linux group idea

[rich clancey]

	I installed the Slackware Release, which I downloaded about an
hour at a time from an ftp site.  I ended up having to install a much
larger disk, one of those gigabyte things, which I'm glad I did, and then
installing a new BIOS which I bought from American Megatrends.  THEN I had
to partition up the disk into DOS and LINUX segments.

	At this point I felt like one of the world's great experts, and
was ready for anything.  

	I followed the Slackware documentation, having spent mucho tiempo
reading and rereading before performing each step.  The installation went
quite easily (as compared to, say, trying to get Windoze 3.1 to do
anything it wasn't originally configured for) once we got to that point.

	I'd recommend Welsh and Kaufmann, "Running Linux", another
fabulous O'Reilly & Associates book.  If you come from a DOS background
(nothing to be ashamed of) you might find Reichard and Johnson "UNIX in
Plain English" (MIS Press) an excellent introduction and reference.

	man pages are a little overwhelming at first, but I find that if I
print them out the hard copies become very useful.  Try "man cmd > afile",
where cmd is the command you're interested in, and afile the name of a
file you want to fill with the man page contents.  You can check the size
of afile, edit it if you want, and print yourself a handy copy of the part
you're interested in.

	A "newbie" section for the Linux group would be welcome.
	

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