On Wednesday 03 October 2001 11:55 am, robert jorgenson wrote:
> WoW this is gonna sound dumb but...i am completely new to linux and i
> was wondering if there was a website i could go to that has a list of
> like basic commands and what you can do with them. Again i know this
> sounds dumb but i have a computer and i cant do anything with it as of
> yet because i cant get X up :( i think my distro cd's are bad...so i
> wanna connect my box to the internet and download it from an ftp site
> and build it myself. But i dont know how to do that yet :( so any help
> would be great!

I strongly recommend that you go to http://www.linuxdoc.org and check out the 
"Guides" section.  In particular, read the "Installation and Getting Started 
Guide" and "The System Administrator's Guide".  They may be a bit old, but 
they are a good starting place for Linux.

When I started out in Linux back in '95 or so, Matt's "..Getting Started.." 
guide was the ONLY method I had to learn Linux/Unix (too poor to afford a 
real book).  That guide was the reason that I went with Linux and not with 
FreeBSD..

BTW, why do you think your CDs are bad?  CDs very rarely go bad so I'd guess 
that something else is going wrong before I'd suspect that.
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