On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 13:05 +0100, Francesco wrote: > David R. Litwin wrote: > > I'm new to both this Forum, Linux and Debian. I discovered this via > > Knoppix (based on Debian). After having liked Knoppix, I partitioned > > my Hard-Drive and installed Debian. Four times. As you can see, I'm > > having many problems with it. > > Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux! > > > > Firstly, I should like to be able to connect to the Internet. I do so > > via PPPoE (or is it simply PPP?) and have High Speed Internet. My I. > > P. Address is non-static: It changes every time I connect to the > > Internet. > > I haven't ADSL, so I use ppp for to connect me to the internet but if > you have ADSL you must use pppoe and pppoeconf for to configure your > internet connection! It depends on how your ISP is configured. Back when I had ADSL, it was strictly plain old Ethernet. Now, though, many ISPs use pppoe for ADSL. Some don't, though. > > Secondly, how do I mount my Floppy Drive and Memory Stick? It wouldn't > > work (even with the files on it RawWritten. Ratters! but it annoyed > > me!). > > Read mount man: > > man mount For a newbie, "man mount" can be really daunting. Try this: # mkdir /media/memstick # mount -v -t vfat -o noatime,sync /dev/sda1 /media/memstick If the mount command fails, change the sda to sdb. If that fails, change it to sdc and then sdd. > > I'm sure that this isn't the proper place. Any way, any help would be > > greatly appreciated. Thank you. This is the debian-*user* list, and you want to *use* Debian, right? So, it's the correct list! -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Hanlon's Razor "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence" Napoleon
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