On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 08:44:11AM +0100, stephan.sens wrote: > My name is Stephan and I have a problem installing further packaged of debian > on my computer. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.en.html
> Unfortunately I have no Linux background and I am not able to install further > packages?! > > My thinking was to download the first three ISO Binary images 31r3 on CD and > start from there but it looks like that the right format is .deb or tar.gz. > It > was possible to unzip tar.gz files but after ./configure some error messages > were displayed telling me compilers ect. are missing. > > What is the right installation procedure of the packages to build up a system > from scratch able to office programs, to have internet access, be able to > print? What can I do with these three iso binary images? Any use of 1.8GB of > data and if yes, how can I use them? > > Sorry to bother you but I couldn’t find an answer to my basic question even > not > in my books which deals more with SUSE or Red-Hat. > > They make it easy just to mount CD1, CD2, … but I would like to build the > system from scratch. If you have no background why do you try to build your system from scratch. I know that there is a project to create debian from scratch but the only "real" from scratch system is gentoo (aik). > If there is any book you can recommend, please, do so! English books are > welcome! http://www.debian.org/doc/books CU Michael -- ,''`. Michael Ott, e-mail: michael at zolnott dot de : :' : Debian SID on Thinkpad T43: `. `' http://www.zolnott.de/laptop/ibm-t43-uc34nge.html `- Jeden Mittwoch von 21 - 24 Uhr. Zosh! auf Radio Z. Das Härteste, was der Musikmarkt zu bieten hat. http://www.zosh.de Online hören: http://www.radio-z.net
