Hi, Welcome to Debian!
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001, K. Matthew Victor wrote: > Greetings, I need some guidance in the task of upgrading my system. I > currently have installed Storm 2000 which is really Debian 2.2r1 > (Potato) with a few graphical tools to make it easier to install and > administer for the 'newbie'. Yes? I came to Debian from Red Hat 5.2 - > 7.0. But I am very new to the 'Deb.' ways, which as I learn them seem > vastly better. So, anyway: I bought the Debian 2.2r2 binary & src. disk > sets from Mr. O's Linux site, now I need to find out how to set up apt > sources.list to enable apt-get upgrade to find the stuff on the CD-ROMs. Look at 'man apt-cdrom' for administering cdrom's in sources.list. Also, might want to 'man 5 source.list' for more info. For example these are my cdrom entries on my Deb box (commented out as I usually use http entry instead): #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r2 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20001207)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r2 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20001207)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main > Yes? Also, since I've not yet really installed very many of the packages > from the 3900+ that are readily available I would like to upgrade the > package index as the initial install of the Storm 2000 did at the end of You should be able to do this with just a simple 'apt-get update' (as root). You also might want to introduce yourself to 'apt-cache search <packagename>' as a useful tool. > the first full boot up. One last question this time: I often use > VariCAD for CAD work which I've found to be really great with the XiG 3D > Accelerated X-server, the XiG server ships with full OpenGL in the Pro. > version, which is why VariCAD runs better in it than MesaGL. So does,by > the way, VMWare, which I also use for many of the FEA simulation > programs that I must use. Anyone using the XiG 3D Accelerated X-server > on Debian? XiG does'nt support Debian, they say, because of non-standard > init. and xinit protocols. Thank You in advance any advice is welcome Since XiG server's proprietary, I'm not that surprised that they provide less diversity of linux distributions on which their X-server can run. It's always a matter of tradeoffs... Hope the above helps and take care, Daniel > (p.s. I am reading, or will shortly be, the READMEs on the 2.2r2 disks > while I await). K. Matthew Victor > -- Daniel A. Freedman Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics Department of Physics Cornell University
