"Day Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh yeah. How else would I have the manual? and given the > size of drives nowadays, I routinely ask for everything > on the cd to be copied onto the HD, and have always asked > for all the documentation as well. but so far as I can > tell, the only thing there is man and info, and whatever > it is that they can access.
As far as you can tell? I know I've mentioned to check in /usr/doc to you more than once on this very list. My old RedHat 5.1 manual (from back in the dark days of documentation) has a Chapter with the cryptic title "Finding Documentation" that has a hand-hold of where to find information, including /usr/doc. If I'm not mistaken, the electronic texts of several books are routinely installed there if you've got an Official RedHat package. They're definitely on the CD in any case. > > In paper format, perhaps. I did mention "online" though. > When I first got RH, it would not run the ppp driver. Online, on disk, on CD. In electronic format. Not on paper. As described in the manual under "Finding Documentation." Mine included full PDF versions of "Teach Yourself Unix in 24 Hours" (572 pages) and "RedHat Linux Unleashed, 2nd Ed." (329 pages), plus "Apache Server Survival Guide" (548 pages), plus a .DOC of "Getting Started with RedHat Linux" (11 pages). FYI, the "Unleashed" document has a nice chapter on "when the system crashes." So much of the high priests of academia not admitting that Linux can crash, eh? I don't fault you for having a hard time getting started with Linux, nor even for making finding the documentation out to be overly difficult. What torques me off is when you continually make statements about Linux that are plain WRONG and misleading (i.e. "no documentation", "must use same distribution to recover disk", "kernel trashed drive", "intended for the academic elite") without having spent a whole lot of time on actually FINDING OUT. You clearly have been overjoyed at the fact that a DOS partition can be used to aid recovery, but haven't spent as much time on anything else. Perhaps you have searched for answers in newsgroups. But before you go making incorrect statements here, why not ask HERE first rather than making statements that might scare off someone considering an alternative OS? - Bob To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
