Re: Learning the UNIX Operating System - NetBSD Edition

[Mike <ginger%email.su@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 07:01:15PM +0300, 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 <ginger%email.su@localhost> wrote:
> > I suggest you to try Frenzy first - a freebsd based livecd, very friendly
> > and easy to use
> >
> > 17.12.2015, 06:02, "Joseph" <m8r-r60681%mailinator.com@localhost>:
> >>  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!
> >
> 
That sounds intresting... By the way: can anyone say, how to boot from usb-image
 in qemu(if it is possible at all - i've tried different versions of qemu
since 0.x.x, but I still hadn't seen this feature).