Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 13:53:21 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Ron Dupuis <rdupuis@isis.ebrps.subr.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961208134655.3895B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19961208150453.006de2f4@isis.ebrps.subr.edu>
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On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Ron Dupuis wrote: > I am looking for a complete training manual that I could use to conduct > an independent study of FreeBSD at our high school. At present I have > been able to find such a book for Linux. It is a thoroughly > comprehensive book over 600 pages, such as "Linux Unleased". If you know > of any such complete books to learn FreeBSD, I would appreciate knowing > about them. We use FreeBSD to run our internet servers for our school > system. Our students run the servers and I need books to train the > younger upcoming students. Such a book exists: It is called "The Complete FreeBSD" and is available from Walnut Creek CDROM, mail info@cdrom.com for info. It comes with the most current version of FreeBSD I believe. The Complete FreeBSD is focused mainly on FreeBSD specific topics such as installation, configuration, and so forth, as well as hardcopies of many system manual pages. Most of the setup/configuration/misc. information is largely on line as the FreeBSD Handbook at http://www.freebsd.org under Documentation->Handbook. You would be well advised to pick up an independent system administration manual such as Evi Nemeth's "UNIX System Administration Handbook, 2nd Ed." avaiable from Prentice Hall and good bookstores. Likewise, many of the O'Reilly books are excellent. The Handbook has a bibliography of recommended reading, take a look at it. Finally, much system administration experience comes from practical work. This is what it takes to "learn" FreeBSD and to become a competent system administrator, in my opinion. (I guess I 'overanswered' the question, but I wanted to be complete.) Hope this helps. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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