From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 26 11:40:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx111165-a.provd1.ri.home.com. (cx111165-a.provd1.ri.home.com [24.18.156.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE2A737B9C6 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 11:40:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mtp@cx111165-a.provd1.ri.home.com) Received: (from mtp@localhost) by cx111165-a.provd1.ri.home.com. (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA11903 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:40:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mtp) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:39:55 -0400 From: Matt Pillsbury To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: frree bsd Message-ID: <20000726143955.B95848@straylight.NONE> Reply-To: pillsy@brown.edu References: <3979FCC8.E9D1BAF2@cnu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3979FCC8.E9D1BAF2@cnu.edu>; from guest@cnu.edu on Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 03:58:00PM -0400 Organization: Procrastinators For a Better Tomorrow X-Sender: pillsy@brown.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 03:58:00PM -0400, viva8 wrote: > can an inexperieced person instasll free bsd for there own personal > operating system to use the internet? Yes. I had virtually no experience in administering a UN*X system before I set my FBSD box up. I did know the really basic commandline stuff ("ls", "cp" and "vi" were about it), but nothing else. I had everything (X Windows, DHCP network, soundcard) working after a week- end of sporadic attention. The most important things to do before your install are: a) Read the documentation (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/index.html is a good place to start. Get a hardcopy if possible). b) Back up your files. c) Read the documentation again. Cheers, Matt -- Matt Pillsbury | (401) 351-2253 | pillsy@brown.edu | mtp@brsp.net | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message