Where do I begin? Basic Linux

[Sean]

did you ever get your modem working? 

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Keyes, Randall wrote:

> It's an "old" Diamond ISA 56k internal---sportster 56si with 2Mb RAM on the
> card, I believe.  Not a winmodem.
> 
> Randy Keyes 
> Network Services, JNL 
> randall.keyes@jnli.com
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean [mailto:picasso@madflower.com]
> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 11:52 AM
> To: Keyes, Randall
> Cc: linux-user@egr.msu.edu
> Subject: Re: Where do I begin? Basic Linux
> 
> 
> A nice place to get started is:
> http://www.linux.org/docs/index.html
> 
> Also there is "For People New to Both FreeBSD and Unix"
> http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/new-users/article.html
> 
> It looks pretty general so 98% of the stuff will apply to linux most
> noteably stuff related to the ports collection will fail.  
> 
> If you can't figure something out post back to the list. 
> 
> 
> On your modem problem, is that a real modem or a winmodem?
> 
> 
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Keyes, Randall wrote:
> 
> > I'm an MCP in NT4 who is learning W2K and Novell 5 for business.  However,
> I
> > have Corel Linux 2.2 and would like to learn Linux for home (and
> eventually,
> > I have little doubt) business.  
> >  
> > I'd like to know the best basic book(s) to use to begin my studies.  For
> > example, Corel Linux did a decent job of the install, but my modem is ISA
> > not PCI and was not "auto-detected."  I'd like a book that would take me
> > through a basic manual configuration and I could go from there.
> >  
> > thanks.
> > 
> > Randy Keyes 
> > Network Services, JNL 
> > randall.keyes@jnli.com
> > 
> >  
> > 
>