On 21 February 2009 c. 23:17:48 Chris Cooper 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.
Please share as much info about what you did and what you tried but failed to did with your system, starting from installation process. Please list all errors you encounter and when. But at first, please, look in the FAQ: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/ -- Best wishes, Vadim Zhukov
