Re: Install/Config q's

2000-12-21 Thread Walter Tautz
> > > When I looked at the inittab file, it had a comment saying that > > runlevels 2-5 are mutlti-user. Ok, but not enough information. I > > have been using RH for 2 years, and it has runlevel 5 for X and 3 for > > full multi-user. Does Debian use the same runlevels? I know some > > distros

Re: Install/Config q's

2000-12-21 Thread John Travis
On Wednesday 20 December 2000 23:50, D-Man wrote: > Last night I installed Potato using the 'network' method. It was > very nice! (especially with my 100Mb/s connection). > > Debian has more packages in the distro than RH! Very cool! I found > some debian packages that I hadn't been able to find

Re: Install/Config q's

2000-12-20 Thread David Z Maze
D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: D> The only problem is that many of the packages are old (ie gnome-*, D> sawmill, python, etc). When was Potato released? Only a couple of months ago. Some of the packages are likely older because Debian goes through a substantial freeze to make sure that every

Install/Config q's

2000-12-20 Thread D-Man
Last night I installed Potato using the 'network' method. It was very nice! (especially with my 100Mb/s connection). Debian has more packages in the distro than RH! Very cool! I found some debian packages that I hadn't been able to find rpms for previously. The only problem is that many of th