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From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is there a REAL book for BSD and some of its popular packages ?
Date: 20 Mar 1997 09:32:02 GMT
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Tony <tony@gcr1.com> wrote in <01bc348a$ada47a20$664c1bcc@tony.gcr1.com>...
> The stuff they call DOCs and MANs for BSD or more like a long list of
what
> you 
> DON'T ever want to know about BSD ... anyone sell a REAL book with
usefull
> info
> that will help you get things working and help you understand what is
going
> on !!!!!

Well, if you don't want to know, then don't use it ... ;-)

Seriously: there's "Installing and Running FreeBSD" or something like
that available from WC CDROM.

And then, just repeat after me: This is BSD - _any_ decent book on
Unix system administration will do. I ususally recommend:

	"Unix System Administration Handbook", Evi Nemeth et al.,
	Prentice Hall

Last I heard, the O'Reilley Title on system administration in 
general is fairly good, too.

For networking, get "TCP/IP Network Administration" from O'Reilley
and all the other fine stuff, they sell (DNS, Sendmail etc.)


Patrick