From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Aug 22 12:57: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6911837B434 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:56:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA78089; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:52:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:52:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: "Timothy J. Luoma" Cc: freebsd-newbies Subject: Re: So I've installed, now what? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You can read Sue Blake's weekly posting on resources for newbies. You can go to http://www.freebsd.org and find the link listing resources for newbies. This includes a link to my 10-page guide for newusers. The book I wrote for new users is also available from mall.daemonnews.org This includes (in Chapter 4) various stuff you can do from /stand/sysinstall in case you didn't do it as part of installation. Chapters 5-8 are on looking around the system, reading and editing files, finding out what's going on, adding users, and so forth. Chapters 9-11 are on third-party software (packages and ports)-- what's available, packages vs. ports, and how to install software and find it and run it after it's installed. Chapters 12-15 deal with getting your network connections set up, getting sound working, printing, and X Window, the graphical user interface. Chapter 16 is kernel configuration and 17 is updating the system and/or the ports collection. Chapter 18 is miscellaneous (including getting color on your console), 19 is crisis management, and 20 is other resources--good web sites of the types others have mentioned and other stuff--USENET, books, etc. It's called FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your Personal Computer. Annelise On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > > I managed to d/l the ISO file, burn a CD (new CD burner ;-) and install > FreeBSD to dual boot on my Windows 2000 machine (a Dell Inspiron laptop > 7500). > > Yay! > > So now I've got a relly nifty commandline prompt and about 1,000 different > things I'll need to do (configure X, sound?, Ethernet PC cards). > > But where to start? Is there a list somewhere of "What newbies ought to do > after they install" ? (CVSUP? What's that? How do I get myself current > from the 4.3 ISO release?) > > (Yes I know these are -questions but I thought they fall under "helping each > other to learn more on our own, finding and using resources.") > > TjL > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message