Re: Toshiba 2805-S302 Woody
On Jun 15, 2002 at 08:09 -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> Any tips for a Toshiba 2805-S302 laptop? I'll be doing a network install.
>
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>
> The other pain I remember was getting X's fonts to look reasonably OK. I
> remember installing true type fonts. I installed font servers, too, which
> I'm sure I didn't need to do. Is there a less painful path to get good
> looking fonts?
I'm a Debian newbie, which means I just did a network install to a
laptop. It went fairly smoothly (in hindsight) -- made boot floppies,
copied the base setup files to a different HD partition, booted,
answered the questions. Unfortunately I mistakenly started with
dselect instead of tasksel, which was too much info for me as a
newbie, but otherwise it was no big problem.
The TrueType fonts were really easy -- there's a ready-made package
that when installed, downloads MS's web fonts and installs them
automatically. Getting the X server to use the fonts is pretty easy
with XFree86 4.*, since TrueType support is built-in -- you just add
the TrueType directory to the list of font dirs in
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4. With XFree86 3.* you have to choose a font
server and set it up etc.
--
Thatcher Ulrich
http://tulrich.com
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