Where can I find more information

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Date: 01/28/05

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    Hello,
     
    My name is Mark. I recently banished windows and
    windows-based programs from my (ancient) computer because it
    is too slow to handle windows XP and all of the attendant
    programs required to keep it virus and ad-free. I have
    installed FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE on my computer (Intel Pentium
    II Celeron, 330 MHz, ~500 Mb Ram, Western Digital Hard Disk
    (40 Gb, Master), Western Digital Hard Disk (6 Gb, Slave),
    floppy disk (1.44 Mb), IOMega ZIP-Drive (100Mb, IDE), Hitachi
    CD/DVD-ROM, Memorex CD-RW, Diamond Multimedia Viper v550
    video card, and a few other ancient goodies). I am having
    great difficulty mounting and unmounting floppies, zips, and
    CDs from my system. I have done my best to follow the
    recommendations in The Handbook, The FreeBSD FAQ, and the
    documentation that came bundled with FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE, all
    to no avail. I have also searched the archives that I could
    find using the queries "mount" and "unmount", but didn't find
    anything that seemed to fit. I have no trouble mounting and
    unmounting CDs if I use the device manager in KDE, but have
    had no luck trying to do the same from the command line. Can
    someone out there recommend additional, better, or
    easier-to-understand sources of information for someone who
    is essentially a complete beginner in UNIX and FreeBSD?
    Alternatively, if I were to post a technical question to a
    mailing list, which mailing list would be appropriate?
     
    Thanks
     
    Mark
     
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