"Dominic" == Dominic Iadicicco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dominic> Hello all,
Dominic> I have debian distro installed on hda and I would like to
Dominic> install a Slackware on hdb. Now my problem is, When the
Dominic> slackware installer executes it wan't to use both swap
>I have debian distro installed on hda and I would like to install a
Slackware on hdb. Now my problem is, When the slackware installer
>executes it wan't to use both swap partitions. One on hda and one on
hdb. I don't want it to do this. Has anyone worked with Slackware >and
if so did you have th
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 07:34:23PM +0530 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> I am having a version of Slackware called Dragon Linux.
> As per the manuals , you can have it on a Windows partition .
> I installed it in E:\Dragon Linux\ from the Cd
>
> Then I went to MSDOS mode and run the
partition and advised
that everyting would be lost. Thus I insatlled Debian on what I hope is a
clean file system. John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original Message -
From: "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 4:33 AM
Subject: Re: Slackware --> Debian (?)
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:03:25AM -0600, clemsurf wrote:
> I have an old copy of Slackware installed. It uses kernel 2.0.27.
>
> Snce I have not had a lot of time to investigate Linux I am still
> somewhat of a novice. (Having a relatively good command of the language
> I never use "newbie").
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 12:46:49PM +0100, Petru NOTINGHER wrote:
>
> I have a machine running under an old version of Slackware, and I would
> like
> to change to Debian. Is there any possibility to do it without a
> complete re-installation ?
That is the easy way. Just save /usr/local (Debian s
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 12:32:03PM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> So will a slackware with the 2.2 kernel and glibc2.1 beat debian and
> redhat?
Yes, in terms of unstability for sure.
If it would be as easy as getting glibc 2.1 from cvs and the kernel from
kernel.org and recompiling the softwar
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 01:14:49PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> That depends. If you think it will, then it will. If you think it
> won't, then it won't. Each distribution is a sum of its parts. No one
Debian is more than the sum of its upstream parts. Extra stuff
like dpkg, update-rc.d, upd
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 10:53:12PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It wasn't that long ago (a few months?) that Slackware released 3.6 (2.0.35)
> ... isn't it two short for a new release?
Depends. Both Red Hat and Slackware have had new versions out the door
in 2 months, and new versious o
Steve Lamb dixit:
> home I run my Laptop on Debian 2.1, my "main" machine on some portions of
> Potato. My main machine runs kernel 2.2.1, my laptop 2.0.34. Functionally,
> they are identical to one another. I telnet in, I run X aps, no big deal.
> They work. I really can't tell the differenc
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 12:32:03PM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> So will a slackware with the 2.2 kernel and glibc2.1 beat debian and
> redhat?
That depends. If you think it will, then it will. If you think it
won't, then it won't. Each distribution is a sum of its parts. No one
individ
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
>
> I saw a posting on linuxtoday.com that a slackware 4.0 beta was uploaded
> to ftp.cdrom.com. It is based on glibc2.1 and kernel 2.2.3
>
> So will a slackware with the 2.2 kernel and glibc2.1 beat debian and
> redhat?
>
> (not that debian has to
On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 08:16:26PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote:
> It seems Slackware is often slow to adapt to new things...
> (e.g. FHS!)
Well, we are not even running the FHS yet so that's a bit unfair.
hamish
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> So, when removing Slackware it is not necessary to format the drive? What
> will happen to slackware? Will it just be replaced by Debian? Or will it
> just install side-by-side to Slackware.
What you can do is this:
1) Move every binary you think you should need from /usr/bin,/bin to
/usr
-K
Kevin Poorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Do the Free-Ride
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Holden Caulfield wrote:
I am very new to LINUX so I apologize for the insignificance of this question.
I have Slackware installed on my computer and want to get rid of it so I can
install Debian 1.3.1 rev. Is there
(The question was: "I have slackware; want debian; how reformat?")
Ans: The debian installation process will take care of all that
for you. You can repartition your drives -- if you want a different
mix of OSes than what you had with slack. Remember to back up anything
you created: songs, scripts,
On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 04:10:06PM -0700, Holden Caulfield wrote:
> So, when removing Slackware it is not necessary to format the drive? What
> will happen to slackware? Will it just be replaced by Debian? Or will it
> just install side-by-side to Slackware.
When you install Debian, just inst
On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 04:10:06PM -0700, Holden Caulfield wrote:
> So, when removing Slackware it is not necessary to format the drive? What
> will happen to slackware? Will it just be replaced by Debian? Or will it
> just install side-by-side to Slackware.
Creating a new file system on a pa
Holden Caulfield wrote:
Please don't apologize, that's what this group is for. During the
Debian installation, you'll have the opportunity to re-partition
your hard disk; if you choose to do so, you'll effectively "DOS
format" your disk. Even if you don't, one of the steps in the
installation wil
On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 03:31:54PM -0700, Holden Caulfield wrote:
> I am very new to LINUX so I apologize for the insignificance of this
> question. I have Slackware installed on my computer and want to get rid of
> it so I can install Debian 1.3.1 rev. Is there a LINUX equivalent to the DOS
>
> "Douglas" == Douglas L Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Douglas> I've got two machines, one slackware 3.0 (I think), and
Douglas> the other is redhat 3.0.3 that I want to move to debian.
Douglas> The problem is that they're too far away and I can't get
Douglas> in front of
On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Douglas L Stewart wrote:
> I've got two machines, one slackware 3.0 (I think), and the other is
> redhat 3.0.3 that I want to move to debian. The problem is that they're
> too far away and I can't get in front of them in person, so wiping the box
> and installing from scratch
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