Re: Unstable release

1999-10-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 02:12:08PM +0200, Staffan Hämälä was heard to say: > > NO, NO, NO, this is not redhat.com! Do this on a Debian only if you really > > know what you are doing or you may destroy your system. > > As far as I can see there is often not another way to do it. > Ie., program com

Re: Unstable release

1999-10-06 Thread Staffan Hämälä
On Tue, 05 Oct 1999, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > If I could just get it installed properly (I run it at home, > > but had to do a lot of manual tuning, and adding all packages > > I wanted using dpkg --force* > > NO, NO, NO, this is not redhat.com! Do this on a Debian only if you really > kno

Re: Unstable release

1999-10-05 Thread David Bristel
apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade These two lines should be run after you update your /etc/apt/source.list to point to unstable. Dave Bristel On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, [iso-8859-1] Staffan Hämälä wrote: > Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 20:44:48 +020

Re: Unstable release

1999-10-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Monday 4 October 1999, at 20 h 44, the keyboard of =?iso-8859-1?Q?Staffan_H=E4m=E4l=E4?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just curious about how other people succeed in installing the > potato release. As explained, almost nobody "installed" potato. They installed slink (may be only the base

Re: Unstable release

1999-10-05 Thread Staffan Hämälä
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, Daniel Burrows wrote: > I usually use apt to fetch via ftp, but pointing it at a source archive > should do the same thing. Are you using it as a dselect backend, or are > you doing something else entirely? I'm using it via dselect. I'll have to try that once more to be su

Re: Unstable release

1999-10-04 Thread Rick
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:44:48PM +0200, Staffan Hämälä was heard to say: > > > I'm just curious about how other people succeed in installing the > > potato release. > > I do it with a fairly simple approach. I install the base Slink system, but > o

Re: Unstable release

1999-10-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:44:48PM +0200, Staffan Hämälä was heard to say: > Hi, > > I'm just curious about how other people succeed in installing the > potato release. *raises hand* I've actually done two things -- the machine I'm typing on has been running unstable since before Slink was f