cd and floppy disk use

2004-05-02 Thread Douglas Pollard
Hello all,     I've installed Debian Woody 3.0r2 and I'm trying to import files on cd and floppy disk. I keep getting permission denied. How do I give myself as user permission to use these drives.                                                                 Thanks Doug

Re: Opinions on some Debian books?

2004-03-05 Thread Douglas Pollard
This past Sunday I was getting desperate for a good book on Debian in a hurry. I drove 60 miles to the nearest Barns and Nobles store and found one out of print book that I had already downloaded on the web. I found 6 real nice books on Fedora about 700 pages with cd's in each. The number one cd wa

Re: uninstall Debian Linux

2004-03-02 Thread Douglas Pollard
quot;H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 5:14 PM Subject: Re: uninstall Debian Linux > Douglas Pollard wrote: > > HS, > > I tried to boot with disc #1 Red Hat Linux Fedora. The monitor shows > > what looks like files

Re: uninstall Debian Linux

2004-03-01 Thread Douglas Pollard
ROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 6:16 PM Subject: Re: uninstall Debian Linux > Ken Gilmour wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 18:04, Douglas Pollard wrote: > > > >>I installed debian from cd without any documentation other than what I have

uninstall Debian Linux

2004-03-01 Thread Douglas Pollard
I installed debian from cd without any documentation other than what I have been able to get on line.After struggling with it for a while, I bought a Red hat Linux book with a couple cd's. With a book in front of me I hope to do better. Can someone tell me how to uninstall Debian or install red hat

can't shut down

2004-01-27 Thread Douglas Pollard
I'm a newby to debian linux and feeling pretty dumb. I have managed to partition my hard drive and install Debian but I can't figure out how to get into root in order to shut down my machine. If I am in Gnome how do I close Debian-linux down. If someone would walk me through from Gnome I wou