Re: Good books
I would like to throw in another suggestion for the book by Harley Hahn. I
first read his book on the internet .. dear god, six years ago? Seven years
ago? Wow. In it he suggested his book Unix for Students, or something
similar, and I learned much from that book -- though I don't think it had a
blip of system administration -- just using Unix. :)
On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 11:15:06AM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
> 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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