mikesd

Well I'm confused here. What exactly are you trying to do? You say you have Ubuntu installed, why are trying to install Debian now? What do you mean from here, where? You need to be more direct in your questions.

what distro are you using?

ImmortalMatrixology wrote: It seems you're making a typo in /pat/to/yum-3.2.23 command The desktop is usually /home/user/Desktop also don't forget you su'd so make sure you are using the complete path to the file you're trying to expand.

Try at the commandline :startx see if there is an error. If there isn't, you'll have to change the /etc/inittab file at this line: # The default runlevel is defined hereid:5:initdefault: Make sure it says id:5:initdefault then reboot

I recommend the ext3 file system over the reiserfs. I wouldn't share home directories. some distros may install things a little differently and what not. I'd give each different distro it's own home partition. BUT if you chose to share /home's make sure you automatically mount whatever partition you have /home on in both…

sven.hakonsson wrote: what does dmesg say?

abrenar wrote: Well, if you don't tell us the package name, how can we help you?

What was your problem w/ openSUSE? I'm not a big RH/Fedora fan. I feel they break things. My personal opinion. I happen to use openSUSE and love it. I've always got more helpful support from the suse guys too than from the red hat guys. I would say, though, if you're used to the apt setup, then stick w/ the Debian based…

Wouldn't non Fedora fall under the Redhat option?