"Hilton Fernandes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dpkg -S rpc.bootparamd
netstd: /usr/man/man8/rpc.bootparamd.8.gz
netstd: /usr/sbin/rpc.bootparamd
^^^^
^
This is on a hamm system.
> REPOST:
>
> Sorry to insist, but it is very urgent, and besides, maybe i was not very
> clear.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> --------------
> Dear Debian users,
>
> I'm installing Debian Linux 1.3.1 the hard way, package by package, floppy by
> floppy. 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
>
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