Re: Unstable release

1999-10-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 02:12:08PM +0200, Staffan Hämälä was heard to say: > > NO, NO, NO, this is not redhat.com! Do this on a Debian only if you really > > know what you are doing or you may destroy your system. > > As far as I can see there is often not another way to do it. > Ie., program com

Re: Unstable release

1999-10-06 Thread Staffan Hämälä
On Tue, 05 Oct 1999, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > If I could just get it installed properly (I run it at home, > > but had to do a lot of manual tuning, and adding all packages > > I wanted using dpkg --force* > > NO, NO, NO, this is not redhat.com! Do this on a Debian only if you really > kno

Re: Unstable release

1999-10-05 Thread David Bristel
:48 +0200 > From: "[iso-8859-1] Staffan Hämälä" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Unstable release > Resent-Date: 4 Oct 1999 18:45:06 - > Resent-From: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; > >

Re: Unstable release

1999-10-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
lyx/libforms, etc). > was due to the fact that ftp downloads the softlinks that point > to slink packages instead of the actual files. I always use apt, so I will no longer comment on dselect. > Of course, I know that it's an unstable release, but is it really > this hard

Re: Unstable release

1999-10-05 Thread Staffan Hämälä
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, Daniel Burrows wrote: > I usually use apt to fetch via ftp, but pointing it at a source archive > should do the same thing. Are you using it as a dselect backend, or are > you doing something else entirely? I'm using it via dselect. I'll have to try that once more to be su

Re: Unstable release

1999-10-04 Thread Rick
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:44:48PM +0200, Staffan Hämälä was heard to say: > > > I'm just curious about how other people succeed in installing the > > potato release. > > I do it with a fairly simple approach. I install the base Slink system, but > o

Re: Unstable release

1999-10-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
?) didn't properly create fstab and I had to put it together by hand -- and that was the simplest problem. I got a working system though! :) ) > Of course, I know that it's an unstable release, but is it really > this hard to install, or is it me doing something wrong? Yes and

Unstable release

1999-10-04 Thread Staffan Hämälä
;t even able to boot the system after running dselect. After this I installed slink instead, and it worked like a charm. Of course, I know that it's an unstable release, but is it really this hard to install, or is it me doing something wrong? If I could just get it installed properly (I run it