[Trinux-talk] NewBie Blues - Take 2

[Intrusion D. <ide...@ya...>]

TO add insult to injury ... I originally sent this
email to the news group!!! Is this an indication of
Newbie-itus or what?!?!? DUH!!!! 

ANyway, hope someone can help with this ......
(although somewhat embarrassed, I include the original
email)

OK,

Up front people ... I apologize (or apologise) for the
dumb questions I am about to ask but I am a newbie to
Linux having just, and I do mean just, installed SUSE
and now trying my hand at Trinux. OK, so I'm trying
the switch  .........

REQUEST: 

1. Request on installation procedures
Sorry but the documentation on the website is not the
best for us REALLY newbie folks

2. With the exception of NMap, how the other programs
are run within the Trinux environment;

3. After you get up off the floor from your spat of
uncontrollable laughter, realise (or realize) that I
am truly serious. 

4. rather than post to the entire group I would
appreciate a little hand holding here from a
"sympathetic" subscriber.

In advance, I thank you.

Environment:
1. OS - Windows '98 (OK,OK, I'm also a tad bit behind
in that area!!)

2. HArdware: IBM THinkpad 600. Am willing to give mre
details, but only after receipt of individual email.

3. Used the latest version of Trinux and the IDE
image;

4. Wrote the image file to a floppy using RawWrite;

5. Created the c:/trinux directory and copied all the
files from the website to this directory (I used the
website in Texas (duh);

6. Turned system off and rebooted from floppy:

7. ON boot:
7.1 Kernel Loaded (v 2.4.5)
7.3 Created HDA1 through HDA6 (From my limited
experience these are hard disks recognized by the
Linux system and I have NO idea why there are so many.
I have but 2 partitions: 1 for Windows and 1 for SUSE
Linux);

7.3 Added packages like the bash (I do get the BASH#
prompt) and some others that were downloaded;

8. Welsome message appears with a request to activate
the console by pressing return.

OK ......so I press enter and get <BASH#> then I try
to activate the other programs (e.g. scanners,
ipaudit, and nothing but "sh: ipaudit: command not
found" then back to the prompt.


Sooooooooo, there ya go. Now, can someone please help.
I have searched through the email archives and a
French guy came close to the problem I am having, but
there was no definitive answer. 

ANyways, hope I have been detailed enough.

Kind regards





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