On Jun 15, 2002 at 08:09 -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > Any tips for a Toshiba 2805-S302 laptop? I'll be doing a network install. > [...] > > The other pain I remember was getting X's fonts to look reasonably OK. I > remember installing true type fonts. I installed font servers, too, which > I'm sure I didn't need to do. Is there a less painful path to get good > looking fonts?
I'm a Debian newbie, which means I just did a network install to a laptop. It went fairly smoothly (in hindsight) -- made boot floppies, copied the base setup files to a different HD partition, booted, answered the questions. Unfortunately I mistakenly started with dselect instead of tasksel, which was too much info for me as a newbie, but otherwise it was no big problem. The TrueType fonts were really easy -- there's a ready-made package that when installed, downloads MS's web fonts and installs them automatically. Getting the X server to use the fonts is pretty easy with XFree86 4.*, since TrueType support is built-in -- you just add the TrueType directory to the list of font dirs in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. With XFree86 3.* you have to choose a font server and set it up etc. -- Thatcher Ulrich http://tulrich.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
