Thanks. I just had a windows box come in with a corrupt file thats preventing it from booting. May try and thow Knoppix at it so I can get to that file. More fun the booting into dos. 8-)
On 1/13/06, Greg Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cool man, welcome to the Linux pack. There are tools in newer > distributions > past RH 9 that make life so, so much easier. That said, there is > something > to be said about building packages "the old way" where when you attempt to > install something from RPM but can't and you have to dig, dig, and dig > somre > more to figure out in what package "wtf.h" is located and how to install > it. > > First thing I'd suggest with the home machine is upgraded to the latest > Fedora core, if you want to stay with RedHatish Linux, or go with CentOS, > or > Debian sarge. It might not even hurt to give FreeBSD or OpenBSD a slice > of > the HD to see how that side of the world lives. > > For projects start with the sql/php stuff, that is always fun, and maybe > try > to create a samaba shared drive. After that try a domain controller > maybe. > There are so many cool things you can do with Linux it is hard to pick a > good starting point. Just make sure you download a "live" CD at some > point > too, Knoppix is my weapon of choice though a lot of people swear by Ubuntu > Live. Once you get the hang of Knoppix you won't know how you lived > without > it as a sysadmin. Have a trashed system that you need to recover files > from? With Knoppix you just boot the CD, mount the harddrive by > double-clicking on it then start the Samaba server. From there you mount > the drive that wouldn't boot across the network via the Samba box and > volia! You can back up the critical files from the machine and proceed to > rebuilding all within 30 minutes. It's sweet. > > Anyway, welcome. > > Greg > > On 1/13/06, Chad Thomsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am a windows/as400/cisco/motorola system admin who finally decided to > > pick up linux and REALLY try and learn it. By the way the power and > > flexibilgy of Linux rocks, and I REALLY like the fact that I can teach > my > > self all kinds of stuff with out having to purchase some super expensive > > developer pacakage (Microsoft Visual Studio). Anyways back to the > > topic. I > > am trying to find out a few good projects I can do to my home machine to > > learn linux form a system adminstrator point of view. So far I have a > > Centos box here at work with Apachee/Snort/MySQL/Base loaded up, and a > Red > > Hat 9 box at home. My home machine is a true lab box as in I can crash > it > > and I won't loose sleep. As far as reading materials I have the > > "Introduction to Linux" PDF found all over the internet, and Red Hat 9 > > unleashed. I have also put Cygwin on my win box at work so I could get > > mor > > comfy with the shell. > > > > As far as future projects, I figured I would start by setting up > > Apachee/Coppermine/MySQL (or use Gallery) to set up an internet site > with > > a > > buch of photos since I like to tinker with photography when not riding > > mountian bikes or doing system admin type work. I also figured I would > > teach myself PERL so I can do some administrative type scripting on my > > Linux > > boxes. Is PERL the way to go? I ask this because Windows, which I am > > most > > familiar with, allows you to script in a few languages (java, vbscript, > > and > > others if you install add ons). > > > > Sorry if this post sounds really "newbieish" but I don't really have > many > > folks to talk to about Linux as I am an army of one at work when it > comes > > to > > operating systems and networks. Any opinions would be appreciated. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Chad > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
