I'd suggest you to read the LDP (Linux Documentation Project) :
It stands on your distribution CD.
It is constitued by several packages :
nag (Network Administrator's Guide)
sag (System Administrator's Guide)
LAME (Linux Administration Made Easy)
lpg (linux programmer's guide)
and others.
To see all the LDP packages that are in the distribution, you mount
the Mandrake CD and type on a command line:
for i in /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/* ;do rpm -qpl $i |grep -q '/usr/doc/LDP' &&
echo $i ;done
Then you install the guides that want. They will stand in /usr/doc/LDP/
You should find there all the answers you need.
And there are a lot of web sites where you will find documentation about the
way linux works.
HTH
Flupke
Joerg Reinhardt wrote :
>
> Dear Mandrake team,
> I am new in using any operation systems. I´ve been a Computer freak in
> the late 80's and early 90's. I' ve had the C-64, an Atari later and an
> 486'er later on, wich wos running on DOS. When Windowns came, I did gave
> up to keep on the development. Now I've got an Pentium I, running on
> Powerlinux 6.2.
> I still do understand how Hardware works, and how it's connectet
> together. I do also understand how most of the Software works generally,
> what the OS does, how any applikations are working, or how a Browser
> works... I know what files and Directorys are, what a harddisk-partition
> is and so on, but what I completely don't understand is, how Software is
> connectet together.
> In DOS times, you had one program running, wich was using the DOS to use
> the several Devices.
> Now you have Applications wich belongs to an desktopmanager uses graphik
> Support by the Window-Manager, wich uses the Linux in some way....?
> I think my problem is clear now: I know, what each program itself does,
> but I neighter know to what other Parts of the whole Software it is
> connectet to, nor where to find it on my harddisk, in wich direktory.
> The problems wich result from that, are for instance: I loaded down a
> realplayer from the Net, installed it with RPM, found the main Part of
> it in /usr/bin, and other Parts of it in many other directorys, but what
> ever I "click" to, nothing works. I had the same problem with other
> downloads, either tar.gzip, or RPM likes. Propably it's just something
> very simple I did wrong, I might setup the files in the wrong direktory,
> or I've got to "tell" some part of the Application I want to install,or
> the OS itself, that I installed something new, but how to????
> I'm able to tell my 95'er BIOS what a 13,6 GB harddisk is, by using an
> ontrak-diskmanager and updating my BIOS, but I'm obviously not able to
> print anything on my 9-Pin Printer(exept the test page). I'm absolutely
> frustratet, cause there seems to be no basic users manual, wich contains
> an "anatomie" of Linux, to see wich is connectet to what, and to
> specifie an error. All help suggestions are like "have you got the plug
> in?", or "if the x-345gtrz devive is linked to /&usr..... etc.", either
> for idiots or experts, but I'm neighter dump nor an expert, so what to
> do?
> Any suggestions how to learn Linux from first Step, without having to
> re-learn where the power switch of my device is? To understand how the
> System is working and to have the possibility to administrate myself,
> was the mainreason to decide for Linux instead of Windos, but first I
> need to understand, so
>
> if there is anyone able to help me in a general way, please send an
> e-mail to
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> thanks!
>
> Joerg Reinhardt
>
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