From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 5 20:39:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fellspt.charm.net (fellspt.charm.net [199.0.70.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C60A314D83 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:39:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dutch@charm.net) Received: from charm.net (coretel-078.charm.net [209.143.116.78]) by fellspt.charm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA05112; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 23:39:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <37817A5A.BD1E269B@charm.net> Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 23:39:06 -0400 From: Dutch Collins X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jorge Biquez Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: trying to learn more need advice... References: <3.0.6.32.19990705221249.008ec930@intranet.com.mx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jorge Biquez wrote: > > Hello all. > > I'm sorry if this sounds too stupid. :) > > I'm newbie to FreeBSD and have been learning from all your comments and > also on the manual and the website. As ISP my only machine running Freebsd > is the fast (even when they do not accept it) even compared with soem > double processor ones runnit NT and the "Powerful" Macs...anyway, new to > Unix and Freebsd I have solved the hard way my problems. > I Just was wondering if you know a books that explains the philosophy of > FreeBsd. I mean, how it works, the process of booting, what files check > first, how to handle the paths, how handles security, files, configuration > files, priority on runnning task,etc. > Maybe for all of you could sound very stupid but for people like me that > are new to this and want to learn even the basic task became a pain (Today > I learn how to delete a subdirectory with all the files). I was thinking if > there is a book or resource on the web (beside the Freebsd site) that > explains the basic, very basic, things about this great OS, something that > show you the basic commands to survive. > > Thanks a lot for all your comments. > No, no, no. I get to ask the st&**d questions first. Seriously, try anything on this page. http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html -d -- +------------------------------------------------------+ | If you want to make god laugh - tell him your plans. | | Kim Basinger | | Voice Line: 410.922.5805 | +------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message