From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun May 14 15: 9: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.panix.com (mail1.panix.com [166.84.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E4E37B5AB for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 15:08:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomg@mailhost.nrnet.org) Received: from mailhost.nrnet.org (mailhost.nrnet.org [166.84.192.39]) by mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA75830FEA; Sun, 14 May 2000 18:08:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (tomg@localhost) by mailhost.nrnet.org (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id RAA26864; Sun, 14 May 2000 17:36:22 -0400 Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 17:36:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Good To: Doug Young Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the "Pedantic FreeBSD" finally online !!!!! In-Reply-To: <00c001bfbd7b$9f6f93e0$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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