From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 5 21: 8:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pokey.local.net (arc9-78.arl.netwalk.net [216.69.202.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A78A1539A for ; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 21:08:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmutter@netwalk.com) Received: from insomnia.local.net (insomnia.local.net [192.168.2.3]) by pokey.local.net (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA59525; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 00:08:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jmutter@insomnia.local.net) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 00:12:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@netwalk.com To: Jorge Biquez Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trying to learn more need advice... In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990705221249.008ec930@intranet.com.mx> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey is what you're after. If you can't find it at your local bookstore, you can order it online from http://www.freebsd.org/ or from http://www.freebsdmall.com/ Good luck. On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, 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. : : :To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org :with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message : : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message