Re: On Learning Debian

2002-10-03 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 03 October 2002 04:56 am, Robert Wilhelm Land wrote: > Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > I added USB to my 2.4.18 kernel not long ago to support an unsupported > > web cam. When I say unsupported, I mean really unsupported by the > > manufac

Re: On Learning Debian

2002-10-03 Thread Kent West
Mark Seven Smith wrote: > I wish to really master Debian. > What is the suggested course to follow, to learn? Just do it. :-) Hopefully on a second box, so that you can keep one running while getting the hang of Debian, just install it. Learn by doing. But before posting questions to this li

RE: On Learning Debian

2002-10-03 Thread David Pastern
f i'm wrong guys, i'm not sure if Debian patches stuff like that into the kernel, or if it uses stock standard kernels). Dave -Original Message- From: Robert Wilhelm Land [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 3 October 2002 9:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; David Pastern Subject:

Re: On Learning Debian

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > I added USB to my 2.4.18 kernel not long ago to support an unsupported web > cam. When I say unsupported, I mean really unsupported by the manufacture! > They don't even support M$ users. A fellow M$ user gave it to me when he > couldn't get it to work on his

Re: On Learning Debian

2002-10-03 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ http://www.aboutdebian.com/index.htm http://www.debianhelp.org/ http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ http://www.debian.org/doc/ Mark Seven Smith wrote: > I wish to really master Debian. I've run Red Hat and SuSE; but I have > switched to Debian, because I have alwa

Re: On Learning Debian

2002-10-02 Thread jeff
> I wish to really master Debian. I've run Red Hat and SuSE; but I have switched > to Debian, because I have always wanted it--and I don't like to have everything > done for me, all my choices made for me, the way the two mentioned distros do. > The thing is, having run those distros in the past,

Re: On Learning Debian

2002-10-02 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I will attempt this one paragraph at a time. On Wednesday 02 October 2002 10:31 pm, Mark Seven Smith wrote: > I wish to really master Debian. I've run Red Hat and SuSE; but I have > switched to Debian, because I have always wanted it--and I don't li

Re: On Learning Debian

2002-10-02 Thread Andrew Luke Nesbit
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Mark Seven Smith wrote: > There is so much to learn! That is true, and also explains why learning Debian can be a bit overwhelming at times. It took me a about a year before I started to really feel comfortable with it. I have a few tips for you: * Become comfortable at un

Re: On Learning Debian

2002-10-02 Thread Matt Price
hi there, rebuilding the kernel really isn't as hard as you might think. I'm a total newbie, and it was one of the first things I did (had to, didn't do it by choice). I've attached a couple of files that really helped me out -- I forgot who gave them t r Coin or Dman, I think, but in any case