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From: ddodds@ix.netcom.com (Don Dodds)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Where to get bsd CDs?
Date: 11 Aug 1995 03:52:15 GMT
Organization: Netcom
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Message-ID: <40ek5f$5uc@ixnews7.ix.netcom.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-aus3-19.ix.netcom.com
I'm currently running FreeBSD 2.0.5R from a CDROM sold by Walnut Creek.
Their phone number is 800-786-9907. These guys gave me excellent
service. I called about 3:30PM (PDT) and asked them to ship the CD
overnight and I had it the next day as promised. The price is $39.95
(and worth every penny).
As for documentation, O'Reilly and Associates publishes five manuals
for BSD 4.4 (on which FreeBSD 2.x is based).
The five volume set: ISBN 1-56592-082-1
System Managers Manual ISBN 1-56592-080-5
Users Reference Manual ISBN 1-56592-075-9
Users Supplementary Documents ISBN 1-56592-076-7
Programmers Reference Manual ISBN 1-56592-078-3
Programmers Supplementary Documents ISBN 1-56592-079-1
These manuals include all the normal manual pages as well as lots of
other interesting articles and papers.