On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 04:23:23AM -0700, abram olson wrote: | I'm new to debain although I've been using mandrake | and freebsd for a while. | | I have a few questions that I've been up all night | trying to figure out. Any help will be greatly | appreciated! | | 1. I prefer my machine to boot to a command prompt | not to boot into X. Its set up to be using gdm. | Where do I change this? Can someone point me to a | good explanation of how debian boot scripts are | organized? Which init level is multi-user without X? | In mandrake its 3 but that is halt in bsd if I'm | remembering correctly so.....
Debian sets up all (except 0 1 6) runlevels the same. It is up to you to decide which runlevel you want to mean what. Simply remove the link to /etc/init.d/gdm from the runlevel you don't want it to run from. (ie 'rm /etc/rc2.d/S99gdm') Alternatively you can use the 'update-rc.d' command and give it a bunch of command line arguments and it will take care of the links for you (see the man page). | 2. apt-get. wow. how cool is that? Now, if my | machine only had internet access. I'm downloading all | the packages I want to use that weren't on the cd on | my friends dialup and then moving them to my machine. | How can I set up apt-get to use a local directory (in | addition to the cd's)? or do I have to dpkg -i all of To use apt-get you need a Packages.gz file and things must reside under a certain directory hierarchy (this is how it knows whether the package is in woody or potato and whether it is in main, non-us, non-free, etc). dpkg -i is fine, just put all the ones you need on the same command so that you don't get wild dependency errors. You can still use apt-get to remove stuff. | em? To complicate matters I prefer to build from | source. I've got source of a whole slew of programs I | want to install and I can't make use of them ;-) I | feel dumb. All I know about building from source (to a .deb on Debian) is that 'apt-get source' works :-). I haven't gotten there yet. | 3. Any idea why mouse wheel works for most everything | except quake3? That made a beginner of me again too. Uhh, maybe quake3 is braindamaged? I don't have quake3, but I have noticed that some programs/toolkits completely ignore the scroll wheel. (BTW at work here we have quake3 on a couple of winNT/2k boxes and a Mac (OS9 I think) and the scrolling is nice on the PCs. The Mac has that really small and stupidly shaped mouse with only 1 button!) HTH, -D
