A book you might find helpful in your studies: Linux for Non-Geeks by Rickford Grant available from No Starch Press comes with it's own Distro of Fedora, and is written all about using Fedora Core. It is dated, but I found it very useful in learning about FC. Stu On Wednesday 21 September 2005 08:25, Lee Rhodes wrote: > Thanks EC, I knew I couldn't use Knoppix and why but maybe with what little > I've learned from it so far I can understand the course and Fedora better. > I have an offer from someone fairly close to (from PLUG) to get copies > from. I would love top go to one of these installs or any other kind of > learning experience, but right now I'm also dealing with a very sick > husband and it's hard to get away for that long. > > Lee > lenella@gigonet.com > "You're never to old to have a happy childhood" > ~George Bernard Shaw > ----- Original Message ----- > From: ec > To: plug > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 7:59 AM > Subject: Fwd: Re: Fedora > > > I don't know what/why the text was torn up, but here > is a 'corrected' hopefully??? copy of my re: > > --- ec wrote: > > Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:36:35 -0700 (PDT) > > From: ec > > To: Main PLUG discussion list > > > > Subject: Re: Fedora > > > > --- Lee Rhodes wrote: > > > I'm a new member and I'm taking a beginners course > > > in Linux. They require that I install Fedora next > > > week and gave the site to go to download it. But > > > they said if you have dial up (which I do that you > > > could see about getting a hold of a user group to > > > find out where I can it already burned on > > > > CDs > > I'm > > > > in Florence, AZ so Gilbert, Mesa, Tempe area would > > > be where I would be willing to go to get it. I do > > > have Knoppix I got to take a look at Linux. > > > Many thanks! > > > Lee> > > ///////////////// > > Here is the homepage for the list and click on > meetings, then scroll down to this saturday's (24th) > installfest. > > I suggest your 'answer' would be to go and have help > installing there. > > BACKUP ANY IMPORTANT INFO to cdroms or other places > beside the hard drive before tinkering with the hd. > > http://plug.phoenix.az.us/ > > > The instructors of any class always want people to be > 'on the same page' bookwise/os-wise. That is why they > want you to use fedora (it is probably 'his' favorite > flavor and he really doesn't know the others well > enough to teach them correctly), which is downloadable > from the internet. > > Besides, debian based Knoppix uses 'different' flavors > of packages with different procedures and names for > the packages (in many instances) than red hat based > Fedora does. They both will do the job, but trying to > figure out which 'Name' to use to do the job could end > up being harder than the class isself!!! That is it in > a nutshell. > > Cyclists should expect and demand safe > accommodation on our public roads, > just as does every other user. > > Nothing more is expected. > > Nothing less is acceptable! > > Long live Knoppix!! > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 > http://mail.yahoo.com > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss