Re: Debian installation - list of things that make it hard
My box has even survived an incredible big mistake I just made.
I was running as root, in /usr
Instead of typing rm -r gimp* I typed rm -r *
Thank goodness star office is big enough to get in the way of anything
important being deleted before I realised my mistake.
Peter Allen
jean-Yves BARBIER wrote:
>
> Christensen wrote:
> >
> > Now I feel foolish! I had no idea I was supposed to use disk 2 for
> > dselect. Could that be why there seem to be pieces missing from my
> > installation, like the mouse driver? After getting a helpful email from
> > Flip@octoraro I added "psaux" to the /etc/modules file, and now my mouse
> > works. But maybe I should just start all over again!
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> This is a no-no, you're not under MacroSOB products, you should make a lotta big
> mystakes to break your Linux system!
>
> JY
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> Jean-Yves BARBIER <jybarbier@wanadoo.fr>
> "Les choses ne sont pas toujours ce que l'on voudrait qu'elles soient qu'elles
> fussent..." P. DAC
> Boycott Intel, watch: http://www.bigbrotherinside.com
> "If you need N components to build your board, you'll ALWAYS have N-1 in stock"
> Murphy's law
>
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