Re: Infomagic LDR debian, and, What's Hamm and Bo?

I wish you luck, Robert. I had used the previous few sets of CD from Infomagic to install Debian. My memory reminds me that Infomagic is BAD for Debian !! There were important packages, for instance I can remember that xlib6_3.2-1a.1.deb which I thought is quite important nowadays wasn't in the Apr

Info(no)Magic April CDROM

I have had problems install Debian with the InfoMagic April CDROM. The package 'xlib6_3.2-1a.1.deb' and 'latex_2e-7.deb' are physically not there !!! I would imagine xlib6 is too important to be omitted from the CDs. I think the worse bit is that both packages are referred to in the Pacakages.gz f

psdatabase in /

Dose any one have any idea what this file does ?? Installing a new kernel image using make-kpkg updates this file, but this file is not mention in the Kernel-Howto. It doesn't seem to exist on Slackware machines ?? Cheers H.C. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscri

Re: .gz ??? what, how?

Joost Kooij wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, David Miles wrote: > > > I need to read information in manual.txt > > > > when I went to the /usr/doc/lilo subdirectory, the closest filename that > > resembled this was Manual.txt.gz > > > > This is not readable by an editor. Is there something special

Re: Books on Debian

David Wright wrote: > > Two problem(s) with a book: (a) you're really only buying a few pages of > Debian-specific stuff which (b) is almost out-of-date before it's > published. I'd far rather have just a good annotated bibliography of all > the Debianised documentation. As I think I've said befor

Books on Debian

I wonder if the Debian team has any plan of publishing a book on how to install/use/administer a Debian system ?? I suspect people who are new to Linux and haven't decided which distribution to install may find the idea of a reference book very reassuring. Who knows, this may turn out to be the fac