update security packages

Hi! I was wondering if someone could provide any information ("safe" etc) regarding using "dselect" or "apt" to update security patches/packages. For example in a recent announcement, there is a patch netstd_3.07-2hamm.1_i386.deb under the directory /debian/dists/proposed-updates. Now

securing my X server

Pardon me, I have Debian 1.3 installed, and are trying to start the X server with /usr/bin/X11/xinit -auth $HOME/.Xauthority This works ... . But when I provide the remote host, a Sparc machine running solaris 2.5, with my magic cookie (xauth add $DISPLAY . x cookie ) and ex

installing Debian-1.2

Hi, Pardon me if this has been dealt with already but I am having difficulties installing Debian-1.2 on my other hard disk. Basically, my machine hangs when reading either the resq1440.bin or the new-resq1440.bin disk. In the former case, my machine hangs at the line (I think) $Id ..