I eventually discovered lynx as well (or maybe it was elinks that I used first?) which ended up being a pretty big help in these situations. But yeah, it defin

I eventually discovered lynx as well (or maybe it was elinks that I used first?) which ended up being a pretty big help in these situations. But yeah, it definitely was a scary way of doing things. I spent pretty much an entire summer repeatedly screwing up my Debian machine and having to reinstall before I understood enough things to be slightly less dangerous. (Running "ed" by accident was memorably awful... Good luck figuring out how to quit out of ed if you're brand new to Linux.) Luckily I kept my important stuff on a separate hard drive which I left unplugged in situations like these. My main drive just contained my windows and linux partitions, and I would be damned if I was going to reboot into to windows to look things up. :-D