On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 05:36:46PM -0700, Jon Olsen wrote: > hi. I'm a debian newbie in a pretty big way.
Welcome! > I installed potato from CD (the $9.95 price for the potato build > was easier for me to swing than the $21 for woody) on a Powermac > 8500/200 with 128 MB of RAM and 2 2GB scsi drives (1 is partitioned > for boot, root, usr, var and a small mac partition, the other is > all for home). > > I use BootX 1.2.2 to boot the system. I got everything partitioned > and installed and it loads up nicely (is that a picture of Tux > holding a *beer* during the boot sequence?! very amusing). And I > guess I installed the right packages because it installed without > complaining (that I could see). > > So there's a sort of "now what" feeling in me. I was able to use > lynx to hunt around some of the file system and I feel comfortable > with things like changing directories and so forth. I logged on as > me (instead of root) and I feel good about that. > > BUT > > I guess what I'm asking is, does anyone have suggestions vis a vis > a good starting place? I mean, I can read man files all day-- > although I could use a tip for generating additional workspace so I > can bounce between a man file and trying out the instructions--but > *which* man files should I look to first? I'm such a GUI victim I > don't know what to do-- I miss having a help window open while I > work. Besides X configuration, the remainder of your questions are not specific to powerpc - debian is the same (almost) for all architectures. So, as friendly as this list is, it's really not the right place for this discussion. I'll send you some suggestions off-list. -- *----------------------------------------------------------------* | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | To HAVE, GIVE all TO all (ACIM) | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
