From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 1 14:57:03 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECC9B16A4DB for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 14:57:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 895B243D1D for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 14:57:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j11EutP03937; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 09:56:55 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200502011456.j11EutP03937@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: Molerdraper@aol.com Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 09:56:55 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <1a1.2e1f5fdc.2f30abc3@aol.com> from "Molerdraper@aol.com" at Feb 01, 2005 04:54:11 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do i get freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 14:57:04 -0000 > > hi my name is mark I'm new to freebsd.i was wanting to know how, i can get > it or which one i should get. if some one could help me that would be cool > thanks. The first thing to do is to read the handbook - freely available from the FreeBSD web site: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html There are more than USA English versions there too. Then get one [or more] of the good books on FreeBSD such as "FreeBSD Unleashed" or "The Complete FreeBSD" or some others and use it [them] as a guide to installing and configuring your machine. Of course, you will need to decide for yourself how you plan to use the machine and how to divide your disk and which ports to install, etc. The handbook and those printed books all have discussions of those issues - and take somewhat different attitudes toward them as well. The handbook and the books all have complete information on how to obtain FreeBSD - either by buying a pre-burned CD or by downloading an ISO and burning your own CD. There are lots of posts in the mailing list archives and FAQs and online publication articles such as from onlamp.com on the subjects too. They are good about describing people's experiences with various aspects of installing, managing and using FreeBSD. ////jerry > > mark moler > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"