downloading/installing GNOME

[clayton rollins]

Hi NeuralDecimal,

(disclaimer - as this -newbies, I'm not allowed to give any
real technical support; you'll have to write -questions if
you need that. If I get close to technical advice, please
disregard. I'm just writing this to help point you in the
right direction(s).)

On Feb. 21, 2004 <NeuralDecimation at aol.com> wrote:
>
>i've tried all this stuff with creating my own installation media and 
>trying to download the program. i have no idea what to substitute for an 
>ARCH, dont know what that is although i can figure out kinda for the 
>version i wanted the disc1.iso

For ARCH, it means architecture of your system. Most
PCs are still i386 architecture. (the others are 64-bit
computers, etc.)

disc1.iso is the installation image.

>i can't figure half of this stuff out and generally i take pretty quickly 
>to this type of stuff. but it seems that alot of the information on these 
>pages is pretty vague to me and i dont know alot of these terms and finding 
>a download site that actually downloads. i've already been here 
>(http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html) 
>and i couldn't find a place to download from that actually worked. i dont 
>know if you can help me at all or if you even want to, but if you could i'd 
>greatly appreciate it. also, is there a place where i can order a copy of 
>GNOME with an image already burnt to a CD? thanks
>

The installation media in question is for _FreeBSD_ (the
OS), not Gnome (the desktop app./window manager).
Though, Gnome is included on the installtion CD. (I don't
know if gnome offers CD's for their software...)

As far as where to get the iso's, the ftp sites listed here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html
have always served me well.

If you want to buy a CD for FreeBSD, you can do so
from any of these companies::
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html#MIRRORS-CDROM

On a side note, you seem to think we would be
unlikely to help you. This is definitely not the case;
the community is generally excited by new people.

However, you may get short answers from people
who feel you haven't done your homework (RTFM).
Keep in mind that the "vague" documentation was
done for free by people who felt they could contribute
in that way. (You are expected to read it until you
understand it, looking for other doc.s to fill in the
parts you don't understand; that's why it was
written. ie. the writer spent a _lot_ more time
making the document to avoid repeated questions.)

If your answer's not there, though, it's not there.
So, do feel free to write the lists. (In my experience,
every question I've had has been covered in the
doc.s, though sometimes it took a bit of
digging/researching to find/understand.)

Regards,
Clayton

PS. write us back on -newbies if you want to keep
us informed of your progress, if you need moral
support, or if you just want to chat. :)

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