The use of source cds.

Dear Debian Group, I would like to know exactly what purpose the source cds serve and who would need to use them. I will only be using Debian for things like word processing, email, the internet, etcetera and wouldn't be doing any development or performing any major alterations to the debian

Connecting to my ISP.

Dear Debian Group, My problem today is that I am sometimes unable to connect to my ISP. Sometimes I am able to connect, but then many times I am not. The difference occurs immediately after the line: -- Carrier detected. Waiting for prompt. Some times the prompt is given and then WvDial connects

Netscape

Dear Debian Group, My question today is whether the complete Netscape Navigatorand Communicatorpackages come on theofficial Debian 6 cd set or whether I have to download them from the non-free directory on the Debian ftp site. Thank you, Ry

Running the Netscape installer.

Dear Debian Group, I am trying to get Netscape on my system. I have the installer on my system configured correctly with the archive file from the Netscape ftp site (it extracted correctly from the /tmp location). The Netscape icons came up as part of the menu and main start bar but whenever I

Installing communicator.

in the sources.list. Thank you for your time and energy, Ry P.S. I included the origional message for referance: - Original Message - From: D. Hoyem [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Simmons-Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Debian/Gnu Linux debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 11:44 AM Subject

Connecting my browsers to Wvdial and the internet.

Dear Debian Group, I am having problems with my browsers connecting to my internet connection as user: root. I have tried both Mozilla and Lynx (though not Netscape as I cannot get the archive files without an internet connection) and have encountered the same problem with both. When I dial up my

Setting lynx up to deal with a proxy server

Dear Debian Group, My ISP uses a proxy server and so prevents Lynx from working properly (or at least that was a possiblility that someone else suggested). I know for sure that my ISP uses a proxy server as they told me themselves. Please tell me what information I need from my ISP and then where

running lynx

Dear Debian Group, I am unable to run lynx on the Debian 2.2r2 system I recently installed. After I run wvdial, connect to my ISP, hit cntrl z and then type the command lynx at the command prompt (all as root) I get the following errors (I have also set http://www.debian.org as my start page for

Working with Rich Text Format in Linux.

Dear Debian Group, I would like to know what program you can use to work with Rich Text Format in Linux. Thank you, Ry

Creating a Logical Volume Group during the setup of Debian.

Hello, I would like to know how to create a Logical Volume Group on four hard-disks combining four partitions at the time I partition during an installation of Debian 2.2r2. Thank you, Ry

Partition size for / when using a Logical Volume Group for /usr.

Hello, I would like to know what some of your opinions are as to what size I should make the / partition when I have /usr as a separate Logical Volume Group partition. Thank you, Ry

Combining disks in one virtual partition.

Hello, My question for you all is whether or not you can join the partitions of several small hard disks together to form one large-contiuous-virtual root partition. I have quite a few small hard disks but none that are really big enough to be of much service to me. Thank you, Ry

Minimum RAM Requirement.

Hello, I would like to know the minimum amount of RAM a computer needs in order to run a basic Linux setup and then also the minimum for X Window System. Thank you, Ry

Rich text format.

Dear Debian Group, I would like to know what program you would use to work with rich text format in Linux. Thank you, Ry