On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Richard Luckhurst wrote: > Recently I have been contracted to replace a Win NT server with a > new server running Debian 2.2 (the clients choice). This is my first > experience with Debian although I have installed plenty of Redhat > and SUSE based servers. I have found the lack of documentation > about how Debian configure things after the installation quite a > surprise. Does anyone know of any decent documentation on post > installation of a Debian release?
I'm surprised you're surprised. I'm surprised you didn't find anything. /usr/share/doc/<packagename> is usually helpful to some degree (although some packages are missing UI). For big packages, try installing a package called <packagename>-doc, or do an apt-cache search for it. To keep the size down on packages, large documentation is usually bundled separately so that the gurus who don't need the docs don't have wasted space. Checking the links posted by others - www.debian.org, searches on google, they'll all help you out. Honestly, post-installation of Debian is simple. Work out what you want to do, install the package to do it, read that package's documentation, and configure the package. There's no real unified, single, grand method of making every package work out of the box (thank god - and if you don't agree, I darn you to linuxconf). How do SuSE and DeadRat do it? If SuSE has 'embraced and extended' YaST to include every other package on the system, I'll puke - it was slow enough just changing frigging IP addresses. Oops, I'm ranting. </rant> -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
