Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 12:37:49 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Brad Smith Site <bradsmithsite@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: For the Newbies Message-ID: <3F60C2F2-ADC5-4565-AA19-0A3DF6388DBC@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <000001c8b45f$cf15bbe0$6d4133a0$@com> References: <000001c8b45f$cf15bbe0$6d4133a0$@com>
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On May 12, 2008, at 11:41 AM, Brad Smith Site wrote: > Hello. Shouldn't you have a newbie section on the WWW? I have no > idea what > is going on. Why, yes: http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html > Please can you let me know what these files that I downloaded > actually are? > > . 7.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso > > o Boot only? Does it download files from the Internet to install > the OS? > Does it allow you to repair an installation? Why is it available for > download? I have the entire 7.0 release 32-bit and would like to > know what > this file does. > > . 7.0-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso > > o What does "livefs" stand for (Live File System? What?)? What > does this > disc do? Documented here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html > Last thing, what languages does FreeBSD support? I have a specific > way of > organising my software and like to know what languages the system > supports. % locale -a | wc -l 152 ...but the handbook and other documentation has not been translated as widely. The major languages supported are visible under http://www.freebsd.org/doc/ -- -Chuck
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