I have an old (pre-2.x) system, upgraded to 2.0, then 2.1, 2.1R4.
1) I wanted to move into X GUI, and have a lot of X11 stuff under
/usr/X11R6/...
but do not have XF86Setup.
I ran dselect from my 2.1 disk (Essential Debian), and from both of my
2.1R4 disks, but found no X11 stuff on any of them.
I tried to point dselect to www.debian/org via FTP, but it wanted to
download 70+ MB, so I declined.
I had assumed it would only download a few upgrades, and/or give me a
selection option of packages before such a big download.
Seems like this should be easy, what am I missing?
2) If I put in various CDroms, does dselect remember what programs are
available on each, or do I need to roll all of them through each time I
want to find something?
3) I see that Debian 2.1 is not Linux 2.2, but is 2.0.30; I want to get
proper parport printer/Zip sharing, which seems to be in Kernel 2.2, what
is the easiest way to get this.
4) On initial boot, we got a nice dselect'ish menu, "what type of install
to do, .." with a default set of packages. Is there a dselect option for this?
Thanks.
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Dr. Gregory Guthrie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125 Fax: -1103
Computer Science Department
College of Science and Technology
Maharishi University of Management
(Maharishi International University 1971-1995)
http://www.mum.edu/cs_dept
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