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From: jwhalen@panix.com (Joshua Whalen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Newbie Questions
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1995 15:00:55 -0400
Organization: Precipice Multimedia Productions
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Hi, all.
I'm an experienced Macintosh user who will, due to adverse
circumstances beyond my control, be trying to install freeBSD on a IIci
with (I think) about 16 meg ram and a 100 meg hard disk this weekend
(probably), and I'm anticipating difficulty, as I'm not a programmer, and
have only limited experience with UNIX and compilers and the like.
I know a few UNIX gurus that I can call on if things get really
ugly, but I was wondering if there was a particular book or two that I
should pick up and speed-read before setting myself up for an ugly weekend
of hell-work, or if there were some mac-specific online resources I could
reference before getting so deep into it that I'm choking on silicon.
Is there, for example, a "Introduction to UNIX for ignorant
Macintosh weenies who think they know something just because they've
mastered a really nice GUI" sort of a document somewhere? I'm not being
sarcastic, just realistic about my skills relative to what I'm trying to
do. Thanks in advance, and I really appreciate any help you can provide.
Joshua Whalen,
Precipice Multimedia
--
"A reasonable man accepts the conditon of the world he sees around himself, and adapts his wants and desires appropriately. An Unreasonable man seeks to change the world to suit his wants and desires. Therefore, all progress is the work of unreasonable men."---Kung Fu Tsi (AKA Confucious)
"Who says I have to be reasonable?" ---Josh