Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 09:28:39 +0000 From: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: Frank Griffith <frankg@idfw.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beginning Level User needs help Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980111092839.007c0100@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <01BD1E7E.82B2A420@dal37-16.ppp.iadfw.net>
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At 10:48 1/11/98 -0600, Frank Griffith wrote: >Can someone tell me where I can find some very basic things >like how to get the modem back on line after the FTP install >session has hung up? Other more complex but beginning stuff >would be helpful. Try http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.html and http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ.html to start with. These may also be part of your distribution and might be found in /usr/share/doc. Subscribe to this list. Every so often you will read some little nugget of information that is priceless. People just like you are trying to do the same things. Also, go buy the Complete FreeBSD. It is worth it. It is especially nice in that it tells you things of which no beginner would even think. Any book by O'reilly and Associates is extremely useful. I myself am saving up for "The Essential System Administrator" by ORA. Also, the BSD adminstrators guide and programmers guide will eventually become useful to you. >exposure to Unix. And the docs I found to date on FreeBSD >have been a little over my head at the level I am currently at >with the OS. Don't be discouraged! Unix has a steep learning curve. Man pages are sometimes terse. There are so many things that you will want to do with FreeBSD. Often it is best to find a resource specifically for that subject. Lets say you wanted to learn how to use 'sendmail' as a mail system for your office. The best resource for this specific task would be a book on sendmail. Good luck, Jason Wells
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