Re[2]: Linux Help

Kev <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:42:02 +0600
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-config
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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/

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