[Herts] Debian Install Amusements..

[Mr. Spock]

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 07:49:59PM -0000, Nicolas Pike wrote:
> Turns out, the disk has some existing partitions. I removed these and the
> install went through ok. Which is great news! I now have the prompt and can
> see the net.  Next task is to read more about apt-get
>
http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#apt-howto
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue84/tougher.html


> so I can get (Please
> don't laugh!!) Webmin running!! The target is to build a server with..
> Webmin, Postfix (Maildir), Courier, Apache (2.0?) Squirrel mail, proftp, ssh
> etc. As per my current RH 9.0 Blade.
> Any other hints etc greatly appreciated!! Thanks for you help so far
> 
Join this list for a weekly news update:
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/

And definitely join the debian-security-announce list:
http://www.debian.org/security/

If you're running the Stable branch, be sure to add:

  deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free

...to your /etc/apt/sources.list file, so then you can do:

# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade

...to automagically update every time a vulnerability is found.
(Not sure if this can be done for Testing or Unstable, anyone?)


See also:

http://www.debian.org/doc/

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.html

http://www.debianplanet.org/

The Very Verbose Debian 3.0 Installation Walkthrough
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2016

The Very Verbose Guide to Updating and Compiling Your Debian Kernel
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2949

The Linux Cookbook
http://dsl.org/cookbook/

Learning Debian GNU/Linux
(An old, but good book, now available online:)
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/book/index.html

Dwarf's Guide to Debian GNU/Linux
http://people.debian.org/~psg/ddg/


Neil Youngman [mailto:n.youngman at ntlworld.com] said:
> 
> Rick Moen of the Linuxgazette Answergang (tag at linuxgazette.net) is pretty
> good with Debian problems.
>
Maybe see his excellent website before asking (FA)questions:

http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/information.html
http://www.linuxmafia.com/debian/tips


> Have you tried Knoppix?
> 
Yes, only briefly. It is nice, and autodetects hardware well
from a live CDROM if you're having trouble.


Hope that's not too much,
Malc