I like The Unix Companion by Harley Hahn. Running Linux which is published by O'Reilly is good too. I also like the MIS Press Slackware series books. The first one Configuring and Installing Linux is written by Patrick Volkerding. I just bought Debian GNU/Linux Guide to Installation and Usage which looks good. THe CD is screwed up which is included with it. This is a disappointment because it will probably negatively impact all the work done by Debian developers.
brian On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 04:39:34PM -0400, ... wrote: > I'm a total newbie with linux. I downloaded Debian, and put it on my > second hard drive, total capacity about 435 meg. I partitioned it to > reserve 100 meg for dos, put about 10% of the remainder aside for swap, > and the rest is for linux. > This being kind of small, when I installed Debian, I just installed > the Standard package, Dialup, and Small XWindows. > The "man" command doens't appear to be active, and the /usr/doc files > don't have a lot of information. Most of it seems to be changelog and > copyright, so I'm thinking of deleting all of it. > What sort of how-to books would be helpful? I'd like the equivalent > of the old Understanding MSDOS and Supercharging MSDOS books, published > by QUE, I think. I want to learn how to get a color screen at the root > level, set up and optimize FSTAB, and ultimately, if I have enough with > the system I've got, to install and use Netscape for UNIX and STAR Office. > > Thanx, > Frank Starr > http://i.am/franksnewage > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/
