Re: From Slackware to Debian

1997-10-17 Thread Will Lowe
On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Lukas Eppler wrote: > I am relatively new to linux. I am asking back: What is bad about one big > partition? I have it like that, I am flexible as hell, and have no clear > problems with it. Well, if you wanted to export part of your drive (say /usr) to another machine so t

Re: From Slackware to Debian

1997-10-17 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Fri, 17 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My install Problems. ... > Well IT DONT WORK!! > How I installed it - > ... >- I did NOT have the packages.gz file. This is the problem. Dselect needs to have a structure like this: path/to/debian/basedir/ \__stable \__binary-all \__

Re: From Slackware to Debian

1997-10-17 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 17 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As I have had some experience with slackware please all you > ex slackers think what were your experience when switching to > debian. > > * What are the major differences between Slackware > and Debian? Well, besides being better :) Debian's

Re: From SLACKWARE to DEBIAN -- help along the way

1997-04-25 Thread Martin Schulze
On Apr 25, Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote > I bought Slackware a while back and installed it, but now I'd rather > install Debian (from what I see it's more flexible in the > installation). How can I install it? Should I reformat the HD and > re install everything? Forgive the sillyness o