From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 21 12:00:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA03462 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 12:00:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nicen.icey.com (nicen.icey.com [207.179.52.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA03366 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 11:59:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from skb.icey.com (skb.icey.com [207.179.52.253]) by nicen.icey.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA11970 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 13:23:24 -0600 Message-ID: <33D3B39E.1A3F@icey.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 13:08:14 -0600 From: Scott Brown Reply-To: skb@icey.com Organization: Salt Lake Community College X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Questions, questions... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Okay, I figured out how to install 2.2.2, it's up and running and not doing a lot just yet. I'm feeling kind of lost. I'm pretty much a Unix newbie to begin with, and the available documentation is either non-tutorial (man pages) or kind of not really terribly helpful for a novice (handbook). I generally have a good idea of what I want to do, but no clear idea of how to get there. A sampling of the questions/problems I've had so far: How can I login as root from a remote location? How do I partition and format a 2nd hard disk? Is there an easy way to create a new account? Can FreeBSD support my old Thomas-Conrad 5045 Ethernet adapter? How do I get Apache running, since sysinstall can't find it? If anyone knows of a good way to start learning this stuff, I'd like to hear it. I'd love to get my hands on something like a big, heavy, 1000-plus-page Unix system administrator's guidebook, if anyone cares to recommend a title. "Unix for Dummies" I can do without. :) Thanks, -Scott