Spam?! [Was: Re: Initial install question]

2005-06-21 Thread roach
What's going on here? Mark Anderson's 'HTML only' post got caught by one of my spam traps. "Not so important", you say. Yes, if it wasn't for the fact that SpamAssassin on murphy.debian.org gave his post a score of 3.6/4. Way too high for something that isn't even close to being spam. On the o

Re: Initial install question

2005-06-20 Thread Kent West
Mark Fletcher wrote (in top-posting format - arghgh!): > In addition to that you need a display manager A display manager is optional, so I'd hesitate to use the phrase "you need". Without a display manager, you can still start X with the "startx" command. > , of which there are 3 mainstream one

Re: Initial install question

2005-06-20 Thread Mark Fletcher
(With apologies in advance if this comes through in HTML -- I have tried to turn HTML-based mailing off but am not sure if have been successful)   Mark -- Debian's "default" way of interacting with the user is through virtual terminals, which is what you're seeing. That said, of course almost no on

Re: Initial install question

2005-06-20 Thread Kent West
Simon Kitching wrote: >On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 03:32 -0500, Mark Anderson wrote: > > >>I can't get beyond this to the GUI. >> >> > >* type "apt-get x-window-system-core" to install the basic graphics > system > > That should be "apt-get install x-window-system-core". >I don't know if your

Re: Initial install question

2005-06-20 Thread Jochen Schulz
Simon Kitching: > On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 03:32 -0500, Mark Anderson wrote: > > Greetings. I just installed Debian using the ISOs from your site. > > Everything went fine and then i got the "login" command. At this point > > I typed in my username and password and what i got was this: > > [EMAIL PROT

Re: Initial install question

2005-06-20 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 03:32 -0500, Mark Anderson wrote: > Greetings. I just installed Debian using the ISOs from your site. > Everything went fine and then i got the "login" command. At this point > I typed in my username and password and what i got was this: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~S: (the "name" b

Initial install question

2005-06-20 Thread Mark Anderson
Greetings. I just installed Debian using the ISOs from your site. Everything went fine and then i got the "login" command. At this point I typed in my username and password and what i got was this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~S:  (the "name" being my username i made during install). I can't get beyond this