Buddy, I downloaded the bigslack version from the net. Can I just unzip this into the \linux directory, and with the linuz.spk kernel will it still load and run ok as long as I have the bat file setup correctly? Do I have to know some cryptic language to tell this rc.modul file what hardware I have or is it pretty straight forward? How do I know how to tell linux, for example, that I have a 3com 3c905b network card and an ensonic audio pci sound card? Will it find and install my video card correctly? Going back: When I get to the login scree and type in root and press enter, am I in? Then I can do the passwd to change the root password and do the adduser to create my user account? Another note: I tried to download the book off the net about linux installation and getting started, but I have to download each page individually, and where I found it compressed, it was a .tar.gz file, which I have to work with in linux. Any easier way to get these docs? Thanks!!! RK -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Buddy Brannan Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 9:25 AM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: another newbie Hi Ron, First thing you'll want to do is create a user account. No, scratch that. The first first thing you should do is change the root password with passwd After you've done that, *then* create a user account, from which you should do most things. Doing everything as root is a bad idea. (I.E. typing rm -rf * at the root directory is bad if you're root.) You will create the user account with adduser Slackware's pretty nice in that it will step you through the account creation, asking all the relevant questions. Yes! You can do your CD burning, listen to MP3's and wavs, record wavs, do Email, and surf the Web. (Remember...Linux was really *created* over the Internet.) I'm not sure what Email program Zipspeak comes with--I'm running the full Slackware distribution--but I use one called elm, and a lot of folks use pine, while some swear by mutt. pico is a good basic text editor. vi is the default in a lot of cases, but it's fairly arcane; if you find yourself in vi, just type :q! and you'll get out of that. Right. I don't know what to tell you about converting from Micro$haft Lookout!, but you *can* do Email. Some pages don't work in lynx, and you'll have to compile in SSL support--but you don' have to do that immediately. Most things, however, work great with lynx, and I actually prefer it for in-depth reading. About the only thing I use Windows for these days is the odd OCR job and my online banking program, which runs in Windows. Absolutely everything else I do in Linux. I'm certainly not the most experienced person here, there are lots of those on this list, but I'll certainly be glad to help if I can. Hope this helps. -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV | And if the ground yawned, Email: davros at ycardz.com | I'd step to the side and say, Phone: (972) 889-8147 | "Hey ground! I'm nobody's lunch!" Voice mail: (877) 791-5298 | --Eddie From Ohio _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
