Hello! I'm installing Debian Linux 1.3.1 the hard way, package by package, floppy by flloppy. Yes, i'm a masochist! :-) But it is very instructive, since i have never installed any Linux in my life. :-( The PC i'm trying to do this is a dusty 486, w/o any network connections and w/o a CD-ROM.
I'd like to make it run LAM MPI, a message-passing environment for workstation networks, in single node mode. LAM MPI needs some TCP/IP services that i tried to provide with the packages netbase and netstd. The fact is it complains about a missing /usr/bin/rpc.bootparamd. Since i couldn't find it in any package, i guess it is in the installation packages; possibly a misinformed answer to an installation question prevented from being installed. However, i don't know which is the package that rpc.bootparamd belongs to, and wouldn't like to install everything again, for obvious reasons. :-) So, my two questions are: 1) is the above exposition true? Does rpc.bootparamd really lie in some base package that belongs to the installation? 2) how can i install it w/o having to reinstall everything i have in my dusty and trusty 486 computer? BTW two hurrahs for Debian Linux: 1) Debian is really easy to install. Maybe even easier than Windows 95. And has more intelligent installer, i'm sure. 2) The dusty and trusty 486 was not a good computer to run Win95, but it had its revival: it runs Linux very fast! I thank you in advance! Regards, --Hilton ---- Hilton Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5657 URLs and help on C++ programming and Object-Oriented Design -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
