Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2001-03-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Will, Your appoach is normal one to get from potato to woody. It does not harm but I think it is pointless for this case. What I am doing is avoid installing normal minimum potato itself. Only base2_2.tgz is installed from potato. By mangling with /etc/apt/sources.list during installation, dse

Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2001-03-20 Thread will trillich
> > installation started and then driver disks? base disks? Can I not go > > directly to getting things off the network after booting in with the > > rescue and root disks? install potato/stable, then munge /etc/apt/sources changing "stable" to "woody" (or "testing") and then apt-get upda

Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2001-03-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
Sorry about that. I noticed (too late) that I had replied to an old message which had somehow been resent to the list. On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:49:15PM -0800, nielsen wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 01:52:20PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > > > > 3. This isn't really related to the installa

Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2001-03-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 01:52:20PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > > 3. This isn't really related to the installation procedure, but I was > just wondering why Woody still uses XFree86 3.3.6 and not 4.0.1 (for the > video cards that are supported), or am I missing something? Woody has XFree86 4.

Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2001-03-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
I think some thing wrong with time stamp,... Anyway: > installation started and then driver disks? base disks? Can I not go > directly to getting things off the network after booting in with the > rescue and root disks? Install woody using potato boot disks ide-pci kernel on ide boot disk enabl

Wanna be a Debian user...

2001-03-16 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I have been using Red Hat Linux exclusively for a little over a year now, but feel that it is time to reinstall my system sometime soon. I was thinking I would like to switch to Debian, but have a few questions: 1. The first thing is that I would like to install completely via ftp. I have a CD

Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2000-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
Francois Fayard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you try to switch to Woody, it's true that you will have the last >packages (But do you really care about the last version of Exim, Gcc ?) but >the system will be really unstable. I think it's really a bad idea to >install Woody for the time being. Ge

Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2000-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
Jeff Hornsberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >1. The first thing is that I would like to install completely via ftp. I >have a CD burner, but I'm not very interested in burning a CD for one >time use if I don't have to. With RH I just have to get the network boot >disk image and boot off that and fr

Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2000-10-12 Thread Hubert Chan
Jeff Hornsberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I have been using Red Hat Linux exclusively for a little over a year > now, but feel that it is time to reinstall my system sometime soon. I > was thinking I would like to switch to Debian, but have a few questions: > > 1. The first thing is that

Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2000-10-12 Thread Francois Fayard
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 01:52:20PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > Hi, I have been using Red Hat Linux exclusively for a little over a year > now, but feel that it is time to reinstall my system sometime soon. I > was thinking I would like to switch to Debian, but have a few questions: > > 1. The

Wanna be a Debian user...

2000-10-12 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I have been using Red Hat Linux exclusively for a little over a year now, but feel that it is time to reinstall my system sometime soon. I was thinking I would like to switch to Debian, but have a few questions: 1. The first thing is that I would like to install completely via ftp. I have a CD