Re: now what syndrome
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 05:36:46PM -0700, Jon Olsen wrote:
> hi. I'm a debian newbie in a pretty big way.
Welcome!
> I installed potato from CD (the $9.95 price for the potato build
> was easier for me to swing than the $21 for woody) on a Powermac
> 8500/200 with 128 MB of RAM and 2 2GB scsi drives (1 is partitioned
> for boot, root, usr, var and a small mac partition, the other is
> all for home).
>
> I use BootX 1.2.2 to boot the system. I got everything partitioned
> and installed and it loads up nicely (is that a picture of Tux
> holding a *beer* during the boot sequence?! very amusing). And I
> guess I installed the right packages because it installed without
> complaining (that I could see).
>
> So there's a sort of "now what" feeling in me. I was able to use
> lynx to hunt around some of the file system and I feel comfortable
> with things like changing directories and so forth. I logged on as
> me (instead of root) and I feel good about that.
>
> BUT
>
> I guess what I'm asking is, does anyone have suggestions vis a vis
> a good starting place? I mean, I can read man files all day--
> although I could use a tip for generating additional workspace so I
> can bounce between a man file and trying out the instructions--but
> *which* man files should I look to first? I'm such a GUI victim I
> don't know what to do-- I miss having a help window open while I
> work.
Besides X configuration, the remainder of your questions are not
specific to powerpc - debian is the same (almost) for all
architectures. So, as friendly as this list is, it's really not the
right place for this discussion. I'll send you some suggestions
off-list.
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