On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, J B wrote:
> Have been following the thread on splitting files to floppy. Would this
> work to split the installation files? Or, is there a specific way to create
> floppy disks to do an install on a machine wihtout a CD-Rom? I have an old
> 486 that I am considering se
Here is a maybe stupid question of a newcomer:
After successful installation of the ppp software and my modem I am faced
with the following problem: I want to open the ppp connection as a non
root user and use internet programs like netscape, telnet, ftp ... .
For the moment I have two possibilit
Nicole Zimmerman wrote:
> Laurel Fan wrote:
> >
> > bash is annoying in that way. From the manpage:
>
>
>
> > Which means it runs EITHER .profile (if its a login shell) OR .bashrc
> > (if its not). Which is annoying. (Of course, you could put a "source
> > .bashrc" in your profile.). csh doe
If I remember correctly, Slackware also actually still distributes its
downloads in a floppy-esque manner. I know that for the last (pre-7.0)
distribution, my husband spent hours downloading disks.
Checking out metalab's ftp site
(ftp://ftp.metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/sla
Matthias Holschneider wrote:
>
> Here is a maybe stupid question of a newcomer:
> I would like to be able to lance as normal user some script that does all
> the dialing in for me and sets up the ppp connection readt to use some
> internet applications. In particular I do not want to communicate
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 09:55:44PM + or thereabouts, J B wrote:
>
> Have been following the thread on splitting files to floppy. Would this
> work to split the installation files? Or, is there a specific way to create
> floppy disks to do an install on a machine wihtout a CD-Rom? I have
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Matthias Holschneider wrote:
> After successful installation of the ppp software and my modem I am faced
> with the following problem: I want to open the ppp connection as a non
> root user and use internet programs like netscape, telnet, ftp ... .
> For the moment I have two
> Debian seemed to need rather more than just one floppy: I think
> I had eight in all: the rescue floppy and a series of seven floppies
> in order
it's 9 floppy,the rescue floppy,the driver floppy and the 7 base floppy,the
only CD installation i've done was my first,every other one where by
