Re: Potato Install from Floppies

1999-12-30 Thread Clyde Wilson
It seems that the two Perl versions add some confusion. Without correcting this, apt-get and dselect using apt don't work On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Onno wrote: > At 08:54 AM 12/29/99 -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: > >Has anyone installed the Potato base from floppies and then used > >apt-get or dselec

Re: Potato Install from Floppies

1999-12-30 Thread Onno
At 08:54 AM 12/29/99 -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: >Has anyone installed the Potato base from floppies and then used >apt-get or dselect using apt to install other packages? Yes. >I have so far found this to be an impossible task! Guess CD installation >has spoiled me... No problem here, what is y

Re: Potato Install from Floppies

1999-12-30 Thread Oki DZ
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Clyde Wilson wrote: > I have so far found this to be an impossible task! Guess CD installation > has spoiled me... I haven't tried this, but... if you mount the CD on a web server and you change the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the web server, I think you

Re: Potato Install from Floppies

1999-12-30 Thread Oki DZ
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Clyde Wilson wrote: > Has anyone installed the Potato base from floppies and then used > apt-get or dselect using apt to install other packages? Yes, and I downloaded the images via a Linux Slackware machine, so I could execute dd without problem. Fortunately, I had the PPP

Re: Potato Install from Floppies

1999-12-29 Thread Clyde Wilson
Thanks Carl, it was the Perl 5 problem. Now it works as advertised. On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Carl Fink wrote: > Clyde Wilson wrote: > > > Has anyone installed the Potato base from floppies and then used > > apt-get or dselect using apt to install other packages? > > Yes. This week, on a ThinkPad.

Re: Potato Install from Floppies

1999-12-29 Thread Carl Fink
Clyde Wilson wrote: > Has anyone installed the Potato base from floppies and then used > apt-get or dselect using apt to install other packages? Yes. This week, on a ThinkPad. Once I got IP-Masquerading to work so I could upgrade over the Internet, I only had the incredibly annoying Perl 5 vers

Potato Install from Floppies

1999-12-29 Thread Clyde Wilson
Has anyone installed the Potato base from floppies and then used apt-get or dselect using apt to install other packages? I have so far found this to be an impossible task! Guess CD installation has spoiled me...