Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 11:12:18 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Chris K. Skinner" <cskinner@bml.ca> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG, support@cdrom.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 Documentation and Installation of "Everything" to 2.1 Gig drive. Message-ID: <1692.832788738@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 May 1996 12:22:36 PDT." <199605221622.MAA05481@host.igs.net>
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> The learning curve for me is big because of the following: Yes, I'm afraid we're well aware of some of the steeper parts of UNIX's learning curve. About the best book I can recommend right now is the Evi Nemeth book on Unix system administration - there's a biblio ref for it at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/bibliography.html > 2. The existing sysinstall facility just gets you started and leaves a > bunch of configuration items incomplete: samba, DNS/named > configuration, NFS client/server software, routed, apache, and Yes, that's sort of the pont where we expect the user to "take it from there." Automating this stuff is frankly difficult, and there are only so many hours in the day. :-( We'd like to do more in this area, truly. > For items 1, 2, 3, I bought the BSD Docs Walnut Creek CD-Rom, but it > did not have direct answers to questions like: I'm afraid that the FreeBSD Docs CDROM is *not* a "quick reference CD" so much as it is a raw data dump of stuff you might want to point a more generic search engine at. I'm hoping that the next CDROM will have more to offer the novice and skilled documentation browser alike. > 1. What is the name of each config file and its location? > [list of good documentation questions elided] Good questions all! Now we just need to find someone with the time to fill in all the blanks in understandable english. :-) > I hear that there is a 5 volume set (one with CD Rom(s) and one > without). The cost is US$150 so I was quoted CDN$220 by a > bookstore here in Ottawa. Anybody got any comments about the > set--do they go out of date too quickly to be worth the > money? I'm afraid I've not heard anything about this. > A question for Walnut Creek support: what's the 2nd BSD 2.1 > CD-Rom for; I've looked at it but it seems to have similar stuff > on it as the first one? It's everything unpacked in "live" format - e.g. you can run things directly off of it if you're short on diskspace or running a comparison to see which binaries have changed. Later editions of this will have a full tripwire database for security auditing. Jordan
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