Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:08:27 +0530 From: Niranjan CS <niranjan@robosoftin.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: I want to learn UNIX Message-ID: <001b01c12bd8$e41caf60$14dc1090@robosoft>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] hi there, i dont know wether it is appropriate to ask my doubts here.but still i hope to get some help from you people.if you feel i am distrubing you please forgive me once and help me. i am a windows user.but i always wanted to learn UNIX.to be frank i havent seen a machine running UNIX.so i decided to install and learn FreeBSD.but the problem is my knowledge with UNIX is totally ZERO.what i know about UNIX is it is a stable OS.i dont know what it does and how it does.after browsing through the site i am really confused.i want to know from where i can download a free copy of FreeBSD? what to download ? there are so many files and folders in the ftp sites.which folder and files i should download so that i can get the machine up .what are the machine requirments? how to proceed further ? I cant afford to buy those books which are in dollars.so if anyone can tell me where i can get some good documentation it will be very helpfull. with regards Niranjan [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2>hi there,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>i dont know wether it is appropriate to ask my doubts here.but still i hope to get some help from you people.if you feel i am distrubing you please forgive me once and help me.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>i am a windows user.but i always wanted to learn UNIX.to be frank i havent seen a machine running UNIX.so i decided to install and learn FreeBSD.but the problem is my knowledge with UNIX is totally ZERO.what i know about UNIX is it is a stable OS.i dont know what it does and how it does.after browsing through the site i am really confused.i want to know from where i can download a free copy of FreeBSD? what to download ? there are so many files and folders in the ftp sites.which folder and files i should download so that i can get the machine up .what are the machine requirments? how to proceed further ? I cant afford to buy those books which are in dollars.so if anyone can tell me where i can get some good documentation it will be very helpfull.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>with regards</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Niranjan</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> <br>--------------------------------------------------------------<br>Robosoft Technologies, Mangalore, India<br>
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