Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 23:50:23 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Frank Griffith <frankg@idfw.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Beginning Level User needs help Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980111234651.8710A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <01BD1E7E.82B2A420@dal37-16.ppp.iadfw.net>
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On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Frank Griffith wrote: > I just got FreeBSD running on a 486 system and like what > I see so far with it. So I want to hack with it over the next > few weeks, but find it difficult to do anything with it other > than get it installed, create a few users and start logging > in, send & receiving mail and just looking over the file system > and man pages. > > I should add here that I am a LAN Admin for a large financial > firm and work a great deal with Novell NetWare, Windows NT, > Windows 95 networks and workstations, but haven't had much > exposure to Unix. And the docs I found to date on FreeBSD > have been a little over my head at the level I am currently at > with the OS. > > Can someone tell me where I can find some very basic things > like how to get the modem back on line after the FTP install > session has hung up? Other more complex but beginning stuff > would be helpful. I think you would find the book by Evi Nemeth et.al., Unix System Administration (2nd edition), very good, from basic explanations to sophisticated issues of the type you have been dealing with on other operating systems. Annelise
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