From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 20 07:52:19 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 972331065671 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:52:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from donald@mlansd.com) Received: from spanky.mlansd.com (spanky.mlansd.com [204.16.175.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B3F48FC19 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:52:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from donald@mlansd.com) Received: from DsFreakinblacctop (cpe-66-75-54-118.san.res.rr.com [66.75.54.118]) by spanky.mlansd.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D56429B01C for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:32:01 -0700 (PDT) From: "Donald Laniohan" To: Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:32:08 -0800 Message-ID: <000001c88a5c$82d01b40$887051c0$@com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: AciKXIDQ7ZvfdgjQRiGe8TiFhnGzpg== Content-Language: en-us Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:52:19 -0000 My task is to build a BSD server and do something with it. That is all the information he gave me, that, and any questions I have to make Google my best friend, which I have. i remember building my first whitebox, it was a 386 with windows 3.1. I remember when I built my 486 and stole a copy of windows 95. I thought I was a savage. BSD, however, has showed me how juvenile I have been. If I do not master BSD my brother is going to keep me as a desktop support for his windows clients and I want to progress past this. So he's giving me a 1u, and said to put BSD on it and make it do something, im just so stuck in my windows comfort zone I can't think of what I would need a unix server to that I couldn't make windows do for me. I know this is trivial but if somebody could offer any suggestion or resource I, and my career, would greatly appreciate it Donald Laniohan MLAN Consulting San Diego, CA donald@mlansd.com