Hi All, 11aug99
I am stuck because I never really got started.
I have RH 5.0 installed 'all files', from CDROM.
I am the only user.
I login as root. Where do I go from there?
(I dont see heads or tails of Linux)
Key information: Where do I find a list of COMMANDS that
are available from the cmd line. (XFree86 can wait.)
I can read MAN pages ..... (Not very effective because
I have no list of available cmds to ask MAN's for.)
Familiar with 'more' and 'less'. I can print.
I can use MC. (in root for the time being. I am careful)
Re-installation is easy. I have made all the possible
mistakes, incl letting 'reset' of DisDruid wipe-out all
my partitions. FDisk-Linux helped me restore.
I can boot with LILO but find LOADLIN easier to use.
I am reading 'Linux-NEWBIE' for a long time.
Goal1: Get out root. Find the way in Linux.
(Cannot find my notes. Where do I find Find the cmds,
syntax, for 'ADDUSER' 'REMOVEUSER' and associated
passwords?).
I need a list of (basic, newbie-)commands to be able
to operate Linux.
Goal 2: Get comfortable with using Linux.
-Reading, editing, copying, printing.
-Find out what pgms are installed already.
(Getting on Internet is in there already,
supposedly. But they forget to tell how.)
-Learn Linux by using.
Goal 3: many. (Say Goodbye to Windows.)
I'll ask when I get there.
I am familiar with MSDOS.
I have RH5.0 CDROM + 3 CDROMs 'Linux Archives'.
RH6.0 + 'Running Linux' book is on the way. ETA 1nov99.
I have 160MHz Pentium, 64MB RAM, 8GB HD, CDROM.
Thanks for helping. Reading Newbie-list is very
encouraging to continue with Linux.
Herman Aa.
>From a mountaintop on Cebu island, Philippines.
Seeing Linux in front, coconut-trees, the sea,
next island, when looking out the Window.
