Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 19:52:25 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: "John D. Morrison" <jdm1intx@airmail.net> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Help on installing version 2.0 and ordering the FreeBSD book Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970209193543.10464A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> In-Reply-To: <01BC1678.FD719FE0@fw2-25.ppp.iadfw.net>
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On Sun, 9 Feb 1997, John D. Morrison wrote:
> I'm reluctantly sending this message because I know I'm going to get a lot
> of flack, but I'm at a dead end, so I have no choice.
>
> I bought a FreeBSD 2.0 CD at a Pro Tech bookstore here in Irving, TX. I
Wow! There was a posting here asking for ancient CDs. I think soon you'll
be able to sell it to museums :-)
> installed it on a 486dx-33 with a genuine intel cpu and 4 megs of ram. The
> hard drive is a 1.2 gig EIDE which is partitioned into 340 megs for DOS,
> and the rest for FreeBSD. The installation was tricky, but I got it done.
> I created a new user account for myself, added it to the wheel group, and
> everything seemed to be just ducky.
>
> Then I started trying to do other system admin type stuff, using vi to
> create textfiles, etc.
>
> The problem I'm running into is that it won't let me see any of the config
> scripts that are in my home directory (home/john), unless I log in as root.
> I'm talking about .cshrc, .profile, etc.
Did you try
ls -a
By default ls for anyone but root will not show files that start with a
dot. The -a (for "all") tells it to show them.
>
[snip]
>
> Another problem is the obvious differences between 2.0 and later versions.
> The FAQs that came with my CD make no mention of how to change your system
> startup configuration, specifically how to use a different terminal spec
> than the default. I can change the TERM environment variable temporarily
> with env, but I can't figure out where to change it permanently. The FAQ's
> on your web site mention a system.config file that is supposed to be in
> /etc, but I can't find it. How and where do I change TERM and TERMCAP and
> some of the other environment variables for startup?
You usually modify those in a user's .cshrc, .login and .profile files
(depending on the shell you use and the variables you want to set).
System level configuration is in /etc/csh.login and /etc/csh.cshrc for
(t)csh and /etc/profile for (ba)sh. man your shell for details.
>
> Lastly, I was going to order your book on FreeBSD, but when I clicked to
> the order on-line screen, there was no place to select a book. Just 6
> different listboxes with a bunch of different CD's in them. Where do I
> order the actual book?
WC has a package deal for the CD and the book. Look at http://www.cdrom.com.
>
> Now, I know what you're going to say. I should order the latest version of
> FreeBSD and upgrade and so on. And I'm sure I will once I get to the point
> where I'm really ready to do something with it. It's just that I spent so
> much time on setting this system up, I really hate to take a chance on
> screwing it up and having to start all over from scratch. It was not easy
> getting this puppy to run. Besides, the latest version of FreeBSD won't
> really run too well in 4 megs, I understand.
FreeBSD 2.1.6R runs in 4MB. I don't think anything runs *well* in 4 megs
these days. Memory is *very* cheap. If you are thinking seriously about
actually using FreeBSD, not just installing it - upgrade.
>
> I'll stop rambling now.
>
> John Morrison
> jdm1intx@airmail.net
>
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Nadav
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