Good Day

2002-07-01 Thread Mr.Muyiwa Ige
Dear Sir, First I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This is by its nature being a transaction, which needs maximum secrecy. I am Mr Ademola Muyiwa Ige, the eldest son of Late Chief Bola Ige, who was the Attorney - General of the Federation and Minister of Justice of the

Re: "your system doesn't need PCMCIA"

2002-07-01 Thread Jeremy Turner
On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 23:46, Jim Richardson wrote: > You probably didn't have a pcmcia card installed at the time I would be > guessing. My particular laptop has a wireless card wired into one of the PCMCIA slots, so it is physically installed. But I think the installer should (1) attempt to det

Minimum HD space

2002-07-01 Thread Jay
Greets from Baja California! I'm about to get my own copy of debian potato and so far I wish to install it on my laptop along with Win98, so I want to know what is the bare min. HD space required to do an install; so far I have freed up 600 Mb, is that enough? This is so I can learn about debian a

Re: Minimum HD space

2002-07-01 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Monday 01 July 2002 4:31 pm, Jay wrote: > I'm about to get my own copy of debian potato and so far I wish to install Yuck. Try using woody :P > it on my laptop along with Win98, so I want to know what is the bare min. > HD space required to

Re: Minimum HD space

2002-07-01 Thread ste
I installed Debian Potato 2.2 in a quite basic conf in less than 330MB, then choosing the pkgs I desired to work with, but any "heavy" Windows Manager (I currently use WMaker). Actually 650-700MBs should be constidered an average used disk space. Even with Woody, not considering OpenOffice, but

Re: Minimum HD space

2002-07-01 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Monday 01 July 2002 4:59 pm, Jay wrote: > Thanks for the bytes Chris, now what do you like about Woody? Potato (2.2) is considered to be the "stable" distrinution. It's two years old now, the software is extremely out of day. It may be OK for

RE: Minimum HD space

2002-07-01 Thread Jay
Cool! well, since I'm new to debian, for now I would rather have an old stable version than to have to put up with 'unstablelessness'. Once I get better with it (I plan to learn Python and sharpen my C skills with debian), I'll get the current Woody. Thanks for the info! ...In Accordance With The

Re: Minimum HD space

2002-07-01 Thread Thatcher Ulrich
My newbie-2-newbie advice: * don't be afraid of Potato; it works well and you can upgrade later if you want. * The more disk space you have, the better -- especially if you don't yet know what packages you like, a minimal installation can be a little constricting. But like everyone said, y

Re: Minimum HD space

2002-07-01 Thread Dave Price
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 08:31:12AM -0700, Jay wrote: > I'm about to get my own copy of debian potato and so far I wish to install > it on my laptop along with Win98, so I want to know what is the bare min. HD > space required to do an install; so far I have freed up 600 Mb, is that > enough? This i

Good Day

2002-07-01 Thread Mr.Muyiwa Ige
Dear Sir, First I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This is by its nature being a transaction, which needs maximum secrecy. I am Mr Ademola Muyiwa Ige, the eldest son of Late Chief Bola Ige, who was the Attorney - General of the Federation and Minister of Justice of the

Good Day

2002-07-01 Thread Mr.Muyiwa Ige
Dear Sir, First I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This is by its nature being a transaction, which needs maximum secrecy. I am Mr Ademola Muyiwa Ige, the eldest son of Late Chief Bola Ige, who was the Attorney - General of the Federation and Minister of Justice of th

Good Day

2002-07-01 Thread Mr.Muyiwa Ige
Dear Sir, First I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This is by its nature being a transaction, which needs maximum secrecy. I am Mr Ademola Muyiwa Ige, the eldest son of Late Chief Bola Ige, who was the Attorney - General of the Federation and Minister of Justice of th

Re: "your system doesn't need PCMCIA"

2002-07-01 Thread Jeremy Turner
On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 23:46, Jim Richardson wrote: > You probably didn't have a pcmcia card installed at the time I would be > guessing. My particular laptop has a wireless card wired into one of the PCMCIA slots, so it is physically installed. But I think the installer should (1) attempt to de

Minimum HD space

2002-07-01 Thread Jay
Greets from Baja California! I'm about to get my own copy of debian potato and so far I wish to install it on my laptop along with Win98, so I want to know what is the bare min. HD space required to do an install; so far I have freed up 600 Mb, is that enough? This is so I can learn about debian

Re: Minimum HD space

2002-07-01 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Monday 01 July 2002 4:31 pm, Jay wrote: > I'm about to get my own copy of debian potato and so far I wish to install Yuck. Try using woody :P > it on my laptop along with Win98, so I want to know what is the bare min. > HD space required to

Re: Minimum HD space

2002-07-01 Thread ste
I installed Debian Potato 2.2 in a quite basic conf in less than 330MB, then choosing the pkgs I desired to work with, but any "heavy" Windows Manager (I currently use WMaker). Actually 650-700MBs should be constidered an average used disk space. Even with Woody, not considering OpenOffice, but

Re: Minimum HD space

2002-07-01 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Monday 01 July 2002 4:59 pm, Jay wrote: > Thanks for the bytes Chris, now what do you like about Woody? Potato (2.2) is considered to be the "stable" distrinution. It's two years old now, the software is extremely out of day. It may be OK fo

RE: Minimum HD space

2002-07-01 Thread Jay
Cool! well, since I'm new to debian, for now I would rather have an old stable version than to have to put up with 'unstablelessness'. Once I get better with it (I plan to learn Python and sharpen my C skills with debian), I'll get the current Woody. Thanks for the info! ...In Accordance With Th

Re: Minimum HD space

2002-07-01 Thread Thatcher Ulrich
My newbie-2-newbie advice: * don't be afraid of Potato; it works well and you can upgrade later if you want. * The more disk space you have, the better -- especially if you don't yet know what packages you like, a minimal installation can be a little constricting. But like everyone said,

Re: Minimum HD space

2002-07-01 Thread Dave Price
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 08:31:12AM -0700, Jay wrote: > I'm about to get my own copy of debian potato and so far I wish to install > it on my laptop along with Win98, so I want to know what is the bare min. HD > space required to do an install; so far I have freed up 600 Mb, is that > enough? This