> I'm a Brand Spankin' Shinning Newbe with a Brand Spankin Shinning New > Debian install using floppies, all seven of them D/Led from Debian.org, > so now what? The man pages don't work. Nothing will install because of > dependency errors except for joe (works great but there must be > something better). Can't get the computer on the internet because that > machine isn't connected and doesn't have the software, yet. Games won't > install either. Really wanted to get it up and running to learn Linux, > C, C++ and a few other things. Besides, I'd like to replace WinDoze95 > with something I can depend on and understand how it works and maybe > even tweak a little. So, what do I do now?
You currently have a very minimal set of packages installed - i.e. enough to enable you to install the rest ;). You need to get some debian packages from somewhere: 1) over a fast net link (slow ones are OK, if you're not paying per minute) 2) get a debian CD (A suppliers list is on the website) Then run dselect, and pick the packages you want.... <snip> > Mounting local file systems ... > not mounted anything This is fine. Not a problem at all. You only have linux installed on one partition, right? local file systems would be other disk partitions that you may at some point get, and add to /etc/fstab. HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
