Subject: Re: RTFM Resources Wanted
From: Jim Potter (jrp@wvi.com)
Date: Sun Jul 01 2001 - 10:20:01 MDT
Check out linuxdoc.org.
> 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
>
> --
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> Ted Goranson
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-- Sincerely,Jim Potter 45th Parallel Processing jrp@wvi.com
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