About installation
Ok, just go to www.debian.org and follow the instructions on how to
install. In that html file ( I recommend you read hte whole thing, since
you are not familiar with Linux ), in chapter 5, there is a list of base
files you need. Just follow instructions and you should be fine.
This is all a bit different from MS world, since there all you do to
install things is double-click. Here you might need to do some work
manually, especially later, when installing packages like X and
configuring your system for XWindows. Or kernel configuration, for that
matter. But don't worry, before you get there you'll get to know Linux.
Typically, when you want to install something, you download the source
code and do 'make install'. However, dselect/apt take care of that part
for you, when you are dealing with .deb packages (prepackaged programs).
But if you are downloading and installing .tar.gz files (tar is tape
archive, gz is gzip, sort of like .zip files in Windows), you will need to
go through 'make' procedure.
Andrew.
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Andrei S. Ivanov
c680789@showme.missouri.edu
UIN 12402354
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