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Thanks. I'll update my firewall tonight. And I'll be READING, DAMMIT!

Oh, and can I throw in a cheap plug for the FreeBSD Cheat Sheets while I'm here? It has a much more easy-to-follow tutorial on how to cvsup your ports, though it doesn't go into the theory behind it.

Schwab

Thanks. I'll update my firewall tonight. And I'll be READING, DAMMIT!

Oh, and can I throw in a cheap plug for the FreeBSD Cheat Sheets while I'm here? It has a much more easy-to-follow tutorial on how to cvsup your ports, though it doesn't go into the theory behind it.

Schwab

But I think when migrating to BSD most linux users don't realize that the GNU utils arn't there anymore.

Ahh, you mean like this tiny sampling of GNU applications?

This is a big thing, same with the bash shell.

Are you referring to, like, bash?? Perhaps you didn't know how to properly install it?

You say you've actually used FreeBSD???

Usually I do a 'shutdown now' instead of an 'init 1'. The above after the 'init 1' will remount your UFS slices; rather important if /usr is one of them. :)

Do the above after the 'make installworld' to update /etc, /dev and /stand BEFORE you reboot to multi-user mode.

The above if from the excellent article, among many, from Dan O'Connor's website; FreeBSD Cheat Sheets.

Why anyone would need to read the manual for this is beyond me.

Umm, because there's a bit more to it. More than likely you'll want to get your source tree all up to date, tweak in your kernel config, and get all your user land stuff in sync. A great site for a to the point summary on all this is the FreeBSD Cheat Sheets. This site also includes specific instructions on how to make world.

Personally, my "make buildworld" is running now in the background as I type this. Just cvsup'd the latest source changes, and away she goes! Couldn't care less about getting an ISO for a CD burn. By keeping the tree up to date every week or so it only takes about 5 minutes per update across a dial-up connection. Every couple of months I run through the make world process and everything is up to date.

Oh sure, this here build takes a while on this K6-450. It's running in the background, so it can take as long as it wants.

Why anyone would need to read the manual for this is beyond me.

Umm, because there's a bit more to it. More than likely you'll want to get your source tree all up to date, tweak in your kernel config, and get all your user land stuff in sync. A great site for a to the point summary on all this is the FreeBSD Cheat Sheets. This site also includes specific instructions on how to make world.

Personally, my "make buildworld" is running now in the background as I type this. Just cvsup'd the latest source changes, and away she goes! Couldn't care less about getting an ISO for a CD burn. By keeping the tree up to date every week or so it only takes about 5 minutes per update across a dial-up connection. Every couple of months I run through the make world process and everything is up to date.

Oh sure, this here build takes a while on this K6-450. It's running in the background, so it can take as long as it wants.

I found this pretty cool site through a comment or sig here IIRC... Either way, it covers all sorts of things (incl. ppp setup): FreeBSD Cheat Sheets. As far as the word processing thing goes, if you're laptop is beefy enough give StarOffice a try. If not, try AbiWord.

The ppp setup described above is for 3.x and it's for a lan2dial home gateway. You may wish to try looking at chapters 15 (Serial Communications) and 16 (PPP and SLIP) of the FreeBSD Handbook for more up to date or generalized instructions.

If you're planning to install FreeBSD, a helpful reference is the FreeBSD Cheat Sheets, which help replace Linux's HOWTOs.