Re: Idea for the burner

1997-03-07 Thread Scott Stanley
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, William Chow wrote: > > > On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, J.P.D. Kooij wrote: > > > > > Like, dselect is a great and easy tool, but there is no manpage for it... > > Dselect is pretty intuitive once you get the hang of it, but it needs to > be a bit better before I call it a great an

Re: Idea for the burner

1997-03-07 Thread J.P.D. Kooij
(sorry for the bad cc: people, debian-admintool@lists.debian.org doesn't exist, I just found out) On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, William Chow wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, J.P.D. Kooij wrote: > > > > Like, dselect is a great and easy tool, but there is no manpage for it... > > Dselect is pretty intuiti

Re: Idea for the burner

1997-03-07 Thread Rob Browning
William Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > pain to configure it to install one package... The problem isn't with a > lack of dselect documentation, IMHO, but due to the way dselect is setup. > However, one can argue that dselect is for initial installations, and the > dpkg utilities under dselect

Re: Idea for the burner

1997-03-07 Thread William Chow
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, J.P.D. Kooij wrote: > > Like, dselect is a great and easy tool, but there is no manpage for it... Dselect is pretty intuitive once you get the hang of it, but it needs to be a bit better before I call it a great and easy tool. There were a couple of times that dselect purg

Re: Idea for the burner

1997-03-07 Thread J.P.D. Kooij
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Chad Zimmerman wrote: > .. You go to any book store you see 7 or 8 > books that deal with slackware and redhat, why not Debian? Maybe because debian isn't known widely enough. Maybe that is because too many books don't mention it at all. The Infomagic booklet in the cd-set

Idea for the burner

1997-03-06 Thread Chad Zimmerman
Been using this list a while now for getting info on doing certain things. And other than the howto's and FAQ's on the debian site... this is the only TRUE source for information. You go to any book store you see 7 or 8 books that deal with slackware and redhat, why not Debian? An idea I have be