Subject: Re: New to NetBSD, need help...
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: felix zaslavskiy <felix@students.poly.edu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/08/2003 22:03:00
To learn basic unix
http://wks.uts.ohio-state.edu/unix_course/unix.html

To learn about NetBSD
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/

And by the way you dont need to download X it comes with the sets. It
probably was installed already look for /usr/X11R6


On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 21:50, Collin E wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> I just installed NetBSD on my NEC 9522 computer the other day. This is the 
> first time that I have ever used Unix, so I barely know anything about it. I 
> need to know how to create and manage users for this computer.
> 
> Also, I have just downloaded XWindows from xfree86.org and I have just tired 
> to install it. I wanted to copy the contents of the cd that I made to the 
> /root/xfree86 directory (I created a subdirectory). However, when I tried 
> copying the files, the computer told me that I had run out of room. This 
> didn't seem right to me, becuase the hard drive is over 1 GB in size. I 
> remember now that when I was installing Unix, the computer made about 5 
> partitions, do you think that I should try moving the files to one of those 
> partitions and installing? If so, how? In the first place, why did this 
> computer need more than one partition, it is becoming very confusing? Would 
> it be a good idea to re-install Unix with just one?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Collin
> 
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