[Wylug-help] Debian newbie

[MartinRowemartin@jamaro.org.uk]

Hi

I finally got enough courage to install Debian 2.2 this weekend. I've
been using Mandrake for nearly 18 months and thought I now knew enough to
tackle Debian. Well, After a bumpy start[1], I've got myself stuck getting
Netscape installed. I can't see any other netscape related packages on
the three cd set, other than netscape 4.73 base - there don't appear to
be any navigator or communicator packages (doing a search in dselect).

The only binary that seems to get installed this way is netscape-remote.
Looking at the Debian site[2] shows a huge amount of
netscape/navigator/communicator packages, but I don't know which is the
appropriate one.

Should what I'm looking for be on the CDs? If so, where? If not, what
package(s) do I want?

I'd also like to install KDE - any ideas where the .debs for that are?

Finally, how does apt-get handle dial-up disconnections during a
download. I'm on Freeserve unlimited with a two hour disconnect, so some
larger downloads are bound to get interupted part way through. I normally
pull stuff down via Downloader for X, which has no problem with it. Am I
going to need that (or similar) to get packages in the first place, or
can I just leave apt-get to do its magic[3]

Regards, Martin

[1] The three cd set of CDRs from the Linux Emporium is unreadable on my
cd-drive - which normally reads CDRs & CD-RWs fine. My burner reads them
fine, but my box will only boot from the first CDROM (hdc) and my burner
is hdd. I managed to get there eventually by booting from a Win98 floppy
(that includes CD-Rom support), as the command prompt at normal Win98
boot can't see any cd drives at all. IDE-SCSI emulation for my burner
meant the CD drive for the install disappeared after the reboot, and the
gpm bug in potato confused me for a while - fun stuff :-) 

[2] Using the w3m browser, which I've not seen before. It's certainly
quicker than Netscape, but not quite a replacement ;-)

[3] Apt (and Debian's package handling in general) is one of the main
reasons for wanting to switch. It looks wonderful, once I can get my head
round it. 
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