Once upon a time, I heard Gregory Guthrie say > 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. Use xf86config instead.
> 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. May be on 2nd CD, couldn't remember since I usually use apt http/ftp, sometimes dselect/apt. > I tried to point dselect to www.debian/org via FTP, but it wanted to > download 70+ MB, so I declined. have you used apt or apt-method in dselect?? > I had assumed it would only download a few upgrades, and/or give me a > selection option of packages before such a big download. Yes, put package on hold. > Seems like this should be easy, what am I missing? Easy way is to use apt, and put unwant package on hold. Try sth like apt-get update; apt-get install xserver-svga After you configure XF86Config, X should run, IIRC, at least with X. Install your prefer X11 software after that. > 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? I think dselect does remember things, but you have to have dselect-multicd installed. Better way is apt, via apt-cdrom. > 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. Since you have slink, install kernel-package and roll your own latest 2.2.15pre16 should be a good idea. > 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? Couldn't remember what is that question for! -- ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Chanop Silpa-Anan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Australian National University | | got sparetime ? | | http://kenji.anu.edu.au/ | | Debian GNU/Linux GPG key on request | `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'
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