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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!nntp.uac.net!news.tufts.edu!blanket.mitre.org!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.ida.org!usenet@ida.org From: ganderso@ida.org Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 Documentation and Installation of "Everything" to 2.1 Gig drive. Date: 23 May 1996 13:20:39 GMT Organization: IDA, Alexandria, Virginia Lines: 46 Message-ID: <4o1on7$l0a@news.ida.org> References: <4nvf5s$eu8@nntp.igs.net> Reply-To: ganderso@ida.org NNTP-Posting-Host: ganderson-pc.oed.ida.org X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 In <4nvf5s$eu8@nntp.igs.net>, "Chris K. Skinner" <cskinner@bml.ca> writes: >Dear documenting dudes for freebsd, Well, I'm not one of the 'documenting dudes for FreeBSD', but I might be able to help... >The learning curve for me is big because of the following: ...lots of valid, well-articulated comments and questions deleted... >In an effort to make the learning curve less trial and error, >I've purchased the "Linux Network Administrator's Guide" from >O'Reilly & Assc. I was going to by the "DNS and Bind" book but >it cost nearly $10 more and was less broad in its scope. I've >only just got the thing and so have not read it cover to cover. > >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set--do they go out of date too quickly to be worth the 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'd suggest getting a copy of the 'Unix System Administration Handbook' by Evi, Nemeth, Seabass, et. al., (I may have the title or author list slightly incorrect). The latest version that I have seen has a red cover. Literally everything in the book works on FreeBSD right out of the box. The book has a good description of what happens at boot time, all of the configuration files, how to set up DNS, etc. I really can't say enough good things about it. For more indepth info on networking stuff, get a copy of 'TCP/IP Network Administration' from O'Reilly (again, I may have the title wrong, but if you look in one of their catalogs, I'm sure you can spot the book). >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? Well, I don't work (or speak) for Walnut Creek either, but the second CD is a live, i.e., mountable, file system. Once you get the system installed and running, you can put the second CD in the drive, mount it into your file system, and copy stuff from it. I believe that you can also build some of the binaries from it, but I have not tried this, so I can't say for sure. Hope this helped, -Andy (ganderson@ida.org)