From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun May 14 1: 6:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from gargoyle.apana.org.au (brisba6.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.66.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9FED37B52B for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 01:06:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by gargoyle.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA13355 for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 18:05:44 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "ROADRUNNER" via SMTP by gargoyle.apana.org.au, id smtpdN13353; Sun May 14 18:05:40 2000 Message-ID: <00c001bfbd7b$9f6f93e0$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> From: "Doug Young" To: Subject: the "Pedantic FreeBSD" finally online !!!!! Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 18:08:41 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ever since I started messing with FreeBSD I've been searching for newbie-friendly documentation written by someone other than an extremely experienced expert . The only things remotely near the level I wanted were the quite good but dated "Comprehensive Guide to FreeBSD" and the "Pedantic PPP", which was certainly a lot more explicit than anything else, but didn't help sufficiently to get ppp working. When I eventually got to the stage where I could understand enough to do an installation & get user-ppp /apache / sendmail / caching DNS / etc working , I figured I should produce my own version of a newbie tutorial, so hopefully those who experience the same problems as I did in comprehending the "official" documentation might have somewhere else to turn.Well its finally online in html form :) http://www.apana.org.au/FreeBSD/FreeBSD_Tutorial/ I'd appreciate any constructive criticism, particularly from newbies ..... hopefully I haven't left out too many of those "trivial but critical steps"..... something I've criticized document writers generally (not only the FreeBSD ones either) for doing countless times. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message