Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 15:17:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Haikal Saadh <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com> To: Brian Raynes <brian_raynes@dnr.state.ak.us>, Delmonik Contee <delmonik_contee@hotmail.com>, freebsd newbies <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Hello Message-ID: <20010521221737.68046.qmail@web11806.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3B0423A5.FD1CEA82@dnr.state.ak.us>
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While we're at it, I'd like to point out what I consider a highly undermentioned resource: /usr/local/share/examples After weeks of mucking around trying to get ppp working, I just copied the sample one (/usr/local/share/examples/ppp.conf.sample, I think,) to /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, and it automagically worked! Ditto cvsup and it's supfiles. --- Brian Raynes <brian_raynes@dnr.state.ak.us> wrote: > Delmonik Contee wrote: > > > > Hello, > > I am extremely interested in educating myself > on the > > configuration and utilization of FreeBSD. I was > wondering if I could > > get some information on good beginners material. > > Start with the free documentation. The freebsd.org > website has links > to the Freebsd Handbook and some other good docs > that are newbie > specific. These contain some basic UNIX material > that will be > applicable with FreeBSD or other UNIX operating > systems. > > For more generic UNIX stuff that will apply to > actually using FreeBSD, > check out O'Reilly books. Another book that's good > is UNIX System > Administration by Evi Nemeth and others. It gets > lots of good > recommendations and I can say that it's been very > informative to me, > as a newbie. > > Special mention should go to Greg Lehey's "The > Complete FreeBSD". It > was last updated for the 3.x release branch, but is > still quite > applicable. The author is pretty active on the > freebsd-questions list > and many people can provide help where the 4.x > branch differs from the > 3.x branch. As a newbie, using Greg's book, I got > hung up on some > simple things that were due to these differences, > but was able to find > answers in the mailing list archives and the > Handbook. > > The handbook had some extensive updates done last > year that greatly > improved it's helpfulness to me. If you're feeling > like starting > cheap before shelling out bucks for books, start > with those free docs, > they're free but you get much more than you pay for! > > >I have a PC with > > Windows 2000 professional and was wondering if it > would be possible > > for me to set up a dual boot with FreeBSD 4.2. > > I can't help you specifically there, but there are > other docs that > cover sharing freebsd with other operating systems. > I'm not sure if > Win2K is covered there yet, but if not, I suspect > that the NT stuff > might apply. And I'm positive there will be similar > questions in the > archives of the freebsd-questions mailing list, > since the desire to > dual boot with Windows is very, very common. > > Good luck. As a newbie that has been lurking here > for some time, I > can tell you that a little reading of the available > docs, plus reading > Greg Lehey's regularly posted message regarding > asking good questions > on freebsd-questions, will go a long ways toward > getting help from > what I have found to be a very knowledgeable and > helpful group (when > treated nicely). > > Brian Raynes > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of > the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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