From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Aug 4 6:40:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6353937BA86 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 06:40:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from goldtech@worldpost.com) Received: from 209-122-225-181.s181.tnt1.nyw.ny.dialup.rcn.com ([209.122.225.181] helo=beefstew) by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net with smtp (Exim 3.15 #2) id 13Khhk-0006G8-00 for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 04 Aug 2000 09:40:04 -0400 Message-ID: <007901bffe19$8f523470$b5e17ad1@beefstew> From: "leegold" To: Subject: Re: freebsd book Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 09:40:31 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org There's a .edu doc. that helped me install the thing. It gave STEP by STEP instructions: http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs1206/Spring00/Unix-Install.html#UNIX it's for 3.3 but it's clear. there's also how to set up ppp calling out. nothing mystical - just step by step 1.2.3....more useful to me than all the books so far for the install. ----- Original Message ----- From: Joe Warner To: Raymond Law Cc: Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 8:53 AM Subject: Re: freebsd book > I have the Complete FreeBSD and The FreeBSD Handbook (in HTML). Both of > which are very good and I usually make sure to consult these before > posting a question to any of the mailing lists or news groups. I also > have UNIX for Dummies, which I found very helpful for learning the UNIX > basics and UNIX Power Tools by O'Reilly, this is a really great book > that covers a wide range of topics and is a fairly easy read. I happen > to prefer the O'Reilly books. O'Reilly doesn't really have any books > that act as a UNIX do-all or UNIX bible. The closest to this I've seen > is UNIX Power Tools. Most of their books are broken down by topic. > Example: If you're having problems setting up an Apache web server, > Apache, The Definitive Guide by O'Reilly will probably provide a lot of > useful information. If you're just starting out with Perl programming, > Learning Perl by O'Reilly would probably fit the bill. O'Reilly is > expected to write/publish a couple of BSD specific books in the future > but I think it will be a long time before the number of O'Reilly BSD > publications catches up with what they have for Linux. The best > approach I have found to obtaining useful information is not to put all > your eggs in one basket. Typically, I'll eventually resolve a problem > by gleaning some information from my books, man pages, HOWTO files and > responses I get from FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org and the news group > comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc I recommend that you consult any/all > documentation that you have in your personal library and on your system > before posting to the mailing lists or news groups. > > Cheers > > Joe > > > Raymond Law wrote: > > > I have searched through the internet and found only > > two FreeBSD books. They are Complete FreeBSD and > > FreeBSD Handbook. How would you compare these two > > books? Are there any others? > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. > > http://invites.yahoo.com/ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > -- > > FreeBSD = The Power to Serve > ..Simply put = FreeBSD Rocks! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message