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Redhat only costs <insert cost of three CD-Rs here> . . . . ? You can afford the internet but not a pack of CDs ?

Anyways, when you log in, assuming you installed a GUI, jsut type startx (assuming your using an X based GUI, you should be, as that's standard, but you never know with Debian )

It should fire up the GUI, and then you cna use it much like WIndows did, lok around for info on your GUI (like a control centre) it should say what your using.

For seting up the internet, fire up X, ten grab a console (if you can't find it, just hit ALT+F2 and enter bash into the run box) and then for Redhat, I type neat to bring up the network config program, I don't know if DEbian uses the same thing or not, so try it, if it doesn't work, Damned if I know, search the GUI.

Your best bet to learnign Linux, is to just jump in ad start digging through al teh configs, and files, and other crap in there. If you ahve ANY programming background, or are experienced with Windows inner workings, then you should be able to figure it out pretty easy. Best way to become a Linux guru is to get in, fiddle with stuff, break soemthing, then try and fix it. Hint hint - Keep your installation CDs handy. I installed Redhat (good ol 7.2 at the time ) eight times the first day, five the second, seven the third, then twice the fourth, then I went a whole two days without having ot re-install it


I apologize for bad grammar spelling, I tried to catchit, but I'm sick, and feel liek ****, and weak, and can barely press the damn keys on the keyboard down har enough. Anyone got an aspirin the size of Texas ?>

 

startx it was!!!

The only problem is I don't know how to set up my NIC card and get online, and I don't know how to change my screen resolution.

I have dual monitors, and my PCI card is the default. That PCI card isn't too grand, and the monitor is tiny, so it only goes to 800x600 (although KDE said I was running 640x480 I think)

Is there any way to set up two screens in linux? In the X-Server/sytem (I forget what it's called) it says I have 640x480 on screen 0... can I add screen 1 at 1280x1024 on a geforce 2?

help?

So most important is getting on the net, then comes getting my display worth looking at. (I can't even see the bottom of the setup windows!)

 

Okay, well, try doing neat, if that works, you'll be fine, as it's all very straight forward. If that doesn't work, you obviously have an internet conneciton available, so look up Debian network setups, or you cna just look around the GUI, as it may have soemthing. Next, I know Linux suports dual displays, but I've never had any experience with it (my multi setup was with ATI cards ) but grab the NVidia driver, you want IA32 architecture. Just follow the instructions and you'll be fine, it's dead simple.

Now I imagine that having multiple monitors would just be altering your XF86Config file, but I'm not sure.