Look at the Linux Documentation Project, in particular `The Linux
Users' Guide' and `Installation and Getting Started Guide'
(http://research.iphil.net/LDP/mirrors.html for a list of mirrors)
> 1) How do I move from one partitioned drive to another? How do I know the
> drive letters to use too?
>> "AB" == André Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AB> Since I just installed linux a few days ago from my debian 2.1 cd
AB> there
This should also be your primary choice for software for now. You will
also find mtools there. There might be newer versions of the packages
out there, but you don't
André Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yes, I'm clueless about linux basics. I'm three days into my installation
We have all been there.
> I must have installed something incorrectly because 'man fstab' says:
> "can't open the manpath configuration file /etc/manpath.config"
Yuck, I keep f
William R Pentney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you don't want to mount the drive for the entire session, you could
> also just try the following:
I shoul proof read my articles before sending them.
My /etc/fstab have almost the following lines:
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 noauto
Thanks all for the help. Seems after reading all the suggestions and
linux/debian commands you posted I found that not all of the packages
installed the first time through (some of the subdirectories are empty and
files are missing elsewhere). My paths weren't correct either.
I'm now running dsel
Thanks all for the help. Seems after reading all the suggestions and
linux/debian commands you posted I found that not all of the packages
installed the first time through (some of the subdirectories are empty and
files are missing elsewhere). My paths weren't correct either.
I'm now running dsel
André Bell wrote:
>
> I just installed debian about three days ago and have several questions
> about navigating within debian and about accessing devices. If you can help
> me with one or more of these questions it would be greatly appreciated as I
> am growing a bit frustrated with not knowing w
Subject: Re: 8 Newbie Questions
Date: Sat, May 08, 1999 at 09:04:27AM -0500
In reply to:André Bell
Quoting André Bell([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Peter Makholm wrote:
> >There is no such thing as drive letters.
> >
> >Partitions are mounted around in the direct
>
> Yes, I'm clueless about linux basics. I'm three days into my installation
> of linux and have never seen it nor any unix operating system before now.
> I've been using pc's since they came out (70's onward). The funny thing is,
> I'm a pc tech support person working for a multi-billion fortun
>> If you really really really need something that aint packaged for
>> debian please say so. Probally others needs it as well.
>
>U ... not true. I've come across a lot of software I'd like that isn't
>in .deb packages anywhere - or the packages are poorly maintained, like
>the KDE ones. Am I
> Yes, I'm clueless about linux basics. I'm three days into my installation
> of linux and have never seen it nor any unix operating system before now.
> I've been using pc's since they came out (70's onward). The funny thing is,
> I'm a pc tech support person working for a multi-billion fortune 2
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= Bell wrote:
>I just installed debian about three days ago and have several questions
>about navigating within debian and about accessing devices. If you can help
>me with one or more of these questions it would be greatly appreciated as I
>am growing a bit frustrate
Peter Makholm wrote:
>There is no such thing as drive letters.
>
>Partitions are mounted around in the directory structure and you move
>around just like on any other directory.
>
>Either you mount it (on /floppy) or uses mcopy from the mtools
>package.
>
>Read some book about unix. I'm very sorry
On 8 May 1999, Peter Makholm wrote:
> > 3) Why does debian say 'only the root can do that' when I type the line
> > below:
> > $ mount /dev/fd0 (or any other floppy drive)
> > I can't cd /dev/fd0 nor can I figure out how to access it.
>
> Because only root may mount devices as default.
>
> Ed
André Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1) How do I move from one partitioned drive to another? How do I know the
> drive letters to use too?
There is no such thing as drive letters.
Partitions ar mounted around in the directory structure and you move
around just like on any other directory.
>
I just installed debian about three days ago and have several questions
about navigating within debian and about accessing devices. If you can help
me with one or more of these questions it would be greatly appreciated as I
am growing a bit frustrated with not knowing what I am doing :)
1) How do
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