Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 21:50:08 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: It's alive! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10110312136250.4949-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <004101c161ef$a12e03f0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Not sure which list to send to, since this is both a newbie story and a few > questions, so I'll try both. > > Anyway, I bought a little PC to set up my first FreeBSD system (the first that I > actually _own_, that is), and to my pleasant surprise, it was pretty easy to > install. I just booted directly from the Wind River distribution CDs I bought > (for about $30), followed the online instructions at freebsd.org while walking > through the installation, and lo! the machine came up under FreeBSD! It was > actually somewhat faster and simpler than Windows NT, although the installation > of UNIX is far, far geekier (but as a geek this is not an obstacle for me). > > Now that I have the machine up and running, I have several tasks next on my list > (in no particular order): > > 1. Install a POP3 server of some kind (qpopper, because I've used it before, > probably). > 2. Install Apache so that I can run a prototype Web site. > 3. Get X Windows to run from my Windows machine. > 4. Try to get PPTP working so that I can get direct Net access from the UNIX > box. > 5. Check video and network card support. > > With respect to (1) and (3), I installed qpopper from the CD using > /stand/sysinstall, but I don't see any kind of daemon running for it after the boot. For installed packages (or ports), try pkg_info -L /var/db/pkg/<portname> to see what it installed, including documentation. I haven't run qpopper for a while; my pop3 server uses an entry in inetd.conf to run. Ditto for the "core" set of XFree86 stuff. Do I need to to other things > to start such components besides running sysinstall? > > With respect to (2), I can't find Apache on the distribution CD; anyone know > where I can find it on the CD set (if it is there)? It's in packages/www/apache; if the CD-ROM is mounted, you can find it with the command find /cdrom -name "apache*" which will give you three results: /cdrom/packages/All/apache-1.3.20.tgz /cdrom/packages/Latest/apache.tgz /cdrom/packages/www/apache-1.3.20.tgz > Anyway, overall, this looks like great fun. Actually it is. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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