mouse & root password

My problem has nothing to do with installing Debian. I have been away for a couple of months and on return I found that my mouse just doesn't work anymore. But then I realized that I forgot the root password so I can't get into the system to fix the mouse problem. How can I change the root pass

dist-upgrade

I tried this morning to upgrade from potato to woody. The procedure I followed was: apt-cdrom add apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade After inserting the appropriate CD, apt-get returned the following the eror message: E: Internal Error: Couldn't configure a pre-depend. Apt-get stopped after t

Re: Debian, too easy?

O' boy! On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 06:18:52AM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > configs files alone (e.g. Slackware) or layer it away so thoroughly that > > changing something in a config file may or may not be sufficient to > > change the behavior (e.g. Re