Re: Good books

["Brian E. Lavender" <brian@brie.com>]

I like The Unix Companion by Harley Hahn. Running Linux which is published by O'Reilly
is good too. I also like the MIS Press Slackware series books. The first one
Configuring and Installing Linux is written by Patrick Volkerding. I just 
bought Debian GNU/Linux Guide to Installation and Usage which looks good. THe
CD is screwed up which is included with it. This is a disappointment because it
will probably negatively impact all the work done by Debian developers. 

brian 
 
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 04:39:34PM -0400, ... wrote:
>      I'm a total newbie with linux. I downloaded Debian, and put it on my
> second hard drive, total capacity about 435 meg. I partitioned it to
> reserve 100 meg for dos, put about 10% of the remainder aside for swap,
> and the rest is for linux.
>      This being kind of small, when I installed Debian, I just installed
> the Standard package, Dialup, and Small XWindows.
>      The "man" command doens't appear to be active, and the /usr/doc files
> don't have a lot of information. Most of it seems to be changelog and
> copyright, so I'm thinking of deleting all of it.
>       What sort of how-to books would be helpful? I'd like the equivalent
> of the old Understanding MSDOS and Supercharging MSDOS books, published
> by QUE, I think. I want to learn how to get a color screen at the root
> level, set up and optimize FSTAB, and ultimately, if I have enough with
> the system I've got, to install and use Netscape for UNIX and STAR Office.
> 
> Thanx,
> Frank Starr
> http://i.am/franksnewage
> 
> 
> 
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