Rescue/boot disk utilities

What happened to the vanilla ftp binary on the rescue/boot disk for 1.2? There is a boatload of new, although questionable (tcpd?) utilities on the rescue/boot disk, but no ftp! Its rather nice to have a regular ftp binary for grabbing local installation scripts and use them to pull stuff off o

Initial install with dselect

There has been some recent discussion as to upgrading dselect with more "user friendly" features for first-time Linux users. However, before this path is taken, I think that some of the inherent bugs in dselect should be addressed beforehand. For example: 1. For whatever reason in Debian r

Re: LaTeX question?

On Sun, 1 Dec 1996, Jonas Bofjall wrote: > I have a feeling that this question is very off-topic here, but in that > case I would appreciate if I am told where it is not. I installed Debian > on a computer mainly to run LaTeX, but I don't understand really what I > need to do. I installed almost

Re: LaTeX question?

On Sun, 1 Dec 1996, Jonas Bofjall wrote: > I have a feeling that this question is very off-topic here, but in that > case I would appreciate if I am told where it is not. I installed Debian > on a computer mainly to run LaTeX, but I don't understand really what I > need to do. I installed almost

Re: color ls

On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > To get color ls, use the command > > alias ls="ls --color=auto" > > That's for "sh" and "bash". If you use "csh" or "tcsh" use > > alias ls "ls --color=auto" You can just put: eval `dircolors` in your startup script .profile, .tcshrc,

Re: color ls

On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > > You can just put: > > eval `dircolors` > > in your startup script .profile, .tcshrc, .login or whatever... it sets > > the color-ls environment appropriately for whatever shell you use. > > Are you sure, or am I doing something wrong? Dircolors d

Re: Base system installation

On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > The "unresolved symbols" messages are harmless (unless you want to use > nfs or the de4x5, in which case you end up rebuilding the kernel). The problem here is if you _need_ nfs for mounting disks with the buzz/ hierarchy for installing the rest of the

Re: Cross posting per request

On Sun, 1 Sep 1996, Glenn Bily wrote: > 5) If a startup shell script for window managers should also be easy to > add. > > I think that the user should have the possibility of specifying the > window manager at the startx prompt such as: > > startx fvwm > startx openwin > startx