[102201] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RH 5.2 - Variety Pack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (FLWireless)
Tue Dec 1 21:12:13 1998
From: "FLWireless" <tom@flwireless.net>
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Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 21:25:26 -0500
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My view on this is that the book gets you to the point of being able to use
the man pages (I find these most useful) and the HowTo's (where I go if I
can't make head nor tails of the man page). If RedHat were to furnish all
of this information in a printed manual the price would have to be at least
$100, just to cover the price of the paper.
If you would like to configure sendmail, print out the sendmail howto, it's
very concise, and basically walks you through the installation and
configuration.
Here are some basic things I would suggest for a first time linux user
(we're all newbies as fast as things change)
1.) Buy some 3 ring binders,
a) label 1 "Notes" write down everything you learn, you may not
think you need it now but you will.
b) label the next "scripts", anytime you see a piece of code
pass through the group, news group, or correspondence with
someone helping you on a one to one basis.
c) label the 3rd as documentation, anytime you print out a man
page, or HowTo, make a tab for it and put it in here.
Within one week you will see the value in this, and you will be on your way
to having more, and better information than you can buy in a store.
2.)
Thomas L. Gaume
Vice President of Operations
Wireless Internet Services of Florida, Inc.
http://www.flwireless.net
HOW FAST DO YOU WANT TO GO TODAY
----- Original Message -----
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 1998 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: RH 5.2 - Variety Pack
>Lloyd Sumpter wrote:
>
>> Well, I'mn not a newbie, but I was dissappointed with the book and the
>> "support" from the Official Distribution. The book was Microsoft-like -
it
>> didn't really tell you anything that you couldn't read on the screen
during the
>> install
>
>You probably expected it to be a Microsoft type of book, and did not read
>much of it. If you had, I sincerely believe you would have learned
something
>helpful and valuable.
>
>> (eg I wanted to change the menus on X - nothing! Set up mail - Nothing!
>> Set up samba - nothing!) And I have yet to hear from a human from
>> support@redhat.com, despite my many e-mails.
>
>Did you email any questions that were within the scope of what they
>claim to support, i.e. basic installation? If you agreed to support
>only installation, and someone asked you about tweaking X menus
>and sendmail configuration, would you answer?
>
>>
>
>>
>> I'd say get the disk from wherever and get a good book on Linux from
the
>> bookstore (shop around - there's one for every level of expertise)
>
>You will not find more concise RedHat 5.x-specific install guide anywhere.
>
>It does what it says: it plays the 'basic installation guide' role and very
well.
>It's short enough to read, and has enough good info to make installation
work.
>There is even a hint of humor here and there.
>
>No question - you can do it without the book.
>It will just be harder.
>
>By the way, the book is on the CD and their web sites too.
>They are not trying to keep it from you.
>But it is not easy to read a fair sized book online while installing,
>unless you have two computers.
>
>--
>
>Jan Carlson
>janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
>Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
>
>
>
>
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