Re: New to Linux

General,
Thanks for the information, about this forum and the download sites.
I am trying duke now. My problem with the ISO disks is that disk three
just does not finish downloading. So let's hope that duke is a better
site.
I will take a look at the other items you talk about. They sound good.
Greg


"General Schvantzkoph" <schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4tji60F1451rmU6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:24:41 +0000, News - RoadRunner wrote:

Is there anywhere where someone like me that is new to Linux/Fedora can
as
the elementary questions about the OS? I have worked with the WinTel
world
for many years, but am now shifting my attention to the Linux systems.

I have a FC4 release on a test machine as of now. But am having some
strange problems with devices like the CD-RW and Floppy drives. I am
also
having problems downloading disk three (3) of the RC6 i386 ISO set from
the
project.

I could really use someplace to drop questions and not be ignored or
flamed
for dumb questions.

Thanks

Greg

This is group is fine for asking questions. You can also post them to the
Fedora Forums http://forums.fedoraforum.org/

If you are having trouble doing the download I'd suggest that you try a
different mirror, there are a lot of them,

http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html

With any Fedora release the first thing you should do after installing it
is do an update. You should also install yumex if you haven't already.
Yumex is a graphical package installer/updater, it's much better then
anything that Redhat provides.

To do the update, open up a terminal window and do the following,

su (you'll have to give your root password here)
yum -y update
yum -y install yumex

You should also install webmin, get it from http://www.webmin.com

Webmin is a browser based admin tool, you access it by doing
http://machine_name:10000 from any system on your LAN. Webmin works with
just about any Linux distribution. It's very easy to use, and it will give
you a good idea about all the services that you have available to you. To
install webmin, download the RPM and then do,

su
rpm -Uhv webmin-1.310-1.noarch.rpm


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