adding APT sources

The nice blue and white ncurses interface you get on an initial debian install where you get the choice of adding another package source or continuing the install - is it possible to run this on an up and running system, or must new sources be added manually? Thanks again, H.

Re: Unresolvable installation problem?

ng the need for a root floppy > > >Adam Jacob Muller > >On Mon, 2001-11-05 at 12:53, Harry Palmer wrote: >> I have a (decent, 400MHz PII) laptop with no CDROM and an LS120 IDE >> floppy drive instead of a standard floppy (which boot disks pick up as >> hdd).

Unresolvable installation problem?

I have a (decent, 400MHz PII) laptop with no CDROM and an LS120 IDE floppy drive instead of a standard floppy (which boot disks pick up as hdd). Is that me stuffed as far as getting potato up and running? I tried a few things with the idepci boot set, but there doesn't seem to be a way of getting

Re: video configuration issues

On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 14:54:45 -0500, you wrote: >On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 07:59:29PM +0000, Harry Palmer wrote: >| I've just started with debian on my panasonic laptop after using >| slackware for a long while, and would appreciate clarification of a >| couple of things... >|

video configuration issues

I've just started with debian on my panasonic laptop after using slackware for a long while, and would appreciate clarification of a couple of things... lilo.conf has the entry "vga=normal" and yet a some point in the boot process I get a graphical (framebuffer?) display of 640x480 in the top-left

Newbie Questions

I'm new to Linux/Unix - still trying to decide which distribution to go for in fact. I've downloaded and installed the Debian base system (boot, drivers and five base disks) to a laptop with no problems. I'd think that installing the MAN pages would be a logical next step in my learning curve, but