John Gay wrote: > > I've been following this list fro a while and currently have 2.1 installed on > my PC at home. I got a CD from a friend who provides various CD's for the > asking here in Ireland. I choose Debian because I like the philosophy
Welcome! I'll try to answer a couple of your questions below. > I recently got internet access on the Windows side, but I'm not sure > how to set it up for the Linux side. I've got a Sportster internal modem that > work with minicom, but only after I hot-sync my Palm III over ttyS0??? Debian has a script at /usr/sbin/pppconfig which is a simple way to set up an internet connection. It prompts you for the all the neccessary information such as phone number, and uses that info to create/edit the appropriate files. You can then connect by using "pon", disconnect using "poff", and monitor the progress using "plog". Often, the one piece of information that people aren't sure of is the authentication method used by your service provider such as PAP, CHAP etc. Since you have it working in Windows, I believe the Win9X connect box shows this information in "details" after a connection is made. > I think my best option is to ; > Connect to the internet and update my system to potato. > My worry is, being new to the entire UNIX/Linux type system, that unless I'm > very careful, I'll end up with a completely broken system. For now at least, you might be better off sticking with slink. There's certainly no reason to upgrade to potato just to get connected to the internet. > I also want Netscape. The slink (stable) distribtion has several versions of Netscape Communicator packaged in the non-free section. If you set up apt-get to connect to a Debian ftp site, and aim it at slink, these commands: apt-get update (to get the package information files) apt-get install communicator-smotif-45 communicator-nethelp communicator-spell will download and install Communicator 4.5 and all it's dependencies, plus the the spell checker and help. To set up apt-get for this, you need to edit the file /etc/sources.list to tell it where and which distribution to connect to. See the man pages for apt-get and for sources.list for info on how to do this: man apt-get man sources.list > Does anyone know if there are any tools for windows to access an ext2 > partition? There is a free program call explore2fs, which allows access to ext2 partitions from both WinNT 4.0 and Win9X. I can't connect to the site right now, but I recently used this url successfully to get to it: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/Explore2fs.htm I use it to read my Linux partitions from Win98, but have never tried to write to ext2 with it. I believe the author states that the write code may still have some bugs in Win9X. Good luck, Tom
