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Fix lots of typos, add $Id$s.

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Submitted by:	Wolfram "typo police" Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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John Fieber 1996-10-06 20:17:19 +00:00
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<!DOCTYPE linuxdoc PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD linuxdoc//EN">
<!-- $Id: newuser.sgml,v 1.2 1996-10-06 20:17:19 jfieber Exp $ -->
<article>
<title>For People New to Both FreeBSD <em>and</em> Unix
@ -113,7 +114,7 @@ Here are some commands and what they do:
the home directory of the person logged in---e.g.,
<tt>/usr/home/jack</tt>. Try <tt>cd /cdrom</tt>,
and then <tt>ls</tt>, to find out
if your cdrom is mounted and working.
if your CDROM is mounted and working.
<tag/<tt>view <em>filename</em></tt>/
Lets you look at a file (named <em>filename</em>
without changing
@ -380,7 +381,7 @@ find /usr -name "<em>filename</em>"
You can use <tt>*</tt> as a wildcard in <tt>"<em>filename</em>"</tt>
(which should be in quotes). If you tell find to search in
<tt>/</tt> instead of <tt>/usr</tt> it will look for the file(s)
on all mounted file systems, including the cdrom and the dos
on all mounted file systems, including the CDROM and the dos
partition.
An excellent book that explains Unix commands and utilities is
@ -399,7 +400,7 @@ great deal of information in the FreeBSD handbook (which is
probably on your hard drive) and <url
url="http://www.freebsd.org" name="FreeBSD's web site">. A wide
variety of packages and ports are on the <htmlurl
url="http://www.cdrom.com" name="Walnut Creek"> cdrom as well as
url="http://www.cdrom.com" name="Walnut Creek"> CDROM as well as
the web site. The handbook tells you more about how to use them
(get the package if it exists, with <tt>pkg_add
/cdrom/packages/All/<em>packagename</em></tt>, where
@ -424,7 +425,7 @@ cp -R /cdrom/ports/comm/kermit /usr/local
</tscreen>
This should result in a <tt>/usr/local/kermit</tt> subdirectory
that has all the files that the <tt>kermit</tt> subdirectory on
the cdrom has.
the CDROM has.
Next, check <tt>/cdrom/ports/distfiles</tt> for a file with a name
that indicates it's the port you want. Copy that file to
@ -473,7 +474,7 @@ slash.)
You might want to get the most recent version of Netscape from their
<url url="ftp://ftp.netscape.com" name="ftp site">. (Netscape
requires the X window sytem.) The version you want is the "unknown
requires the X Window System.) The version you want is the "unknown
bsd" version. Just use <tt>gunzip <em>filename</em></tt> and <tt>tar
xvf <em>filename</em></tt> on it, move the binary to
<tt>/usr/local/bin</tt> or some other place binaries are kept,
@ -488,7 +489,7 @@ This assumes that the file <tt>XKeysymDB</tt> and the directory
<tt>nls</tt> are in
<tt>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11</tt>; if they're not, find them and put them there.
If you originally got Netscape as a port using the cdrom (or ftp),
If you originally got Netscape as a port using the CDROM (or ftp),
don't replace <tt>/usr/local/bin/netscape</tt> with the new netscape binary;
this is just a shell script that sets up the environmental variables
for you. Instead rename the new binary to <tt>netscape.bin</tt> and replace the
@ -499,12 +500,12 @@ binary, which is <tt>/usr/local/lib/netscape/netscape.bin</tt>.
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<sect>Other
<p>As root, you can dismount the cdrom with <tt>/sbin/umount
<p>As root, you can dismount the CDROM with <tt>/sbin/umount
/cdrom</tt>, take it out of the drive, insert another one, and
mount it with <tt>/sbin/mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0a /cdrom</tt>
assuming <tt>cd0a</tt> is the device name for your cdrom drive.
assuming <tt>cd0a</tt> is the device name for your CDROM drive.
Using the live file system---the second of FreeBSD's cdrom disks---is
Using the live file system---the second of FreeBSD's CDROM disks---is
useful if you've got limited space. You might try using
<tt>emacs</tt> or playing games from the cdrom. This involves using
<tt>lndir</tt>, which gets installed with the X Window System, to tell the