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Broda Dagre - Student  |
Does anyone know of a REALLY good site with UNIX info? Commands, news, kernel updates and millions of other things?
~Broda  _______________ Fact of the day: In New York City, rats bite about 311 people in an average year. However, 1,519 residents are bitten annually by other New Yorkers. |
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DJ Sith - Jedi Council 
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Heh i couldn't say. I've been using the handbook and http://www.defcon1.org.  _______________ My car is made of Nerf. |
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Broda Dagre - Student 
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Ok! I got it working! I made those boot floppies with fdimage.exe and it worked like a charm. However! I am definately gonna need that entire handbook for the install and future setup. Is there a better way to get this info than printing it out? What I mean is...is there a GOOD book out there for freeBSD? From install through admin? Edit: I know about www.freebsdmall.com but what I'm lookin' for is a recommendation. _______________ Fact of the day: In New York City, rats bite about 311 people in an average year. However, 1,519 residents are bitten annually by other New Yorkers. This comment was edited by Broda Dagre on Apr 17 2003 09:19pm. |
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DJ Sith - Jedi Council
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The 4.7 mini ISO is fine. If you're not booting from that cd you'll need to download the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp disk images and put them on diskette with the fdimage utility (its on the CD in the /tools directory). You can get the floppy images here:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.7-RELEASE/floppies/ _______________ My car is made of Nerf. |
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Broda Dagre - Student
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DJ~
I have the following ISO image burned to CD: 4.7-mini.iso However, I can't boot from it. Do I need all of the images from that release that are available from www.freebsd.org ? Or should this be working? Let me know when you can.  _______________ Fact of the day: In New York City, rats bite about 311 people in an average year. However, 1,519 residents are bitten annually by other New Yorkers. |
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DJ Sith - Jedi Council
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You should be able to boot from the freebsd install CD if your system and cd drive support it. If not it's a good idea to copy those kern and msfroot floppy images to some diskettes to be safe.
You should follow the instructions at the FreeBSD handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html. But if you have any questions please bring em to me.
Note: If you're new to UNIX you *will* screw this up at least once. Don't get discouraged though. Keep on truckin'. It's part of the learning process. _______________ My car is made of Nerf. |
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Broda Dagre - Student
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You know what, nvmd.....LoL....I downloaded it anyways. Wish me luck and check in from time to time with me. I might just be drowning and need a line!  _______________ Fact of the day: In New York City, rats bite about 311 people in an average year. However, 1,519 residents are bitten annually by other New Yorkers. |
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Broda Dagre - Student 
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Ok, want to have FreeBSD. However, I absolutely, positively, without a slight hint of doubt, *REFUSE* to pay for it...and then there's the fact that the downloads will take 3 hours minimum.   Any ideas? I hung out at http://www.freebsd.org and really didn't quite catch the whole install process. Seems that they pretty much expect you to already have it on CD. Then there's the thing with the two floppies.......grrrrrr.....Ok, I give up...help! _______________ Fact of the day: In New York City, rats bite about 311 people in an average year. However, 1,519 residents are bitten annually by other New Yorkers. |
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Fizz of Belouve - Student 
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http://www.tuxracer.org
a great game, though not easy. _______________ One of the [url=http://belouve.thejediacademy.net/]Belouve[/url] boys, founder of the mighty FiZZsters Midbie council #20 - Fizz - #1933 - Jan '03 - Aug '04 "Renfield, you idiot!" |
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DJ Sith - Jedi Council
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For those that want to play with a mucho machismo linux distribution I highly reccomend Gentoo http://www.gentoo.org. Linux has always been a boy's toy though. Men use *BSD. _______________ My car is made of Nerf. This comment was edited by DJ Sith on Apr 09 2003 09:29am. |
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Lord Jaws - Student 
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I aggree with Icco _______________ One night, I was lying in my bed, looking up at the stars and I said to myself: "Where the h*** is my ceiling?! |
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Icco - Student 
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I use linux but im realitivly new at it. There is a great forum at http://www.justlinux.com/ _______________ "this is Icco. Icco is old. Icco is lost. Icco is cool, but Icco doesn't know what the meaning of 'macrophageal sex'." - Vaughn /Icco |
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Fizz of Belouve - Student
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i was just wondering, np though, ur welcome
I am very happy with my mandrake 9.1 - it rockZ and its really nice configured - all mime types set and stuff liek that. _______________ One of the Belouve boys, founder of the mighty FiZZsters Midbie council #20 - Fizz - #1933 - Jan '03 - Aug '04 "Renfield, you idiot!" |
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(Jedi)Obi-JK - Student 
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Sup,
Sry my last comment was not directed at fizz for at the person asking the unix questions. Also: www.freebsd.org www.netbsd.org www.openbsd.org All of these sites have good FAQs Handbooks For Newbies Enjoys -Steve (Obi) _______________ Silent Bob (Kevin Smith): You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you. -Steve (Obi) |
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(Jedi)Obi-JK - Student 
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Sup,
Fizz for ur at home Unix experience I would recommend FreeBSD to start it has the most userfriendly install (of the BSD's). U will need to do 3 three things to get ur feet wet. 1. Recompile ur kernel 2. Download and install X windows 2.1 Set up a window manager 3. Play with everything 3.1 check out /etc most system config files are kept thier FreeBSD does not have the driver support u will be used to in Windows or linux. So go to thier website and make sure you check for hardware compability. OS X is based of the FreeBSD 4.4 kernel (i think that is the right version number) So u will notice similiarities between the 2 OS's -Steve (Obi) _______________ Silent Bob (Kevin Smith): You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you. -Steve (Obi) |
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Fizz of Belouve - Student 
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hehe aight.
try to understand sendmail :p _______________ One of the Belouve boys, founder of the mighty FiZZsters Midbie council #20 - Fizz - #1933 - Jan '03 - Aug '04 "Renfield, you idiot!" |
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Broda Dagre - Student
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Well, I am thinking of taking a position as a network administrator that is using an OS X Jaguar server. Since OS X is UNIX based I want to have a stronger feel for it. I've been playing with RedHat Linux for over a year now but I'm not sure if it's enough. I want to work with something at home that will be GOOD practice. _______________ Fact of the day: In New York City, rats bite about 311 people in an average year. However, 1,519 residents are bitten annually by other New Yorkers. |
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Fizz of Belouve - Student
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well, I am into Linux.
I've used redhat, slack and mandrake, staying with mandrake now. And I'm searching a new AIX for my RS/6000. _______________ One of the Belouve boys, founder of the mighty FiZZsters Midbie council #20 - Fizz - #1933 - Jan '03 - Aug '04 "Renfield, you idiot!" |
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DJ Sith - Jedi Council 
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What flavor of UNIX do you refer to, sir? _______________ My car is made of Nerf. |
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cHoSeN oNe - Retired 
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http://www.freebsd.org
http://www.openBSD.org Both are the best Bourne versions of UNIX, most widely used, and free for download. You can find the best books at http://www.oreilly.com for help and more _______________ Get busy living, or get busy dying. This comment was edited by cHoSeN oNe on Apr 04 2003 12:00am. |
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