First, post to the list in plain text, please. Next you may want to download/burn the RH8 ISO's from a mirror site like ftp://redhat.newaol.com/redhat/linux/8.0/en/iso/i386/ At least then you'll know you have good media. Who knows what the "dummies" shipped. A good series of books to really look at are the O'Reilly books (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/prdindex.html). "Running linux" and "linux in a nutshell" are great books, and quite easy to understand. Last but certainly not least, when you post a question, use a short summary of the problem in the subject instead of something like NEWBY-HELP!. Most times I'll just delete these instead of reading the email to find out what the problem is. Post something like "Problems with install from RH8 for Dummies CD's" or something more specific. One last thing. Check out the LUG (Linux User Groups) in your area. There are most likely quite a few people in your area that have their own mailing list and can help you out. You can start a search here. http://www.ssc.com:8080/glue/groups/ Shaun -----Original Message----- From: MeMySelf&I [mailto:odak@stic.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 12:58 AM To: psyche-list@redhat.com Subject: NEWBY-HELP! Greetings from the land of the lost within Red Hat v8.0. I recently purchased a copy of "Red Hat Linux® 8 for Dummies" by Jon Hall and Paul Sery published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. The CD's that came with the book would NOT work, could NOT boot from them because the IMG file was NOT there. Requested info from Wiley and they said it would be e-mailed to me, well it never arrived. I contacted Red Hat by telephone and they gave me a location on the web to find the data needed to create a boot disc. I did and now am having trouble with the system NOT wanting to display messages in Ximian Evolution because I have changed the Font for my system. The print was too small so I increased the size and changed to Century Bookmark 11, 12, 14, and then back to 8, 9, and then 10. Finally set Luxi San 8 and my messages would show again but the Headers are NOT showing. Plus my root access works but when I use Terminal for command line access the 'Space Bar' will NOT move the cursor so am unable to move around, then finally the letters stopped appearing, so I reinstalled from my CD's. Was able to do some work as root but later my 'Space Bar' again stopped working. I can get some things done from my user access and then doing the 'su' access. Some times my clicking on the RedHat icon to logout or select another function will NOT give me a drop down menu, the keyboard will NOT even work using 'Ctrl+Alt+Bksp' nor 'Crtl+Alt+Dlt', cannot even logout nor shut down the system. The only thing that would work is the UGH!! 'Reset Button' on the chassis. Have NOT been able to find any 'User Groups' for NEWBYS or Dumbies like myself. Enough of this, should I just remove the system and go back to UGH!!! WindBlows? I hate MicroBarf. Any guidance would be of great assistance. I am NOT a programmer, but do like working with this system. I know most of the subscribers to this list are much farther advanced than myself, but; what is a NEWBY to do? 'd' -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
