Thanx for the quick reply Mike. I can understand what you are saying re:install slowly rather than trying to do everything at once (some people just have no patience!)
My plan at the moment is to format my h/d (2.5Gb) put in a 12Mb vfat partition to hold base2_0.tgz (loaded as a split file from floppies) and then partition the balance as linux partitions. At least I can be certain that I don't have a space problem. BIG, HUGE, QUESTION : Access to this list is the single most important thing to me at the moment. If I take the default home-user packages, visit netscape and download 4.05, will I have at least functional net access ??? (in your opinion that is !) If not, then I have lost access to all my help and will have to reinstall windoze (yuck!) After writing the first message, I read in the May or June archives of a person who found a file that had been filled with the line " #padding ". Having read that I remember finding something close to 20 of these files (sorry, can't remember the path) on the first install which I think was the final cause of "no space" error. It is the dependancy and conflict problems that worry me. I can't comment on the obsolecence of libg++ but it seemed that an awful lot of hamm packages were very unhappy without !!! At 08:19 AM 06-07-98 -0400, you wrote: > > > > >If the size of your installed system is 400Mb, the disk space required is >400Mb + space for the .deb files + working space. You can delete the .deb >files after they are installed (dselect does this for you). So >downloading fewer packages might help you. > >Here is the approach that I use: I divide my installation into parts: >emacs, tetex, X, and everything else. I do my installation in phases, >starting with 'everythging else'. > >Unless you have deleted them, the .deb that dselect downloaded for you are >in /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386 >If you feel adventurous, you could try deleting stuff that you dont need >to install right away (say stuff in x11, tex, and editors) to give >yourself some working room. Then install some other packages by hand >using dpkg -i nameofpackage.deb. Delete any .deb files that you >successfully install by hand. Once you feel that you have deleted enough >.deb files (one way or another), give dselect another shot at it. dselect >will know which packages were installed with dpkg and will not try to >download them again. > >I think libg++ is obsolete. If you have the replacement (libstdc++ or >something I think) you may not need libg++. > >Mike > <original message deleted> -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
