new to os
I'm looking to try something different with my machine (or maybe I'm going through a midlife crisis). Currently run Wimdows (point and click), and would like to gravitate back to DOS (this is a thing of the ancient past for me 30 years - on a TRS-80). I know remember extremely little of OS vernacular. Am I biting off more than I can chew, or is there a OS commands for dummies out there, or does FreeBSD have such a critter that one can go through. I'll pour through the FAQ and got hrough the online manuals for now. But it all seems greek. Can someone point me in a diresction to degreek this stuff for me. Thanks, Scott McClellan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Thanks for the response...
Not sure how to reply to the threads on the freebsd lists, but will probably post there with an update to all this soon. I did do the ole' switch of jumpers (two times as I didn't know which posts were designated for MASTER - trial and error I guess). So now the system sees the CD-ROM as the Secondary Master (which is a good thing I'm supposing) And I did take another poster's advise in burning the ISO image at a slower speed (4x is as low as I get), but I'm still at a point where the system responds with: Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM: Failure... No /boot/loader I assume that ATAPI is the model of the CD-ROM the system found. But, the 'Failure... has me stumped. Is it possible that although the system (and FreeBSD) recognize the type of CD-Rom I have, but FreeBSD just doesn't support it [Creative Infra1800]. I admit when looking at the supported hardware, I didn't see Creative on the list - but then what's up with ATAPI? I apologize. A lot of my questions are rhetorical in that I just need to 'vent' (if I don't talk to myself, then I type to myself). And as another poster put it 'Don't throw out the old machine, just have patience' - as you've stated also. I have patience (and an occasional temper). Although my hostility factor towards this so far is only at about 3. Thanks again, and if you have anything else to add (not to my misery please), feel free. Scott McClellan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
A huge THANK YOU!!!!!
Dear Nigel, Right off the bat, I want to thank you for (humiliating me) solving my problem. No I'm not humiliated, just ticked off that I hadn't thought of what I was doing wrong first. I'll be the first to admit that I'm one of those people who are too used to having the computer (Windows) do everything for me. Once upon a time (about 24 years ago) we had a TRS-80 and HAD to deal with DOS - how I long for those days again, because unfortunately I became Windows brainwashed. I had no inkling as to what an ISO image was, or what it was for, or how to use it. So yes, *cringe* I just burned the ISO image 'file' onto the CD. Amazing what can happen when you know what you're doing. Everything looks as if it is loading okay now. Oops, no not everything. It's telling me that it can't get 'compat4X' and 'port distributions' loaded because it has run out of room. Hmmm. I guess it's time for me to putter around some more, but I'm huge steps ahead of where I was 2 hours ago (and 3 days of banging my head). I don't mind puttering, heck I got my CD-ROM connected properly now (darn computer store techies) after reading through some of the FAQs and letters here. Yeah, it's time-consuming, but I can honestly say I feel like I've learned a great deal already - unfortunately, not about FreeBSD yet :) But hey, it all counts. Was there anything about ISO imaging anywhere that I just missed or slipped over without actually reading? I didn't notice anything on the FreeBSD site or handbook. Nigel, Staples will not be happy with you - they lost a sale of about 50 floppies :) I was just about to head out when I got your e-mail. Again thank you, thank you, thank you. Time to use the rest of the handbook now and start solving the next onslaught of issues. And thanks to the rest that sent their thoughts, suggestions, and condolences :) Just knowing someone else out there was in the same boat at one time sometimes is a help. Best regards, Scott McClellan p.s. to whomever suggested burning at a slower speed, I did try that (albeit by 'burning' the file rather than 'opening' it), so needless to say - but I'll say it anyway - it didn't work, only slower :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
installation question/problem
I wrote an earlier thread with regards to installing via CD-ROM. Unfortunately I think I have a hardware technical problem that's beyond my intellect at this point. (Get a FAILURE error when the boot process starts - the CD hadn't even started humming yet) I've started the installation process a couple of times with the floppies. In fact, I must have something on the computer (meaning FreeBSD of some sort) after having used the 'kern' and 'mfsroot' disks. My question is, Do you need to load all the distribution files when it asks you to, or is the OS actually on my system at this point, and I just don't know what the heck (censored) I'm doing. My problem with the distribution downloads is I apparently have a couple of bad disks, and each time the system finds that it can't access one of the files, it shuts down the loading process. I've finally gotten smart and have vtty2 on the monitor so I can see which disk goes awry, but this doesn't make the process go any easier, since when the loading stops, I have to start the distribution download all the way from the beginning again. Is there anyway to start the distribution download process where it last left off? (This is why I was hoping the CD-ROM route would work - unfortunately NOT!!) I hate beating myself up over this process, but I'm beginning to feel like the ULTIMATE NEWBIE with this. Someone toss me a preserver. Scott McClellan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
