Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 21:03:55 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Iwan Leonardus <riwanlky@rad.net.id> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: support Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960328205926.1542M-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <315AA4D3.5C82@rad.net.id>
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On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, Iwan Leonardus wrote: > My FreeBSD cdrom just arrived and I have installed it, until now > I have some questions: > > I am new to unix but have experience a SCO quite a little, but never > in BSD. Can you help me to feel at home at this BSD. > > I need a knowledge on the administrational like: > - how to configure a printer, user account, (what is the equivalent for > sysadmsh, and scosh) > - configuring, NFS, network card, TCP/IP, (what is the netconfig > equivalent) > - how to configure PPP dial out to internet provider > - configure web server for CERN map, creating a script for CGI, stuffs > like that > - configure as router for my lan workstation so they can dial out to > internet > - configure X > - and many more I think you want the FreeBSD Handbook, available at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook.html. You may also be interested in the upcoming book "Running FreeBSD" and others mentioned on the booklist. > I wonder if I should learn from email support for all this or maybe I > can read some good books, and what are they? You are in the right spot for email help, I think. Try getting the available list of lists from majordomo@freebsd.org (I don't remember the command; send "help" in the body by itself to get a help listing). The mail archives and the recommended booklist at the above site may be of use to you. > I myself is a DOS c programmer, but DOS is not designed to run several > programs act as server. So when I can feel at home with this OS I hope > I can use it for my developing platform for more commercial applications. > I want to try this becouse they said it is stable. Knowledge of general C is a good start. The recommeded books should help you adjust to the new environment. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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