on Mon, May 20, 2002, Karsten M. Self ([email protected]) wrote: > on Sun, May 19, 2002, Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sun, 19 May 2002 14:33:21 +0200 > > "Robert Ian Smit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I know Debian is more difficult to install, but I hope I will benefit by > > > learning a lot. > > > > As you've no doubt already experienced, the Debian install is text based. > > No fancy GUI. But other than that I can't say that the install was trully > > any more difficult than any of the other distros that I've tried. > > Having done several Debian and RH installs in the past four months, some > curves: > > > Other odd'n'ends. A good set of TrueType fonts (the set that Legacy MS > Windows ships with somehow finds its way onto many GNU/Linux systems) is > pretty much a necessity. Configuration can't get much easier than this: > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/TT-XFree86-2.html
At least on my unstable system, I just did "apt-get install msttcorefonts". Regards Peter. -- Peter Whysall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The TLD in my email address is sdrawkcab. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 sid -- kernel 2.4.18
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