From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Feb 12 23:57:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f25.law4.hotmail.com [216.33.149.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7278337B416 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 23:57:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 23:57:21 -0800 Received: from 67.195.251.15 by lw4fd.law4.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 07:57:20 GMT X-Originating-IP: [67.195.251.15] From: "Seamus Roche" To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: [free-bsd newbies]WHOO- HOO! Installed 4.3 on 1st try Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 07:57:20 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Feb 2002 07:57:21.0411 (UTC) FILETIME=[10C43D30:01C1B464] Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org After anticipating installing FreeBSD 4.3 for the last four months I installed on a Compaq P2 333mhz with 64MBRam. On my first try, this past weekend. The book I used was "FreeBSD: An Open Source Operating System for Your PC"by Annelise Anderson. I highly recommend this book to all you other newbies out there. It really rocks. I am only about halfway into it and trying to take it slowly. I am a web developer by day mostly from the Windows ASP side but grew to love UNIX using CVS on Solaris for an ATG Dynamo implementation where I was an HTML coder. I didn't want to use Linux and Windows is too expensive(and I've slowly killed every windows machine I have ever had). I plan to use my new FreeBSD machine as a Unix Workstation where I can learn Perl, Java and UNIX web administration with Apache and PHP. I will definately have questions for this list as I move on. Esp about X, installing Perl stuff and installing a modem so I can dial up(the box can't use the WinModem). So, I just thought I'd share that will all the other newbies. The biggest thing I had going for me before the install was that this was a used receptionists machine and she didn't really use much of it, so It was easy to clean off and scale down. My FreeBSD slice is a tasty 2GB, sandwiched inbetween a Gig of crufty Win98 on either side. Thanks for the bandwidth, Seamus _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message