Subject: RTFM Resources Wanted
From: Ted Goranson (tedg@infi.net)
Date: Sun Jul 01 2001 - 09:40:37 MDT
Friends--
I am committed to YDL at this point. As a newbie, I need to learn a
whole lot. As a responsible, motivated, not too dumb guy, I want to
learn myself rather than burden the list or trigger a Terrasoft
request which takes too long.
So I bought a Red hat book: Ques "Red Hat Linux" by Hellums.at $40.
This rather thorough book contains not a single useful fact in the
myriad of problems or basic questions I have had. I'm sorry to say
that unguided searches of the web have been similarly unfruitful.
Can you recommend print and web resources for motivated newbies.
My own goals are to install YDL with X as a system to do development
in a strange language (Haskell). I'll be using Xemacs heavily, and
may want to play with shell editors (like es). I did a "workstation"
install and am working through several basic problems now: the triple
boot problem, sound and 2.4 problem; getting network set up; building
basic skills like finding misplaced docs and not installed needed
packages.
In particular, the ethernet setup is driving me crazy. Netconfig is
impossible for me to grok. The help was not installed (it seems). The
Red Hat crowd uses network.conf (I think it is) which I found a snap.
No YDL or RHL on-line resource seems applicable.
Best, Ted
-- _____________ Ted Goranson Fusecap and Sirius-Beta, Virginia Beach USA 757/426-6704 tedg@sirius-beta.com Symmetry Conference: http://www.isis-s.unsw.edu.au
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