From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kev Subject: Re[2]: Linux Help Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:42:02 +0600 Sender: linux-config-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040720104056.18C0.SAVAGE-GARDEN@hanikamail.com> References: <20040720092512.18BC.SAVAGE-GARDEN@hanikamail.com> <20040720042325.GA468@quark.cs.earlham.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040720042325.GA468@quark.cs.earlham.edu> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Skylar Thompson Cc: linux-config@vger.kernel.org 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 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 > " to figure what the package name is called, and then do "apt-get > install " 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 (skylar@cs.earlham.edu) > -- 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