From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 28 22:06:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA08178 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 22:06:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA08141 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 22:06:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.05 #1) id 0zYfIT-0002rU-00; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 23:46:37 +0000 Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 23:46:37 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Bill Broderick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What do I do now? Message-ID: <19981028234637.B9657@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <19981028133115.10557.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <19981028133115.10557.qmail@hotmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.12i (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Broderick wrote: > all I can see are a bunch of files and I don't know that much about > unix. Now would be a great time to learn :-) Some people would recommend buying a book, which probably is a good idea, but I think I've learnt a fair bit without a book, I just need to buy a book on C now. Playing around with Unix is a good way to learn about it. (Don't play around when you're root though, it would be too easy to delete something vital. At least not until you've learned a lot about it, even then it's probably only to be root when you really need to be.) > Can I have a description of what files come in the package and what they > do? The hier(7) manpage explains what each directory is for, but not each file. If it's a program and you want to know what is does, read the man page, eg $ man gcc > Does X-windows come in the package. It's in the ports collection. # cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86 # make install That's it, I think. > I have that on my dos drive but I don't know how to get to it from Unix Add lines like these to /etc/fstab: /dev/wd0s1 /dos/c msdos rw 0 0 /dev/wd0s5 /dos/d msdos rw 0 0 /dev/wd0s6 /dos/e msdos rw 0 0 Obviously your disknames may vary, "/dev/wd0s1" means the first harddisk (wd0), first slice (s1). /dos/wd0s5 and ..s6 are DOS extended partitions. > and I can't even read from the floppy drive in Unix. For a DOS floppy, mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt For a Unix floppy, mount /dev/fd0 /mnt Note that you _must not_ remove the floppy while it's mounted, use `umount': umount /mnt The same goes for CDROMs, but the eject button on my CD drive does nothing while it's mounted, nice that, saved me ejecting disks while it was mounted a few times. :-) -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message