debian - newcomer

2000-10-13 Thread guran remberg
Hi I am new to this Potato and the installation went nice by Ethernet and your programs. I downloaded from INRIA the scilab 2.5 in the deb variety and a xlib6g_3.3.6-10.deb. When installed , nothing was complained. Gnome is new to me, most accustomed to KDE, so I have not learned how to fix an i

debian -newcomerII

2000-10-13 Thread guran remberg
Hi Thanks for your efforts, I am old and probably to stupid. I have tried ln -s &c and I have added the required library path for export both locally and as su in etc, but to no use. This procedure of Debian is discussed in the Debian weekly letter and might be a problem even to the developer. I

Potato -newcomerI

2000-10-14 Thread guran remberg
Hi I have done a new installation of Potato, and have taken away xdm from all rcx.d and was happy - thanks for the help. My way of using the windowmanager is to have many desktops up with specific programs running concurrently. So I tried to install Helix Gnome with apt-get. There was a hell of

Re: Potato -newcomerI

2000-10-14 Thread guran remberg
Moritz Schulte wrote: > guran remberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My way of using the windowmanager is to have many desktops up with > > specific programs running concurrently. So I tried to install Helix > > Gnome with apt-get. > > Yes.. > > >

Potato - newcomerII

2000-10-14 Thread guran remberg
Hi I have tried the 'dselect' for the first time, and I was overwhelmed, more than SuSe - I could not believe my eyes. I found LyX, albeit an old one and nedit and gnat so I am very interested. Therefor I have decided to do a new installation and not include Gnome, in the original one, but let t

username?

2000-10-17 Thread guran remberg
Hi I have a computer, that is connected to the Internet from within a LAN, through a gateway. Thus my net was set up as 10.0.4.15, &c. According to the 'NET HOWTO' those numbers nor the name, Archimedes.brisen.rings.se, should never be sent out on the Internet. How come my name is set up in mc as

ftp - installation by newbie

2000-10-24 Thread guran remberg
Hi I am sorry that I am not responding, the correct way but I read tour mail in a beta-Linux where the mail is flaky. So here is my way: On a partition called /dev/hdb6, named /mnt/bettan/, I have a root directory called debian. From http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/debian/dists/potato/

Persona non grata

2000-10-31 Thread guran remberg
Hi I'm a newbie to Potato, and I want to get some programs off my computer. Is there a file that I can edit, and save to a removable media, that constitutes all allowed files. Ex: I removed emacs19, because I detest it. Used it on an ATARI 1040ST in the eighties, and concludeed that if there was

KDE2 -aria

2000-10-31 Thread guran remberg
Hi What a fantastic program this apt-get is, I am now writing this in KDE2. I just added deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato.kde2 to my /etc/apt/sources.list and wow. Who ever you are, tdyc, many thanks. That WindowManager I was having was clearly stupid. When I had eight programs running in different

Re: KDE2 installation

2000-11-01 Thread guran remberg
Joshua Kruck wrote: > > > > Along These same lines what can i use for a entry in the sources.list file to > get kde2? I have > been trying to get it to work and i have had no luck. > Thanks > Joshua > > > > > Subject: KDE2 installation Hi I am a newbie, so I can not tell you why, only what I did

Re: How get installer to get 1st pkgs from local HD?

2000-11-01 Thread guran remberg
total wrote: > How can I get the debian installer to acquire the first set of packages > (which it wants) from my local HD (not the inet)? Hi I don't understand your 'algoritm' of the installation. >From memory: After having installed the the rescue disk and the drivers, then the network is conf

Proposal - simple textual wrapper for packages

2000-11-01 Thread guran remberg
Wed Nov 1 01:15:00 2000 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 01:14:54 +0100 From: guran remberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-idepci i686) X-Accept-Language: en, sv MIME-Version:

Re: Proposal - simple textual wrapper for packages

2000-11-01 Thread guran remberg
A Debian dilemma. Myself and other newbies, which come to Debian to learn how to run a small and properly confined Linux, may be called 'iconographs'. That is to say we don't know the underlying commando structure of what printing implies in Linux - but give us an icon of a printer and we stop ask

Re: Chapter one *Securing and optimizing Linix*

2000-11-02 Thread guran remberg
Ted Nackad wrote: > > Dear friend: > Hi Well, I like your book very much, but it has more to offer than I was looking for. So I have concluded 'to do it my way'. Background: I have been using Linux exclusively for three years, but in a very restricted manner. Mainly LyX, XFig and scilab for my

dead hoarse, crawling away.

2000-11-02 Thread guran remberg
Hi I have just read an article by a chap named Kurt Seifrieds, which was mainly about security on Debian. I was alarmed and have decided to switch to Red Hat as many experts advises can be used to secure it. There are a few remarks I want to make as a sign off: Let me paraphrase a chap called Wi