Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 23:28:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> To: brillp@nation.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help for a "dos'sy" Message-ID: <01I3IE4FCW1I001YSS@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU>
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>Hi, >I am what you would call a =91UNIX Novice=92 however, I am very good with D= >OS, win95, & Mac OS=92s >I have just spent the week, getting FreBSD to install and run, on a spare s= >ystem I have (DX2 4megs, mono vid) = >Anyhow, I finally got it to boot, but now am lost as to how it works, I hav= >e figured out how to navigate, etc=85 = >but the structure make no sense to me=85 i.e. that I gather, the OS has sev= >eral "layers" of users=85 It would be = >helpful for me, in learning the new system, if I could make one user, that = >could access the whole system. Can = >you tell me how I can do this? >Also, is there a "help for DOS guru=92s manual" or some such thing? I have = >read the DOS users FAQ, but it=92s not = >helping much >Brill Pappin Brill, I have been working on a few notes for people in just your situation, who are new not only to FreeBSD but to any variety of Unix as well, as this was the situation I was in about six months ago. I will send you a copy of it by electronic mail. Annelise
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