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Huy wrote:

>Anyone have any book recommendations for a concise tutorial of installing &
>getting freebsd up and running from scratch?  I am just finding the online
>material slightly terse for me without any prior Unix experience.
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I bought and read and still refer back to Absolute BSD. It's one of the 
finer *BSD books I've read. It's helped (still) me with a lot of things 
I usually have problems with.

Michael

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