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I installed the Slackware Release, which I downloaded about an hour at a time from an ftp site. I ended up having to install a much larger disk, one of those gigabyte things, which I'm glad I did, and then installing a new BIOS which I bought from American Megatrends. THEN I had to partition up the disk into DOS and LINUX segments. At this point I felt like one of the world's great experts, and was ready for anything. I followed the Slackware documentation, having spent mucho tiempo reading and rereading before performing each step. The installation went quite easily (as compared to, say, trying to get Windoze 3.1 to do anything it wasn't originally configured for) once we got to that point. I'd recommend Welsh and Kaufmann, "Running Linux", another fabulous O'Reilly & Associates book. If you come from a DOS background (nothing to be ashamed of) you might find Reichard and Johnson "UNIX in Plain English" (MIS Press) an excellent introduction and reference. man pages are a little overwhelming at first, but I find that if I print them out the hard copies become very useful. Try "man cmd > afile", where cmd is the command you're interested in, and afile the name of a file you want to fill with the man page contents. You can check the size of afile, edit it if you want, and print yourself a handy copy of the part you're interested in. A "newbie" section for the Linux group would be welcome. *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------* | rich clancey PROWNESS IS ENDOWMENT | | rhc at world.std.com musical prowness | *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*
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