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FreeBSD Handbook

The FreeBSD Documentation Project

October 1997

Welcome to FreeBSD! This handbook covers the installation and day to day use of FreeBSD Release 2.2.5. This manual is a work in progress and is the work of many individuals. Many sections do not yet exist and some of those that do exist need to be updated. If you are interested in helping with this project, send email to the FreeBSD documentation project mailing list <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.= ORG> The latest version of this document is always available from the FreeBSD World Wide Web server. = It may also be downloaded in plain text, postscript or HTML from the FreeBSD FTP server or one= of the numerous mirror sites. You may also wa= nt to Search the Handbook.

Part 1:
Getting Started

1. Introduction

1.1. FreeBSD in a Nutshell

1.2. A Brief History of FreeBSD

1.3. FreeBSD Project Goals

1.4. The FreeBSD Development Model

1.5. About the Current Release

2. Installing FreeBSD

2.1. Supported Configurations

2.2. Preparing for the Installation<= /DD>

2.3. Installing FreeBSD

2.4. MS-DOS User's Questions and Answers=

3. Unix Basics

3.1. The Online Manual

3.2. GNU Info Files

4. Installing Applications: The Ports co= llection

4.1. Why Have a Ports Collection?

4.2. How Does the Ports Collection Work?=

4.3. Getting a FreeBSD Port

4.5. It Does Not Work?!

4.6. I Want to Make a Port!

4.7. Some Questions and Answers

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Part 2:
System Administration

5. Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel

5.1. Why Build a Custom Kernel?
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5.2. Building and Installing a Custom Ke= rnel

5.3. The Configuration File

5.4. Making Device Nodes

5.5. If Something Goes Wrong

6. Security

6.1. DES, MD5, and Crypt

6.2. S/Key

7. Printing

7.1. What the Spooler Does

7.2. Why You Should Use the Spooler<= /DD>

7.3. Setting Up the Spooling System<= /DD>

7.4. Simple Printer Setup

7.5. Using Printers

7.6. Advanced Printer Setup

7.7. Alternatives to the Standard Spool= er

7.8. Acknowledgments

8. Disk Quotas

8.1. Configuring Your System to Enable= Disk Quotas

8.2. Setting Quota Limits

8.3. Checking Quota Limits and Disk Us= age

8.4. * Quotas over NFS

9. The X Window System

10. PC Hardware compatibility

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10.1. Resources on the Internet

10.2. Sample Configurations

10.3. Core/Processing

10.4. Input/Output Devices

10.5. Storage Devices

11. Localization

11.1. Russian Language (KOI8-R encodin= g)

Part 3:
Network Communications

12. Serial Communications

12.1. Serial Basics

12.2. Terminals

12.3. Dialin Service

12.4. Dialout Service

13. PPP and SLIP

13.1. Setting up User PPP

13.2. Setting up Kernel PPP

13.3. Setting up a SLIP Client

13.4. Setting up a SLIP Server

14. Advanced Networking

14.1. Gateways and Routes

14.2. NFS

14.3. Diskless Operation

14.4. ISDN

15. Electronic Mail

15.1. Basic Information

15.2. Configuration

15.3. FAQ

Part 4:
Advanced topics

16. The Cutting Edge: FreeBSD-current = and FreeBSD-stable

16.1. Staying Current with FreeBSD=

16.2. Staying Stable with FreeBSD<= /DD>

16.3. Synchronizing Source Trees over = the Internet

17. Contributing to FreeBSD

17.1. What Is Needed

17.2. How to Contribute

17.3. Donors Gallery

17.4. Derived Software Contributors

17.5. Additional FreeBSD Contributors<= /A>

17.6. 386BSD Patch Kit Patch Contribut= ors

18. Source Tree Guidelines and Policie= s

18.1. MAINTAINER on Makefiles

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18.2. Contributed Software

18.3. Shared Libraries

19. Adding New Kernel Configuration Op= tions

19.1. What's a Kernel Option,= Anyway?

19.2. Now What Do I Have to Do for it?=

20. Kernel Debugging

20.1. Debugging a Kernel Crash Dump wi= th KGDB

20.2. Post-mortem Analysis of a Dump

20.3. On-line Kernel Debugging Using D= DB

20.4. On-line Kernel Debugging Using R= emote GDB

20.5. Debugging a Console Driver

21. Linux Emulation

21.1. How to Install the Linux Emulato= r

21.2. How to Install Mathematica on Fr= eeBSD

22. FreeBSD Internals

22.1. The FreeBSD Booting Process<= /DD>

22.2. PC Memory Utilization

22.3. DMA: What it Is and How it Works=

Part 5:
Appendices

23. Obtaining FreeBSD

23.1. CD-ROM Publishers

23.2. FTP Sites

23.3. CTM Sites

23.4. CVSup Sites

24. Bibliography

24.1. Books & Magazines Specific t= o FreeBSD

24.2. Users' Guides

24.3. Administrators' Guides

24.4. Programmers' Guides

24.5. Operating System Internals

24.6. Security Reference

24.7. Hardware Reference

24.8. UNIX History

24.9. Magazines and Journals

25. Resources on the Internet

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25.1. Mailing lists

25.2. Usenet newsgroups

25.3. World Wide Web servers

26. FreeBSD Project Staff

26.1. The FreeBSD Core Team

26.2. The FreeBSD Developers

26.3. The FreeBSD Documentation Projec= t

26.4. Who Is Responsible for What<= /DD>

27. PGP keys

27.2. Core Team members

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