From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Oct 16 23:31:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA09136 for doc-outgoing; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 23:31:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA09131 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 23:31:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA04255; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 23:30:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 23:30:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: cooljazz cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting FreeBSD Documentations In-Reply-To: <3263951F.5D84@eden.rutgers.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-doc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, cooljazz wrote: > If someone could help me, i would like to have some detailed > documentations on FreeBSD 2.X because i do not have any problems > installing on my Pemntium 166 MHz and 64 MB RAM using a Adaptec 2940u > SCSI controller card; however, I have a hard time unlike Linux getting > X-windows and other applications to work. Please, do contact as soon you > can because i am very anxious to fully utilize my FreeBSD 2.1.5 > operating system. Basically, i would like to know what steps i should > take installing freeBSD as far as compiling the kernel and running > X-windows and other apps. Thanks for help in advance. The 'detailed documentation' is the FreeBSD Handbook, available from http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html as 'Handbook' or on installed systems in file:///usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook.html If you're having a specific problem, let us know and we'll do what we can to help. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major