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Date:      Sat, 6 Aug 2005 09:42:24 -0500
From:      Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
To:        Mitch Graves <mitch_graves@comcast.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FW: Looking to get involved.
Message-ID:  <ef10de9a050806074242e44fb2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <NEBBIDNAPKHJFLINNKIJGEGAFEAA.mitch_graves@comcast.net>
References:  <NEBBIDNAPKHJFLINNKIJGEGAFEAA.mitch_graves@comcast.net>

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On 8/5/05, Mitch Graves <mitch_graves@comcast.net> wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mitch Graves [mailto:mitch_graves@comcast.net]
> Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 6:48 AM
> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Looking to get involved.
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> I am a newbie to freeBSD.
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> In my job I work with Solaris and RedHat Linux.  Occasionally I work on A=
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> and HP-UX servers as well.
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> I have been fascinated with Linux and would like to have a deeper knowled=
ge
> of the OS.  I currently am focusing on the boot process.  Using DOS and
> Windows  I can recover from un unbootable hard drive.  RedHat has some
> utilities as well.  I would like to know step-by-step ( from creating the
> MBR to login) all that is involved in the boot process.=20

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/boot.html

Man pages:
loader.conf
loader
loader.4th
boot
btxld
boot0cfg
device.hints
kenv

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> With all of that said, is there a place I can help and learn at the same
> time?  By the way, I live in Longmont and Work in Louisville.

http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/index.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.ht=
ml



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