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| netnewsnow 2003-03-13, 5:44 pm |
| Reading the manuel that came with freebsd, well, gota say I'm not impressed. Not recommended for beginners, they dont get you into the os fast enough, and bring some advanced topics way too early. | |
| Boulware5 2003-03-16, 9:57 pm |
| Well, try a newer version. FreeBSD 4.7 is the current stable release. version 5.0 is out now too. I also recommend this:
http://www.bookpool.com/.x/mqscgkt9v1/sm/0672324245
Those "teach yourself in 24 hours" books seem to be geared towards newbies. | |
| ruscorp 2003-03-16, 10:26 pm |
| Whatever you do, don't install it on a ThinkPad. Trust me on this.  | |
| netnewsnow 2003-03-17, 7:50 am |
| k boolware5, gona keep that in mind. I just needed a beginners book on the subject, currently on mcse 2000 and just started digging in unix systems. BTW rushcorp, would'nt linux be okay for laptops? Not talking bsd here. | |
| ruscorp 2003-03-17, 9:58 am |
| I put RedHat on my ThinkPad no problem however BSD will screw your HDD. | |
| netnewsnow 2003-03-17, 2:08 pm |
| So you saying I should always repartition and reformat my hd when I put a different version of unix? Though they were all hpfs? | |
| ruscorp 2003-03-17, 2:13 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by netnewsnow
So you saying I should always repartition and reformat my hd when I put a different version of unix? Though they were all hpfs?
HPFS is OS/2 and NT 3.5
Linux uses Ext2/3 and a swap. | |
| netnewsnow 2003-03-17, 2:14 pm |
| thanks for the info, I'm moving away from that beginner level pretty fast  | |
| ruscorp 2003-03-17, 2:18 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by netnewsnow
thanks for the info, I'm moving away from that beginner level pretty fast
I've been using it for 3 years (on and off)and still don't know jack. | |
| mindmesh 2003-04-23, 11:12 am |
| BSD isn't a linux flavor.. Its definately a Unix |
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