[aclug-L] Re: Suggestions?

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Moore wrote:
> 
> Jonathan Hall wrote:
> 
> >I'm not aware of any Linux-specific classes being offered in the area
> >(although there may be some).
> >
> >What sorts of specific things are you wanting to learn to use Linux for?
> >
> >-- Jonathan
> >
> I am also a Linux newbie.  I have only been using Linux since November.
>  I have been using it at home to do things that I did before with M$.
> As far as specific things I am wanting to know, I don't have that many.
>  Most of things I want to do is become more familiar with Linux.
> The Man pages and Info pages are sometimes helpful.  Also, there are
> some good books and tuturials that are available online.
> 
> I too would like to take some Linux classes.  First, one that would help
> me become more famaliar with using Linux and its commands.
> 
> So far, I have been able to do the same things in Linux as I did in M$
> except for a few:
> 1) I don't have a compatible scanner.

I can't help here. Have not set one up myself yet.

> 2) My color inkjet printer doesn't seem to work very well under Linux;
> so, I am currently using a black & white laserjet.

You need to set up the correct printer driver for your printer.
Some of the newer printers are not yet supported but a ton of them are.

> 
> Some things I'm wanting to learn:
> 1) I previouly had my M$ computers networked together.  Now that one of
> them is running Linux I want to network it with my other M$ computers so
> that I can share printers and files.

if you set up samba on the linux machine it can provide and use windows
shares that the other machines will have access to.  Read up on it and
you will find it is really powerful.

> 2) I currently have a two hard drive system with Linux RH7.2(hdb1/ext3)
> on one hard drive and M$ (hda1/vfat) on the other; so I can boot to
> either OS.  I was wanting to make the vfat partition on the first drive
> smaller and put an ext3 partition in the freed up space.  I thought I
> might be able to do this using the cfdisk command.  I can't seem to get
> the cfdisk command to work or I just don't know how to use it.  Any
> suggestions.

read up on fips (it is included on the dos utilities section of the
redhat linux distro CD)

if you do a defrag of the vfat partition so all the end of the partition
is free and no data gets lost then fips will let you resize the vfat
partition and create a new partition at the end.

> 
> -----Mike
> 
> >
> >
> >
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