From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Oct 11 7:53:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from web13608.mail.yahoo.com (web13608.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 90BA237B408 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 07:53:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20011011143621.82172.qmail@web13608.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.16.193.228] by web13608.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 07:36:21 PDT Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 07:36:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Bzdik BSD Subject: Re: NEWBIE To: Piet Delport , Kastaki Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20011004011925.B33443@athalon.homenet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I can highly recommend "Think Unix" also. I would also recommend the 4.3 release instead of 4.4 for a newbie because the latter is a bit non-conventional : tools are missing, not all shells in post install, etc. This makes Ms Anderson's book a very good choice it has the CD included. If you use Greg's book, keep in mind there's a typo on page 164 that can make you locked out slightly: page 164, where it shows the adduser procedure, line that says : "Invite yana into other groups: no" this "no" is done in bold in his book, which suggests user's input, and if you type it, you won't be able to type "wheel". You can fix it later though editing /etc/group file. three more editions and they will fix it. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message