In reply to markAut:
Yes, that's how to do it. You can have different headers and footers in each section. If you link the page number to the previous section (it's an option if you double-click the number once you've inserted it), it will start from the beginning of the document, rather than the start of the section, which I think is what you want:
Page 1: No numbering
--- Insert section break ---
Page 2: Footer: Page 2 <-- Link this number to the previous section