You must run dselect. Same thing happened to me. Installation is a two parter. Part two is dselect.
paul > -----Original Message----- > From: ... [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 4:40 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Good books > > > I'm a total newbie with linux. I downloaded Debian, and put it on my > second hard drive, total capacity about 435 meg. I partitioned it to > reserve 100 meg for dos, put about 10% of the remainder aside for swap, > and the rest is for linux. > This being kind of small, when I installed Debian, I just installed > the Standard package, Dialup, and Small XWindows. > The "man" command doens't appear to be active, and the /usr/doc files > don't have a lot of information. Most of it seems to be changelog and > copyright, so I'm thinking of deleting all of it. > What sort of how-to books would be helpful? I'd like the equivalent > of the old Understanding MSDOS and Supercharging MSDOS books, published > by QUE, I think. I want to learn how to get a color screen at the root > level, set up and optimize FSTAB, and ultimately, if I have enough with > the system I've got, to install and use Netscape for UNIX and STAR Office. > > Thanx, > Frank Starr > http://i.am/franksnewage > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
