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Fwd: DO I KNOW SOMETHING
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From: "EDWIN R. XXXX" <censored -mph>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: DO I KNOW SOMETHING
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 08:08:37 -0500
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I DO HAVE AN INTEREST IN UNIX... HOWEVER I'M CONFUSSED ABOUT ALL THE
PROGRAMS
THAT CLAIM TO BE UNIX BUT ARE NOT CALLED UNIX ( FREEBSD - LINUX - ETC )...
I VISIT YOUR SITE OFTEN HOPING FOR INLIGHTENMENT BUT I DON'T SEEM TO BE
GETTING ANY
WHERE ON MY OWN.... I HAVE IN THE PAST BEEN ABLE TO FIGURE OUT MOST
COMPUTER STUFF ON MY OWN, BUT NOT IN THIS CASE....
I DO WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT UNIX. BUT I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START...
YOUR SYSTEM IS FREE, I CAN CERTAINLY AFFORD THAT, BUT I DON'T SEEM TO HAVE
A STARTING DOWNLOAD POINT...
MOST OTHER SOFTWARE HAS SEVERAL DISKS NUMBERED DISK 1. DISK 2., ETC...
THERE IS A BEGINNING A MIDDLE & AN END OF INSTALLATION...
UNIX SEEMS TO BE A COLLECTION OF FILES DOWNLOADABLE VIA FTP...
BUT WHERE DO I START ? WHAT DO I LOAD FIRST ? SECOND ?
ETC..................
I EXPECTED TO FIND SOMETHING LIKE :
" TO DOWNLOAD TO 1.4 DISKS GO TO THIS PALCE ( HYPERTEXT ) "
DISK - 1
DISK -2
DISK - 3
ETC............
" TO DOWNLOAD TO HARD DRIVE YOU MUST HAVE XXXXX AMOUNT OF HARD DRIVE SPACE
AVAILABLE. AFTER DOWNLOADING GO TO THE DIRECTORY, INSTALL THE PROGRAM ,
FOLLOW THE ON SCREEN INSTRUCTIONS "
THIS IS NORMAL TO ME......
I'M AFRAID OF RANDOM DOWNLOADING ANYTHING WHEN I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M
DOWNLOADING, NOR DO I KNOW WHAT IT'S FOR, NOR WHAT IT WILL DO, NOR WHAT
AFFECT IT WILL HAVE ON MY CURRENT SYSTEM.......
IT'S PRETTY SCARY STUFF TO A POOR OLD FAT BOY........
IS THERE SOME WAY THE FILES CAN BE ORGINIZED INTO A LOGICAL INSTALL FORMAT
FOR
DUMMIES LIKE ME ???
I LOVE COMPUTTING, & I REALLY WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT UNIX....
PLEASE HELP.....
THANKS IN ADVANCE
ED XXXX
THE COMPUTER JUNKIE
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