Help a newbie debian get up and running.. 2270

On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:21:14 +0100, The Natural Philosopher

This is odd, since both of those should definitely be in your base system installation. You should not need to apt-get it at all, it should be placed on your system by the install process before you get around to choosing particular packages for your system.

But, you need to include what version of debian you are trying to install (sarge, etch, etc., or "stable", "testing", or "unstable"), as well as how you are installing it -- CD set, netinstall CD, floppies, or what? What all did you do to it to get here? What kernel are you trying to use?

Also, what kind of machine do you have? What sort of hard drive?Ê SATA hard drives cause trouble with early 2.6 kernels, such as debian stable probably uses. You can use a 2.4 kernel, and it will work OKÊ(re-install from scratch if you had a 2.6 kernel), or use testing or unstable.

If you have a plain IDE drive you should have no trouble getting to this stage with a usable system.

Don't worry about users, yet, except to make sure thathome has enough space.

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David L. Johnson

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