Re: Installing SId version of Xorg

2009-10-05 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:33:24 -0400 Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:07:35 +0300 > "Ivan T. Ivanov" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 04:49:52PM -0400, Frank wrote

Re: Installing SId version of Xorg

2009-10-05 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:07:35 +0300 "Ivan T. Ivanov" wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 04:49:52PM -0400, Frank wrote: > > > > > > I'm running Squeeze and having a lot of trouble with Xorg freeze > > > > with my Intel video, so I'd like to i

Re: Installing SId version of Xorg

2009-10-05 Thread Ivan T. Ivanov
Hi, On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 09:47 -0400, Frank wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:49:51 +0200 > Sven Hoexter wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 04:49:52PM -0400, Frank wrote: > > > > I'm running Squeeze and having a lot of trouble with Xorg fre

Re: Installing SId version of Xorg

2009-10-05 Thread Frank
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:16:59 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,04.Oct.09, 17:26:10, Frank wrote: > > > > # echo 'APT::Default-Release "squeeze";' > > > # >> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00local echo "deb > > > # >> http://your-prefered-mirror/ squeeze >

Re: Installing SId version of Xorg

2009-10-05 Thread Frank
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:49:51 +0200 Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 04:49:52PM -0400, Frank wrote: > > I'm running Squeeze and having a lot of trouble with Xorg freeze with > > my Intel video, so I'd like to install the Xorg version of

Re: Installing SId version of Xorg

2009-10-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,04.Oct.09, 17:26:10, Frank wrote: > > # echo 'APT::Default-Release "squeeze";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00local > > # echo "deb http://your-prefered-mirror/ squeeze main" > > # >> /etc/apt/sources.list aptitude update > > # aptitude install -t squeeze xorg > > Maybe I wasn't clearbut

Re: Installing SId version of Xorg

2009-10-04 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 04:49:52PM -0400, Frank wrote: Hi, > I'm running Squeeze and having a lot of trouble with Xorg freeze with my > Intel video, so I'd like to install the Xorg version of Sid, while keeping > the option > to go back to the testing version. Don't forget that you need the la

Re: Installing SId version of Xorg

2009-10-04 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Frank wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:18:51 +0300 > Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> On Sun,04.Oct.09, 16:49:52, Frank wrote: >> > >> > >> > I'm running Squeeze and having a lot of trouble with Xorg freeze with >> > my

Re: Installing SId version of Xorg

2009-10-04 Thread Frank
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:18:51 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,04.Oct.09, 16:49:52, Frank wrote: > > > > > > I'm running Squeeze and having a lot of trouble with Xorg freeze with > > my Intel video, so I'd like to install the Xorg version of Sid

Re: Installing SId version of Xorg

2009-10-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,04.Oct.09, 16:49:52, Frank wrote: > > > I'm running Squeeze and having a lot of trouble with Xorg freeze with my > Intel video, so I'd like to install the Xorg version of Sid, while keeping > the option > to go back to the testing version. > What is the best way to do this ? Maybe not t

Re: Installing Sid

2009-04-20 Thread Mark McCorkell
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 21:21 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > You can install sid directly if you use the business-card image and > select 'expert' install. You will be prompted for the distribution to > install. Of course, you need some decent connection to complete the > install, because the bus

Re: Installing Sid

2009-04-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 20 April 2009 19:21:30 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,20.Apr.09, 15:59:04, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I am planning to install Sid on a test machine. I may set up a dual or > > triple boot with other distros I want to look at, so being able to > > control the partitions is important. > > > >

Re: Installing Sid

2009-04-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,20.Apr.09, 15:59:04, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am planning to install Sid on a test machine. I may set up a dual or > triple > boot with other distros I want to look at, so being able to control the > partitions is important. > > Googling, and searching the Debian site, seem to suggest that

Re: Installing Sid

2009-04-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 20 April 2009 16:11:32 Sven Joachim wrote: > I would advise to have both sid and testing in sources.list, otherwise > large parts of the system may be uninstallable due to the many ongoing > transitions.  Things seem to have settled down somewhat in the last few > days, but I still have s

Re: Installing Sid

2009-04-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
Thanks for the reply, Thorny. On Monday 20 April 2009 16:20:13 Thorny wrote: > Are you familiar enough with troubleshooting problems and do you have a > good enough understanding of how packages migrate down to deal with issues > in the unstable branch? Are you currently running "stable" or "test

Re: Installing Sid

2009-04-20 Thread Thorny
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:59:04 +0100, Lisi Reisz posted: > I am planning to install Sid on a test machine. I may set up a dual or > triple boot with other distros I want to look at, so being able to control > the partitions is important. > > Googling, and searching the Debian site, seem to suggest

Re: Installing Sid

2009-04-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-04-20 16:59 +0200, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am planning to install Sid on a test machine. I may set up a dual or > triple > boot with other distros I want to look at, so being able to control the > partitions is important. > > Googling, and searching the Debian site, seem to suggest that

Re: Installing sid from scratch

2002-05-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 09:58:53AM -0700, Walter Reed wrote: > I've been running varios distros for a number of years (starting with slack > about 6 years ago) and never got into debian. It's about time I did. I'm a > bleeding edge kinda guy, and wanted to play with the latest code. So I'm > lookin

Re: Installing sid from scratch

2002-05-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 09:58:53AM -0700, Walter Reed wrote: > I've been running varios distros for a number of years (starting with > slack about 6 years ago) and never got into debian. It's about time I > did. I'm a bleeding edge kinda guy, and wanted to play with the latest > code. So I'm lookin

Re: Installing sid from scratch

2002-05-23 Thread James Kahn
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 04:58, Walter Reed wrote: > I've been running varios distros for a number of years (starting with slack > about 6 years ago) and never got into debian. It's about time I did. I'm a > bleeding edge kinda guy, and wanted to play with the latest code. So I'm > looking at sid. Sid