Re: Accessing software programs from disk

2007-09-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-09-13 11:00:55, schrieb John W. Foster: > On Wednesday 12 September 2007 16:16, violet penny wrote: > > I do hope I'm sending this to the right place. I find everything so > > confusing and difficult, here. > First of all;Why are you doing this at 4:16 A.M.(at least that's what shows > up

Re: Accessing software programs from disk

2007-09-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 04:16:37PM -0500, violet penny wrote: >I do hope I'm sending this to the right place. I find everything so >confusing and difficult, here. >On the subject of which: I can't find anything, anywhere, that tells >me what's on these 20 additional CDs I've taken

Re: Accessing software programs from disk

2007-09-14 Thread Martin Waller
thats OK - glad the "apt-cdrom add" suggestion worked! Best wishes, Martin violet penny wrote: ... From: "Martin Waller" To: "debian user" Subject: Re: Accessing software programs from disk Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:14:03 +0100 violet penny

Re: Accessing software programs from disk

2007-09-13 Thread John W. Foster
On Wednesday 12 September 2007 16:16, violet penny wrote: > I do hope I'm sending this to the right place. I find everything so > confusing and difficult, here. First of all;Why are you doing this at 4:16 A.M.(at least that's what shows up on my systems mail server) If you are tired & frustrated y

Re: Accessing software programs from disk

2007-09-12 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Welcome to the wonderful world of linux. If, after you read this post, you still think you made a terrible mistake, there are a couple of instructions at the end using which you can recover your original windows installation. On the subject of which: I can't find anything, anywhere, that tel

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2007-09-12 Thread John Wojnaroski
Ooops, my apologies, Jeff Missed checking the reply to address before hitting send.. JW Original Message Subject:Re: Accessing software programs from disk Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:07:33 -0700 From: John Wojnaroski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jeff D &

Re: Accessing software programs from disk

2007-09-12 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, violet penny wrote: I do hope I'm sending this to the right place. I find everything so confusing and difficult, here. On the subject of which: I can't find anything, anywhere, that tells me what's on these 20 additional CDs I've taken hours to download and burn [I'm not o

Re: Accessing software programs from disk

2007-09-12 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sep 12, 2007, at 4:37 PM, Manoj Srivastava wrote: It does not look to me that control is what you are looking for, or the old way to do things -- which still exist in Debian. You just want the sackcloth and ashes, and the hair shirt. In which case there are other distributions that

Re: Accessing software programs from disk

2007-09-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:14:03 +0100, Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Two examples - update available packages using dselect front end to > apt - new kernels automatically get installed! Never used to happen. I > don't want that by default - never had issues with it in previous > Debian

Re: Accessing software programs from disk

2007-09-12 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sep 12, 2007, at 3:14 PM, Martin Waller wrote: Complexity was never an issue for me, just change for the sake of change, and I can't help Debian has somehow lost it's way. Just my upgrade from sarge to etch seems to have brought so many changes into my system without me being able to co

Re: Accessing software programs from disk

2007-09-12 Thread Martin Waller
violet penny wrote: If the "... apt-get blah, blah ..." command line thingmee is the only way to do this, then I'll just have to forget it: even if I didn't have M.E. (a fatigue disorder), my middle-aged brain simply isn't capable of dealing with SO much new and totally unfamiliar data a