I totally missed the first of this thread because I just subscribed to the
mailing list and am new to NetBSD.  I recently installed it and had no
problems except figuring out how to use the audio features and cdplayer. All
of my hardware was detected automagically and I must say that I'm glad for
that.  All I can say to you guys is keep looking through the documentation
because it's probably in there somewhere.  Doing searches of the mailing
list archive and on Google have helped me a few times and books about Unix
and Linux are sometimes helpful.  A good book that I've been using is
O'Reilly's Essential System Administration.  It at least tells me where I
might find config files and stuff, even if the info is a bit outdated and
generalized.

I've had experience with FreeBSD and Linux and both have their good points,
but don't give up on NetBSD just yet, because the satisfaction of getting
something to work and not giving up is very nice.

Joey


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas Mueller" <tmueller@bluegrass.net>
> To: <port-i386@netbsd.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 2:45 AM
> Subject: Re: pkg_delete not complete
>
>
> > From Gan Starling:
> >
> > (snip)
> > >So it looks like I'm stuck. Am getting very, very
> > >frustrated with NetBSD. Except for the time already
> > >invested, I would most likely give up on it. Damn near
> > >everything I attempt to do is thwarted in some oblique
> > >(and often seemingly undocumented) fashion. If it weren't
> > >for the new NetBSD 1.5.2 complete CDROM set from Wasabi
> > >Systems being due out soon, I swear that I would give up
> > >on NetBSD.
> >
> > >I have spent the whole damn weekend and got practically
> > >nothing to show for my time. If, after I get the new
> > >multi-CD set from Wasabi, I still have these kinds of
> > >major difficulties...then I WILL give up on NetBSD, and
> > >switch over to FreeBSD, or maybe Linux. At least those
> > >OS's have got a book that I could go out and buy.
> >
> > You got further with NetBSD that I did!  I didn't even get through the
> initial
> > boot!  I still have DR-DOS 7.03 as the only OS installed and running.
> >
> > What is that new NetBSD 1.5.2 complete CDROM set from Wasabi Systems?
How
> many
> > CDs?  Just NetBSD itself, or does it include packages?
> >
> > I was able to boot OpenBSD diskette made from floppy29.fs, though I
hadn't
> > downloaded anything else, so I couldn't really do anything worthwhile.
It
> seems
> > OpenBSD has a much smaller packages collection than NetBSD, FreeBSD or
> Linux.
> > Maybe OpenBSD has stricter criteria?
>
>
>