[olug] debian

Adam Lassek lunatik at radiks.net
Tue Dec 5 08:11:48 UTC 2000


Ah ha, that's what I needed to know. Thanks for the help

Eric Penne wrote:

> are you having the problem of not getting a prompt where you can type
> the other OS's into?  I did that when I blew away my lilo.conf and I
> had to add in the
>
> prompt
>
> so that I could get the chance to choose OS.
>
> Eric
>
> --- Klaruz <pfiled at marietta.edu> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Adam Lassek" <lunatik at radiks.net>
> > To: <olug at bstc.net>
> > Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 10:32 PM
> > Subject: [olug] debian
> >
> >
> > > I just switched to Debian, and I have a few questions.
> > >
> > > 1. My machine was set up to dual-boot between Linux and Windows 98.
> > But
> > > now LILO won't let me specify an OS, it will only boot the default.
> > How
> > > do I get it to boot multiple OS's?
> >
> > Lilo is just like lilo on any other distro, /etc/lilo.conf. I'm not
> > going to
> > go into how to use lilo, there have been lots of threads on this.
> > Besides, I
> > use grub on my x86, and yaboot on my g3 for my bootloaders. Lilo is
> > just
> > icky.
> >
> > > 2. Can somebody tell me how to install kde from apt-get? It almost
> > seems
> > > like the KDE guys are trying to make it as hard as possible, since
> > the
> > > apt server they posted on their site gives me a 404. Do I have to
> > > download each package and install them manually? I'm set up in a
> > > comfortable Helix Gnome installation, but I wanted to try out kde2.
> >
> > I'm not a kde person, but I know kde2 is in the unstable branch now.
> > You may
> > want to try that.
> >
> > -- Daniel
> >
> >
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