Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 10:13:10 +0000 From: Matt H <freebsd-questions@cuntbubble.com> To: "Shawn Halloran" <SPHalloran2@hotmail.com> Cc: freshzive@charter.net, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question Regarding IENTD Message-ID: <20020201101310.2b635a9c.freebsd-questions@cuntbubble.com> In-Reply-To: <OE14vZ60nBsUum1nDS600022592@hotmail.com> References: <OE14vZ60nBsUum1nDS600022592@hotmail.com>
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On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 01:58:46 -0800 "Shawn Halloran" <SPHalloran2@hotmail.com> wrote: > Well, I'm a newbie and I'll respond to newbieism. :) > I tried my first install last night and it failed. I'll try again this week end with a different partition (slice) structure. I don't know whether I should send out an SOS or sink into the abyss alone. I know I'll be able to learn this OS, but it's been a long time since I've experienced such confusion when sitting at a keyboard. Whether anybody gives a s@$% or not, my motivations to learn FreeBSD include a) a desire to provide web services to small businesses b) a free OS used by 60% of the servers on the web, , b) Apache Server (open-source software) and, c) no licensing restrictions. A good set of motivations. I think my first install or two was a screwup too. I think it takes a couple of goes to learn what the questions mean! FreeBSD is good for the things you want it for but I'm not sure that your 60% figure is quite accurate though. > Any suggestions? I'm getting the feeling I need to approach this project with a lot of optimism. Well optimism always helps. I used the whole disk and went with the fdisk defaults once there it's a good idea to symlink /var/tmp and /var/db to somewhere else as they can get bigger over time and eventually things start to go weird when they can't write to tmp Use the packages where you can as it's quicker than compiling the source code but don;t be scared of compiling if that's the only way. Subscribe and keep tabs on freebsd-questions & freebsd-security you might want to subscribe to apache as well (I must get round to that one) replace sendmail as soon as possible (and before adding loads of users) use ssh and not telnet if you cross public networks or are on a LAN with other people about (if you use telnet your passwords go across in clear text (same with ftp & pop3) You've got a bit of learning to do before you're commercially ready because no doubt they will want to ask you questions about your system like "can I run php/perl/python/ruby/asp scripts" and "where's the sendmail binary" and "can I use frontpage" and stuff like that. Best of luck M To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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