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Date:      Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:27:43 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        MaryAnne Olsen <wolsen@erols.com>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Book Recommendations
Message-ID:  <20040612065743.GF28581@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <001c01c444c0$e89bc9f0$c893a4d8@RxQUILTER>
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On Friday, 28 May 2004 at 10:34:38 -0400, MaryAnne Olsen wrote:
> On  Thursday, May 27, 2004 7:48 AM, Pavel Duda wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I also used The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey.  I bellieve he has a
> newer book out.  mine was from Walnut Creek CDROM Books with 4
> CDROMS.  A real oldie.

Indeed, the Walnut Creek version is five years old now.  O'Reilly has
published the new edition (see
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cfreebsd/desc.html), but for some
reason the news hasn't got out there very well.

Greg
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