Getting started with Linux

i think google is a good bet.

manual bash (or pretty much anything else you want to know about)

There is no reason not to install X/KDE first. You can learn the command line interface using one of the emulators. This will give you some simplicity while you are still learning your way around a Unix/Linux system.

Check out the linux documentation project (mirror site) for quite a few tutorials and how tos on everything you''ll ever want to know. Especially check out the Getting Started section.

You can always install it all then just set it up to boot to console/text mode and then just get into the graphical when you want to by startx. Then if there comes a point in time where you want to boot GUI only, change initdefault in /etc/inittab from 3 to 5 (3 = multiuser, console, 5 = multiuser, GUI).

Also, you may want to give more to your "install" partition -- I''m assuming you mean /. I forget how much space a 7.0 install takes but you always want to give yourself some breathing space for /tmp, /var, etc...

Some basic commands and what they would be in DOS:
ls = dir
cd = cd
mkdir = md
rmdir = rd
cat = type
rm = erase/del
mv = move
man = help
echo = echo

Past that, just dig around in the binary directories (/sbin, /usr/bin, etc..) and start figuring out what the different commands do. That''s how I learned Linux, just a lot of playing around....

I have some experience with Unix commands since I''ve used at college for some simple stuff(Scripts, etc.). We installed it last monday and I installed it at home today. I have it running, but the bootloader doesn''t show up(I have set it up Dual Boot) so I have to use the bootdisk. I go take some tutorials, get my VI knowledge back and read some tutorials about disk mounting, user stuff(We do that at school next week anyway). But I go google and search the site later you guys gave me.

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Lucky, you get Linux at school. We''re stuck with unreliable win95 computers running IE5.

Try Linux Newbie to start. If you''ve been using Linux enough at school, however, you should know most of the basic commands, and with SilentReaper''s information text-mode should be a breeze.

I''d recommend you install X first, that way you can get the GUI and run virtual terminals in it which will allow you to learn the commandline regardless.

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Switch to Windows it''s the best operating system in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Original post by evil sausage
Switch to Windows it''s the best operating system in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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He''s running windows.

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He''s running windows.

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If you can call it that... my box still trys to do a thorough scan disk at every boot.