Re: Debian woes

1997-06-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: > > > On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > > > Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > > > > If a standard package depends on a non-free package it should be reported > > > as a bug. To my knowledge there are no such packages in 1.3.0. > > Lawrence, you proba

Re: Debian woes

1997-06-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > > If a standard package depends on a non-free package it should be reported > > as a bug. To my knowledge there are no such packages in 1.3.0. Lawrence, you probably mean "package in stable depends on package in non-free."

Re: Debian woes

1997-06-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > > On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > > > > > If a standard package depends a non-free package, it won't resolve it > > > and I have to manually install the non-free package free before > > > installing > > > the stand

Re: Debian woes

1997-06-16 Thread Lawrence Chim
Dale Scheetz wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > > > If a standard package depends a non-free package, it won't resolve it > > and I have to manually install the non-free package free before > > installing > > the standard package. > > > If a standard package depends on a non-f

Re: Debian woes

1997-06-16 Thread Lawrence Chim
Dale Scheetz wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > > > If a standard package depends a non-free package, it won't resolve it > > and I have to manually install the non-free package free before > > installing > > the standard package. > > > If a standard package depends on a non-f

Re: Debian woes

1997-06-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > If a standard package depends a non-free package, it won't resolve it > and I have to manually install the non-free package free before > installing > the standard package. > If a standard package depends on a non-free package it should be reported as a

Thanks (was Debian Woes)

1997-06-16 Thread Tim O'Brien
I appreciate the help guys. I know the first post was kind of vague, but it was late... Anyway, it looks like what I did wrong was try to install too much stuff all at once. I'm going to try some of the methods outlined in earlier posts and hope for a better install, which I'm sure it will be. T

Re: Debian woes

1997-06-16 Thread Lawrence Chim
If a standard package depends a non-free package, it won't resolve it and I have to manually install the non-free package free before installing the standard package. Lawrence Dale Scheetz wrote: > I can offer several suggestions... > > I did about 5 installs from scratch during pre-release test

Re: Debian woes

1997-06-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > A. After a failed intallation pass with dselect, make a > "configure" pass followed by another installation pass. Repeat > until all packages successfully install. My experience is that some parts remain subtly broken if you try

Re: Debian woes

1997-06-15 Thread George Bonser
> It might perhaps help if you explained where exactly the problems were, > how you tried to install, what didn't work, etc. Your problem is rather > vauge as it stands. I agree. One thing that has gotten me into trouble when attempting to install Debian is selecting too many things at the ini

Re: Debian woes

1997-06-15 Thread Jason M. Daniels
>Please pardon the rant, but I gotta let this out. You are pardoned. >Where the heck can I get a CD with a WORKING debian distribution on it? >I've tried LDR, LSL's Trilinux, and stuff I've FTP'd. I've yet to get 1.3 >to work. Dunno; I did my installation with the base1_3.tgz file and LOADLIN

Re: Debian woes

1997-06-15 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Tim O'Brien wrote: > > It looked like it might work, but it crapped out big-time when it cam time > to install X. In fact, errors to the degree that there were missing links, > and xf86config couldn't run. > > I've used debian before, and it worked great! I like it! Is ther

How to get X installed properly ( was: Debian woes )

1997-06-15 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Tim O'Brien wrote: > Please pardon the rant, but I gotta let this out. > > It looked like it might work, but it crapped out big-time when it cam time > to install X. In fact, errors to the degree that there were missing links, > and xf86config couldn't run. This is a pain

Debian woes

1997-06-15 Thread Tim O'Brien
Please pardon the rant, but I gotta let this out. Where the heck can I get a CD with a WORKING debian distribution on it? I've tried LDR, LSL's Trilinux, and stuff I've FTP'd. I've yet to get 1.3 to work. Since I intended to format the drive Linux lived on anyway, I thought I'd see what the diff