hi

[Ralph Ellis]

On Friday 04 August 2006 4:08 pm, tony sanabria wrote:
> Hi, I have a sony vaio that used to run windows me.
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> the system no longer wants to recognize the restoration cd.
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> I am not a microsoft lover so i decided to use something else.
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> my cdrom didnt want to read any of the iso's i downloaded
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> before like ubuntu, dream linux and so forth. i went to
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> the library and found a book tittled "freebsd in 24hrs"
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> with companion cd. my pc read the cd and i was able
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> to install freebsd i believe version 4 or something
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> like that. I am very happy with it but would like
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> to update the freebsd.    I tried to get the freebsd to see the internet
> connection
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> so that i can update from within freebsd but i
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> havent been able to get it to see the dsl
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> connection that is connected to a linksys router.    I was hoping you can
> help me either set up the
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> internet connection in freebsd or at least
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> suggest which of the files I should download
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> from this xp machine so that i can burn a
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> cd and upgrade my freebsd machine. i dont
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> know if its alpha, amd or which of the
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> files. and also when i select the one
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> you may suggest do i click iso link,
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> and also..do i burn all the files
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> shown for that option?
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> i.e. bootonly, cd1, cd2,
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> checksum and so forth.    thank you. i hope to hear
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> from you soon. i am very happy that my dead pc is alive again. thank you.
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The easiest for you to get started with would be PC-BSD www.pcbsd.org or 
DesktopBSD www.desktopbsd.org. Both will boot you into a graphical interface 
and will configure your internet connection for you. I find PC-BSD a little 
easier to start with but both work well, both can use the ports collection 
and PC-BSD has a very easy install routine for commonly used programs.
Ralph Ellis