Re: New Debian user help

On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:49:07 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Walter Hurry > wrote: >> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:48:29 +0100, Paul Stuffins wrote: >> >>> I am a long time CentOS user, and have decided, after several months >>> of consideration, to move my hosting fr

Re: New Debian user help

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:48:29 +0100, Paul Stuffins wrote: > >> I am a long time CentOS user, and have decided, after several months of >> consideration, to move my hosting from CentOS to Debian. > > Not wishing to raise the hackles of any zealo

Re: New Debian user help

On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:48:29 +0100, Paul Stuffins wrote: > I am a long time CentOS user, and have decided, after several months of > consideration, to move my hosting from CentOS to Debian. Not wishing to raise the hackles of any zealots here (Debian is an excellent distribution IMHO), but as a

Re: New Debian user help

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Paul Stuffins wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I am a long time CentOS user, and have decided, after several months of > consideration, to move my hosting from CentOS to Debian. > > I currently have a couple VPS' and have installed Debian on both of them, > one will be my da

Re: New Debian user help

Paul Stuffins wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Paul Stuffins wrote: > > > I am a long time CentOS user, and have decided, after several months of > > > consideration, to move my hosting from CentOS to Debian. > > > root@hydrogen:~# apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 > > That is excellent, thanks

Re: New Debian user help

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Paul Stuffins wrote: > > I am a long time CentOS user, and have decided, after several months of > > consideration, to move my hosting from CentOS to Debian. > > Welcome! > > > root@hydrogen:~# apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 > > ... >

Re: New Debian user help

Paul Stuffins wrote: > I am a long time CentOS user, and have decided, after several months of > consideration, to move my hosting from CentOS to Debian. Welcome! > root@hydrogen:~# apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 > ... > Err http://ftp.debian.org squeeze/main libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3

Re: New debian-user-dutch mailinglist?

Paul van der Vlis schreef: > Hallo, > > Ik wou een beetje polsen of er hier mensen zijn die interesse hebben in > een Debian mailinglijst in het Nederlands. Ik heb al een paar mensen die > geinteresseerd zijn, mochten er nog een paar bij komen dan zal ik er een > starten. > > Uiteraard is er al N

Re: new debian user. help :)

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 10:32:38 -0700, Lorenas Bartkus wrote: >hi again :) >finally i've used the command apt-get install pppoeconf and now i have >installed pppoeconf (i founded this command from ubuntu which i tried >before but i didn't like it) . is there any command to configure pppoe >i mean

Re: new debian user. help :)

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 01:48:58 -0700, Lorenas Bartkus wrote: > >- Original Message >From: Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Lorenas Bartkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: Debian User >Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 10:15:41 AM >Subject: Re: new debia

Re: new debian user. help :)

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 10:32:38 -0700, Lorenas Bartkus wrote: >hi again :) >finally i've used the command apt-get install pppoeconf and now i have >installed pppoeconf (i founded this command from ubuntu which i tried >before but i didn't like it) . is there any command to configure pppoe >i mean

Re: new debian user. help :)

Lorenas Bartkus wrote: > hi, > I'm new in debian and previosly i used windows xp. now i decided to try > debian for the first time. > i have downloaded boot cd to install debian from network, in the > bigining everything gone well but when i was asked to choose the mirror > i can't. > because it wa

Re: new debian user. help :)

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 09:07:45 -0700, Lorenas Bartkus wrote: >hi, >I'm new in debian and previosly i used windows xp. now i decided to try >debian for the first time. Welcome to Debian. I hope your stay will be long and enjoyable :-) >i have downloaded boot cd to install debian from network, i

Re: new debian user. help :)

Lorenas Bartkus wrote: hi, I'm new in debian and previosly i used windows xp. now i decided to try debian for the first time. i have downloaded boot cd to install debian from network, in the bigining everything gone well but when i was asked to choose the mirror i can't. because it was said no

Re: new debian user question about mysql on debian

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 03:35:56PM +0100, Jaime Ventura wrote: > Hello >I've install mysql on a etch box e I've noticed a debian-sys-maint user. See /usr/share/doc/mysql-server-5.0/README.Debian.gz - it's automagically created to help the init scripts and the like. >Shouldnt this user h

Re: New debian user question about remote instalation

On 5/29/07, Jaime Ventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello. I'm using fedora for a long time, but now I will use debian. I wounder if there any feature like redhat's kickstart for debian. Thanks. Jaime Appendix B of the debian installation manual talks about preseeding. See http://www.debi

Re: New debian user question about remote instalation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jaime Ventura wrote: > Hello. > I'm using fedora for a long time, but now I will use debian. > I wounder if there any feature like redhat's kickstart for debian. The first page on google for 'kickstart for debian' [1] returns about four tools that wou

Re: New Debian user

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:53:35 + Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Niels Rasmussen wrote: > > > > [...] > > What is the syntax of the sudoers file ?? Or is there a smarter > > linux command that'll do the trick ? (my linux capabilities has got > > quite rusty over the years :-) > > [...] >

Re: New Debian user

Niels Rasmussen wrote: [...] What is the syntax of the sudoers file ?? Or is there a smarter linux command that'll do the trick ? (my linux capabilities has got quite rusty over the years :-) [...] Look at section 7 of this article http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/checkinstall.html.en

Re: New Debian user

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 05:00:14PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > >> For myself, I just duplicate the existing root line in /etc/sudoers and >> then change one of the roots to my user. Granted, this isn't >> particularly secure, but it's easy and adds a significant level

Re: New Debian user

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 05:00:14PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > "man sudoers" is your friend. Well, maybe not your friend, but at least > a usable resource > > For myself, I just duplicate the existing root line in /etc/sudoers and > then change one of the roots to my user. Granted, this isn

Re: New Debian user

Niels Rasmussen wrote: As of # 2 What is the syntax of the sudoers file ?? Or is there a smarter linux command that'll do the trick ? (my linux capabilities has got quite rusty over the years :-) "man sudoers" is your friend. Well, maybe not your friend, but at least a usable resource F

Re: New Debian user

Niels Rasmussen wrote: Oh boy oh boy :-) Well i did use the graphical installer which is quite nice despite some translations hickups ! It was all a matter of hitting Enter and Space and define some password for root and user. Apparantly it did find it all... BUT: Right now I in

Re: New Debian user

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 08:13:53PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: > As of # 2 > What is the syntax of the sudoers file ?? Or is there a smarter linux > command that'll do the trick ? (my linux capabilities has got quite > rusty over the years :-) I don't like sudo too much so I use su. If you run

Re: New Debian user

Oh boy oh boy :-) Well i did use the graphical installer which is quite nice despite some translations hickups ! It was all a matter of hitting Enter and Space and define some password for root and user. Apparantly it did find it all... BUT: Right now I in the console running single

Re: New Debian user

On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 07:54:09PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West skrev: > >On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 03:11:34PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: > > > >>I wonder, if I put that LiveCD with Ubuntu back in, is there some > >>commands I can use to get all the info I need to instal

Re: New Debian user

Andrew Sackville-West skrev: On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 03:11:34PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: I wonder, if I put that LiveCD with Ubuntu back in, is there some commands I can use to get all the info I need to install "Etch" ??? debootstrap. I'm sure ubuntu has got it. you can save your

Re: New Debian user

On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 03:11:34PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: > > I wonder, if I put that LiveCD with Ubuntu back in, is there some > commands I can use to get all the info I need to install "Etch" ??? debootstrap. I'm sure ubuntu has got it. you can save yourself a download and burn (sort of)

Re: New Debian user

H Neils, FYI, the Debian list has a custom of bottom posting so that a conversatio flows (see the mail list info on the web site). I've altered your reply thus: On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 02:25:41PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: > >If you look at the release notes for Etch you'll see that a test

Re: New Debian user

Etch, certainly. However, be prepared for Etch to be "obsolete" well before the next Debian release. You will most likely want to change your pointers to either "testing" or "unstable", but don't do that until you are comfortable with Debian and the apt way of package management as a user. I've be

Re: New Debian user

Thanks for reply. I'm not sure I want to repartitioning my other harddrive because I have 60 GB of music and fotos on it, so only one of them should have Debian on it. I presume it's possible to mount the media harddrive and catch my stuff from there ? My router has a fine internal firewall so h

Re: New Debian user

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:32:06PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: > Hi all > > I am new to this list, works as Architectural engineer in Copenhagen > DenmarK. > > I have used several Linux distro's previously back in 1999, among them was: > Red Hat, Mandrake and Suse. > > But due to my work (Aut

Re: New Debian user

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:32:06PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: > Hi all hi, welcome. > > Now my decision have been made I want to install Debian ! > great! > Using Debian should only be for desktop use (Gnome), mayby later > supplied with some webserver stuff. > > But I have some doubts/th

RE: New Debian User - Totally Impressed

Hello, I have to agree with chip. I've worked on Unix for 6 years or so and until the last year I'd always dismissed Linux (sorry) mainly because of my experiences with it in the early 90's. Why have I changed my mind? because with the increase power of the internet and open source it means that

RE: New Debian User - Totally Impressed

ns don't really appeal to me. Plus the Debian user lists are such an awesome wealth of information and help. Dave -Original Message- From: martin f krafft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 11 October 2002 4:57 PM To: Debian; David Pastern Subject: Re: New Debian User - Totall

Re: New Debian User - Totally Impressed

also sprach Chip Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.11.0144 +0200]: > I just switched to deb3.0 from Mandrake8.0. I am beyond ecstatic with > it. Welcome! This ecstasy shall not die - I am still ecstatic after several years... ;^> > UP and I lost everything! Yaaagh!! The list just goes on

Re: New Debian User - Totally Impressed

Welcome to Debian!! Mike Quoting Chip Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Greetings, > > I just switched to deb3.0 from Mandrake8.0. I am beyond ecstatic with > it. The install was easy (used 7cds from Linux Central), user-friendly, > the defaults were acceptable even for a total beginner. I don't

Re: New Debian User - Totally Impressed

On Thursday 10 October 2002 04:44 pm, Chip Rose wrote: > Greetings, > > I just switched to deb3.0 from Mandrake8.0. [snip] > LINUX IS UNBELIEVABLY POWERFUL AND STABLE! > Debian Linux that is! > "Gabba gabba, we accept you, we accept you, one of us !" - Derek > Thanks again for listening, >

Re: New Debian User - Totally Impressed

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 October 2002 04:44 pm, Chip Rose wrote: > Greetings, Salutations! > I just switched to deb3.0 from Mandrake8.0. I am beyond ecstatic with > it. The install was easy (used 7cds from Linux Central), user-friendly, > the defaults were

Re: New Debian user here

Have a look at GNU Stow (apt-get install stow). It lets you install locally compiled stuff into /usr/local/stow/ and builds symlink farms in /usr/local/ for you. To remove something from /usr/local/, just run stow -D /usr/local/stow/whatever and delete the dir you put it in. -rob msg00981/pg

Re: New Debian user - a bunch of problems

Hi Frank, Am Samstag, 1. Januar 2000 01:34 schrieb Frank Brodbeck: > What you got there is a so called tarball. It's a compressed > archive and enclosed are the sources to scribus - in your case. > But this isn't a package neither a debian (deb) nor a Red Hat > package (rpm). > > There are two wa

Re: New Debian user - a bunch of problems

Hello Gerhard gerhard came to use his tongue on Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 01:11:02AM +0200 > I want to install scribus-0.7.3.tar.gz debian-like. > Is there a way with apt-get? Or should I use checkinstall or alien? > > Any suggestion is appreciate. > What you got there is a so called tarball. It's a c

Re: New Debian user - a bunch of problems

Hello Paul, Am Donnerstag, 23. Mai 2002 11:08 schrieb Paul Johnson: > The preferred method would be switch to your favorite place to > compile stuff, and do this > > apt-get -b build-dep pine What did you mean? I get : debian:/usr/local/src# apt-get -b build-dep scribus Reading Package Lists...

Re: New Debian user - a bunch of problems

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 04:45:35AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok. How do I map users to virtual domains? Sendmail lets you do that > through a virtusertable file in the format: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] username > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure what exactly this mea

Re: New Debian user - a bunch of problems

Thus spake Glen Lee Edwards last Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:06:34PM -0500: > >Before I begin, I want to state that I'm very impressed with >Debian. It's obvious that some very talented people put in a lot of >quality time on it. I now have it installed on all 3 of my servers, >which f

Re: New Debian user - a bunch of problems

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 04:45:35AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Rock on! But could you please turn your line wraps on to 72 columns? > > Heh. Not on that computer. My mail's been down so I had to borrow one. > I can't find out how to set line wrap on Mutt. Argh! I figured it out in a f

Re: New Debian user - a bunch of problems

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 01:59:10AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:06:34PM -0500, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > > > Before I begin, I want to state that I'm very impressed with Debian. > > Rock on! But could you please turn your line wraps on to 72 columns? Heh. Not on that

Re: New Debian user - a bunch of problems

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:36:46PM -0600, Dan Owens wrote: > You can simply get the binary from > http://www.washington.edu/pine/getpine/unix.html > and move it to /usr/bin or another proper location. It works fine. The preferred method would be switch to your favorite place to compile stuff, an

Re: New Debian user - a bunch of problems

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:06:34PM -0500, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > Before I begin, I want to state that I'm very impressed with Debian. Rock on! But could you please turn your line wraps on to 72 columns? > 1) I can't get X to work right. It installed fine, and starts ok. > But screen resolu

Re: New Debian user - a bunch of problems

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > 3) Is there a way to get Pine to work on Debian? I can't find a > package for it, so I installed a Pine rpm using alien. It installed > fine, but now errors out stating that it can't load the necessary > libraries. But some of the libraries it says

Re: New Debian user - a bunch of problems

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:06:34PM -0500, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > Before I begin, I want to state that I'm very impressed with Debian. It's > obvious that some very talented people put in a lot of quality time on > it. I now have it installed on all 3 of my servers, which formerly ran > Red Hat.

Re: New Debian user - a bunch of problems

* Glen Lee Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020522 14:07]: > Before I begin, I want to state that I'm very impressed with Debian. > It's obvious that some very talented people put in a lot of quality > time on it. I now have it installed on all 3 of my servers, which > formerly ran Red Hat. The base s

Re: New Debian user - a bunch of problems

Brian wrote: 2). The mouse is going nuts. When I move it around it does all kinds of weird things, including acting like I've pressed one of the 3 buttons when I haven't, or sen't kill commands to fvwm, etc. I have a Logitech M-C48 wheel mouse. If any of you have the console and X sett

Re: New Debian user - a bunch of problems

Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > 2). The mouse is going nuts. When I move it around it does all > > kinds of weird things, including acting like I've pressed one of the > > 3 buttons when I haven't, or sen't kill commands to fvwm, etc. I > > have a Logitech M-C48 wheel mouse. If any of

Re: New Debian user - a bunch of problems

2). The mouse is going nuts. When I move it around it does all kinds of weird things, including acting like I've pressed one of the 3 buttons when I haven't, or sen't kill commands to fvwm, etc. I have a Logitech M-C48 wheel mouse. If any of you have the console and X settings for it, I

Re: new debian user

> To: debian-www@lists.debian.org > Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 11:45:44 +0100 > From: bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: new debian user > > Can anyone help > > Been running linux mandrake and decided to try debian. > When using mandrake I setserial to /dev/ttyS2 com3 to irq 10 and connection > to i

RE: new Debian user, problem with internal modem

>It's marked "Telepath for Windows with X2 technology." > Could it be one of those modems that work only with Windows? Umm.. yeah, could be :-) I think the site to try is www.winmodem.org (or similar, cant remember exactly) >By the way

Re: new Debian user

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:59:36PM +0100, Anthony Durity wrote: > Hi all, > > I am new to the Debian fold and I am afraid that I am having trouble > adjusting from my RedHat/Mandrake familiarity. Some of these questions may > not be so Debian related so sorry in advance. > > I am in the process

Re: New Debian user needs help: Problems about partitioning, booting from harddisk, etc.

Huang Yan wrote: > > I've just downloaded and installed Debian, the following problems were > encountered: > > 1. My PC have 2 harddisks and 1 CD-ROM: >Primary IDE Master: 4.3G (hda), LBA MODE >Primary IDE Slave: NONE >Secondary IDE Master:SONY CD-R

Re: New Debian user needs help: Problems about partitioning, booting from harddisk, etc.

> I've just downloaded and installed Debian, the following problems were > encountered: > > 1. My PC have 2 harddisks and 1 CD-ROM: >Primary IDE Master:4.3G (hda), LBA MODE >Primary IDE Slave: NONE >Secondary IDE Master: SONY CD-ROM(CDU611) >Se

RE: New Debian user needs help: Problems about partitioning, booting from harddisk, etc.

n.org Subject: Re: New Debian user needs help: Problems about partitioning, booting from harddisk, etc. On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Huang Yan wrote: > I've just downloaded and installed Debian, the following problems were encountered: > > 1. My PC have 2 harddisks and 1 CD-ROM: >

Re: New Debian user needs help: Problems about partitioning, booting from harddisk, etc.

On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Huang Yan wrote: > I've just downloaded and installed Debian, the following problems were > encountered: > > 1. My PC have 2 harddisks and 1 CD-ROM: >Primary IDE Master:4.3G (hda), LBA MODE >Primary IDE Slave: NONE >Secondary IDE

Re: New Debian User.

On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Mrpeabody wrote: > I've just purchased a new Dell computer it is a pII 400 with 256 memory > 10.4 meg hard drive I would like to put I'm trying to install debian and ^^^ I hope you meant Gig :) > I'm not having any luck. Could anyone help me? So far I have make the >

Re: new debian user questions

From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > When there is a standard admin tool, then the packages that do > have a config script shall doubtless do so ;-) I expect to be able to announce a tool pretty soon. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the

Re: new debian user questions

Hi, >>"Lukas" == Lukas Eppler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lukas> When the postconfig went wrong, there should be a standard Lukas> place/method to rerun the config, which should be as clear as Lukas> installing. Lukas> I would like to invoke dpkg --setup on a package to invoke the Lukas> script,

Re: new debian user questions

Hi, >>"john" == john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: john> Couldn't the postconfig script register the configuration utiliy john> with an admin tool so that the utility would appear in a menu john> when the admin tool is run? When there is a standard admin tool, then the packages that do

Re: new debian user questions

On 22 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes, I'm fairly familiar with it, having used it to (among other things) > configure cnews since the early 1980's. However, I was responding to > someone who claimed that every Debian package includes a config tool. > Having read the original post, I was

Re: new debian user questions

Hi, >>"Daniel" == Daniel Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> So... Does diety attempt to integrate the configuration tools Daniel> that do come with some of the Debian packages? And what about Daniel> the question earlier of having the configuration menus that Daniel> appear during initial

Re: new debian user questions

On 21 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Lukas Eppler writes: > > This is also better for debian, because every package comes with its own > > config tool. > > This is news to me. What config tool comes with cnews? with suck? with > pppd? You're right, I should have said it the other way: ever

Re: new debian user questions

Hi, Daniel Martin pointed out exactly what I wanted to say, but in better words. Thanks. On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Daniel Martin wrote: > Having read the original post, I was under the impression that this would > be a desirable state, not necessarily an expression of the current state. On 23 Oct 199

Re: new debian user questions

Manoj Srivastava writes: > ...as it stands, most packages arrange to invoke the configuration > utility/script out of the postconfig script anyway; so the config script > is run by dpkg with no assistace from Deity. > ... > Any enhancements to configuring packages, thus, has to be implemented by >

Re: new debian user questions

I wrote: > What config tool comes with cnews? with suck? with pppd? Jason Costomiris writes: > I've got this great one. It's flexible in its operation, and very > extensible. > vi. Yes, I'm fairly familiar with it, having used it to (among other things) configure cnews since the early 1980's.

Re: new debian user questions

On Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 07:32:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : This is news to me. What config tool comes with cnews? with suck? with : pppd? I've got this great one. It's flexible in its operation, and very extensible. vi. -- Jason Costomiris <><| "VMS is about as secure a

Re: new debian user questions

Ted Harding writes: > I'd argue, in the *nix fashion, that a bunch of little, specific, > WELL-DOCUMENTED admin tools is better -- one for net, smail, sendmail, > etc... I agree. The general admin tool would just provide centralized access to these. Lukas Eppler writes: > This is also bette

Re: new debian user questions

On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Ted Harding wrote: > ... > I'd argue, in the *nix fashion, that a bunch of little, specific, > WELL-DOCUMENTED admin tools is better -- one for net, smail, sendmail, > etc... A great example is the "tzconfig" script -- it's small,

Re: new debian user questions

Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd argue, in the *nix fashion, that a bunch of little, specific, > WELL-DOCUMENTED admin tools is better -- one for net, smail, sendmail, > etc... A great example is the "tzconfig" script -- it's small, does it's > work well, and doesn't involve trem

Re: new debian user questions

On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Ted Harding wrote: > >But perhaps it is just better (and more efficient) to write more and good > >documentation, instead of more and bad code... > > > do even something simple correctly. This is why people call for software > admin tools: you can hope that the tool has the kn

Re: new debian user questions

On 20-Oct-97 Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > >But perhaps it is just better (and more efficient) to write more and good >documentation, instead of more and bad code... > >Just my 2 cent on this. >Marcus This comment is spot-on. Linux is now so complicated (and varied) that, if you don't know it already

Re: new debian user questions

On Mon, Oct 20, 1997 at 08:10:09AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > George Bonser writes: > > I, for one, would much rather have some sort of a tool so I can get back > > to enjoying my system and not spend as much time configuring it. > > So would I. Can we get a project going to create one? A

Re: new debian user questions

George Bonser writes: > I, for one, would much rather have some sort of a tool so I can get back > to enjoying my system and not spend as much time configuring it. So would I. Can we get a project going to create one? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: new debian user questions

At 09:19 PM 10/19/1997 -0700, George Bonser wrote: > >On 20-Oct-97 A. M. Varon wrote: >> >>Example, to change the hostname, you could do that with lisa. But the >>truth is, you could easily edit /etc/HOSTNAME and it would give you the >>same effect. Please note that this apply not only to linux but

Re: new debian user questions

On 20-Oct-97 A. M. Varon wrote: > >Example, to change the hostname, you could do that with lisa. But the >truth is, you could easily edit /etc/HOSTNAME and it would give you the >same effect. Please note that this apply not only to linux but other >variants of unix as well. So knowing this is a ve

Re: PPP [was Re: new debian user questions]

At 10:49 PM 19/10/97 -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: >On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Stuart Krivis wrote: > >> For example, I can get a new Caldera install up and on the net within >> minutes. Debian was not so accommodating. No modem. No modemtool app. No >> LISA. Ok, MAKEDEV cua1. Dial... connected... ping

Re: PPP [was Re: new debian user questions]

> > For example, I can get a new Caldera install up and on the net within > > minutes. Debian was not so accommodating. No modem. No modemtool app. No > > LISA. Ok, MAKEDEV cua1. Dial... connected... ping junior.apk.net --- > > network unreachable > > cua1 is bad, don't use it. Not good with fi

Re: new debian user questions

On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Stuart Krivis wrote: > For example, I can get a new Caldera install up and on the net within > minutes. Debian was not so accommodating. No modem. No modemtool app. No > LISA. Ok, MAKEDEV cua1. Dial... connected... ping junior.apk.net --- > network unreachable Hi Stuart, I

PPP [was Re: new debian user questions]

On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Stuart Krivis wrote: > For example, I can get a new Caldera install up and on the net within > minutes. Debian was not so accommodating. No modem. No modemtool app. No > LISA. Ok, MAKEDEV cua1. Dial... connected... ping junior.apk.net --- > network unreachable cua1 is bad,

Re: new debian user questions

At 04:37 PM 10/19/1997 -0700, George Bonser wrote: >> >>There was an effort to outline a configuration (administration) tool on >>debian-admintool, but the discussion was very hot and then cooled down to >>silence. >> >>However, the goal was much higher than expanding the install menu. >> > >Still,

Re: new debian user questions

> >There was an effort to outline a configuration (administration) tool on >debian-admintool, but the discussion was very hot and then cooled down to >silence. > >However, the goal was much higher than expanding the install menu. > >Marcus > >-- >"Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." >Marcus Brinkmann >[E

Re: new debian user questions

On Sun, Oct 19, 1997 at 10:04:32AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > On 19-Oct-97 Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > >> Now for the tough part. :-) > >> > >> I want to be able to use some of the things I've grown used to with > >> Caldera. In particular, LISA (Linux Installation and System Adminstration) >

Re: new debian user questions

On 19-Oct-97 Marcus Brinkmann wrote: >> Now for the tough part. :-) >> >> I want to be able to use some of the things I've grown used to with >> Caldera. In particular, LISA (Linux Installation and System Adminstration) >> is a life-saver. It allows me to easily change hardware and network >> set

Re: new debian user questions

On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Stuart Krivis wrote: [ Thinking of a Caldera -> Debian switch ] > FreeBSD has an excellent package management system and it would be right up > my alley. The problem is that it's BSD and that's not the direction I want > to go in. So, I'm looking at the debian distribution. I'

Re: new debian user questions

Hello Stuart! On Sun, Oct 19, 1997 at 08:11:33AM -0400, Stuart Krivis wrote: > I'm currently thinking about making the move to debian. Ok, let's talk about debian :) > I've been using Caldera Network Desktop, and now Caldera Open Linux, for a > while now. It has shielded me from many of the nit