On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:13:38AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/11/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:56:41PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > >> On 5/11/07, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:42:31PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > >> >> Even though I do not need to install X on my new Etch console system, > >> >> I would like to know how do you install X, is there some new way. > >> >> > >> >> How to install a minimal X so that if I need to run some remove X > >> >> apps, I can, with ssh. > Thanks for the great list. I also looked at DSL. Very nice progs come > in the 50 MB plus I downloaded some utils needed for maintenance to > put in mydsl extension but the 3.2 and 3.3 both fail to burn the > remaster. The remaster boots in a minimal shell. > > If that becomes successful, then I would put the above list and some > more that I have from my old sarge testing time, all console utils > using apt-get I have in the mydsl.
I looked at DSL but rejected it for this box because, as a tool box, it needs to be kept up-to-date and secure since I may have to access the internet directly. I didn't see on DSL a security mechanism like security.debian.org provides. Besides, my 486 can't boot from CD. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
