Re[2]: Linux Help
Kev <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:42:02 +0600
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-config |
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thanks a lot, i got it on a p1 133mhz but having some prob on the PC it cant detect my 10GB HDD :( On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 23:23:25 -0500 Skylar Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 09:27:04AM +0600, Kev wrote: > > now i'm going with Debian > > > > if i install minum installation of debian and i can install other things by downloading them (Sendmail, Squid etc) ? > > apt-get is probably one of the coolest features of Debian. It will download > any packages you need, along with all their dependencies. The days of > hunting for huge dependency trees of RPMs are over. Do an "apt-cache search > <string>" to figure what the package name is called, and then do "apt-get > install <package-name>" to install it. A lot of the configuration is > automated through dialogs, so almost everything should be pretty easy. Let > me know if you need any help. > > -- > -- Skylar Thompson ([email protected]) > -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ ------- Web Hosting at cheep price, stating at $1 per moth with your own domain, .COM, .NET, .LK, .ORG etc.. PHP, CGI, Perl, MySQL, Cpanel 9, POP3, POP3s, SMTP, IMAP, FTP, http://www.orbitsl.net