Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread anton
Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 00:52, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Friday 26 March 2004 8:08 pm, William Hatfield pondered and enlightened us with: I haven't quite got the hang of how to install things on Mandrake. I downloaded the Starter Guide, but it is still like greek to me. Be

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 02:19, anton wrote: What is wrong here people? Oh, that's right. WTF is rute says the complete newbie!?! The Rute users guide is a project/book aiming at a fairly good intro to whizz of Linux: http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html its free but you can also buy

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 March 2004 08:19, anton wrote: I'll second the recommendation for Running Linux, which I'm currently working my way through. At times it gets a little heavy or technical for a casual user, but on the whole it does a pretty

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread anton
Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 02:19, anton wrote: What is wrong here people? Oh, that's right. WTF is rute says the complete newbie!?! The Rute users guide is a project/book aiming at a fairly good intro to whizz of Linux: http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html its free but

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 March 2004 08:37, anton wrote: Again, wtf is urpmi, See http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi and isn't it for installing apps? It's for installing packages - and documentation comes in packages. What do you mean

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 02:37, anton wrote: Again, wtf is urpmi, and isn't it for installing apps? What do you mean you install documentation? Why do you need to install documentation? For that matter, wtf is wtf (I know, but as long as we're being argumentative ... :-) -- Chuck Mattsen /

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread Paul
On 03/27/2004 09:45 AM, Chuck Mattsen wrote: For that matter, wtf is wtf (I know, but as long as we're being argumentative ... :-) Can't be a standard command: [EMAIL PROTECTED] paul]$ man wtf No manual entry for wtf [EMAIL PROTECTED] paul]$ wtf --help bash: wtf: command not found ;-) Paul --

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:34:54 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 March 2004 08:19, anton wrote: I'll second the recommendation for Running Linux, which I'm currently working my way through. At times it gets a

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 26 March 2004 08:46 pm, Glenn wrote: On Friday 26 March 2004 20:47, William Hatfield wrote: Can someone recommend a good book on Mandrake? This stuff is confusing to me but I really like the software. Bill Hatfield www.badhatproductions.com O'Reilly's Running Linux

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread Margot
Glenn wrote: On Friday 26 March 2004 20:47, William Hatfield wrote: Can someone recommend a good book on Mandrake? This stuff is confusing to me but I really like the software. Bill Hatfield www.badhatproductions.com O'Reilly's Running Linux helped me, and still remains a good reference.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Saturday 27 March 2004 02:19, anton wrote: Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 00:52, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Friday 26 March 2004 8:08 pm, William Hatfield pondered and enlightened us with: I haven't quite got the hang of how to install things on Mandrake. I downloaded the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread Ronald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Op zaterdag 27 maart 2004 11:50, schreef Margot: Can someone recommend a good book on Mandrake? This stuff is confusing to me but I really like the software. and dont forget to start your own book :-) write some weird commands in a textfile, makes

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread julie
On Friday 26 March 2004 23:07, Chuck Mattsen wrote: I'd also recommend -- being somewhat of a miser myself, and on a very limited income at the moment -- checking out the used book sources (such as Amazon, or perhaps http://www.bookfinder.com). Don't overlook public libraries. I live in a

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-26 Thread Glenn
On Friday 26 March 2004 20:47, William Hatfield wrote: Can someone recommend a good book on Mandrake? This stuff is confusing to me but I really like the software. Bill Hatfield www.badhatproductions.com O'Reilly's Running Linux helped me, and still remains a good reference. -- 21:45:43

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-26 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Friday 26 March 2004 8:08 pm, William Hatfield pondered and enlightened us with: Cool, thanks Mark. I have downloaded this software, the one for Linux with Java. http://www.childhooddiseases.org/dOL/download_instructions.html I try to install it and I get a Java error. I am running 9.2

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-26 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 00:52, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Friday 26 March 2004 8:08 pm, William Hatfield pondered and enlightened us with: I haven't quite got the hang of how to install things on Mandrake. I downloaded the Starter Guide, but it is still like greek to me. Be patient. With time,