thanks to *all* who responded to my whining -- you've been great, and I am going to give FreeBSD another try. Apologies to all if I sounded like a twit... I was just eager to try something new as I have had it with MS products. Regards, Bob Walker Surveys Forecasts, LLC 2323 North Street

Re: Newbie Experience #2

2006-09-11 Thread Jud
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:46:13 -0400, Bob Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Thanks to *all* who responded to my whining -- you've been great, and I am going to give FreeBSD another try. Apologies to all if I sounded like a twit... I was just eager to try something new as I have had it with MS

FreeBSD installer (was Re: Newbie Experience #2)

2006-09-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 11 September 2006 15:56, Jud wrote: everyone who uses FreeBSD knows that a better (meaning, at least to many folks, more simplified and graphical) installer would be nice Perhaps as an option. The problem is that you need to install a graphical environment to run a graphical

Re: FreeBSD installer (was Re: Newbie Experience #2)

2006-09-11 Thread Jud
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:26:33 +0200, Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Monday 11 September 2006 15:56, Jud wrote: everyone who uses FreeBSD knows that a better (meaning, at least to many folks, more simplified and graphical) installer would be nice Perhaps as an option. The

Re: FreeBSD installer (was Re: Newbie Experience #2)

2006-09-11 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:26:33 +0200 Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 11 September 2006 15:56, Jud wrote: everyone who uses FreeBSD knows that a better (meaning, at least to many folks, more simplified and graphical) installer would be nice Perhaps as an option. The

Re: FreeBSD installer (was Re: Newbie Experience #2)

2006-09-11 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:51:28 +0200 Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: absolutely. but you don't need to install anything to run a graphical installer. And, ideally, you wouldn't be forced to have only the graphical installer option, you'd still be able to use the good old ncurses or