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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!agate!usenet From: wkt@cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.announce Subject: Meta-FAQ: Getting information about *BSD Followup-To: poster Date: 22 Apr 1994 14:28:43 -0700 Organization: ADFA, Canberra, Australia Lines: 85 Sender: cgd@agate.berkeley.edu Approved: 386bsd-announce-request@agate.berkeley.edu Message-ID: <metafaq766892597@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: agate.berkeley.edu Summary: Where to get information about BSD Keywords: BSD, problems, need help, where to look Q: I have a problem or need some information about FreeBSD/NetBSD etc. What can I do? A: Follow the steps below. 1. Ask people in your local area to help you, especially if they have the same or a similar setup. 2. Look through the Frequently-Asked Question (FAQ) postings in the newsgroup comp.os.386bsd.announce. If you're having a problem, it's likely other people have had the same problem. If the FAQs have expired, goto the archive site minnie described in point 8 below, to get them. 3. Look through all your local Usenet news in the comp.os.386bsd.* newsgroups. Again, other people may have had the same problem and posted an answer to a newsgroup. 4. Search the Usenet news archive on minnie for relevant postings. Minnie has the last 2 1/2 years of Usenet news on the *BSD flavours. There are two ways to search the archive: - via the WorldWide Web, using the URL http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/ and going into the BSD-news document. - via an archie-like interface by telnetting to minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au, logging in as bsdnews and typing help. 5. Finally, if you haven't found an answer, post a news article in one of the comp.os.386bsd.* newsgroups. Make sure your subject line describes your problem well. Something like `I Need Help with FreeBSD' isn't very descriptive. Make sure you choose a relevant newsgroup. The current comp.os.386bsd.* newsgroups are: comp.os.386bsd.announce: Announcements about *BSD, moderated comp.os.386bsd.apps: Talk about application programs comp.os.386bsd.bugs Talk about bugs in *BSD & applications comp.os.386bsd.development: Talk about *BSD development comp.os.386bsd.questions: Questions about *BSD etc. comp.os.386bsd.misc: Everything else. Probably the questions newsgroup is the most appropriate, unless you think you've hit a bug in an application or the system, in which case use the bugs newsgroup. Q: Are there any ftp sites which archive information about FreeBSD/NetBSD etc? A: Yes, see below. 6. The latest versions of FreeBSD, and information about FreeBSD is kept on freebsd.cdrom.com. This is also mirrored on the following sites: Austria ftp.tu-graz.ac.at:/pub/FreeBSD Finland ftp.funet.fi:/pub/unix/FreeBSD France ftp.ibp.fr:/pub/FreeBSD Germany ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de:/pub/comp/os/bsd/FreeBSD Germany ftp.uni-duisburg.de:/pub/unix/FreeBSD Germany gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de:/pub/FreeBSD Hong Kong ftp.cs.cuhk.hk:/pub/FreeBSD Israel orgchem.weizmann.ac.il:/pub/FreeBSD Netherlands ftp.nl.net:/pub/os/FreeBSD Russia ftp.kiae.su:/FreeBSD UK src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/FreeBSD USA gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/BSD/FreeBSD USA freebsd.uml.edu:/FreeBSD 7. The latest versions of NetBSD, and information about NetBSD is kept on sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu. This is also mirrored on the following sites: France ftp.ibp.fr:/pub/NetBSD France grasp.insa-lyon.fr:/pub/mirrors/NetBSD Germany ftp.uni-muenster.de:/pub/NetBSD Germany info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de:/pub/unix/NetBSD Norway ftp.bsc.no:/pub/Src/bsd/NetBSD-current USA alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu:/netbsd USA col.hp.com:/mirrors/NetBSD USA ftp.cursci.com:/pub/NetBSD USA ftp.digex.net:/pub/os/NetBSD USA ftp.iastate.edu:/pub/netbsd UK src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/NetBSD UK ftp.wonderand.org:/NetBSD 8. An archive of FAQs, Usenet News and other information on the *BSD flavours can be accessed from minnie either with the WorldWide Web, using the URL http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/, or via anonymous ftp to minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au.