Archive for April, 2006
Using Samba in File Managers
28 April 2006In my last post, I described how I set up and configured Samba. Now it is time to see how to use Samba, both on the Windows and the Linux boxes.
First, to the Windows box. Chapter 3 of the O'Reilly online Samba book offers a comprehensive discussion on how to set up a Windows client for [...]
Setting Up Samba
25 April 2006As I mentioned in an earlier post, one of the reaons I'm setting up this Linux box is to see if I can make do the normal things that I do with Windows XP. Of course, that means I need to be able to network my Linux box with other Win XP boxes. The easiest [...]
Installing Firefox from a Tar.Gz
22 April 2006In my last post, I talked about installing Firefox using a Debian package and Kpackage. But, this method provided me with an older version of Firefox than I wanted. So, I went searching for a newer version that was Linux compatible. Once I found it, I then had to learn how to download and install software [...]
Installing Firefox from a Debian Package
20 April 2006My first attempt at installing a major program was to install Firefox. I first installed Firefox using Kpackage. This was very easy. I opened Kpackage, found a menu selection that said "Search for Package" and found "Mozilla-Firefox" as a package that could be installed. No major problems occurred as I worked my way through Kpackage [...]
Linux and Packages
19 April 2006Using Kpackage, the package management GUI software that comes as part of KDE is pretty straight forward. It doesn’t take much time to get the feel of it and learn how to find available packages and install them. Different from Windows, Linux installs generally display a lot of info about dependencies, which files are going [...]
Step-By-Step Linux Install
18 April 2006I’m going to use this post to document each step along the way as I learn Linux. I’ll put links in this post to other posts that have more detail on each particular issue or problem. I’ll also include a ‘To Do’ list of specific capabilities I want to include in my Linux setup and document [...]
Setting Up a Swap File
18 April 2006For some reason during the install, the installer didn’t find the swap file even though I had repartitioned my drives before I started the install and created a 512MB Linux swap file. I followed the instructions on this forum page to set up the swap file. Specifics that I did:
Debian: fdisk /dev/hdb [this starts fdisk [...]
Getting the Correct Video & Monitor Settings
18 April 2006As I briefly mentioned another post (The Basic Install), I had to make several attempts at installing the KDE and the windows-system-core packages. Each time that they installed, I was queried on video and monitor settings. For the first couple of times, I selected VESA as the monitor option, because my monitor/video setup said it [...]
The Basic install
15 April 2006I downloaded the Debian install DVDs from Debian.org. See my other post for details on how to download the DVDs. Before starting the install process, I made two new partitions - one Linux and one Linux swap. I use BootItNG so I was able to make the partitions before starting the install. If you don’t [...]
Learning Linux - Which Distro?
15 April 2006I’m an advanced user of Windows who wants to take the plunge to see how Linux works. I’ve played around with it a bit before, but haven’t really gotten a firm handle on how it works. After trying a couple of different Linux distros, either using Live CDs or actually installing to a hard drive, [...]