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#! rnews 2728 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbastard.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.be.com!news1.crl.com!nntp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP! Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 17:38:24 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 35 Message-ID: <33430A10.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> References: <333e8ac1.64687754@news.hal-pc.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: mwfurn@hal-pc.org Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38406 mwfurn@hal-pc.org wrote: > I know I asked alotta ignorant questions and made a moron outta myself > posting this message but I did it to get some help and again I would > appreciate any help. Thanks in advance. Hmmmmm. It's quite easy to extrapolate from your first set of questions the fact that there are actually *many* questions underlying this first set, and to truly arrive at the real answer we must first ask the real question, that probably being best summed up as: "How do I work this crazy thing??" Unfortunately, that's a much broader question and we'd all wear our fingers off in explaining even a quarter of it here (plus we'd annoy everyone else in the group who didn't really want a complete UNIX tutorial so much as a specific question answered). You need a book, or better yet, several books! Understanding why, for example, floppies need to be mounted is a good subject for looking up in a UNIX book. So is the care and feeding of network connections, how to use FTP, so on and so forth. There are many good ones listed in the FreeBSD Handbook, online at http://www.freebsd.org or on your system at file:/usr/share/doc/handbook if you loaded the "doc" distribution. If you did and you have a CD distribution of FreeBSD, you should be able to run /stand/sysinstall and go to the Documentation menu in order to read the Handbook and FAQ documents (it will load a text browser for you if you don't have it and then point itself at the local files). Unlike Windows, UNIX is still not for the faint of heart, however. It may be better in this regard someday, and many of us are still working on it, but if you're still at the "where do I put the phone number?" stage in configuring PPP/SLIP equipment, you might actually be better served by one of the commercial alternatives (I pains me to say it, but it's true). -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.