From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Sep 22 6:14:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from honk.org (cr876208-a.flfrd1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.90.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2246215E50 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 06:14:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mpoulin@honk.org) Received: from spectre (mpoulin@cr876208-a.flfrd1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.90.129]) by honk.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA04297; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:15:10 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:15:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Marty Poulin X-Sender: mpoulin@spectre To: Gcgoring@aol.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie UNIX User In-Reply-To: <6854938f.25197983@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Gail, Your best bet to get started is to read the FreeBSD Handbook, located at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ There is an excellent chapter on installing FreeBSD (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html) which should give you all the information you need. Good luck, and let us know how it went! M. On Tue, 21 Sep 1999 Gcgoring@aol.com wrote: > Hi, > > I am attempting to learn UNIX and Perl scripting. > Currently, I am not certain as how to download UNIX from www.freebsd.org. > There are many files listed, am I to download each file to my PC? > > Also, after I get UNIX installed on my PC, will I be able to practice Perl on > UNIX? > > Gail Goring > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message