Terrence M. Brannon wrote: > > How do you tell dselect/dpkg "get me back to where I was before I > started adding and removing packages" ? >
cd /; rm -rf * then start over :-) Seriously, whether it be mcc-interim (remember that one?!), (what came before slackware, I've already forgotten?!) slackware, or debian, I think it's "sometimes" valuable to do a couple of trial runs with a new installation until you start to understand how the whole thing works, if you can afford the time. I guarantee you, things become a lot clearer on the third or fourth install! -- Don Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Math Sciences Voice (405) 581-2396 Cameron University Fax (405) 581-2616 Lawton, OK 73505 http://www.cameron.edu/~morton -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From miss Received: from mongo.pixar.com (138.72.50.60) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 9 Jan 1997 00:21:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 1934 invoked from network); 8 Jan 1997 19:41:41 -0000 Received: from primer.i-connect.net (HELO master.debian.org) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by mongo.pixar.com with SMTP; 8 Jan 1997 19:41:41 -0000 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:43:05 -0500 From: Ami Ganguli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Ganguli Consulting Inc. X-Sender: Ami Ganguli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b1 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Debian for regular folk (was: A proposal to improve dselect) X-Priority: Normal References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Resent-Message-ID: <"Jvigm3.0.Wz.TY_qo"@master.debian.org> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> archive/latest/2881 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Priority: non-urgent Importance: low Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Stutz wrote: > I am starting a project now that I've > been thinking about for some time: making a custom Debian "distribution" > geared toward writers, artists and other creative types who don't have much > knowledge of Linux to start with. I think this is a fantastic idea! But I'm not sure about the particular audience you mention (except maybe for 'Net access). You need to identify user groups that would be well served by what's available (HAM operators?). The idea being that they might not care about Debian/computers/whatever, but might benefit from what's available. > I know this is a large > undertaking -- in the extreme sense, where a Linux/UNIX total beginner buys > one of these machines with Linux installed, they're going to need help with > administration. Actually, they're going to need someone _else_ to administer > it. So I wonder about the feasability of some "volunteer Linux > administration network," where the end-user has their machine connected to > the net via a dialup line and this volunteer network has an admin account on > the machine where they can go in and perform routine tasks that need to get > done. Or volunteer members get "sponsor" users who are geographically near > them, and only that volunteer has admin access to the machine. Maybe this > could be tied in with all the Linux user groups that are sprouting up > everwhere, I don't know -- just some open thoughts for debate. I like the 'sponsor' idea a lot - but the system should be developed to a point where the administration is virtually non-existent (by current standards) or this could be hellish. The role of the sponsor should be limited to answering questions except in extreme cases. Basically what we're talking about is "Unix a'la Mac". Simplify what you can and remove what you can't. Regards... ... Ami. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]