From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 31 21:57:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90C1237B408; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 21:57:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA05069; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 21:50:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 21:50:08 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: It's alive! In-Reply-To: <004101c161ef$a12e03f0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ 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