From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 11 9:44:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from galaxy.anchoragerescue.org (cable-95-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F64237B415 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:44:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by galaxy.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix, from userid 0) id D542B8C04; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:44:45 -0800 (AKDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech To: zetatronic@clara.co.uk, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can you recommend some books, please? Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:44:45 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20010911164445.D542B8C04@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 11 September 2001 01:04 am, Andrew Kendall wrote: > Dear FreeBSD experts, > > I seek your help in all earnestness. > > This is my very first request for help after deciding to use FreeBSD. I > have spent a great deal of time installing and re-installing it, making > a certain amount of progress, but coming up against problems which I > simply cannot get past because of my lack of experience with UNIX in > general and FreeBSD in particular. My efforts to find answers on the > Net are proving fruitless, and I am disappointed by the lack of > information in certain areas. > > Much of the documentation is helpful, but what I am really looking for > is a good book which presents an overview of the structure of UNIX / > FreeBSD, outlining the multiplicity of components and files. Something > that explains the concepts. Yes, I’ve got the installation notes > along with some system admin stuff, but I need that crucial background. > Something that tells me precisely what files and binaries are necessary, > what they do, and where they are located. > > Preferably, I need a book which is specifically FreeBSD, because I want > to know about all the peculiarities of certain file locations, etc. I > don’t think any old Linux book will do, becuase they are usually > too vague and, again, they focus too much on following the installation > procedure. > > I fell sure you can recommend something worthwhile, which I intend to > digest fully before I embark on any new attempts to install FreeBSD. > > Yours sincerely, > Andrew Kendall The books I recommend are: The Complete FreeBsd - Greg Lehey FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide - Ted Mittelstaedt Both of these are required reading for FreeBSD. Beech -- Micro$oft: "Where can we make you go today?" ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - IT Manager - Instructor - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message