Hello People: I'm a Brand Spankin' Shinning Newbe with a Brand Spankin Shinning New Debian install using floppies, all seven of them D/Led from Debian.org, so now what? The man pages don't work. Nothing will install because of dependency errors except for joe (works great but there must be something better). Can't get the computer on the internet because that machine isn't connected and doesn't have the software, yet. Games won't install either. Really wanted to get it up and running to learn Linux, C, C++ and a few other things. Besides, I'd like to replace WinDoze95 with something I can depend on and understand how it works and maybe even tweak a little. So, what do I do now?
Actually, I've spent over a month reading How-to's and Install.txt and anything else I could find. Problem is, nothing seems to work, even though I've tried installing several times, manually configuring things, and asking everyone that seemed to maybe know something. The install seems to boot from the hard disk ok, I get about three and a half screens of report between Loading Lilo ... and Login. Everything looks fine and seems to terminate successfully except for one itty bitty thing: Mounting local file systems ... not mounted anything Ok, that's probably a biggie but I did install vfat so I could read floppies made on the Win95 machine. Does anybody have an idea of what I did wrong? What should I do now? Thank you.