Subject: Re: 8 Newbie Questions Date: Sat, May 08, 1999 at 09:04:27AM -0500
In reply to:André Bell Quoting André Bell([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Peter Makholm wrote: > >There is no such thing as drive letters. > > > >Partitions are mounted around in the directory structure and you move > >around just like on any other directory. > > > >Either you mount it (on /floppy) or uses mcopy from the mtools > >package. > > > >Read some book about unix. I'm very sorry but you seem rather clueless > >on some fundemental stuff and then its hard to help. > > Yes, I'm clueless about linux basics. I'm three days into my installation > of linux and have never seen it nor any unix operating system before now. > I've been using pc's since they came out (70's onward). The funny thing is, Ahh, so you might rember CP/M ? > I'm a pc tech support person working for a multi-billion fortune 200 > company and I assumed that linux would work as many other computer systems > work, i.e. with drive assignments. (Cocky Translation: 'If it's on a pc I > can figure it out'. I've been humbled...) > [snip ] > > >Edit you /etc/fstab and put auto as an option in the line mentioning > >/dev/fd0. > > > >Please read "man fstab" first. > > I must have installed something incorrectly because 'man fstab' says: > "can't open the manpath configuration file /etc/manpath.config" > The basis install doesn't include some rather necessary packages. Get the man-db and manpages packages. Those will take care of the basics. If you are going into this deeper also load the manpages-dev package. do ls /usr/doc/HOWTO/* (thats like C:>dir \windows\startup ) You will file a lot of files that that have a lot of what you are/will be looking for. > When I cd /etc and then type ls manpath.*, it shows manpath.config.dpkg-new > I'm guessing this means the installation was interrupted or is this the > same as manpath.config just with extra extensions? > try less /etc/manpath.config ( like more c:\windows\help ) > Thanks very much for your help!!! > > Andre' > ... headed back to http://www.debian.org > > Read a book? Is that a text file or pdf? > uhh, yes :-) HTH -- In a five year period we can get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the five year period will begin. _______________________________________________________ Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>