MR Essop wrote: > 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
I suspect you need something more in depth than email. One place to start is http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/essential_prereading.txt. The book Running Linux is also a good start. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596007607.do -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
