From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 23 11:00:01 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA03269 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 11:00:01 -0700 Received: from grendel.csc.smith.edu (grendel.csc.smith.edu [131.229.222.23]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA03257 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 11:00:00 -0700 Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by grendel.csc.smith.edu (8.6.5/8.6.5) id OAA17451 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 14:01:02 -0400 Received: from freefall.cdrom.com (freefall.cdrom.com [192.216.222.4]) by grendel.csc.smith.edu (8.6.5/8.6.5) with ESMTP id WAA12246 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 22:49:06 -0400 Received: from metronet.lib.mi.us (metronet.lib.mi.us [198.111.64.10]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA11082 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 19:47:58 -0700 Received: by metronet.lib.mi.us (8.6.12/2.2) id WAA06259; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 22:46:33 -0400 Message-Id: <199504230246.WAA06259@metronet.lib.mi.us> Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 22:46:33 -0400 To: www@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: Lynx, Version 2.3 BETA X-Personal_name: Stephen L. Cito From: al256@detroit.freenet.org Subject: Seeking brief beginning advice for how to get started with FreeBSD Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I have been trying to find out how to contact a group called Free Software Foundation, because I have been wanting to get started with Unix on my home computer. I program business applications for a living and am considered one of the more technically capable people in my dept. at work, but don't really know how to get started with "straying away" from the ol' DOS and Windows and adding the ability to run an entirely new OS to my (486DX266 Intel, 8Meg, VLB/IDE/420 Meg) system. Can you steer me to a good book that would give me an idea how to get started if I want to add something like FreeBSD to my system? Thank you for your time in reading this!