On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 01:58:51PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Carel & newsgroup: > > Never could get apt-get install to work, but the following got me going: > > apt-cdrom add for each of the 3 disks > apt-get update > dselect (Using Q option to force; was this unwise??)
if you want to use dselect, then you have to tell dselect to update its databases too: in dselect select Update once in a while. > Anyway, I now have some important directories in place, for example > X11 in /usr. However, I can't find xfconfig or startx or gnome or kde or, > even a dialer like wvdial. I have done updatedb; but "locate" still comes > up empty. Can you please point me to a howto for assistance with > getting up a gnome desktop and getting a dial up terminal going?? to setup a dialup account use pppconfig and fill in the dots:) -- groetjes, carel
