On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 07:02:42AM +0500, Fritz Brown wrote: > OK, everybody, THANKS! I finally got it installed without it asking me for > all the extra packages (which is where the overwhelming part came in). Now, > the only thing is I don't know how to start the GUI. I took most of the > default settings (this is Woody, BTW - may try to get Sarge a little later) > in the installer, and it comes up to a command line. Do I need to run apt to > find a GUI and install it?
Let me recommend that you install sarge *soon*. I feel like an echo -- others have recommended sarge, too. * It's easier to install sarge than woody. * it's easier to install sarge than to upgrade woody -- but if you have become invested in woody with a lot of configuration and files and stuff you'll pretty well have to upgrade instead of reinstall. (I had a hard time upgrading one of my woody systems to sarge -- even thought the woody system took only abnout two gigabytes (I had a lot of stuff installed) and the sarge system wasn't much bigger, it seemed to need over two extra gigabytes temporarily during the upgrade) * It will be supported by security opgrades (to prevent malicious outsiders from breaking in to your system) much longer than woody. * there's more, and more up-to-date software in sarge. If you have a decent net connexion, you only need one CD to install sarge -- the sarge net-install CD. Without the net, you probably have a use for only the first three or four CDs out of maybe 13(?) total-- the packages are allocated to CDs in order or popularity. Actually, you can install sarge with only its first CD and then decide where to go from there. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
