(newbie problem!) I'm using the two-CD set to install Debian on a 486. I choose one of the standard (C devel) packages during install. When I'm dumped into dselect, I go through Access, Update, and Install as instructed (including putting both CDs in in turn and rerunning Install, and including following up with Configure, Remove, Quit).
But I can't get (for example) the man command to get installed. When I got back to dselect to try to get it by hand, dselect shows it marked for installation; but no matter how many times I put in one and the other CD, it never does get installed. There are other things not going on (I don't have an exhaustive list) -- but for a beginner, this one's critical! Does anyone recognize this problem? Charles Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] =============== REALLY newbie problems ======================== In case somebody's got a moment's patience for simplicities, I have three really basic questions about using Linux (which man might be able to answer if I could get at it!): 1) How do I access other devices (for example the CD), such as to use ls to find out what's on them? 2) If I add another piece of equipment (such as an extra hard drive), how do I go about acquainting the system with that fact? Do I re-run install? But that's a DOS command and DOS has gone away now . . . 3) What's the proper way to shut down the system? I can reboot (which does an orderly shutdown) and kill the power during the reboot, but that seems crude. Thanks . . .
