Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:59:39 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Complete FreeBSD" available in ps or text format Message-ID: <19990212115903.Q71962@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.05.9902111642100.56624-100000@goodall1.u.washington.edu>; from K. Marsh on Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 05:05:13PM -0800 References: <19990208014326.15731@welearn.com.au> <Pine.A41.4.05.9902111642100.56624-100000@goodall1.u.washington.edu>
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On Thursday, 11 February 1999 at 17:05:13 -0800, K. Marsh wrote:
> Recently on the newbies list, an unauthorized digital version of Greg
> Lehey's "Complete FreeBSD" surfaced. I have a copy of the original
> "Installing and Running" and have been holding out on the "Complete
> FreeBSD" until the new edition comes along. (without man pages)
FWIW, the unauthorized version is now no longer available. Remember,
even downloading it is illegal.
> The existence of this unauthorized file raises two questions:
>
> 1) Does the book come with a CD and text, ps, or HTML versions?
The book comes either with or without a CD set. The first CD includes
an ASCII version of the book. To quote the introduction:
One thing you should note, though: this book is copyright. By
buying the CD-ROM, you have a license to use it for your own
personal use. You may not give it to other people, or use the text
in other documents without the prior written approval of Walnut
Creek CDROM.
> It sure would be nice to have in HTML or text format. You could put it on
> a laptop and take it everywhere you go without violating carry-on or
> luggage restrictions. Also, errata could be fixed with a patch file.
Well, in fact the errata would probably be fixed with a new version.
But that's the reason for the text version: for people who already
have the book, it's convenient to search. Parts of it are *very*
difficult to read. For example, this is what it makes of the diagram
on page 310:
The reference network
_____________________
One of the problems in talking about networks is that there are so many
different kinds of network connection. To simplify things, this book bases on
one of the most frequent environments: a number of computers connected together
by an Ethernet LAN with a single gateway to the Internet. Figure 19-7 shows
the layout of the network to which we will refer in the rest of this book.
freebie presto bumble wait
| | | |
ed0o223.147.37.1o223.147.37.2o223.147.37.3o223.147.37.4
--------+------------+-------+----+------------+--------
|
Local Ethernet ep0o223.147.37.5
Domainsexample.org.0 gw
Router
tun0o139.130.136.133
modem
Connection to network o
223.147.38.0 | PPP link, net 139.130.136.0
modem modem
o o
ppp0o139.130.136.9o139.130.136.129
router
free-gw
ed0o139.130.237.117
--------------------+-------------------+---------------
ISP's Ethernet le0 139.130.237.65 le0 139.130.237.3
Address 139.130.237o0 o|
Domain example.ngateway ns
igw
fddi0 139.130.249.201
to Internet
|
Figure 19-7: Reference network
This diagram is not only illegible, it's missing important
information. For the purpose for which I made it, however, that's not
important.
Greg
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