From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Feb 9 18:34:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from uhura.concentric.net (uhura.concentric.net [206.173.118.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEA7B37B401 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 18:34:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from cliff.concentric.net (cliff.concentric.net [206.173.118.90]) by uhura.concentric.net (8.9.1a/(98/12/15 5.12)) id VAA23327; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 21:34:14 -0500 (EST) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from ts001d45.mer-id.concentric.net (ts001d45.mer-id.concentric.net [206.173.184.57]) by cliff.concentric.net (8.9.1a) id VAA04218; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 21:34:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 17:31:57 -0700 (MST) From: ML Duke To: Brian Astill Cc: Sue Blake , Yong Lim , Rick Hamell , "SILVER, MICHAEL A" , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Function of -newbies In-Reply-To: <01021010304504.02553@PhD_1.testname.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ah. The ever re-occuring topic. Garbage, I say. Personally, if a newbie asks a question and I know the answer -- I answer it, as in the recent: mount /cdrom My Unix _Mentor_, a real pro, gave me the above. Now we are supposed to RTFM, I agree, and while man pages are not _quite_ the greek they used to be, mount /cdrom is still invisible as far as I am concerned. Told my Mentor so, and in a round a bout way, he agreed. But you ask that on questions, and watch for the flame. So where's the harm? Newbies don't jump each other (with a rare exception). Sometimes I ask them (questions) and have found the answers useful. Such as, I've got FBSD on the SCSI, and wincrashcrud on the IDE. Anyone remember how to mount the wd0 partitions? ML Duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message