FW: Looking to get involved.

[Nikolas Britton]

On 8/5/05, Mitch Graves <mitch_graves at comcast.net> wrote:
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mitch Graves [mailto:mitch_graves at comcast.net]
> Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 6:48 AM
> To: freebsd-newbies at FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Looking to get involved.
> 
> 
> I am a newbie to freeBSD.
> 
> In my job I work with Solaris and RedHat Linux.  Occasionally I work on AIX
> and HP-UX servers as well.
> 
> 
> I have been fascinated with Linux and would like to have a deeper knowledge
> of the OS.  I currently am focusing on the boot process.  Using DOS and
> Windows  I can recover from un unbootable hard drive.  RedHat has some
> utilities as well.  I would like to know step-by-step ( from creating the
> MBR to login) all that is involved in the boot process. 

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/boot.html

Man pages:
loader.conf
loader
loader.4th
boot
btxld
boot0cfg
device.hints
kenv

 
> 
> With all of that said, is there a place I can help and learn at the same
> time?  By the way, I live in Longmont and Work in Louisville.

http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/index.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.html