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From: Joshua Fielden <shaggy@houseofduck.dyn.ml.org>
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I started out being a whiz on Mac and PC, and thinking I knew my way around a UN
IX box decently as a user. Boy, was I proved wrong quickly! :-) I got a book cal
led "UNIX Unleashed" by SAMSnet, and it has been invaluable. It's not nearly as 
in-depth as any of the O'Reilly books, but it at least skims on just about *ever
ything.* BSD v SysV methods of doing things, too. It's about 1800-200 pages, abo
ut $50, and is the only book I've *needed* to own so far, though I want about $3
k worth from Ora. :-)

JF


On 21-Jul-97 Scott Brown wrote:
>Okay, I figured out how to install 2.2.2, it's up and running and not
>doing a lot just yet.
>
>I'm feeling kind of lost.  I'm pretty much a Unix newbie to begin with,
>and the available documentation is either non-tutorial (man pages) or
>kind of not really terribly helpful for a novice (handbook).  I
>generally have a good idea of what I want to do, but no clear idea of
>how to get there.  A sampling of the questions/problems I've had so far:
>
>How can I login as root from a remote location?
>How do I partition and format a 2nd hard disk?
>Is there an easy way to create a new account?
>Can FreeBSD support my old Thomas-Conrad 5045 Ethernet adapter?
>How do I get Apache running, since sysinstall can't find it?
>
>If anyone knows of a good way to start learning this stuff, I'd like to
>hear it.  I'd love to get my hands on something like a big, heavy,
>1000-plus-page Unix system administrator's guidebook, if anyone cares to
>recommend a title.  "Unix for Dummies" I can do without.  :)
>
>Thanks,
>
>-Scott
>

-- Joshua Fielden, shag@concentric.net
SCSI is *not* magic. There are many technical 
reasons why it's occasionally nessicary to 
sacrifice a small goat to your SCSI chain.