Re: new to debian...

2000-01-26 Thread Jim Kannengieser
Thank you for this suggestion. I tried it last night and the upgrade went very well, except for one problem. X no longer starts. I get a specific socket-related error message, but I left the text of it at home and won't have be able to quote it for a while. However, I can say that even XF86Setup fa

Re: new to debian...

2000-01-25 Thread Jim Kannengieser
Thanks for the info on using apt. One more question, if you don't mind Won't this take forever over my ISDN line? I have access to a T1 at work, so that might be the better choice. If not, then I'll try apt at home over ISDN. Cheers, Jim On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Just insta

new to debian...

2000-01-24 Thread Jim Kannengieser
Hi. I just installed debian on my pc last night (converting from rh 6.1). I downloaded an iso image of the latest stable version (slink 2.1r4). Installation was a snap. I like it, even if it is less colorful that red hat's latest installer. Because I wasn't sure of frequency of debian updates and t