I would like to throw in another suggestion for the book by Harley Hahn. I first read his book on the internet .. dear god, six years ago? Seven years ago? Wow. In it he suggested his book Unix for Students, or something similar, and I learned much from that book -- though I don't think it had a blip of system administration -- just using Unix. :)
On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 11:15:06AM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote: > 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/ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
