Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-16 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 01:41 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: However, on the web page at http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting , under the heading 4.8 - Multibooting OpenBSD/i386 is Only one of the four primary MBR partitions can be used for booting OpenBSD (i.e., extended partitions

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-15 Thread Bret Busby
On Sun, 3 May 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote: On Sat, 2 May 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: FYI - While

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-15 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote: On Sun, 3 May 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote: On Sat, 2 May 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote: On Sat, 2 May 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: FYI - While many of the fBSD folks will tout there

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 07:01:39AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote: On Sat, 2 May 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Neal Hogan

BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-02 Thread Bret Busby
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Michael Pobega wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:12:35PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Check out the FreeBSD handbook at:  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ It is also available as a pdf which is 1000 pages!  It doesn't cover everything, but it does

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-02 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:32 AM, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Michael Pobega wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:12:35PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Check out the FreeBSD handbook at:  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ It is also available as a

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: FYI - While many of the fBSD folks will tout there ports/package system, I found it to be a pain (especially the upgrade), as did many others. There has recently been some chatter on their general mailing list to overhaul how they

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
Well, the thing about FBSD is that it's users are pretty much all hobbyists, so the length of a manual is a good thing. If Debian had documentation of equal or greater length I can only see that as a strength, not a weakness. If you count folks like Yahoo as hobbyists. Last time I looked,

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-02 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: FYI - While many of the fBSD folks will tout there ports/package system, I found it to be a pain (especially the upgrade), as did many others. There has

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-02 Thread Bret Busby
On Sat, 2 May 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: FYI - While many of the fBSD folks will tout there ports/package system, I found it to be a pain (especially the