Debian post install questions.........

[Nick Wilson]

Hi all.

I've managed to install debian (hooray!) but I'm having a spot of bother on a couple of small issues.

Firstly, although I chose Black box and Enlightenment when prompted during install I appear to only have Twim and Window maker. What's going on there?

Secondly, I chose the 'simple' option when chooding packages and selected both Xwindows groups and all the Gnome groups. But no sign of netscape?

Oh, and I can't use pico?

Thanks for your thoughts.
:)

[thedexman]

See if you have them installed with dpkg -l. If not you can just apt-get install them.

[z0mbix]

apt-get install pico - but nano and nano-tiny are just as good for most people

[Nick Wilson]

Thanks guys, so what about my desktops?

Is that covered with the dpkg -l ?

Nick

[thedexman]

oui

[Nick Wilson]

what?

[z0mbix]

I think he means "oui" as in "yes" :p

Try whereis blackbox and same for enlightenment.

This page (http://www.xs4all.nl/~wbsoft/linux/blackbox/blackbox.1.html) is really good for getting blackbox looking really sweet. Don't know much about enlightenment though.

[ 14 November 2001: Message edited by: cheeky_zombie ]

[Nick Wilson]

Oh yeah :D

Hey, I got blackbox in and emacs, Wahoo! :p

Couple more questions though guys,

How do I mount the cdrom?
I've tried
cd /mnt/cdrom
and cd cdrom
ls (in either dir)

but no luck?

[thedexman]

You need to first use the mount command. For example,

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

If it is already set up in your /etc/fstab file, you can just use

mount /mnt/cdrom
or
mount /dev/cdrom

Comprenez-vous? ;)

[ 14 November 2001: Message edited by: thedexman ]

[Nick Wilson]

Cheers