On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 11:02:32AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: > I chose Debian because of the GNU aspect, out of sheer orneryness > when everyone was telling me to take the easy route with Mandrake, > Red Hat, or SuSe, and because i liked the name. Not really > sensible reasons I would agree! (except for the first one).
Welcome! > I have just installed potato as a dual boot m/c (with dos) on a > new (for me) Cyrix120 PC. I did several installs to get the hang > of it and recover from errors made. I have it installed with no > packages selected from tasksel (except the final tasksel -s), just > the plainest setup possible (Disks as Violet 2.2 from Obsidian > systems here). > 2. I have read some of the HOWTO files particularly the one on > printing. This is a file ending in .gz and I cannot get it to > print out. Do I have to extract that particular file out of the > eng.txt first ? If so, how? If indeed you have a very simple install, you will be lacking some packages that would enable to use the following programs: program package zcat gzip less less I also found that the task-newbie-help package was not installed unless you asked for it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
