Bill Vinson wrote: > > First of all please let me thank all of you who responded to my newbie > questions...I really appreciate all of the help and I hope I am not hogging > the lists time... > > I have installed minicom, ppp, cpp, etc. according to the dependencies > Debian told me about... > The PPP manual and several others have told me I will need to compile my > kernel to use PPP or the Ethernet card I had posted about earlier. What > the heck do I need to do this? I have only downloaded cpp from the dev > module sections. What else do I need? I don't think I have any source > code on the machine as of yet... > I thought I remembered having the option for a NE2000 compliant ethernet > card and ppp dynamically loading library in the startup when I first > installed Debian, but like a fool I didn't choose these since I didn't have > anything at the time... Can this be done instead of recompiling the > kernel? I posted earlier that I have a 100 MB drive and I was told this > was not enought, but currently I don't have the cash flow for more (50 days > and counting till I get married and have to pay for a honeymoon :-)...) > Can I do this stuff with only 49 MB left, according to the 'df' command? > > PART 2 > > Several people told me about the color-ls command and how to type 'eval > DIRCOLORS' in the initialization file...Where is this file and what is it > called? > > Once again thanks for y'all's help and for your UNBELIEVEABLE patience! > Bill
It goes in a file in your home directory called .bash_profile. This file (because of the . in front) does not appear when you type ls, but ls -la will show it to you, if that helps in finding it. You can edit it with vi or whatever you use. Good Luck, -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #include <stddisclaimer.h> #include <MyBiasedOpinions.h> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux - Why use windows when there is a door? Uptime(LinuxSystemDoingTaskA) >= Uptime(WindowsSystemNotDoingADamnThing) (c) 1996 Christian Watts Redistribution via the Microsoft Network Prohibited. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
