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Re: [LUG] Debian Tryout

 

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Tom Arrow wrote:
> Hi,
> I thought after a I have a complete Linux failure I would try Debian
> (everyone keeps telling me to). So I shoved in the LXF cover disk with
> Debian install.Went through the install, when I was going through the
> initial boot I accidentally hit http install instead of cdrom. Apt-get
> installed quite a lot of packages and this took a long time. Now I
> logged in typed startx only to find that x kde gnome had not been
> install. I ran apt-get install kde as that would have to install X as a
> dependency. Now the estimated time to download is hours. I decided I
> could change the install source to the disk again so I opened the
> sources.list file and uncommented the cdrom install line. The only
> problem is that I don't know the source list path on the LXF cover disk.
> Any ideas on what to change it to or any other Debian tips would be
> greatly excepted.
> Thanks
> -- 
> Tom (the younger)

apt-setup (i think, from memory) or apt-config
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