FreeBSD Handbook

%authors; %lists; %sections; ]> FreeBSD Handbook The FreeBSD Documentation Project March 1997 Welcome to FreeBSD! This handbook covers the installation and day to day use of FreeBSD Release &rel.current;. 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 &a.doc; The latest version of this document is always available from the . It may also be downloaded in plain text, postscript or HTML from the or one of the numerous . You may also want to . Basics Introduction

FreeBSD is a 4.4BSD-Lite based operating system for Intel architecture (x86) based PCs. For an overview of FreeBSD, see . For a history of the project, read . To see a description of the latest release, read . If you're interested in contributing something to the FreeBSD project (code, equipment, sacks of unmarked bills), please see about . &nutshell; &history; &goals; &development; &relnotes; &install; &basics; Installing applications * Installing packages &ports; System Administration &kernelconfig; Users, groups and security &crypt; &skey; &kerberos; &firewalls; &printing; "as; The X Window System

Pending the completion of this section, please refer to documentation supplied by the . &hw; Network Communications Serial Communications &serial; &term; &dialup; &dialout; PPP and SLIP

If your connection to the Internet is through a modem, or you wish to provide other people with dialup connections to the Internet using FreeBSD, you have the option of using PPP or SLIP. Furthermore, two varieties of PPP are provided: user (sometimes referred to as iijppp) and kernel. The procedures for configuring both types of PPP, and for setting up SLIP are described in this chapter. &userppp; &ppp; &slipc; &slips; Advanced networking &routing; &nfs; &diskless; * Yellow Pages/NIS &isdn; &mail; Advanced topics ¤t; &stable; &synching; &submitters; &troubleshooting; &kerneldebug; &kernelopts; &linuxemu; FreeBSD internals &booting; &memoryuse; &dma; Appendices &mirrors; &bibliography; &eresources; &contrib; &policies; &pgpkeys;