RE: Debian and Setups

1998-01-08 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I want to thank everyone who responded to my questions both on the list and in e-mail. After I recived a response or two, I decided to give it a try. I dropped into messydos and FDISK /MBR and then fdisked my redhat system to a nice clean one (without ther Dynamic Disk Overlay that wouldn't boot

Re: Debian and Setups

1998-01-08 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Stephen Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: btw... does debian have a logo? (ive always liked RedHat's logo :) ) seeing as I work at the largest WinNT domain in the counbtryid like to put a BIG logo on my cubicle :) There is a fairly new official debian logo, but not the whole debian

Debian and setups

1998-01-07 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I am currently using RedHat 4.1 at home and have 5.0 running at work (I work at the biggest Windows NT Domain int he country (or so I hear) they would shit if they knew I had a linux box on my desk) I am starting to get tired of RedHat...I mean...they are pretty good. Never really had much

Re: Debian and setups

1998-01-07 Thread dg
Hi Stephen! I don't think, that Debian will be your linux distribution. Debian is very easy to configure and maintain. I has a better package mechanism than RedHat. And nearly every package runs without further configuration. But of course, you can install your own software in /usr/local (which

Re: Debian and setups

1998-01-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Stephen Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am intereste din a system where I can install thingsthen go through the config files (not some X interface) and read the docs... and configure it There is no X configuration utility in debian (yet), but all packages configure during