I saw your reply to Bert Conliffe an was hoping you could give me similar assistance. Personal background: I've learned computers by sitting in front of them and struggling my way through them. Currently I use WindowsNT at work with Lotus notes 4.5 for E-Mail and Netscape for surfing. I can find my way around Windows fairly well but I don't like it much. I am returning to study to catch-up with the technology I have missed while I was in the American Navy. I will be attending an Electronics Engineering Degree from Open University and C Programming from Washington University Distance Learning. I felt it would be a good Idea to use Linux to work from rather than Windows as it seems to be more powerful and UNIX seems to be the system of choice for most network servers. I have set up a computer at work with the following installed (Don't laugh, Its my first attempt to EVER set-up a PC from scratch): Pentium processor 16M Ram 600M Hard Drive that I installed Base Linux on. ( Just from the Boot Floppies I copied from Debian) 400M Hard Drive that has DOS and other stuff on it that I added to the system for more storage and for porting my programming attempts to DOS/Windows. ( I hope to have DOS boot from this drive and to run DJGPP, A DOS port of g++ from UNIX. I forget exactly who wrote it, but it seems to be popular for DOS programming) NO network card. Work won't let me connect a Linux box to there network, only WindowsNT. ( Go figure????) One 9 pin serial port and a null-modem cable to a WindowsNT PC for installing the rest of the packages ( I hope, I hope)
My problem: I can't connect to the Net to download the packages for the rest of Debian. I know NOTHING about Linux/UNIX I want to copy ALL of the Package sub-directories from Debian to the Windows machine and use the null-modem cable to install what I want/need to the Linux box. man doesn't seem to work on my machine. ( I get bash: man: command not found) could you give me basic, step by step instructions to establish a connection from the Linux box to the Windows PC so I could hopefully use dselect to install the packages I need/want from a sub-directory on the Windows PC? Also, is there a quick was to copy the packages directories from the debian site to my Windows machine rather that clicking them one by one for download with Netscape? Do you know of any good beginning Linux/UNIX book I could get from the Web so I can start to learn my way around this machine? and last ( for now) how can I set-up my second Hard Drive to boot into DOS from Linux? I know this is long winded but, I am hoping you could get me started as I want to get involved in the Debian Linux project, I just need some help with the learning curve. Thanks in advance for any assistance. I've posted to the users list but it seems they tend to forget that not everyone knows how to use commands like getty or stuff. Cheers, John Gay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]