From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 15 07:02:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA16262 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 07:02:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from friko.onet.pl (friko.onet.pl [194.204.188.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA16222 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 07:01:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from potok@friko.onet.pl) Received: from ovita.free.box (rap-cen189.opole.tpnet.pl [194.204.146.189]) by friko.onet.pl (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id PAA06988; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 15:46:18 +0200 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.0 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <34446AE5.CB7845DB@uniserve.com> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 15:49:17 +0200 (CEST) Organization: Ovita Nutricia Poland From: Mariusz Potocki To: Justin Muir Subject: RE: lean mean kernel with sound!! + dumb questions Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 15-Oct-97 Justin Muir wrote: >Hello. I'm a recent ex-DOS junkie who recently installed FreeBSD. This >an overwhelming OS to use after years of DOS, but I do understand the >concept of making a leaner kernel w/o all the unused drivers but I'm >uncertain as to how to accomplish this. Btw - I would also like to >install drivers for my SB16. Any tips or encouragement? One other >thing, how can I see where I am amidst all the directories and files? Or >does that not matter now that I've got a real OS? Look into the handbook. It's described pretty fine. >ps- how do I distinguish between types files etc since I can't seem to >find extensions? try ll If you see something like -rwxr-xr-x you know that you can launch this file as: owner (first x), member of group (second x) anyone(last x). Mariusz "verba volant, scripta manent"