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FreeBSD Handbook

The FreeBSD Documentation Project

December 4, 1995

Welcome to FreeBSD! This handbook covers the installation and day to day use of FreeBSD Release 2.1.0. This manual is a work in progress and is the work of many individuals. Many sections do not yet exist and some of those that do exist need to be updated. If you are interested in helping with this project, send email to the FreeBSD Documentation Project mailing list <doc@freebsd.org>. The latest version of this document is always available from the FreeBSD World Wide Web server .

Part 1:
Basics

1. Introduction

1.1. FreeBSD in a nutshell

1.2. A brief history of FreeBSD

1.3. FreeBSD Project goals

1.4. About the current release

2. Installing FreeBSD

2.1. Supported Configurations

2.2. Preparing for the installation

2.3. Installing FreeBSD

2.4. MS-DOS user's Questions and Answers

3. Unix Basics

3.1. The online manual

3.2. GNU Info files

4. Installing applications

4.1. * Installing packages

4.2. The Ports collection

Part 2:
System Administration

5. Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel

5.1. Why build a custom kernel?

5.2. Building and Installing a Custom Kernel

5.3. The Configuration File

5.4. Making Device Nodes

5.5. If Something Goes Wrong

6. Users, groups and security

6.1. DES, MD5, and Crypt

6.2. S/Key

7. Printing

7.1. What the Spooler Does

7.2. Why You Should Use the Spooler

7.3. Setting Up the Spooling System

7.4. Simple Printer Setup

7.5. Using Printers

7.6. Advanced Printer Setup

7.7. Alternatives to the Standard Spooler

7.8. Acknowledgments

8. The X-Window System

9. PC Hardware compatibility

9.1. Sample Configurations

9.2. Core/Processing

9.3. Input/Output Devices

9.4. Storage Devices

Part 3:
Network Communications

10. Basic Networking

10.1. * Ethernet basics

10.2. * Serial basics

10.3. * Hardwired Terminals

10.4. Dialup access

11. PPP and SLIP

11.1. Setting up user PPP

11.2. Setting up kernel PPP

11.3. Setting up a SLIP client

11.4. Setting up a SLIP server

12. Advanced networking

12.1. Gateways and routes

12.2. NFS

12.3. Diskless operation

12.4. * Yellow Pages/NIS

12.5. * ISDN

13. * Mail

Part 4:
Advanced topics

14. Staying current with FreeBSD

14.1. What is FreeBSD-current?

14.2. Who needs FreeBSD-current?

14.3. What is FreeBSD-current NOT?

14.4. Using FreeBSD-current

14.5. CTM

14.6. SUP

15. Kernel Debugging

15.1. Debugging a kernel crash dump with kgdb

15.2. Post-mortem analysis of a dump

15.3. On-line kernel debugging using DDB

15.4. Debugging a console driver

16. Troubleshooting

16.1. Hardware conflict or misconfiguration

16.2. When I boot for the first time, it still looks for

17. Contributing to FreeBSD

17.1. What's needed

17.2. How to contribute

Part 5:
Appendices

18. Obtaining FreeBSD

19. Bibliography

19.1. Users' guides

19.2. Administrators' guides

19.3. Programmers' guides

19.4. Hardware reference

19.5. Magazines and journals

20. Resources on the Internet

20.1. Mailing lists

20.2. Usenet newsgroups

20.3. World Wide Web servers

21. Assorted technical topics

21.1. The FreeBSD Booting Process

21.2. PC memory utilization

21.3. DMA: What it is and how it works

22. FreeBSD contributor list

22.1. Derived software contributors

22.2. Hardware contributors

22.3. The FreeBSD core team

22.4. Who is responsible for what

22.5. Additional FreeBSD contributors

22.6. 386BSD Patch kit patch contributors

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