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- From: janl@ifi.uio.no (Nicolai Langfeldt)
- Subject: ***** README: How to find answers to your linux questions. *****
- Message-ID: <RTFM%19930127075905.6178@ifi.uio.no>
- Followup-To: poster
- Keywords: RTFM, RTFFAQ
- Sender: janl@ifi.uio.no (Nicolai Langfeldt)
- Reply-To: janl@ifi.uio.no
- Organization: Folkeaksjonen for gjeninsettelse av Revolvermagasinet
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:59:05 GMT
- Lines: 56
- Originator: janl@bera.ifi.uio.no
-
- Much of the volume on comp.os.linux used by questions that have been
- answered tens, hundreds or even thousands of times.
-
- Questions like:
- - I have a ACME vga card. Will it work with X11?
- - I have a ACME scsi controller. Does linux support it?
- - I have a 100Mb hd and want it all in one partition, but mkfs don't
- like block counts >65535, what do I do? (and you'll also be told why
- this isn't a good idea)
- - Can I have os/2, dos and linux on my 'puter?
- - What is the meaning of life the universe and everything?
- - I want to install Linux on my machine. Where do I start?
- - du seem to report double sizes on files, what's up?
- - I just upgraded my kernel, why don't ps work anymore?
-
- Answers on that and a lot more can be found in these documents:
-
- INFO-SHEET (what is linux, features, hardware, getting linux)
- meta-faq (linux faq, linux newsgroups, ftp, bbs'es, about which
- files to get when installing linux, mailing lists,
- + quite a lot of other info and pointers)
- faq_<Date> The complete linux faq. Contains answers on: Linux, linux
- instalation, common problems, linux and dos, more problems,
- hints, features, gcc, scsi, X11, networking, and emacs.
-
- Both the INFO-SHEET and meta-faq are posted regularly on comp.os.linux
- (recently on comp.os.linux.announce); you should be able to find it if
- you search backwards thru comp.os.linux for "INFO-SHEET" or "META-FAQ"
- in the subject line.
-
- For some this might work:
- cd /usr/spool/news/comp/os/linux # or /var/spool/news/comp/os/linux
- grep "Subject: META-FAQ" *
- grep "Subject: Linux INFO-SHEET" *
-
- You can also get it by ftp to:
- Americas: tsx-11.mit.edu (18.172.1.2) /pub/linux
- Europe: nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100) /pub/OS/Linux/doc
- Australia: kirk.bu.oz.au (131.244.1.1) /pub/OS/Linux/docs
-
- The faq is _large_ but very well organized, and face it: you have to
- read _some_ docs to keep your system running smoothly, and the faq is
- a minimum.
-
- The problem is that the people who know the answers grow tired of
- answering the same questions time after time and stop answering. This
- is not what anyone wants, so please RTFM before asking. The manuals
- might be hard to understand, but please make a effort.
-
- If people could start doing this life on comp.os.linux would become
- better and maybe we could get rid of all the split posts too :)
-
- Nicolai
- --
- Nicolai Langfeldt, "Bugs made while you wait"
- Internet: janl@ifi.uio.no
-