Hi Brian, I'm just an end user, still finding my way around after a couple years. My experience with a dialup account is that I've never had to talk to my ISP about linux. Setting up the account in SuSE 7.2 was easier than in win98. My experience with Debian 3.0 - The installer is archaic. First, you have to put in all four disks to be read. Then you get to select a base package, then you get to fill in more selections from a list of everything. You can use the arrow keys to scroll up and down the list of over a thousand packages and the space key to select them. If you pick something that has conflicts or dependencies, you jump to another screen and then somehow, if you do the right keystrokes, you get to the list of conflicts or dependencies, and then by some unknown keystrokes, you can get back to the main list. If you have the misfortune to hit the enter key during this process, the installation begins, and you have to wait until it's done to add in the rest of the packages. If you don't do it then, you'll have to scan in all four disks next time to add stuff. I did this a couple weeks ago, and I did manage to get a working installation. Setting up XFree went very smoothly (a new experience for me). It worked fine, but every time I booted up, it brought me to a graphical login screen for X, and I wasn't allowed to log in as root. So I logged in as user, hit ctrl-alt-F2 to get another login screen, and logged in as root. Tried to run a second X-session from root, but it wouldn't work. After two days of screwing around with trying to install what I wanted, I wiped it out and installed SuSE 7.2. It took me about an hour. Have fun, Greg Brian McLinden wrote:
Hi all,
Newbie here. I want to get to the command line and some interesting scripting projects as soon as possible. Would you help me get there? Some preliminaries:
First, I live in Worcester. Can you help me find an ISP that will know how to talk to a Linux newbie like me?
Second, I want to multiboot with distros that are easy to tinker with AFTER that so-caloled "easy install." I hear that RPM-based approaches give headaches in this regard. So here is my provisional list:
- Debian 3.0
- Slackware 9.1
- Libranet 2.8.1 (a commercial tailoring of Debian)
How might you comment on or modify this selection so I can learn Linux with the least impediment to changes after the install? What order would you tackle them in?
Finally, on Saturday I may order a SCSI box with Los Alamos Computers, laclinux.com. Any word about them, good or bad? They are willing to pre-install a multi-boot for any selection of distros that I want!
May I phone you if you would be open to that? What are good times for us to talk?
Glad to be onboard, Brian
++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian L. McLinden 6 Wachusett Street - #34 Worcester, MA 01609-2647 (508) 752-3033 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
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