paul, >when I purchsed 3 there were all kinds of problems with loading on a laptop > >Now I purchsed 3.7 and it looks like this is the final end of the road >for openbsd and me > >I tolerated figuring out the wireless settings and even though there is >some reason for a huge time lag installing packages my main concern is >there is NO flexibility in getting it setup
try posting a dmesg for the laptop you're running on and/or the log/debugging outputs that are relevant to your errors. > >1. every other download has some kind of 'serious' error yet the package >loads >2. OK finally fed up with instaling upteen seperate packages to get >something to work i.e. gnome then atttempted to dowload everything and >install what I want. Well the ftp blows up. >3. just have no sure way of knowing when this system will start doing >some real work. spending all my time with problems and have no single >docuement to help > "no single document to help"? that's hardly the case. take a look at the openbsd FAQ, http://openbsd.org/faq/index.html , or look at the manual pages. openbsd is not windows or linux. you really should give the FAQ and manual pages a thorough reading when you're confused. remain calm :). cheers, jake
