From owner-freebsd-doc Thu May 23 05:10:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA07088 for doc-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 05:10:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from platon.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (dns1.rhbnc.ac.uk [134.219.44.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA07072 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 05:10:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from platon (platon.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk [134.219.96.1]) by platon.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA27471 ; Thu, 23 May 1996 13:11:58 +0100 Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 13:11:58 +0100 (BST) From: " Stephen P. Butler" X-Sender: stephen@platon To: "Chris K. Skinner" cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 Documentation and Installation of "Everything" to 2.1 Gig drive. In-Reply-To: <1692.832788738@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-doc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 22 May 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > 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 set--do they go out of date too quickly to be worth the 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. Could this be the 4.4BSD manuals from O'Reilly? 1) User's Reference Manual. 2) Programmer's Reference Manual. 3) System Administrator's Manual. 4) User's Supplementary Documentation. 5) Programmer's Supplementary Guide. I guess the CD would be the O'Reilly 4.4-lite CD ROM. I think they're pretty good reference books but not necessarily good beginners books. I suspect someone else will be able to give you a much better opinion on this though. I would imagine there would be no need to get the 4.4-lite CD ROM since more recent versions of this stuff are already on the FreeBSD CD ROM. Again, I expect someone may be better able to confirm this. For more information, try pointing your web browser at: http://www.ora.com/www/catalog/prdindex.html The 4.4BSD manuals are at the top of the page. Also, try looking at: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/bibliography.html for more book suggestions. Hope you find the above useful. Regards, Stephen. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- |Stephen Butler |stephen@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk | |Computer Science Undergraduate. | | |Royal Holloway, University of London.| | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------