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" The Complete FreeBSD : "
Greg Lehey
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BL
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728455
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b548207
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Greg Lehey
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The Complete FreeBSD : : Documentation from the Source.\ Greg Lehey
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4th ed
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Sebastopol: O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2009
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0596802137
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: 9780596802134
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Things you shouldn't do with Vinum.
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| Contents
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Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; The fourth edition; Conventions used in this book; Acknowledgments; How this book was written; Chapter 1: Introduction; How to use this book; FreeBSD features; Licensing conditions; A little history; Other free UNIX-like operating systems; FreeBSD system documentation; Other documentation on FreeBSD; The FreeBSD community; Mailing lists; The Berkeley daemon; Chapter 2: Before you install; Using old hardware; PC Hardware; How the system detects hardware; Configuring ISA cards; PCMCIA, PC Card and CardBus; Universal Serial Bus; Disks; Disk data layout. Making the file systemsDisk size limitations; Display hardware; The hardware; Compaq/Digital Alpha machines; The CD-ROM distribution; Chapter 3: Quick installation; Making things easy for yourself; FreeBSD on a disk with free space; FreeBSD shared with Microsoft; Configuring XFree86; Chapter 4: Shared OS installation; Separate disks; Sharing a disk; Sharing with Linux or another BSD; Repartitioning with FIPS; Chapter 5: Installing FreeBSD; Installing on the Intel i386 architecture; Booting to sysinstall; Setting installation options; Partitioning the disk; Defining file systems. Selecting distributionsSelecting the installation medium; Performing the installation; Installing on an Alpha system; Upgrading an old version of FreeBSD; How to uninstall FreeBSD; If things go wrong; Alternative installation methods; Chapter 6: Post-installation configuration; Installing additional software; Adding users; Time zone; Network services; Startup preferences; Configuring the mouse; Configuring X; Rebooting the new system; Chapter 7: The tools of the trade; Users and groups; Gaining access; The KDE desktop; The fvwm2 window manager; Changing the X display; Getting a shell. Files and file namesDifferences from Microsoft; The Emacs editor; Stopping the system; Chapter 8: Taking control; Users and groups; The super user; Processes; Daemons; Stopping processes; Timekeeping; Log files; Multiple processor support; PC Card devices; Emulating other systems; Emulating Linux; Emulating SCO UNIX; Emulating Microsoft Windows; Chapter 9: The Ports Collection; How to install a package; Building a port; Package documentation; Getting binary-only software; Maintaining ports; Upgrading ports; Controlling installed ports; Submitting a new port. Chapter 10: File systems and devicesFile permissions; Mandatory Access Control; Links; Directory hierarchy; File system tapes; Mounting file systems; FreeBSD devices; Virtual terminals; Chapter 11: Disks; Adding a hard disk; Using sysinstall; Doing it the hard way; Creating file systems; Moving file systems; Recovering from disk data errors; Chapter 12: The Vinum Volume Manager; Vinum objects; Creating Vinum drives; Starting Vinum; Configuring Vinum; Vinum configuration database; Installing FreeBSD on Vinum; Recovering from drive failures; Migrating Vinum to a new machine.
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FreeBSD is by far the most popular version of BSD®, the legendary operating system that has contributed a great deal to every version of Unix® in use today (including Mac OS® X). Originally a community effort by the University of California at Berkeley, FreeBSD was aimed at making Unix a little friendlier and easier to use. By the time other free operating systems came along, BSD was firmly established and very reliable. And it continues to be today. For seven years, the FreeBSD community has relied on Greg Lehey's classic, The Complete FreeBSD, to guide them through its configuration and a.
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Free computer software.
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FreeBSD.
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Operating systems (Computers)
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QA76.76.O63G744 2009
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Greg Lehey
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