Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-07 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:59:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: | D-Man wrote: | > I guess you mean that you are in 10th grade (or your local equivalent) | > because middle school is really young to be understanding how Unix (or | > computers in general) work. | | OTOH, we've had debian developers who

Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-07 Thread Joey Hess
D-Man wrote: > I guess you mean that you are in 10th grade (or your local equivalent) > because middle school is really young to be understanding how Unix (or > computers in general) work. OTOH, we've had debian developers who joined while in middle school (though I think all of them are in high s

Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-05 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 10:36:17PM -0400, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: | On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:03:50PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | > I'm a little confused here : In the american public education system | > "K" stands for "Kindergarten" (ie 5-6 year olds) and "10" would be | > 10th grade, or a high-scho

Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-05 Thread Ian Marlier
My 5th grade final project in 1987 was to write a program in BASIC, on an Apple ][e, that would allow basic stock-trading...lot of user input, filesystem read/writes, etc...about 5 of 15 of us managed to get it working in the couple weeks that we had, without much help...so it's not THAT hard.

Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-05 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:03:50PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > I'm a little confused here : In the american public education system > "K" stands for "Kindergarten" (ie 5-6 year olds) and "10" would be > 10th grade, or a high-school sophomore (15-16 year olds). Middle > school is grades 6-8 and high sch

Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-05 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 07:07:11PM -0500, John Hughes wrote: | On Thursday 05 July 2001 13:03, D-Man wrote: | > | > I guess you mean that you are in 10th grade (or your local equivalent) | > because middle school is really young to be understanding how Unix (or | > computers in general) work. I st

Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-05 Thread John Hughes
On Thursday 05 July 2001 13:03, D-Man wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:45:12AM +0800, Lamer wrote: > | hi, > | > | I appreciate your suggestion, but i don't have access to local college as > | i'm only a middle-school student (eh, in american system, K10) > > I'm a little confused here : In the

Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-05 Thread Lamer
uly 06, 2001 2:03 AM Subject: Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation > On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:45:12AM +0800, Lamer wrote: > | hi, > | > | I appreciate your suggestion, but i don't have access to local college as > | i'm

Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-05 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:45:12AM +0800, Lamer wrote: | hi, | | I appreciate your suggestion, but i don't have access to local college as | i'm only a middle-school student (eh, in american system, K10) I'm a little confused here : In the american public education system "K" stands for "Kinderg

Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-05 Thread Lamer
IP banned. - Original Message - From: "Jaye Inabnit ke6sls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 1:13 AM Subject: Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation > > Greets Calvin, > > My suggestion wo

Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-04 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Greets Calvin, My suggestion would be for you to explore your local campus. Here we have a community college with a pretty nice computer lab. The lab also has an overhead projection Monitor.. Took a little while to make x happy, but then we had it set up and could then take snap shots all

Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-04 Thread Miguel Griffa
You may also try vmware, run it in window mode and screenshot that window also there's plex86, but I haven't tried it yet and is not (the last time I saw it) as easy as vmware, but hell it's free software. At 01:36 p.m. 03/07/01 -0400, D-Man wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:48:18AM +0800, Lam

Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-03 Thread Greg Rowe
Hmm, this reminds me of an article I read at www.debianplanet.org this week on installing an X terminal server using debian. In the article chroot was used to create the base file system for the x terminal server. Perhaps a variation on this technique could be used. The other option would be vmw

Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-03 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:48:18AM +0800, Lamer wrote: | I'm going to give a free course to the members of a local linux user group, | and would like to ask if it's possible to get some installation screenshots | or notes for them. My suggestion is to get some spare hardware and do an installation

Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-03 Thread Andrew Dixon
Hi Calvin, Lamer wrote: > > I'm going to give a free course to the members of a local linux user group, > and would like to ask if it's possible to get some installation screenshots > or notes for them. on a working Debian system in an xterm you could run: #dpkg-reconfigure base-config

Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-03 Thread Lamer
I'm going to give a free course to the members of a local linux user group, and would like to ask if it's possible to get some installation screenshots or notes for them. tia, calvin -- k h a o s * lamer new name, new look, new ftp: linux.dyn.dhs.org (change FOUR letter) upload something bef