Based on this email, I'd recommend you spend some of the money you've made in the market and hire some computer expertise in your neighborhood.
The fact that you're getting stuck at adding packages and "run executable files" is a big red flag for me. It shouldn't cost more than a few hundred dollars to have someone install Linux or *BSD for you to your specifications. Based on your email, no amount of remote handholding is going to get you to a working system that you'll be happy with. As a point of reference, I went from 0 experience in OpenBSD to having a fully configured system in < 4 hours. Just by reading the installation guide. Let us know what area you're in and I'm sure someone can recommend someone. M. On 2/21/09 12:17 PM, "Chris Cooper" <linux...@yahoo.com> 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.
