FreeBSD Tutorials

This page contains tutorials on topics that the short answer format of the main FAQ cannot do justice to. If you have a particular area of expertise, we would like to here from you! Your contributions are not only welcome, but often save new users from uncountable headaches. If you've written something you think may help new users, by all means let us know about it by sending mail to doc@FreeBSD.ORG.

Installation Topics

• How to install a distribution.
• All about hard disk partitioning.

Networking topics

• Setting up FreeBSD for dialin access.
• Setting up FreeBSD as a SLIP client.
• Setting up FreeBSD as a SLIP server.
• How to configure PPP.
• Tips for users using NFS between FreeBSD and workstation hardware.
• Setting up a diskless FreeBSD workstation.
• Setting up Kerberos (this is a LaTeX document)
• UUCP internals

FreeBSD-current topics

• What you should know about running FreeBSD-current.
• All about CTM.
• All about sup.
• A sample supfile for the FreeBSD ports collection.
• A sample supfile for the FreeBSD source tree.

Hardware topics

• Systems and configurations on which FreeBSD is "known" to work.
• User feedback on finicky or broken hardware.
• Using SCSI devices with FreeBSD.

Miscellaneous

• How to debug the kernel.
• Using the FreeBSD "ports" collection
• Becoming a contributor to the FreeBSD project