On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Arie Folger wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to give debian (testing branch; I believe it's called sid) a try, but > wonder about the following: > > Is is glibc 3.x based? I tried in vain to look through the package list and > found no mention of glibc.
glibc is called libc6 (Is debian the only distro that still maintains that name?) > > How do you download the whole binary tree? In RH I simply downloaded the > iso-images and then applied all subsequent upgrades. Debian seems to function > differently; when I browsed an ftp mirror, I couldn't find the actual > packages. (ISO images are of the installation, not of system) > > Are there significant differences between the RH and the debian file structure > (as in, more in /opt and in /usr/local? RH has almost nothing there)? Can I > use the same /etc and /var for both? (obviously /home and /tmp can be shared, > but I guess that /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, ... can only be shared if all are > based on the same libc & glibc major version) Do you have /tmp on a different partition? /opt and /usr/local are the same: not part of the "formal" system, and intended for extra packages. Although debian places some a few config files in /usr/local -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
