Re: Debian download

2025-02-11 Thread George at Clug
On Tuesday, 11-02-2025 at 13:20 Peter Barnes wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Newbie here. I have a DVD Debian 11.6 Bullseye 64bit and installed it I usually take "newbie" to mean "I am new to Debian", so I would ask did you know the current production of Debian was Bookworm.? I was curious why yo

Re: Debian download

2025-02-10 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM Peter Barnes wrote: > > Newbie here. I have a DVD Debian 11.6 Bullseye 64bit and installed it > successfully on my PC. I have downloaded later versions of Debian and when I > go to install nothing happens. Am I missing a step? Is it possible for you to > give me

Re: Debian download

2025-02-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:20:13 +1100 Peter Barnes wrote: > Newbie here. I have a DVD Debian 11.6 Bullseye 64bit and installed it > successfully on my PC. I have downloaded later versions of Debian and > when I go to install nothing happens. Do you want to do a brand new installation, wiping your

Re: Debian download

2025-02-10 Thread Dan Ritter
Peter Barnes wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Newbie here. I have a DVD Debian 11.6 Bullseye 64bit and installed it > successfully on my PC. I have downloaded later versions of Debian and when I > go to install nothing happens. Am I missing a step? Is it possible for you > to give me step by step instru

Debian download

2025-02-10 Thread Peter Barnes
Hi everyone, Newbie here. I have a DVD Debian 11.6 Bullseye 64bit and installed it successfully on my PC. I have downloaded later versions of Debian and when I go to install nothing happens. Am I missing a step? Is it possible for you to give me step by step instructions? Would greatly apprec

Re: Debian Download Problems

2003-02-26 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 06:24 am, hlingis wrote: > Dear Sir or Madam, > > ...I'm sure you've heard this before, I can't download an error free > ISO of either version of potato or woody. I'm using frontiernet dsl > (509 down-125up) on a hp xt953 with a hp pavilion mx70 display,1000mhz > machi

Re: Debian Download Problems

2003-02-26 Thread ScruLoose
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:24:18AM -0600, hlingis wrote: > Dear Sir or Madam, > > ...I'm sure you've heard this before, I can't download an error free ISO of > either version of potato or woody. Personally, I haven't heard this before... Myself, I'm no sort of techie, tech instructor, or guru

Re: Debian Download Problems

2003-02-26 Thread Carla Schroder
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 07:24 am, hlingis wrote: > ...I'm sure you've heard this before, I can't download an error free ISO of > either version of potato or woody. Why not order disks from Cheapbytes? -- ~ Carla Schroder www.tuxcomputing.com this message brought to

Re: Debian Download Problems

2003-02-26 Thread Levi Waldron
On February 26, 2003 10:24 am, hlingis wrote: > ...ok, the ability to download a good copy (either ISO or jigdo) appears to > be a myth, so my question is: if I buy a copy from some vendor, who, and > where, and what hopes do I have to get an error free copy that way? I'm > trying to avoid going re

Debian Download Problems

2003-02-26 Thread hlingis
Dear Sir or Madam, ...I'm sure you've heard this before, I can't download an error free ISO of either version of potato or woody. I'm using frontiernet dsl (509 down-125up) on a hp xt953 with a hp pavilion mx70 display,1000mhz machine with easy disk creator basic. I'm a licensed tech instructor

RE: Debian download

2000-06-15 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
> I can tell I'm not getting it all as my checksums don't come out to what > the should be when I check it in DOS. The odd thing is, the download I recently came to find out that when checking checksums in a Microsoft OS using the Windows resync program that one must use a -b flag to get the corr

Debian download

2000-06-14 Thread Charley Bolen/R8/USDAFS
I have tried four different times to download the Debian Official CD Image. After going through their "pseudo-image" process and the rsync process, I get 99% of the file, along with a "corrupt file" error message, followed by the question "File changed during transfer?" I can tell I'm not getting i

Re: Debian Download(newbie)

1998-04-19 Thread demonspawn
Firstly its best to go from the hard disk partiton.(where windows 95 lives its type vfat), just mount harddisk but assume its on the floppy I assume you mounted the floppy disk drive (vfat for long file names support in windows 95 dos bull...(; the semicolon is my way to separate what you type an

Re: Debian Download

1998-04-12 Thread Tamas Papp
> I am afraid the process is not progressing very smoothly. I assume I am > supposed to use the "dselect" routine. Although I had troubles with it I > finally got the program to select only one file. (In this case, the "ed" > file) dselect is an interface for dpkg. The latter does the real job

Debian Download

1998-04-12 Thread Dennis Dixon
I have recently installed the Debian Linux O/S on my computer and now need to install certain packages to give the system some functionality. I am afraid the process is not progressing very smoothly. I assume I am supposed to use the "dselect" routine. Although I had troubles with it I finally g