Re: now what

[Scott Stanley <sstanley@ames.ucsd.edu>]

On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, MR DAVID C STEIN wrote:

> So I downloaded my debian base sysetem now what do I do??
> 
> Where do I go???
> 
> Is xwindows the next thing I need??

This will depend on what you want to do and what do you want your 
machine to be able to do??  The most obvious options are setting up the 
modem, printing, and x-windows.


> 
> Also someone showed me how to mount a floppy disk
> 
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
> 
> How do I unmount it????

umount /floppy

Check out the man page for mount, umount and fstab. 

> 
> Where is a file that shows me basic unix commands to type at the 
> propmt?
> 
This one you will probably want to get a basic unix book that goes over 
these commands.  There are alot of good books out there.  But, the most 
absolutely basic commands are,

   unix  |  Dos equivalent
   -----------------------
    ls   | dir
    rm   | del
    cp   | copy
    mv   | rename
   
There are a great deal of options available for these commands, and a 
look through the man pages for them would be worth while.  Try "man ls" 
for instance.


> prefereably in ascii sice my modem is on my dos machine and I haven't 
> figured what 
> to do with tar.gz etc.. yet  pkunzip doesn't know what to do with 
> that in dos

The .gz files are compressed using gzip.  Check out the commands gzip and 
gunzip.  Also the tar command to extract the files from the .tar file 
that results from gunzip AAA.tar.gz".  A command like 
"tar -xvf File_Name.tar" will extract the files from a tar archive.

> 
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> 

This should give you a start.  Check out the man pages for these 
commands.  At the bottom of a man page there is a list of other related 
commands, for instance "man mount" has at the bottom;

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.
.
FILES
       /etc/fstab file system table
       /etc/mtab table of mounted file systems
       /etc/mtab~ lock file
       /etc/mtab.tmp temporary file

SEE ALSO
       mount(2),   umount(2),   fstab(5),  umount(8),  swapon(8),
       nfs(5), mountd(8), nfsd(8),  mke2fs(8),  tune2fs(8),  los-
       etup(8)

This will help you figure out the files and commands that are related.

Have fun.....


Scott Stanley

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Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences Dept.
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0411
sstanley@ucsd.edu