Re: Curious thing about 1.1 -> 1.2 upgrade problems

1997-01-08 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... > While I'm at it, XF86Config -- I've notice this odd behavior while configuring > X windows, if I specify the memory of the video card as it should be, the > screen is all screwed up for all resolutions. However, if I specify the memory > at twice what it is, then

Re: Curious thing about 1.1 -> 1.2 upgrade problems

1997-01-07 Thread tomk
Rick Macdonald writes: > > > I've been living off the unstable tree for almost a year. Back when the > version was 0.95r6 or something like that. I believe this is a problem. People, who have "fat pipes" to get their upgrades from the FTP sites, can live off of the "unstable" tree and have the

Re: Curious thing about 1.1 -> 1.2 upgrade problems

1997-01-05 Thread Shaya Potter
At 07:06 PM 1/4/97 -0500, Daniel S. Barclay wrote: > >> From: Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> I've been living off the unstable tree for almost a year. Back when the >> version was 0.95r6 or something like that. >> >> I really haven't had any problems to speak about, and certainly >> not a

Re: Curious thing about 1.1 -> 1.2 upgrade problems

1997-01-05 Thread Mark W. Blunier
> One reason may be that I just don't have as many packages installed, > but I was wondering if anybody had any other explainations as to why many > small incremental upgrades over the months seems to be more stable (in the > sense of installations not breaking) than making larger leaps from > poi

Re: Curious thing about 1.1 -> 1.2 upgrade problems

1997-01-05 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
> From: Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've been living off the unstable tree for almost a year. Back when the > version was 0.95r6 or something like that. > > I really haven't had any problems to speak about, and certainly > not all the problems that people are writing about when upgradin

Curious thing about 1.1 -> 1.2 upgrade problems

1997-01-04 Thread Rick Macdonald
I've been living off the unstable tree for almost a year. Back when the version was 0.95r6 or something like that. I really haven't had any problems to speak about, and certainly not all the problems that people are writing about when upgrading 1.1 -> 1.2. One reason may be that I just don't hav

Re: Need 1.1 -> 1.2 upgrade instructions

1996-12-18 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Matthew Swift wrote: > > I have searched the Debian web page and the ftp hierarchy and been > unable to find any instructions on upgrading to 1.2 from 1.1, except > for a cryptic sentence in the README in the upgrades directory -- the > rest of the documentation there is outd

1.1 -> 1.2 upgrade

1996-12-17 Thread Rich Deighton
I was greatly impressed with the relatively painless upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2. Good job, guys! However I did notice a couple of things which I feel should be mentioned here: 1) The modules package overwrites /sbin/request-route without checking to see if it has been modified by the user. 2) I

Need 1.1 -> 1.2 upgrade instructions

1996-12-17 Thread Matthew Swift
I have searched the Debian web page and the ftp hierarchy and been unable to find any instructions on upgrading to 1.2 from 1.1, except for a cryptic sentence in the README in the upgrades directory -- the rest of the documentation there is outdated. What to do with the files mentioned in the REA