i think the cd's are bad because the only thing i have gotten to work with them was the minimum installation. A lot of the packages
return errors when tryin to install default system.

Kurt Granroth wrote:

> 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.
> --
> Kurt Granroth            | http://www.granroth.org
> KDE Developer/Evangelist | SuSE Labs Open Source Developer
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