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From: caedmon@pine.circa.ufl.edu (Richard Omer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: All these calendar files (Just the FAQ's, Mam)
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Date: 5 Apr 93 02:41:13 GMT
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Please forgive my ignorance, but my UNIX experience is meager:
1) Do I really need all these files of timezone stuff? I just installed
the BIN01 distribution on a "spare" ST157N scsi drive (49 Meg, 28ms)
and I want to have the bare essential of 386BSD while I get to know
it.
2) What is the correct and safe shutdown procedure? When I typed
'shutdown now' there was still a shell prompt. Is this right.
3) How do I create a userid and password for myself. (Ok, I have
a bunch of UNIX books on the shelf, but hey, if your'e going to
write up a FAQ this should be at the top)
4) I have an ethernet card (WD8003) that 386BSD recognized. The
other computer attached is a 286 running MS-DOS/Windows 3.1. I
would like these two machines to talk over the ethernet. The
MS-DOS machine runs 10NET release 5.0 (which is a peer-to-peer
NETBUEI NOS). What are the chances of running a TCP/IP NETBIOS
stack to the 386BSD machine? What software do I need (free?)?
Actually, I have been poking around with XENIX on a Tandy-6000,
Coherent (both 286 and 386) and an account on one of the U of F's
Sun Sparc stations. All I know about UNIX is that it sure as
heck isn't very intuitive!
Thanks,
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