Hi, I have recently installed debian (1.1beta) for the first time, my previous system being Slackware 3.0. I have had a number of problems and would appreciate some help.
* My machine name is "destiny" and when trying to rlogin from destiny to destiny I get the following problem: > rlogin destiny -l root destiny.phillips.com.au: Network is unreachable could the problem be that in the installation setup, I specified my machine as a nameserver - should I have not done this? * Why do I automatically get an xterm coming up when I start X? It didn't happen with Slackware. * I've installed color-ls but I still don't get color? The same for X. * Why is pppd not setuid root, like the PPP-Howto says it should be? Is the PPP-Howto the best document to read about PPP for debian - or is there some debian specific documentation? * Why is there no ppp-off script? * When using dselect to install some software, I got a conflict between cpp and gcc. This doesn't make sense does it? Surely you need both? * Is it true that dselect automatically updates to newer versions of packages (if a newer version appears in the directory structure and you run dselect)? What do you do if you want to reinstall the same version of a package - can you do it? (for example you might want to re - set it up) * I had some errors when doing a man: Updating index cache for path 'usr/man'. Wait...man can't open /usr/man/man2/modules.2: No such file or directory man: warning:/usr/man/man2/create-module.2 bad symlink or ROFF '.so' request ... ... ... and more messages like this Well that's enough problems for now. Thanks in advance for your help. Mark Phillips.
