Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 05:19:58 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: " Stephen P. Butler" <stephen@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk> Cc: "Chris K. Skinner" <cskinner@bml.ca>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 Documentation and Installation of "Everything" to 2.1 Gig drive. Message-ID: <3723.832853998@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 May 1996 13:11:58 BST." <Pine.OSF.3.91.960523125913.25673A-100000@platon>
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> 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. I've got all of the above stuff and can confirm that, yes, both the 4.4 Lite doc set and CDROM are primarily reference and hacker fodder. If you're looking for beginner's material, don't even bother looking in that direction. Jordan
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