Where can I find more information

[crzdgns1 at starpower.net]

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