Re: Installed from floppies, mounted ext pcmcia cdrom, made some progress
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 01:58:51PM -0500, DTi4565459@aol.com wrote:
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> Carel & newsgroup:
>
> Never could get apt-get install to work, but the following got me going:
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> apt-cdrom add for each of the 3 disks
> apt-get update
> dselect (Using Q option to force; was this unwise??)
if you want to use dselect, then you have to tell dselect to update
its databases too: in dselect select Update once in a while.
> Anyway, I now have some important directories in place, for example
> X11 in /usr. However, I can't find xfconfig or startx or gnome or kde or,
> even a dialer like wvdial. I have done updatedb; but "locate" still comes
> up empty. Can you please point me to a howto for assistance with
> getting up a gnome desktop and getting a dial up terminal going??
to setup a dialup account use pppconfig and fill in the dots:)
--
groetjes, carel
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