Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Keith P Mitchell
Hey Andrei: Thanks for getting back. Q. Did the network setup step during the installation work? A. Good question. I was so concerned with disk management, I did not notice. I am looking at starting from scratch. I now have some experience and good recommendations. The physical connection is

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Mark
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Lisi wrote: [...] > If you use CDs you may have to keep > changing the CD. The full set is now something like 11 is it not? > I have yet to need anything other than CD 1 or DVD 1 for installing. So nothing gained there from a netinstall. Mark

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Lisi
On Friday 02 July 2010 21:47:13 Mark wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Keith Mitchell wrote: > > Thanks Guys: > > > > Looks like a serious operator malfunction on my part. My first time > > with an internet install. In the past, I had a CD with the whole > > distribution on it. > > This is

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Lisi
On Friday 02 July 2010 20:38:52 Keith Mitchell wrote: > Firefox and Thunderbird do have > copyrighted stuff, however, Iceweasel did not have a Windows > installation, otherwise I would be using it on Windows. Firefox and Iceweasel are the same thing, so there is a version for Windows. The copyr

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Lisi
On Friday 02 July 2010 19:23:50 Joe wrote: > In those days I was using fixed addresses on my couple of network > machines, and so was not running dhcp on the sarge machine. Apparently, > if during the installation, a dhcp server was not found, and you hadn't > picked the expert install, you didn't

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Alan Chandler
On 02/07/10 21:47, Mark wrote: On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Keith Mitchell mailto:kpmitch...@gmail.com>> wrote: Thanks Guys: Looks like a serious operator malfunction on my part. My first time with an internet install. In the past, I had a CD with the whole distribution on i

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Mark
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Keith Mitchell wrote: > Thanks Guys: > > Looks like a serious operator malfunction on my part. My first time > with an internet install. In the past, I had a CD with the whole > distribution on it. > This is something I haven't been able to wrap my head around yet

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Kent West
On 07/02/2010 02:38 PM, Keith Mitchell wrote: Thanks Guys: Looks like a serious operator malfunction on my part. My first time with an internet install. In the past, I had a CD with the whole distribution on it. First, Sorry. I did not wish to infer that Debian itself is brain-dead. I meant the

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Keith Mitchell
Thanks Guys: Looks like a serious operator malfunction on my part. My first time with an internet install. In the past, I had a CD with the whole distribution on it. First, Sorry. I did not wish to infer that Debian itself is brain-dead. I meant the minimal installation that I myself created with

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Arthur Machlas
> On Vi, 02 iul 10, 00:49:53, Keith Mitchell wrote: >> I decided to build a Linux box instead of emulating Linux using >> VM-Ware under Windows. I heard Debian was the way to go. I have >> created Red-Hat and Ubuntu Linux boxes in the past with no problems. Who did you hear this from? Irrelevant,

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Joe
On 02/07/10 14:03, Alan Chandler wrote: On 02/07/10 08:46, Andrei Popescu wrote: [Please reply to debian-user only. If you are not subscribed please ask for CCs] (full quote for context) On Vi, 02 iul 10, 00:49:53, Keith Mitchell wrote: I decided to build a Linux box instead of emulating Linu

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Alan Chandler
On 02/07/10 08:46, Andrei Popescu wrote: [Please reply to debian-user only. If you are not subscribed please ask for CCs] (full quote for context) On Vi, 02 iul 10, 00:49:53, Keith Mitchell wrote: I decided to build a Linux box instead of emulating Linux using VM-Ware under Windows. I heard De

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
[Please reply to debian-user only. If you are not subscribed please ask for CCs] (full quote for context) On Vi, 02 iul 10, 00:49:53, Keith Mitchell wrote: > I decided to build a Linux box instead of emulating Linux using > VM-Ware under Windows. I heard Debian was the way to go. I have > create