RE: [UNIX help]

2000-12-05 Thread Alex Horsnell
right direction. Thanks All Alex > -Original Message- > From: Tino Ionescu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 02 December 2000 19:04 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: [UNIX help] > > > Did you try what is available free? Downlo

Re: [UNIX help]

2000-12-02 Thread Tino Ionescu
Did you try what is available free? Download courses from internet these are 2 places where u can start : http://www.linuxtraining.co.uk/ http://www.oase-shareware.org/shell/links/index.html. Also, many universities have very good specific application Florentin "Alex Horsnell" <[EMAIL PROT

Re: UNIX help

2000-11-30 Thread Chris Black
The Unix Administrator's Handbook by Evi Nemeth, et al is the way and the light for learning Unix Administration. O'Reilly's Unix Power Tools (2nd ed) is excellent for learning neat tricks for basic commands. On Thursday 30 November 2000 10:07, Robert Guthrie wrote: > If you have the budget for

Re: UNIX help

2000-11-30 Thread Bek Oberin
Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Get a cheap machine, free if possible (486DX2 or so.th) > Install it with Debian > configure it > break it > read the HOWTOs > read the man pages > re-install it > re-configure it > break it > email debian-user with your questions > fix it > repeat as often as possible

Re: UNIX help

2000-11-30 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, What worked for me (starting from zero Un*x experience): Get a cheap machine, free if possible (486DX2 or so.th) Install it with Debian configure it break it read the HOWTOs read the man pages re-install it re-configure it break it email debian-user with your questions fix it repeat as often

Re: UNIX help

2000-11-30 Thread Rick
One thing I do is make /home the last partition on the hard drive so that when I start mucking around and break everything or just whimsically feel like reinstalling I can keep my home dirs happy. Note that this is not necessarily the most efficient use of disk structure, just a handy bit I like

Re: UNIX help

2000-11-30 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 12:34:49PM -, Alex Horsnell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi > > I have just started learning UNIX and unfortunatley my 'teacher' has been very > busy lately and unable to show me anything. > > I have started on our company printers and am using putty, I don't have any

Re: UNIX help

2000-11-30 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Griffith Feeney wrote: > Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 05:21:05 -1000 > From: Griffith Feeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: UNIX help > Resent-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:38:22 -0800 &g

Re: UNIX help

2000-11-30 Thread Griffith Feeney
The Unix Programming Environment, Kernighan and Pike. Amazon.com or the nearest bookstore for many, many more. Perhaps better yet, try google.com > Google Web Directory > Computers > Operating Systems > Unix > Tutorials (or other stops along the way). At 04:37 AM 11/30/00, you wrote: >Hi > >I have

Re: UNIX help

2000-11-30 Thread Robert Guthrie
If you have the budget for it, check out http://www.ora.com They have some of the most constently excellent books on the various unix tools and tasks (such as andministration, DNS configuration, Programming) that I've seen from any publisher. YMMV, but I swear by them, and have 8 paper books a

RE: UNIX help

2000-11-30 Thread James Preece
http://docs.my-box.org/ some good pointer once you have a system. -Original Message- From: David Teague [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 November 2000 06:38 To: Alex Horsnell Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: UNIX help On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Alex Horsnell wrote: > D

Re: UNIX help

2000-11-30 Thread David Teague
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Alex Horsnell wrote: > Does anyone out there have any prefered methods/books on learning UNIX? Alex I (think I) recall that Linus used two books, Bach's The Design of the Unix Operating System and Sobel's Hand's on Unix -- Sobel, Hands on Linux is for Linux what Hands On

UNIX help

2000-11-30 Thread Alex Horsnell
Hi I have just started learning UNIX and unfortunatley my 'teacher' has been very busy lately and unable to show me anything. I have started on our company printers and am using putty, I don't have any problems in that area, but I would like to learn more. Does anyone out there have any prefered