From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 21 14:23:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA12465 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 14:23:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.DPCSYS.com [209.25.4.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA12456 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 14:23:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id VAA09099; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 21:23:01 GMT Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 14:23:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Scott Brown cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions, questions... In-Reply-To: <33D3B39E.1A3F@icey.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Scott Brown wrote: > How can I login as root from a remote location? Don't. Login as a normal user and su to root when you need to. > How do I partition and format a 2nd hard disk? Use /stand/sysinstall and the partition/label options. man disklabel, newfs. Read the Handbook section on how to do it. > Is there an easy way to create a new account? /usr/sbin/adduser > Can FreeBSD support my old Thomas-Conrad 5045 Ethernet adapter? If it doesn't probe, probably not. > How do I get Apache running, since sysinstall can't find it? If you have net access, ftp the port and/or package from ftp.freebsd.org > 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 Get the 3-5 volume 4.4BSD manual set from O'Reilly. (2 volumes are supplemental documents) Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82