dselect for newbies

1999-07-23 Thread Lee Elliott
I posted about the dselect interface before using it (and said so). After running through it about five or six times, and reading the on-screen instructions, and the various error messages, (not helped by a non-working ^C combination) I figured out what was going on and what I needed. So I've

Re: dselect for newbies

1997-01-17 Thread John Goerzen
Well, what I did is just download ppp.deb onto a DOS disk. Then before running dselect after rebooting into Debian for the first time, I just dpkg -i the PPP package and start PPP. dselect is perfectly capable of running very nicely in this setting. Just select FTP as the method, select updat

dselect for newbies

1997-01-16 Thread Rob MacWilliams
I'm probably fanning the flames in regard to dselect and new user installation problems, but being a recent convert to Debian and *nix, I think I might have something productive to add. When I set up my system for the first time, I didn't use dselect at all because it seemed too com