From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 14 19:46:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA14292 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 May 1998 19:46:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bigmagic2.bigmagic.com ([207.142.218.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA14286 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 19:46:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from harringtont@sullivanco.com) Received: from bigchief.bigmagic.com (bigchief.bigmagic.com [207.142.218.10]) by bigmagic2.bigmagic.com (NTMail 3.02.13) with ESMTP id ra079785 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 22:33:31 -0400 Message-ID: <355BA9AD.579D0B5F@sullivanco.com> Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 22:34:21 -0400 From: plasma X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: the island of BSD :) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Info: Visit the Internet Cafe On-Line at http://www.bigmagic.com. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would like to start using FreeBSD, I want to rid myself of the Microsoft/Windows realm. I want to start using UNIX, I know some about it but not enough, I do NT admin and I think breath, eat and drink NT no time to learn something new, so I am putting off quitting smoking and am going to learn FreeBSD (from what I hear it is the OS of choice). So I have a T1 connection (generous friends at a cafe) they have an NT network. I want to leanr how to setup my own DNS, sendmail, have a HTTPD server and so on.. I guess my question is before I go an download it, is there anything I need to do, or be aware of, besides making sure my hardware is compatible with the kernel. It pretty over whelming for me being in a sea of unix and seeing the sunny island of FreeBSD off in the distance. Please turn me in the right direction, i.e. books, docs faqs anything.. thanks alot ps would a older (post microchannel) PS2 with on board controller (name unknown) with a 486dx33 and 20megs of ram be sufficent for a nice box? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message