From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Apr 6 13:56:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7C1E155DA for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 13:56:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.164.76]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990406205551.QXQP5752963.mta2-rme@wocker>; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 08:55:51 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: "Brett G. Castleberry" Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 08:54:09 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Diary - how to guides Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: newbies@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <00d101be7fe1$275b0c00$9821c992@s1o3q0> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990406205551.QXQP5752963.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 5 Apr 99, at 23:54, Brett G. Castleberry wrote: > I found FreeBSD Diary a couple of weeks ago, and was very glad to have > another source of information about FreeBSD. I particularly enjoyed the > article, "Installing FreeBSD on a Windows 95 machine". The "blow-by-blow" > account helped me picture an installation in a way that the instructions > have not. I am a really new "newbie" (learning unix in order to do this > thing). I have decided that the Windows+FreeBSD on one disc, with > partitions and all, adds a layer of complexity and worry that I don't > need, so I've decided to install FreeBSD on a separate 486 (they're cheap > enough these days). Hope to do it between terms here at FSU in May. > Meanwhile, I'm working my way through the FreeBSD Manual. Thanks for > FreeBSD Diary. I want to explore it more when I have the time. And > thanks to all of you old hands for taking the time to fill us in. Good to hear it helps. It is a difficult balance between too much detail and not enough. Cheers. As for old hands, I've only been using FreeBSD for about 10 months. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message