From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 27 18:42:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA28851 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 18:42:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nico.telstra.net (nico.telstra.net [139.130.204.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA28844 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 18:42:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by nico.telstra.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id LAA13336; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 11:41:46 +1000 Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id LAA00458; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 11:11:43 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970828111143.59440@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 11:11:43 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: nick Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail References: <1.5.4.32.19970827233419.0067498c@pathway.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970827233419.0067498c@pathway.net>; from nick on Wed, Aug 27, 1997 at 07:34:19PM -0400 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Aug 27, 1997 at 07:34:19PM -0400, nick wrote: > I am a new user and would really Like to learn UNIX. > > Last christmas I bought LINUX and couldn't get it to install. > > NOW I purchased the COMPLETE FREEBSD book and CDs. > I did get it to install came to a DOS looking screen with a dollar sign symbol. > BUT COULDN"T DO A THING.... :( You could have read the book. Start at Chapter 9. If there's anything there which you don't understand, please tell me. > I loaded everything I could from the list and was expecting X-WINDOWS screen > to look like windows... Did you start X? Look at page 100 if you haven't seen it already. > COULD YOU HELP recommend further books, methods of installing, programs, or > something to begin learning FREEBSD .......I really like to learn. Well, CFBSD is the only book currently in English, but there are plenty of Japanese ones :-) Seriously, one reason for the lack of books on FreeBSD is that there are so many UNIX books, and FreeBSD *is* UNIX (no matter what the owners of the trademark say). I think that "UNIX for the Impatient", by Paul Abrahams and Bruce Larson, published by Addison-Wesley, might be a good choice for you. Greg