From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 12 06:58:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1954216A4D0 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 06:58:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B164C43D41 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 06:58:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DCA22BD67 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:57:46 +1000 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C399051FC3; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:27:43 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:27:43 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: MaryAnne Olsen Message-ID: <20040612065743.GF28581@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <000b01c443a2$ba4df290$9e00a8c0@Pestilence> <001c01c444c0$e89bc9f0$c893a4d8@RxQUILTER> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Y/WcH0a6A93yCHGr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001c01c444c0$e89bc9f0$c893a4d8@RxQUILTER> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: Pavel Duda cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Book Recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 06:58:20 -0000 --Y/WcH0a6A93yCHGr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 -- Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --Y/WcH0a6A93yCHGr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAyqlnIubykFB6QiMRAorsAJ4kkbttXgmWcnJrvEFYJ0MmygF6jgCgjQXt W7oq0VH262Qmr5PvI7O09qc= =Lg5T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Y/WcH0a6A93yCHGr--