Re: Another Newbie Troubles with Debian

2006-05-18 Thread Chris Lale
Dov Oxenberg wrote: [ ... ] I can't help but wonder why this would not be documented in the installation instructions, The NewbieDOC wiki is an attempt to produce documentation aimed at newbies. http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Installing_Debian_on_a_small_partition may make things a litt

Re: Another Newbie Troubles with Debian

2006-05-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/05/06 12:58), Dov Oxenberg wrote: > Actually that is what I was trying to convey in my previous post...I press the > enter key and the system does it's thing, and when all is said and done, I > don't have a desktop. Maybe I am asking the wrong questionafter logging > in, whether as the

RE: Re: Another Newbie Troubles with Debian

2006-05-15 Thread Josh Utter
On Mon, 15 May 2006 9:58am, Dov Oxenberg wrote: Hi Josh, Actually that is what I was trying to convey in my previous post...I press the enter key and the system does it's thing, and when all is said and done, I don't have a desktop.  Maybe I am asking the wrong questionafter logging in,

RE: Re: Another Newbie Troubles with Debian

2006-05-15 Thread Dov Oxenberg
Hello Johannes, Thank you so much for that. And thank you as well for the "base-config" tip, that is a real time-saver for me. That appeared to do the trickafter pressing the spacebar for each component I wished to installed there was an asterisk displayed in the selection box. I don't mean t

RE: Re: Another Newbie Troubles with Debian

2006-05-15 Thread Dov Oxenberg
Hi Josh, Actually that is what I was trying to convey in my previous post...I press the enter key and the system does it's thing, and when all is said and done, I don't have a desktop.  Maybe I am asking the wrong questionafter logging in, whether as the user I created or root, is there a com

Re: Another Newbie Troubles with Debian

2006-05-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/05/06 12:26), Dov Oxenberg wrote: > First off I would like to say thanks to all of you for being so kind in > welcoming me to the list, and for your willingness to be of assistance. > I am having a similar issue to the user who posted earlier this morning > saying he was unable to load the

Re: Another Newbie Troubles with Debian

2006-05-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Dov Oxenberg wrote: Hello, First off I would like to say thanks to all of you for being so kind in welcoming me to the list, and for your willingness to be of assistance. I am having a similar issue to the user who posted earlier this morning saying he was unable to load the KDE or GNOME and susp

Re: Another Newbie Troubles with Debian

2006-05-15 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Monday 15 May 2006 13:26, Dov Oxenberg wrote: > Would some PLEASE clue me in on what the secret key is to enable the > desired selection? Try pressing the spacebar when the selection is highlighted. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpZjURHdz

Re: Another Newbie Troubles with Debian

2006-05-15 Thread Josh Utter
Sorry, messed up the debian address the first time. On Mon, 15 May 2006 9:26am, Dov Oxenberg wrote: Hello, First off I would like to say thanks to all of you for being so kind in welcoming me to the list, and for your willingness to be of assistance. I am having a similar issue to the user who

Another Newbie Troubles with Debian

2006-05-15 Thread Dov Oxenberg
Hello, First off I would like to say thanks to all of you for being so kind in welcoming me to the list, and for your willingness to be of assistance. I am having a similar issue to the user who posted earlier this morning saying he was unable to load the KDE or GNOME and suspected it was a hardw

Re: Newbie Troubles with Debian

2006-05-15 Thread Kent West
Mike Hill wrote: > I Can can run live, from Knoppix and Puppy. I like Knoppix and even > installed it to hard drive and played with it for a day. I see there > is little support from the broader Linux community, so decided to > install the full Debian. I have done the net install now, 3 different >

Re: Newbie Troubles with Debian

2006-05-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 05:09:24 -0700, Mike Hill wrote: > Greetings. I am an old hardware engineer with many years of working on > systems hardware. I recently decided to switch to Linux, and so began > a search for a desktop replacement. My experience has been > frustrating, and I wanted to ask

Re: Newbie Troubles with Debian

2006-05-15 Thread Krassen Deltchev
Mike Hill wrote: Greetings. I am an old hardware engineer with many years of working on systems hardware. I recently decided to switch to Linux, and so began a search for a desktop replacement. My experience has been frustrating, and I wanted to ask advice. I Can can run live, from Knoppix an

Newbie Troubles with Debian

2006-05-15 Thread Mike Hill
Greetings. I am an old hardware engineer with many years of working on systems hardware. I recently decided to switch to Linux, and so began a search for a desktop replacement. My experience has been frustrating, and I wanted to ask advice.I Can can run live, from Knoppix and Puppy. I like K