Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-27 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 at 04:50 GMT, David Palmer. penned: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:33:04 -0700 "Monique Y. Herman" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Have you ever seen the Fox tv series 24? >> > No. The only time I watch T.V. is when the All Blacks are playing. > Regards, > > David. > Well, pe

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-27 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 November 2003 10:32, Davor Balder wrote: > If you want to learn *linux*, that takes *a lot* of reading. Starting > from philosophy, the concept, how it is supposed to operate, meaning, > the zen... And for that, Debian is the best. Painfu

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-26 Thread David Palmer.
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:33:04 -0700 "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 at 10:10 GMT, David Palmer. penned: > > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 21:00:00 +0100 "John L. Fjellstad" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> O

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-26 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 at 10:10 GMT, David Palmer. penned: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 21:00:00 +0100 "John L. Fjellstad" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Thursday 20 November 2003 22:27, David Palmer. wrote: >> >> David Palmer? As in President Davi

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-26 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 November 2003 11:10, David Palmer. wrote: > Who's President David Palmer? > Has someone got my job? Sorry, 24 joke (24 is an American TV show... the president is named David Palmer). - -- John L. Fjellstad

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-25 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 11:44, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (20/11/03 10:42), Knut Willy wrote: > > I am a novice at Linux. Never used it, but want to teach myself. > > > > 1. Have a Windows-98 PC, which has internet connection. > >Do not intend to use Linux on this one. > >Afraid of having two

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-25 Thread David Meiser
You know, Debian users need to get over this "commercial distribution" fobia. You are all on the same side. I haven't been reading this list for a couple of months now, and when I signed up again, the first thing I read is another rant about RedHat. It's getting pretty boring. Debian works

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-25 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 November 2003 22:36, sda wrote: > Actually I don't think it's hard at all, remember, many 1st timers > haven't installed anything before. Most consumers don't ever install a > Windoze OS, they buy it pre-installed. I think it's more of

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-25 Thread ScruLoose
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:15:48PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:42:31AM +0100, Knut Willy wrote: > > 5. Is it possible to go ahead as I have mentioned above? > > Well, if it is at all possible to get that machine onlin

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-25 Thread David Palmer.
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 21:00:00 +0100 "John L. Fjellstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 20 November 2003 22:27, David Palmer. wrote: > > David Palmer? As in President David Palmer? What are you doing in > Australia?;-) > > > I am a Li

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-25 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 November 2003 22:27, David Palmer. wrote: David Palmer? As in President David Palmer? What are you doing in Australia?;-) > I am a Linux Newbie. > I checked out Red Hat 8, Mandrake 9, and Libranet is the best Linux > Newbie distro. I

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:42:31AM +0100, Knut Willy wrote: > 5. Is it possible to go ahead as I have mentioned above? Well, if it is at all possible to get that machine online, you'll be glad you did. Then you can use one of the netinst images (just

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
Second try at this.  Meant to send it to the list last night, but ended up going out as a private email instead... On 20 Nov 2003 at 10:44, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (20/11/03 10:42), Knut Willy wrote: > > I am a novice at Linux. Never used it, but want to teach myself. > > > > 1. Have a

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:36:34 +0100 "John L. Fjellstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 20 November 2003 16:51, Stephen wrote: > > > What's with you? I mean, Debian because of the text installer may be > > a little intimidating, but it'

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 November 2003 16:51, Stephen wrote: > What's with you? I mean, Debian because of the text installer may be > a little intimidating, but it's not /that hard/. It is hard, and it has nothing to do with the installer being text based (R

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Stephen
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:43:46AM + or thereabouts, ben wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:42:31 +0100 > "Knut Willy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am a novice at Linux. Never used it, but want to teach myself. > > fair enough. good luck. > first, whoever wrote that debian is the best c

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Kurt sys
Christian Schnobrich wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 12:43, ben wrote: first, whoever wrote that debian is the best choice for a novice was smoking out of the wrong end of his pipe. more competent commentators have said that it's not necessarily the linux to start with, but the one to end up with

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 12:43, ben wrote: > first, whoever wrote that debian is the best choice for a novice was > smoking out of the wrong end of his pipe. more competent commentators > have said that it's not necessarily the linux to start with, but the one > to end up with. very few tend to go wi

Fwd: Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Clive Menzies
I think this was meant for the list . - Forwarded message from Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > To: Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 03:03:52 -0800 (PST) > Subject: Re: Learning debia

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:42:31AM +0100, Knut Willy wrote: > 3. My intention is to do all downloading on the Win-98 PC, and then > copy everything over to the Compaq, using diskettes. I have done this years ago: I had a small dos partition on the laptop (a i386 with 6mg ram) and copied the li

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread ben
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:42:31 +0100 "Knut Willy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a novice at Linux. Never used it, but want to teach myself. fair enough. good luck. > > 1. Have a Windows-98 PC, which has internet connection. >Do not intend to use Linux on this one. >Afraid of having tw

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
Knut: on Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:42:31AM +0100, Knut Willy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am a novice at Linux. Never used it, but want to teach myself. > > 1. Have a Windows-98 PC, which has internet connection. >Do not intend to use Linux on this one. >Afraid of having two operating sy

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/11/03 10:42), Knut Willy wrote: > I am a novice at Linux. Never used it, but want to teach myself. > > 1. Have a Windows-98 PC, which has internet connection. >Do not intend to use Linux on this one. >Afraid of having two operating systems on same machine. If you have a broadband co

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Knut Willy wrote: > I am a novice at Linux. Never used it, but want to teach myself. > > 1. Have a Windows-98 PC, which has internet connection. >Do not intend to use Linux on this one. >Afraid of having two operating systems on same machine. Don't ! A save way can be to partition your PC

Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Knut Willy
I am a novice at Linux. Never used it, but want to teach myself.   1. Have a Windows-98 PC, which has internet connection.    Do not intend to use Linux on this one.    Afraid of having two operating systems on same machine.   2.  Have a portable Compaq PC, (Windows-95) on which I intend to