On Wednesday 28 July 2004, at 9 h 50, the keyboard of "markel" 
<markel@metta.lk> wrote:

> I just installed netbsd for the first time on an o f 3 emac 

Good luck, there are probably not too many NetBSD users in Sri Lanka :-)

Besides Michael W. Lucas' and Peter Bex' excellent advice, a few on-line 
tutorials (I assume you cannot buy paper books):

http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/
http://www.isu.edu/departments/comcom/unix/workshop/unixindex.html (seems a 
bit dated)
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/unix.html

> Or his house will be struck by lightning or after death, he will be reborn 
> in Hell.

Same thing if you do not perform backups :-)