Hi Joe, thank you very much for your suggestions...
----- Original Message ----- From: Joe Bouchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 4:52 PM Subject: Documentation for Newbies (was: win and linux) > On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 03:43:22PM +0300, Serkan ?nci wrote: > > hi, > > > > I'm too new for linux and loaded to my computer linux yesterday. However I want to use my old O.S.(windows 95) too but now I can only use linux. How can I use linux and windows together. I have got some documnets but I coludn't find any satisfactory answer. I added something to lilo.conf but there is no change. I know this question is very simple for you but any solution or reference to a document will be very good for me... > > /* answer this specific question */ > > When you change lilo.conf, you must run the program /sbin/lilo to take > the changes you made and write them to the boot sector. You didn't say > if you did that, but if not, that is probably your problem. > > /* begin newbie documentation lesson */ > > As a linux newbie, you may not realize it, but the answer to 90% of all > your questions is already on your computer. Seriously. The only only > answers that aren't there are the brand new ones (like what driver do I > use for some card which just came out last month). Lilo has been around > as long as linux, and the rules for lilo don't change much. > Furthermore, you probably got the documentation for the version of > software you installed, so you may have better documentation than anyone > else. Therefore you should really get in the habit of looking for this > stuff yourself. Personally, I feel a great deal of pride in finding my > own answers. This is pretty arbitrary, but I figure if I have read > documentation for at least 4 hours and I still can't find an answer, > then it's time to post a question. > > Places to look: > - cd /usr/doc and do an "ls". Wow, look at it all. There is a > directory for almost each package you installed. Usually, this is a > very good place to look, but now always. Some distributions (I'm on > Debian Slink) use a different location than /usr/doc. > > - the "man" pages. There are millions of them. If you think there is a > man page out there but can't find it, try "man -k <keyword>". > > - the "info" pages. There are a lot of these too. The info program is > a browser of sorts. > > - There are "HOWTO" and "MINI-HOWTO" documents all over the place. Some > documentation is stored in html files. Locate will help you find them. > > - "locate" - On windows you have the ability to "find files". You can > do that on linux too. In both cases it scans the entire disk, and > takes a few seconds. On linux, though, there is a scheduled cron job > that runs (usually in middle of the night) which scans the entire disk > and makes a "locate database". At that point you can type "locate > lilo" and it will show you all the files with the phrase "lilo" in them. > It's case sensitive, so try "locate lilo Lilo LILO", and in my case it > shows a nice file called /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Multiboot-with-LILO.gz > which I can view with "zmore /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Multiboot-with-LILO.gz" > The job that runs at night is called "updatedb". If you try locate > and just get some error message, then it's because updatedb hasn't run > yet on your new system. Run "updatedb" as root (it takes a few > minutes) and then locate should work fine. > > - Buy a decent book. This simple statement can spark many hours of > debate regarding which books are best, but I won't go there today. > > - Poke around at http://www.debian.org There is documentation out there > also. Typically it's the same stuff that is on your disk but it's > worth a shot. > > - Web search. I like http://www.google.com (no need to start a debate > here either), and you will find more documents and lessons learned. > > Hope that helps. I'm sure other people have other sources of > information. > > -- > > Thank you, > Joe Bouchard > > Powered by Debian GNU/Linux >
