Here's the run down on what has happened so far... Installed Potato onto a Dell Inspiron 3000 laptop using the CD's. After a few miscues on disk partitioning, I got a good install (note: this is a debian-only box. No other OS on it). I got into X and have the Enlightenment manager running things. Tried to run Netscape, since it was listed on the menu options and nothing happened. Come to find out, Netscape wasn't loaded. I then got some good advice on downloading Galeon from the net. After, again, a few miscues (syntax is everything) I was able to run the following:
apt-get update apt-get install galeon The updates downloaded and galeon downloaded and installed. During installation, however, the install program asked about locale-gen and mentioned something about this proably affecting 8-bit fonts (or something close to that). Being new to the game, all I felt I could do was take the default suggestion. Galeon completed its install and even came up running, except that the fonts were all screwed up. I tried to look at the locale-gen file using one of the gnome text editors, and the fonts were screwed up there as well. So, I rebooted (seemed logical at the time). Now, I boot up into linux and login on the text screen. I try to run 'startx' and it says 'command not found'. I got a suggestion to run '/usr/sbin/locale-gen' and did. That action did something, but I still cannot run 'startx'. One other problem, I was trying to run balsa before all of the above occured. I could send email out, but the program temporarily locked everything up when it tried to get mail (I sent myself a test email). I know that the email was sent, because I got it on my MS box when I checked there. My goal is to get mail and browser running first. Then I plan on downloading StarOffice so that I have a functional word processor. Oh, and I hope to get this done with unfortunately limited time at the computer within the next 5 or 6 days. Thanks for all who have helped so far. i've learned much in the last few days. I'm quite rusty on unix (been 12 years since I've seen it) but I've made a commitment to switch away from M$ as much as I can. James A. Hilsenteger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (reply to the list or use the above address for reply, I'm at work on a different network during the day today, thanks)
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