On 12/17/2015 11:01 AM, Joachim Gwoke wrote: > 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! >> >
If you really want to go to the source you can start here. http://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_4.3_BSD_Quasijarus_on_SIMH This installs a 1986 or so version bsd on a simulated microvax and you get to learn a lot of steps that are hidden by todays installers. Reading the source code from these systems is good too. I like to do that when i have the time and i am in the headspace to do so. I have the notorious 'Lions book' somewhere. Of course that is Unix v6 rather than BSD. --- Marina
