Re: A new Debian user's initial questions

1998-11-16 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Chris Mayes wrote: > On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > > I think you are trying to start suse with your debian kernel. what you > > should do, is mount the suse partition, and have > > 'image = /suse_root/vmlinuz' in the suse section. > > > Ah, so I need to t

Re: A new Debian user's initial questions

1998-11-15 Thread Chris Mayes
On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > > I think you are trying to start suse with your debian kernel. what you > should do, is mount the suse partition, and have > 'image = /suse_root/vmlinuz' in the suse section. > Ah, so I need to tell it which mount point on the Debian kerel contains t

Re: A new Debian user's initial questions

1998-11-15 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Chris Mayes wrote: > Hello, everyone. While I am not particualrly new to Linux in general > (June '98 RH 5.0/1, SuSE 5.2/3), i am totally new to Debian. As such, I > have a few questons. > > My frst question actually pertains more to System Commander than Debian > itself, t

Re: A new Debian user's initial questions

1998-11-15 Thread Jim Foltz
Welcome Chris, On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 09:57:42PM -0500, Chris Mayes wrote: > Hello, everyone. While I am not particualrly new to Linux in general > (June '98 RH 5.0/1, SuSE 5.2/3), i am totally new to Debian. As such, I > have a few questons. > > My frst question actually pertains more to Syst

Re: A new Debian user's initial questions

1998-11-15 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 09:57:42PM -0500, Chris Mayes wrote: > I understand that Debian strictly > adheres to the GPL, No. Debian adheres strictly to the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) [1], which allow other things than GPL, too. For example, X is not GPL but it is DFSG-free, so we inclu