Re: I'm so lost

2001-05-15 Thread will trillich
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 11:43:16AM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > I hope that my ramblings have helped to head you in a right direction. > Good luck with your Debian experience. nice job on those ramblings. we need more folks like you 'round here. (and over at the newbiedoc project, of course...) -

Re: I'm so lost

2001-05-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:04:14AM +0100, Gordon Hart wrote: > In case you don't know, the 'man' command tries to find a manual page > for whatever you throw at it.. as does 'info' I find info to be decidedly clumsy. apt-get install pinfo for a much nicer interface (or use the info browser in emac

Re: I'm so lost

2001-05-13 Thread Steve Gran
On Sun, 13 May 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi guys. I'm sure you get sick of fielding questions from people that > must seem braindead but I need some suggestions. > > I have made the big leap for me and installed Debian. I had a few > problems (once it crashed during install) but I'm

Re: I'm so lost

2001-05-13 Thread Gordon Hart
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 09:46:28AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have made the big leap for me and installed Debian. I had a few > problems (once it crashed during install) but I'm there, I'm at bash I dont think you say what version you installed, but see if you can get the latest potato

Re: I'm so lost

2001-05-13 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 05/13/01 09:46:28 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi guys. I'm sure you get sick of fielding questions from people that > must seem braindead but I need some suggestions. > > I have made the big leap for me and installed Debian. I had a few > problems (once it crashed during install) but I

Re: I'm so lost

2001-05-13 Thread Abner Gershon
I am like you a complete novice to unix/linux and in the process of installing Debian on my PC. I haven't installed a GUI yet so I can't help you directly with that but I can recommend a book that helped me get a basic understanding of the bash shell and Linux utilities and file system organization

Re: I'm so lost

2001-05-13 Thread ktb
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 09:46:28AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi guys. I'm sure you get sick of fielding questions from people that > must seem braindead but I need some suggestions. > > I have made the big leap for me and installed Debian. I had a few > problems (once it crashed during

RE: I'm so lost

2001-05-13 Thread Robert Schmidt
You should be able to reboot using: shutdown -h now -h means halt, you can also -r for reboot. If you could provide more info on the crash it would be helpful to the list, and you might want to get the newest version of debian (2.2r3 I believe). Check out debian.org for more info on that. -