I just installed linux on my home pc for the first time this weekend, and the Debian Tutorial made it much easier to grasp the basic file manipulation commands. While they are fresh in my mind, I'd like to point out a few possible areas for improvement:
- section 4.1 introduces the 'man' command, and the rest of the document assumes that users will have access to the man and info pages. My installation is on a laptop without a CD-ROM, so all I had at the time were the files from the base disks. This meant that attempts to use man/info returned 'command not found' errors, which was rather frustrating and did slow me down a bit. It would be helpful to users starting with a skeletal system if there were some sort of note indicating that these features might not be available until the standard packages are installed. - more generally: it took me a bit of trial and error to realize that screen output longer than a page can be piped to 'more', and it was only yesterday that I learned about using RightShift - PageUp to scroll backwards. It would be great if either or both of these techniques were mentioned early on (perhaps in 4.1.2 or thereabouts?) Thanks again for a very helpful document!
