mikshaw
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Posted: May 03 2006,18:00 |
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Navigating your system in a gui filemanager in Linux works pretty much the same as it does in Windows. The most obvious difference, as far as I'm concerned, is this...
In Windows, "My Computer" is apparently the top level of the filesystem and you navigate to individual partitions from there. In Linux, "/" is the top level of the filesystem, and individual partitions are mounted into various places depending on how you use those partitions. In DSL they are typically used for storage, and mounted in /mnt ("/"=top level, "mnt"=a directory in the top level, so put them together and you have "/mnt" or "/mnt/").
You generally start in your home directory, and do most things from there. The Linux home directory is the equivalent Windows' "Documents and Settings\yourname" directory. In DSL, this home is /home/dsl ("home" is a directory in the top level, and "dsl" is a subdirectory of "home"). Navigating with a gui file manager, such as Emelfm, you'd also start in /home/dsl, so in order to get to /usr/share/doc/dsl, you'd need to go up two levels to /, then go into usr, then share, etc....
Browsing for files works the same way with a file selector dialog.
Or you can use the "cd" command:
cd /usr/share/doc/dsl
Then you'd be in the appropriate directory.
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