[TriLUG] good newbie book

[Beth Ellison]

all of the RH manuals for 7.1 (and other versions) are free online. They 
should help.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux


>From: Lisa Lorenzin <lorenzin at 1000plus.com>
>Reply-To: trilug at trilug.org
>To: Triangle Linux Users Group <trilug at trilug.org>
>Subject: [TriLUG] good newbie book
>Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 10:18:09 -0500 (EST)
>
>
>hi there!
>
>i just gave my father his first linux box.  and then ducked. :)
>
>dad has been using and hacking on computers since the apple II -
>unfortunately, he now works for m$, which tends to influence his
>expectations (for example, he's accustomed to windows just automagically
>recognizing every piece of hardware that comes near the box).  he's
>interested in learning more about linux, but so far has been very
>frustrated by the gotchas that come with running linux on a piece of
>hardware that would otherwise be a doorstop.
>
>the good news is the box is running red hat 7.1 and has 32 meg of RAM; the
>bad news is that it's a dell optiplex from 1995 with 4 gig of hd, a
>non-pnp isa ethernet nic, and an ibm 8515 monitor.  (mike, our household
>magician, actually managed to convince x to run at 1024x768 on that
>dinosaur!).
>
>mike and i spent a good chunk of the thanksgiving holiday working on the
>box with him, and came up with several questions:
>
>can anyone recommend a good newbie book that won't insult his
>intelligence?  he IS a computer geek - it's just that he's a dos/windows
>computer geek, so a lot of the commands and concepts in linux are new to
>him.  (he found linuxnewbie.com already, but is looking for a book because
>it's easier to read large amounts of information in hardcopy.)
>
>does anyone know why the standard red hat 7.1 server installation doesn't
>install linuxconf by default?  (this one really gets me.  i tend to think
>that people running servers are MORE likely to need to reconfigure bits of
>their system...  altho that may just be my bias, since i run my own
>server.  i don't know whether it's installed by default on a workstation
>install, either.)
>
>can anyone tell me how to use rpm (the command) to determine what rpm
>(package) contains the library i need, when the rpms (packages) are on the
>cd, rather than installed?  specifically, i want the moral equivalent of
>rpm -qp --whatprovides libfoo.so.1, but when i try that, it tells me i can
>only do one type of query at a time.  (sigh.)
>
>if you don't install a windowing environment at the beginning, is there
>any less painful way to install kde than installing each kde rpm one at a
>time and going fishing back through the rest of the rpms to figure out
>which rpm provides the library it says it requires?  (yes, that's how the
>previous question came about.)
>
>more generally, is there any way to tell rpm "install this RPM, and if it
>has any dependencies, install the things it depends on, too?"  (similar to
>the way CPAN handles installs - if you try to install a bundle that
>depends on modules that you haven't installed yet, you can tell it just to
>install all the modules it needs and then install the bundle...)
>
>and, last but definitely not least - can anybody provide pointers on how
>to get a NON-pnp isa card working under 7.2? *wry grin*
>
>thanks in advance for any advice you guys can offer.  situations like this
>make me realize how much i DON'T know about linux yet...  i feel like the
>blind leading the blind.
>
>							lisa
>
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