Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 17:36:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Good <tomg@mailhost.nrnet.org> To: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the "Pedantic FreeBSD" finally online !!!!! Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000514173426.26859A-100000@mailhost.nrnet.org> In-Reply-To: <00c001bfbd7b$9f6f93e0$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER>
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On Sun, 14 May 2000, Doug Young wrote: > Ever since I started messing with FreeBSD I've been searching for > newbie-friendly documentation written by someone other than an extremely > experienced expert . > The only things remotely near the level I wanted were the quite good but > dated "Comprehensive Guide to FreeBSD" and the "Pedantic PPP", which was > certainly a lot more explicit than anything else, but didn't help > sufficiently to get ppp working. Bless you mate - I am struggling with getting sendmail and ppp to cooperate w/ one another, and uucp. Glad to have another resource! Thanks much, Tom > When I eventually got to the stage where I could understand enough to do an > installation & get user-ppp /apache / sendmail / caching DNS / etc working , > I figured I should produce my own version of a newbie tutorial, so hopefully > those who experience the same problems as I did in comprehending the > "official" documentation might have somewhere else to turn.Well its finally > online in html form :) http://www.apana.org.au/FreeBSD/FreeBSD_Tutorial/ > > I'd appreciate any constructive criticism, particularly from newbies ..... > hopefully I haven't left out too many of those "trivial but critical > steps"..... something I've criticized document writers generally (not only > the FreeBSD ones either) for doing countless times. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > ------- North Richmond Community Mental Health Center ------- Thomas Good MIS Coordinator Vital Signs: tomg@ { admin | q8 } .nrnet.org Phone: 718-354-5528 Fax: 718-354-5056 /* Member: Computer Professionals For Social Responsibility */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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