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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Crash-course direction
Date: 5 Oct 1996 19:45:16 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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To: chroma@together.net (Scott I. Remick)

chroma@together.net (Scott I. Remick) wrote:

> ...  What I need are some good crash-course guides
> to help someone with a very large amount of computer knowledge, but
> limited knowledge in Unix.  I'm willing to burn plenty of midnight
> oil, but I need some step-by-step handholding to get things at least
> up and running first.

I think Greg Lehey's ``Installing and Running FreeBSD'' might be
suited well for you.  Walnut Creek CDROM sells it together with all
the FreeBSD release CDs, or separately.  It should get you up and
running up to a point where you can dig further by reading man pages.

> Please respond via email to

[Cc sent.]
-- 
cheers, J"org

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