Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:08:33 -0600 From: "WolfRyder" <wolfryder@qwest.net> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: From newbie to newbie: Observations... Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20030219185139.00a865f0@pop.omah.uswest.net> In-Reply-To: <F211B3d0oMCeV9fzG8j00005162@hotmail.com>
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At 06:07 PM 2/19/03 +0100, Henrik W Lund wrote: >Hi, my name is Henrik and I'm a FreeBSD newbie. Hey Henrik! I'm also a FreeBSD newbie and will probably consider myself one for a very long time to come! My experiences are in stereo as I am setting up 2 boxes at the same time. One is for work and the other is mine. They both are/will be webserver/database servers when I'm done with them. (or else they'll be piles of rubbish cause I have a sledge hammer around here somewhere ;-) ) Reinstalls...LOL! On 1 machine I've reinstalled 4 times, on the other 3 times. I kept messing up the makeworld/installworld part by not understanding mergemaster on mine. The server for my job had a problem with the hard drive that finally required me to zero it out, then the 3rd install/setup went beautifully. I also, thanks to this wonderful list, learned how to do backups to the zip drive (yeah!!) so anything I change in the /etc, /www, user/var or anywhere else can be safely backed up before I mess with anything else. What's really cool is actually remembering what commands are needed to do tasks like starting/stopping apache, editing configs and firewall files, making backup kernel configs, updating ports, restarting services and all sorts of things :-) I work with the command prompt because 1)I think that's the way most production UNIX machines are run, less memory-intensive that way and 2)these computers are strictly servers, not for desktop and don't need a graphical interface. That joy I'm saving for this machine (an NT) and I'll get around to converting when I feel more comfortable messing with FreeBSD :-) Ya'll Rock! Carol who goes back to setting up her server. The other is up and running and needs a little fine-tuning, but it works. Yeah! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the messagehome | help
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