On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 09:46:28AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have made the big leap for me and installed Debian. I had a few > problems (once it crashed during install) but I'm there, I'm at bash
I dont think you say what version you installed, but see if you can get the latest potato, or upgrade to it as your machine looks recentish you want the best support - in particular a recent kernel. I always think that for people new to Gnu/Linux the single most important thing to learn is the packaging system. If you can find your way around that then a lot of things make sense.. For Debian these are apt-get apt-cache and dpkg in particular.. the programs that install the deb files containing the system. Pretty much everything on your hardrive came from a .deb file and so its not surprising that learning your way around exploring debs and working out what comes from what is v.important. In case you don't know, the 'man' command tries to find a manual page for whatever you throw at it.. as does 'info' , and finally more information can be found in /usr/share/doc for all your installed packages.. There are a lot of linux newbie sites too, so search for "linux newbie help tutorial" or something like that at www.google.com Finally, be sure to check out www.debian.org for the documentation there. Seems like a whole bunch of reading, but if you can find something to concentrate on and learn bit by bit its not so bad.. give it a few months and it'll seem less strange good luck
