While you are at it, why not try http://www.jibbed.org/download.html ? They have live netbsd images for usb and cd.
regards Joachim On 12/17/15, mike <[email protected]> wrote: > I suggest you to try Frenzy first - a freebsd based livecd, very friendly > and easy to use > > 17.12.2015, 06:02, "Joseph" <[email protected]>: >> Hi, >> >> Here - https://www.marc.info/?l=netbsd-users&m=144678820111821 - I was >> recommended by Herb to first go through the book, 'Learning the UNIX >> Operating System' (O'Reilly). The last, 5th edition (2001) talks about >> someone from the organization will set me up with a UNIX environment - I >> guess that will be you. >> >> Flipping through the table of contents, I guess my best bet would be a >> live system with X (remember, I was recommended 'Learning the UNIX >> Operating System' before myself installing BSD myself). >> >> Flipping through the mailing list archives, there has been requests for >> live systems before, for similar, educational, purposes. I'm not sure >> what's the conclusion now, what NetBSD live system can you honestly >> recommend, if any? Or, alternatively, what FreeBSD live system? OpenBSD? I >> guess switching from the other BSD live system to installing NetBSD core >> might not overly confuse me, so I can manage such a transition. >> >> Alternatively, feel free to recommend perhaps a more up to date book in a >> different style, which was presumably not written in a language to folks >> who 'have to' deal with UNIX, 'in the organization.' (Browsing Amazon >> introduced me to 'The UNIX Hater's Handbook' as well; at least I >> understand this might have been a thing in 1994) I really like No Starch >> Press for geek entertainment, but presumably they don't see a business in >> a general UNIX book. Their similar title, 'How Linux works' (2nd edition, >> 2014), might not be 'UNIX-like' enough for my purposes. >> >> Thanks for your help! >
