[NBLUG/talk] newbie

[Bill Kendrick]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 11:22:26PM -0700, Sy Richardson wrote:
> just joined your group and am looking forward to learning linux. 

Welcome!


> 1.i am wondering where you would suggest that i go to learn the basics of linux. there is a great learning center called webtorials.com for networking, voip, etc and i was wondering if such a resource existed for the linux community. perhaps a certain library book in the sonoma system. 
> 
> i have seem some tutorials but they all assume varying levels of linux prequal. i guess i need to start at the very beginning.... pretty fast learner.

I've never actually read it, but heard good things about O'Reilly's
"Running Linux."


> 2. i have installed redhat 7.3 and want to upgrade to redhat 9.0. i downloaded and burned the 3 CD images from redhat but the upgrade screen eludes me. i also put the bootdisk.img on CD #1. hmmm. i must admit i downloaded and burned the images on a xp machine because the linux was not cooperating yet. is this the problem?

Mm... haven't done RedHat in a while, sorry.  I'm sure someone out here
has some tips!

-bill!
from LUGOD in Davis (www.lugod.org) ;^)