Kelly Corbin wrote:
> But if you can't wait the week or two for the CD's...
>
> Will Lowe wrote:
> >
> > > I install Debian with a 14.4 modem. Trust me, it only takes patience.
> >
> > Or CDs. They're cheap.
> >
>
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I got my 2
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 16:06:12 -0400
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As for sound, I must say that I've had a few problems with it. Of course, I
> had similar problems in previous versions of RH... Go fig. Anyway, once
> you've compiled in the kernel modules that you'll need, try this: Grab a
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barry Samuels)
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
> Subject: I am not impressed with Debian so far.
[...]
>
> I have been using SuSE since v5.2 ( now on 6.0 ) and, having heard
> about apt-get, I thought that I would give Debian a try.
>
[...]
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Paul Seelig wrote:
> Please note that it was not me writing this message. I use Debian
but you decided to tease the list ...
hafi
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 11:06:44AM -0500, Kelly Corbin wrote:
> I install Debian with a 14.4 modem. Trust me, it only takes patience.
And a lot of money!
For me in Poland it is much cheaper to download
once the whole CD-image (through the T1 network in my University),
burn it and use for all the
On Wed, 09 Jun 1999, Chris wrote:
> As for sound, I must say that I've had a few problems with it. Of course, I
> had similar problems in previous versions of RH... Go fig. Anyway, once
> you've compiled in the kernel modules that you'll need, try this: Grab an
> rpm of RH's sndconfig, alien
Hi, I thought I'd just throw in that I have used both Red Hat (5.0 ->) and
SuSE (5.1 ->) and am mightily impressed by The Debian Experience. The
install process is rather rough, I'll admit. I just pick the installation
type from the "custom" menu on the Slink disk and grit my teeth as dselect
doe
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Have a stable day. Use Linux.
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Patrick Colbeck wrote:
> Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its
> never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was
> doi
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On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 10:22:38 -0500 (CDT), Brad wrote:
>What if you're going to reinstall a few times before everything is
>set up properly? Would you want to be able to reinstall immediately, or
>would you rather wait 10 hours each time? Not that i'm s
But if you can't wait the week or two for the CD's...
Will Lowe wrote:
>
> > I install Debian with a 14.4 modem. Trust me, it only takes patience.
>
> Or CDs. They're cheap.
>
> I install Debian with a 14.4 modem. Trust me, it only takes patience.
Or CDs. They're cheap.
Will
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Patrick Colbeck wrote:
> Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its
> never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was
> doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a
> kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a whi
I install Debian with a 14.4 modem. Trust me, it only takes patience.
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
>
> Modem, that's why. All I have is about 28.8K to the Internet, and it takes
> a long time to download a whole Debian install on that.
>
> Hamish
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 22:53:30 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> >Modem, that's why. All I have is about 28.8K to the Internet, and it takes
> >a long time to download a whole Debian install on that.
>
> When I first installed Debian I had a 28.8k connecti
On 06/07/99 at 18:36:20, Barry Samuels wrote concerning "I am not impressed
with Debian so far.":
> I bought a 4 CD Debian distribution and installed alongside SuSE.
Whence did you buy it? SuSE makes all their own CD's, I think, but
Debian, in contrast, relies on 3rd party
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On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 22:53:30 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>Modem, that's why. All I have is about 28.8K to the Internet, and it takes
>a long time to download a whole Debian install on that.
When I first installed Debian I had a 28.8k connection t
Patrick Colbeck wrote:
> Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its
> never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was
> doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a
> kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a whi
1999 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far.
> Jim B wrote:
> >
> > That also happened to me a few weeks ago while I was running Netscape.
I
> > heard my drive going nuts, and I ran df to check the free space. Well,
the
> > free space kept getting l
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 04:03:35AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> >Multi-CD needs to be streamlined.
>
> No, it doesn't. Why use a CD at all when you van get the latest and
> greatest direct from the net? Better documentation, maybe, so people can get
> a base install working, but beyond that, n
> After I rebooted however, fsck found bad sectors on the disk.
>
> YMMV.
>
> - Original Message -
> From: Patrick Colbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Barry Kauler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc:
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 6:46 AM
> Subject: RE: I am
Debian does seem to lack some of the 'luster' that redhat 6.0 now has
(BTW Red Hat has just filed for IPO, the proposed stock symbol will be
RHAT), but this will change in potatoe with the new GNOME stuff. I
hope that the install scripts will make GNOME standard, or at least
have a menu item to in
Patrick Colbeck wrote:
>
> Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its
> never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was
> doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a
> kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a w
On 08-Jun-99 Steve Lamb wrote:
>
>>Multi-CD needs to be streamlined.
>
> No, it doesn't. Why use a CD at all when you van get the latest
> and greatest direct from the net? Better documentation, maybe, so
> people can get a base install working, but beyond that, nothing but
> net.
I'll tel
On Tue, 08 Jun 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:
>
> >Multi-CD needs to be streamlined.
>
> No, it doesn't. Why use a CD at all when you van get the latest and
> greatest direct from the net? Better documentation, maybe, so people can get
> a base install working, but beyond that, nothing but net.
>
sectors on the disk.
YMMV.
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From: Patrick Colbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Barry Kauler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 6:46 AM
Subject: RE: I am not impressed with Debian so far.
> Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last
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On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 11:46:50 +0100 (BST), Patrick Colbeck wrote:
>minutes) and has been fine since. This never happened before in RedHat
>or with Hamm. Is this a KDE thing perhaps ?. I am running on an AST M
Are you sure it isn't the locate datab
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On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 18:17:06 +0800, Barry Kauler wrote:
>I started with Red Hat. It took me a *few days* to get Debian up and
>running.
Took me days as well. Oh, wait, that was because I downloaded it over a
33.6k modem. Silly me.
>I still have
Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its
never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was
doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a
kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a while (about 4
minutes) and has be
On Tue, 08 Jun 1999, Brendon Baumgartner wrote:
> I mostly agree with his point about not knowing to put the second CD in
> while installing debian. I missed that also the first try. I didn't
> experience his problem with makeing the symlink, and i'm not sure how
> obvious modconf is to a new user.
ebian-user@lists.debian.org
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