FreeBSD Handbook

The FreeBSD Documentation Project

Part 1:
Getting Started

1. Introduction

1.1. FreeBSD in a nutshell

1.2. A brief history of FreeBSD

1.3. FreeBSD Project goals

1.4. The FreeBSD development model

1.5. About the current release

2. Installing FreeBSD

2.1. Supported Configurations

2.2. Preparing for the installation

2.3. Installing FreeBSD

2.4. MS-DOS user's Questions and Answers

3. Unix Basics

3.1. The online manual

3.2. GNU Info files

4. Installing Applications: The Ports collection

4.1. Why have a Ports Collection?

4.2. How does the Ports collection work?

4.3. Getting a FreeBSD Port

4.4. Skeletons

4.5. It does not work?!

4.6. I have this program that I would like to make into a port...

4.7. Some Questions and Answers

Part 2:
System Administration

5. Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel

5.1. Why build a custom kernel?

5.2. Building and Installing a Custom Kernel

5.3. The Configuration File

5.4. Making Device Nodes

5.5. If Something Goes Wrong

6. Security

6.1. DES, MD5, and Crypt

6.2. S/Key

6.3. Kerberos

6.4. Firewalls

7. Printing

7.1. What the Spooler Does

7.2. Why You Should Use the Spooler

7.3. Setting Up the Spooling System

7.4. Simple Printer Setup

7.5. Using Printers

7.6. Advanced Printer Setup

7.7. Alternatives to the Standard Spooler

7.8. Acknowledgments

8. Disk quotas

8.1. Configuring your system to enable disk quotas

8.2. Setting quota limits

8.3. Checking quota limits and disk usage

8.4. * Quotas over NFS

9. The X Window System

10. PC Hardware compatibility

10.1. Resources on the Internet

10.2. Sample Configurations

10.3. Core/Processing

10.4. Input/Output Devices

10.5. Storage Devices

11. Localization

11.1. Russian Language (KOI8-R encoding)

Part 3:
Network Communications

12. Serial Communications

12.1. Serial Basics

12.2. Terminals

12.3. Dialin service

12.4. Dialout service

13. PPP and SLIP

13.1. Setting up user PPP

13.2. Setting up kernel PPP

13.3. Setting up a SLIP client

13.4. Setting up a SLIP server

14. Advanced networking

14.1. Gateways and routes

14.2. NFS

14.3. Diskless operation

14.4. ISDN

15. Electronic Mail

15.1. Basic Information

15.2. Configuration

15.3. FAQ

Part 4:
Advanced topics

16. The Cutting Edge: FreeBSD-current and FreeBSD-stable

16.1. Staying current with FreeBSD

16.2. Staying stable with FreeBSD

16.3. Synchronizing source trees over the Internet

17. Contributing to FreeBSD

17.1. What is needed

17.2. How to contribute

17.3. Donors Gallery

17.4. Derived software contributors

17.5. Additional FreeBSD contributors

17.6. 386BSD Patch kit patch contributors

18. Source Tree Guidelines and Policies

18.1. MAINTAINER on Makefiles

18.2. Contributed software

18.3. Shared libraries

19. Adding New Kernel Configuration Options

19.1. What's a kernel option, anyway?

19.2. Now what do I have to do for it?

20. Kernel Debugging

20.1. Debugging a kernel crash dump with kgdb

20.2. Post-mortem analysis of a dump

20.3. On-line kernel debugging using DDB

20.4. On-line kernel debugging using remote GDB

20.5. Debugging a console driver

21. Linux Emulation

21.1. How to install the Linux emulator

21.2. How to Install Mathematica on FreeBSD

22. FreeBSD internals

22.1. The FreeBSD Booting Process

22.2. PC memory utilization

22.3. DMA: What it is and how it works

Part 5:
Appendices

23. Obtaining FreeBSD

23.1. CD-ROM Publishers

23.2. FTP Sites

23.3. CTM Sites

23.4. CVSup Sites

24. Bibliography

24.1. Books & magazines specific to FreeBSD

24.2. Users' guides

24.3. Administrators' guides

24.4. Programmers' guides

24.5. Operating System Internals

24.6. Security reference

24.7. Hardware reference

24.8. UNIX history

24.9. Magazines and journals

25. Resources on the Internet

25.1. Mailing lists

25.2. Usenet newsgroups

25.3. World Wide Web servers

26. FreeBSD Project Staff

26.1. The FreeBSD core team

26.2. The FreeBSD Developers

26.3. The FreeBSD Documentation Project

26.4. Who is responsible for what

27. PGP keys

27.1. Officers

27.2. Core team members