Addendum: When Unix Stops Being Fun
I thank you all for your responses so far. I actually meant to post my original message to FreeBSD Newbies, but I posted it here by mistake. Since the damage has been done, I may as well continue. I just wanted to clarify a few things about where I'm coming from: 1) I'm not actually going for the RHCE certification. That page which talked about what would be required was just something I came across when I was Googling for tips on how to start a SA career. I mention it because most of the responses to the original question dealt more with system adiministration in general, and I thought it was worth paying attention to for that reason. 2) The one job I have right now that entails system administration is a volunteer job at my alma mater's student run radio station. They have four Windows boxes, a NetBSD box that I set up, and a Mac that I also want to put NetBSD on as soon as I can get it to boot the installer. Right now the problems I have to deal with mainly have to do with the automation software for two of the Windows boxes and getting at least one of the network cards for the NetBSD box registered with the university so that it can be on their network. My apologies for posting to the wrong list; that was dumb of me, I know. - Dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
When Unix Stops Being Fun
This has nothing to do with technical problems, but rather it's more of a request for moral support. This may seem disjointed, so bear with me. I've been using FreeBSD for over six months now, but I've been using Unix-like operating systems for almost two years. I started with Red Hat Linux back when Red Hat was making and selling their "consumer-grade" version of Red Hat Linux, then switched to Debian before going to FreeBSD last March. I now also run NetBSD on one of my machines. Through all this, I've developed a passion for this type of OS, seeing the elegance, performance, and sheer power of Unix. This has affected me to the point of me changing my career path. Before I got into these OSs, I wanted to get into radio. Now I'd rather either be a system administrator or run my own consulting business for entities that use these types of OSs. But herein lies the problem I've been having lately: while searching around for what I'd need to know to become a system administrator, I came across this page: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/8/13/131727/462 and I'm overwhelmed by the sheer amount of knowledge I'd have to gain. It took me almost two years to get to where I am today, and it looks like I've barely scratched the surface of what I'd need to know. But now, I feel like instead of learning things on my own for fun, I have to learn other things I don't really have a need to learn for myself or that I want to, just so that I can apply that to oth er peoples' situations. The result is that lately learning these OSs has become more of a chore than a fun hobby, and I'm still intimidated by what I need to learn to get to where I want to go. It almost seems like it's not worth it. Now, being that I know there are some very experienced people on this list, I'm betting that I'm not the only one that has experienced this, that learning new things in Unix-like OSs becomes more of a chore than something to do for fun. My question is, what advice would you have for dealing with this? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
4.10-RELEASE Installation Locks Up
Hello, I've been having a problem installing FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE on an old Acer Aspire (120 MHz Pentium processor, 80 MB RAM) using a network install via FTP, and I've had it lock up (can't switch from standard view to the debug view or the holographic shell) with the hard drive light staying on multiple times. I turned on the debug mode in sysinstall and it's happened twice when it's been trying to do this: cp -p /kernel.GENERIC /kernel I also know that the cable on the first IDE controller has had some of its shielding scraped off from brushing against the top of the chasis, but it still looks intact. On the first IDE controller is a Quantum 2550 MB hard drive as the master and a generic CD-ROM drive as the slave. The Quantum hard drive is getting the root partition as well as a swap partition and the /tmp directory. The other IDE controller has a Western Digital 6448.6 MB hard drive and nothing else on it. The WD drive is getting the /var and /usr partitions as well as a swap partition. Is there anything I can do to fix this problem? How likely is it that the less-than-perfect IDE cable is causing this problem? If I can't solve this problem (with your help, of course), how can I work around it? I'm subscribed to the list and am getting it in digest form, so I'll get your replies either way, though I'll get them faster if you send them to me directly. Thanks in advance. - Dave V. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Error when installing FreeBSD 5.2: " /mnt/usr: create symlink failed, no inode free"
Hello, Been trying to install FreeBSD 5.2 using the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp images on floppies and proceeding with a network install via FTP on an old Acer Aspire with a Pentium 120 MHz processor and 80 MB of RAM on a 1.6 GB hard drive (the second on the system; I have another OS on the other hard drive which shall remain nameless). The install goes fine until it begins to extract the files to the /usr directory, at which it then spits out this error multiple times: /mnt/usr: create symlink failed, no inode free and continues to do so whenever something is added to the hard drive during the installation. Curiously enough, though, the installation continues, even though I got that error message again and again when the base install was completed and the extra packages were being installed. I decided at that point to abort the installation. Is there any way for me to fix this, and if so, how can I do it? - Dave V. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
