Re: GUI and USB question
Hi Keath
Unfortunatly I can not help on every topic you mentioned.
1st question is, how do I start the GUI (KDE, Gnome, whatever) that I
assume is bundled with the distro?
Well, as far as I know you have to install these things first.
Type *dpkg -l kde-core* or generally *dpkg -l package* to see wether
you have installed these things. *ii kde-core...* means kde-core is
installed.
Anything else means that you have to install it first.
Try some of the things Operator mentioned earlier in this list to
install stuff
you need:
apt-get update
apt-get install x-window-system-core
apt-get install x-window-system
apt-get install gnome
startx // to start X-Window-Server
2nd question, completely unrelated, is about when I plug in my USB
memory stick. The OS spots it and seems to mount it, but I can't find
the mount point. Where do I cd to in order to find my files that are
on the stick?
In my opinion you have to mount it manually while using sarge. Check
your */etc/fstab*-file
where you can mount this kind of devices. On my sarge there is one line like
*/dev/sda1 /usbstick auto user,noauto 0 0* this tells us that I can
mount a memory-stick
by typing *mount /usbstick*.
As Linas mentioned you will be better off using Etch. Especially when it
comes to USB you
will apreciate Etch much more since it uses a later kernel version[1].
Hope that helped.
Happy hacking.
Sam
[1] Maybe you can compile your on latest kernel under Sarge.
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