Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 14:19:57 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: cskinner@bml.ca (Chris K. Skinner) Cc: csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu, doc@freebsd.org, support@cdrom.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 Documentation and Installation of "Everything" to 2.1 Gig drive. Message-ID: <2944.832886397@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 May 1996 16:27:12 GMT." <199605231627.MAA20596@host.igs.net>
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> I dunno if this is the same with FreeBSD? If there is > such a thing what is its name? See file(1). > directory I think that if I knew more unix and less > Dos/Windows crap that I could make a program that > could ask the user the following questions See dialog(1) - it lets you write some fairly nice looking shell scripts for doing exactly this kind of thing. Once you have your DNS auto-configuration script working, send it to me and we'll find a way to use it in the global setup tool Gary's writing. :-) > Config template A is a setup for simple 5 node LAN > with tcp/ip. Config template B is for an internet > connection on ethernet where the machine being > configured is the name server for a small domain. See above. :-) Yes, I daresay that a good 90% of what's in /etc could be spat out by editors using template files from /usr/share/misc, or something. It's even been talked about a fair bit. It's just that pesky problem of finding enough bodies which continues to confound us up to now.. :-) > [X issues] > > [trying to be amusing:..] Whaddya press ta get this > thing to go?! You have as part of your X installation a bunch of canned profiles which configure your .xinitrc, .emacs, .Xdefaults, .fvwmrc25-2001-Open_The_Pod_Bay_Doors_Hal and so on files. Once you've got the user into a predicable window manager you can do all kinds of nutty things with their default mouse button bindings and startup applications list. > Where is the database that links the file type header codes > with the installed applications that use these data/document > files? Where is the mechanism for Bleah! Lose the database! I want a fully object-oriented filesystem with properties, like the one you get with OS/2! :-) > It would be nice if the How-to section of the documentation > for Dos users was renamed to ...For Dos and MS-Windows Users > and expanded to answer a bunch of my questions... I await your diffs with bright anticipation.. :-) > Then there is kerberosIV... The directory is there but > no files therein? I understand about the The thing's been moved over to "eBones" > I wanna know what to type into the computer to make it go! I regret to say that "Computers with Dick and Jane" is not yet in print. :-) The best you'll get for now is "Installing & Running FreeBSD", which is a whole lot better than nothing! > When I do a xstart, where do I go from there? A login and > a couple of xterm windows pop up along with an analog clock. You want the desktop distribution of FreeBSD if you need that kind of hand-holding. Yes, believe it or not, there will be one of those coming out in the near future with all kinds of commercial desktop thingies on it. > Can ya recommend any good X-window beginner to "expert- > developer" kinda books? I speak C++! Get the TCL/Tk book, I recommend. Tk will give you the fastest bootstrap into X of any freely available toolkit I know (without sacrificing a lot of power in the process). Jordan
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