On 4 Dec 1999, Ray Woodcock wrote: ray-wo >debian:/usr/src# dir ray-wo >debian:/usr/src#
dont panic thats not a problem :) you just dont have the kernel source package(s) installed. ray-wo >In other words, there seems to be nothing in there. Is this normal? Also, ray-wo >when I type ?man? at the prompt, I get ?command not found.? In general terms, ray-wo >is there a diagnostic that verifies I got the whole enchilada installed? if you mean if you got the whole distribution installed (sorry havent been following this thread i dont think) go to dselect and run 'install' it will tell you wether you got all the packages (that you selected) installed or not. (to everyone else: is there a way to re invoke the pre selection process where you can choose profiles? and it pre selects packages according to what you want). if there are no errors then chances are you dont have everything installed.. going to the select screen..you can select everything you need and install .. there really isnt any such thing as having 'the whole enchilada' installed. i believe it would be impossible to have every package installed because there are some that cannot co exist with each other. so i cant think of a way that someone could run such a check. ray-wo >Microsoft-style bloat. Am I correct in thinking that dselect is structured in ray-wo >such a way as to support this fond hope? Will I bloat if I instead use a ray-wo >profile? Is there a way to invoke the profiler outside of the installation ray-wo >sequence? (It didn?t arise during installation, for some reason.) when i do installs i just install everything, except the chinese support..can always remove stuff later. i wish i knew how to re invoke the profile thing . ray-wo >schemes? (b) Point-by-point objective comparisons of versions of Emacs? (c) ray-wo >High-quality discussions of various utilities, office suites, etc.? don't know of any such things off the top of my head, 32bitsonline has some reviews sometimes. I am hoping that MaximumLinux (www.maximumlinux.com) will be a magazine with such information. ray-wo >4. Am I roughly correct in thinking that, after the installation is done, the ray-wo >next thing is to install the windowing/GUI software, and then after that it?s ray-wo >a free-for-all in which I will just install as many pieces of application ray-wo >software as I can stomach? Along those lines, can I rest my faith in Emacs as ray-wo >my do-all Swiss Army knife, or should I be expecting to install eight trillion ray-wo >utilities and gizmos? if you do a full slink install, including say the contrib and non free you should have practically everything you could want. some things like netscape and real player cannot be distributed with debian so you gotta d/l them and use the packages as a front-end to install.. one of the reasons i chose debian is the MASSIVE amount of packages(and that is the one reason i am so dissapointed with corel is the LACK of packages) good luck! nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 12:47pm up 107 days, 29 min, 6 users, load average: 1.89, 1.73, 1.69
