Re: Potato from scratch. Thanks.

1999-12-20 Thread Stuart Ballard
Hans wrote: > But I've always wondered about one thing: how do you know the name > of the package you want to install. At least with dselect you have a menu > to search. Now I want to install Midnight Commander, so I guess that is > "apt-get -d install mc" (I'd like to download the package as well

Re: Potato from scratch. Thanks.

1999-12-20 Thread Jan Ludewig
On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 02:46:42PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 11:02:08AM +0100, Hans wrote: > > But I've always wondered about one thing: how do you know the name > > of the package you want to install. At least with dselect you have a menu > > to search. > I use both

Re: Potato from scratch. Thanks.

1999-12-19 Thread David J. Kanter
On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 11:02:08AM +0100, Hans wrote: > But I've always wondered about one thing: how do you know the name > of the package you want to install. At least with dselect you have a menu > to search. I use both apt-get and dselect. If I want to browse what's available, or hunt down th

Potato from scratch. Thanks.

1999-12-19 Thread Hans
I want to thank the person who made the suggestion last week to download the Potato installation disks and installing a Potato system from scratch. I downloaded resc1440.bin, root1440.bin and base2_2.tgz (16MB, so that took a while), but after that I had a new system in a matter of minutes. During