I'm not entirely clear on how the file/folder system works in here. Keeping in mind I'm used to using the OTHER OS, is it the same sort of structure? Where are the best/worst places to create folders so that I can remember where things are? Looks like user and home but I'd rather ask before I start trying to add folders etc...
#2 - I see some programs (in a brochure that came with the user guide) that I supposedly have available to me but apparently I didn't load during the install. Can I put the install CD back in and load them now without going through the whole install again? Don't know if they'd be on the first CD or the Comm. Apps CD....hmmm.........
#3 - In anticipation of installing Linux I began buying Linux Format mag and The Linux Magazine. The cover CD's, (and this more than likely has to do with my first question to some point) if I pop in the CD, then what? Will it automatically put things where they're supposed to go? From what I can gather not having tried it yet, there will be some other 'work' to do to get some of them installed too and they seem to give good directions.
#4 - While reading through the user guide that came with my 'boxed set' and also a book called Teach Yourself Linux in 24 hours (yeah right! *g*). When they go through different steps on how to do things it tells me different commands to type but not where or what I should be in to type them!! It seemed a stupid question so I had my fiance try finding out in the books with no luck, so I'm asking.
#5 - Have you dozed off yet? lol. There's way too much "space" around my windows. Is there some way to fix this within Linux so that I don't have to keep changing my monitor settings as I go back and forth with Bills product?
OK, guess that's if for today. Hope they aren't silly questions......honestly I am researching but can't get to the answers fast enough, could be just a bit excited and impatient. Maybe.
Kelly
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 10:17:08AM +0100, Kelly Ash wrote:
I'm not entirely clear on how the file/folder system works in here. Keeping in mind I'm used to using the OTHER OS, is it the same sort of structure? Where are the best/worst places to create folders so that I can remember where things are? Looks like user and home but I'd rather ask before I start trying to add folders etc...
this explains things in a good way, and is most likely at about the correct level (ie not written by a robot :)) http://www.freeos.com/articles/3102/
#4 - While reading through the user guide that came with my 'boxed set' and also a book called Teach Yourself Linux in 24 hours (yeah right! *g*). When they go through different steps on how to do things it tells me different commands to type but not where or what I should be in to type them!! It seemed a stupid question so I had my fiance try finding out in the books with no luck, so I'm asking.
yeah look for programs like xterm or rxvt or kterminal anything like that to get you a command prompt, or you can push the key sequence Ctrl+Alt+F1 (or F2 F3 etc. to get to different command terminals) to get to a console and Ctrl+Alt+F7 to get back to X-Windows.
OK, guess that's if for today. Hope they aren't silly questions......honestly I am researching but can't get to the answers fast enough, could be just a bit excited and impatient. Maybe.
Ok i have 1 question, who are you logging in as? did you create your own user account when you installed Linux? as if you are logging in as "root" this is a bad idea :) root is the superuser and can install remove software and do lots of other lovely things that can break your computer in just 1 command :)
Anyhow they are perfectly normal questions, just there is a huge amount of things to understand when you come to linux and you will find it a bit overwhelming at first. Anyhow there are no questions too stupid, make sure you do a quick search on google first etc. We are nice to newbies here, we only eat old trolls :)
Adam
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 10:17:08AM +0100, Kelly Ash said:
OK, guess that's if for today. Hope they aren't silly questions......honestly I am researching but can't get to the answers fast enough, could be just a bit excited and impatient. Maybe.
Researching is highly useful to do. If you decided to go with.. say mandrake linux, read the forums and google groups to resolve your problems.
A *lot* of people will refuse to help because they probably have been helped hundreds of people on the same question! They should really refer them to their own guide (Look at my site: http://www.wizball.co.uk/linux). I wrote most guides due to my experiences and I know people will ask for help.
Good luck what you may decide to install! Sometimes it would be useful for someone to be there to guide you all the way (so that way things will be highly safer for you ;)
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