Sorry, you probably have been asked this many times, but I just like this email approach and this is my first to LFS.
Assume that I'm a noob. Not a complete noob, but a noob. I know that the linux distro will boot up, many to a fancy shell. Then "startx" is all I know. Cool! It started... X. I don't only want to start x. I want to learn bash so well that I can make breakfast with it (it and python). I can ls around, know of pwd, grep and similar but have no idea what they actually do - note, some virtual bash consoles don't have man pages. I don't understand the tree structure of *nix. Why is there a bin there... And there. And they seem to be linked (symlinked? Added to PATH? Piped?? Same setup on all linuxes?). What is | for anyway? What is etc, usr, mnt and why do I always end up breaking any linux even with no admin rights? I know the answer to this - because I experiment (that's how I've learnt what I know to date... At the cost of having to reformat partitions) If this seems vague and chaotic, it is intentional. How would you respond to this? Regards, MR Essop -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
