Re: Newbie comments & queries
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 11:02:32AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
> I chose Debian because of the GNU aspect, out of sheer orneryness
> when everyone was telling me to take the easy route with Mandrake,
> Red Hat, or SuSe, and because i liked the name. Not really
> sensible reasons I would agree! (except for the first one).
Welcome!
> I have just installed potato as a dual boot m/c (with dos) on a
> new (for me) Cyrix120 PC. I did several installs to get the hang
> of it and recover from errors made. I have it installed with no
> packages selected from tasksel (except the final tasksel -s), just
> the plainest setup possible (Disks as Violet 2.2 from Obsidian
> systems here).
> 2. I have read some of the HOWTO files particularly the one on
> printing. This is a file ending in .gz and I cannot get it to
> print out. Do I have to extract that particular file out of the
> eng.txt first ? If so, how?
If indeed you have a very simple install, you will be
lacking some packages that would enable to use the
following programs:
program package
zcat gzip
less less
I also found that the task-newbie-help package was
not installed unless you asked for it.
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bjb@achilles.net
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