Maintaining woody/sid mixtures

2001-09-16 Thread Richard Warren
First, thanks to everyone who helped me get started. I'm using the /etc/apt/preferences file and I'm now able to keep my woody installation without having dselect constantly want to uninstall my KDE2.2 and Koffice. However, I'm still having troubles with dselect. Even though I used apt-get to inst

runtimes

2001-09-16 Thread Richard Warren
OK, Debian runtime levels seem...well...different. I'd like to have two different runtimes. One that boots into X and one that doesn't--but that still offers network support and other goodies. Am I going to run into problems if I muck around with the default runtime settings. Maybe set 5 as the d

Debian newbie questions

2001-09-12 Thread Richard Warren
Hi all, I just finished (I hope) setting up debian on my home desktop. I've been using Mandrake for quite some time now, but got exposed to Debian when I switched my IPAQ to Linux, and I thought I'd give it a try. I set up a basic potato system, then tried to upgrade it to woody. Everything seems