I think these pages look very good, and I'd like to link to them
	from http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/ if that is OK with you.

	Would you be interested in helping out with the main
	www.netbsd.org site? possibly more in English than Italian, but
	it would also be nice to have Italian information available
	there also.


		David/absolute

On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Federico Lupi wrote:

> I have put a short guide (in Italian) on NetBSD on my site.
> The URL is
> 
> 	http://www.mclink.it/personal/MG2508/netbsd.html
> 
> I have written these HOWTOS in the last six months mostly for myself
> but maybe they can be useful for others too and I have decided to
> collect them in a single guide.  I think that it can be useful for
> the post-install configuration of NetBSD for people coming from other
> operating systems because I have seen these questions over and over
> on the mailing lists.
> 
> I think that the information for newbies on NetBSD is available but
> too fragmented: you have to read the FAQ on the home pages, browse
> the mailing lists, read man pages, ... This works if you already
> know where to look.  A simple document with some starting points is
> needed (not that I say that mine is good...)
> 
> The document is (sometimes) i386 oriented. It is not yet finished: I
> have yet to translate many pages from troff+ms to SGML/DocBook.
> 
> The main topics are:
> 	What is NetBSD
> 	What to do after the first boot
> 		(eg. italian kbd, local time, virtual consoles, ...)
> 	Installation of the kernel sources
> 	Printer configuration
> 	Package collection
> 	Howto connect to an ISP
> 	IPNAT
> 	Connecting Windows and NetBSD via serial line
> 	Creating a small home network
> 	Configuring (n)vi
> 
> I know, it's in Italian, but any suggestions are welcome.
> 
> Federico Lupi
>