From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 27 11:16:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bow.portal.net.au (galley.portal.net.au [202.12.71.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48AA814F10 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:16:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jeff.Baker@ACADHOTLINE.net.au) Received: from pc5 ([210.8.138.105]) by bow.portal.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA01709 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 03:43:09 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 03:43:09 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199908271813.DAA01709@bow.portal.net.au> X-Sender: jbaker@portal.net.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Jeff Baker Subject: Re: adopt a newbie program - Thanks Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Many thanks to all for offers of assistance. I'll hang in there (I am making progress slowly). I just wanted to make some comments re ML's post that this unix setup is not easy for a new user, and asking questions is not easy when you have no idea what to ask!. Easy to follow docs are required and would be worth writing buy someone with experience. (Have a look at some of the tech docs done by PC software vendors, for examples of "how to's" ) Almost everything I've found so far (some exceptions) are full of 'jibberish' which is OK to a point, but just because it's there doesn't mean it can be understood. I want / need a server today, not in 2 years time. Particularily a step by step approach for setting up a www server or an intranet server would be great. I'm still not sure why I need to adopt a philosphy to use a technology....but then there's lots I don't understand in the world. Again, thanks for those that emailed with info / help. Can't help thinking about the old days when I did tech support, when a frustrated caller got up out of his chair and walked across the room, as I started to talk him thru running a:setup from his 5-1/4" floppy drive..... I laughed about it, guess I just didn't understand his basic level of understanding. Regards Jeff Newbie (for a while) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message