Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-07 Thread Lawrence Chim
> > BTW: When will 1.1 be released? > > I am uploading yet another pass at the installation floppies today. > We're also dealing with some FTP site problems. I'm going to make a new > "stable" archive this week, and will let that propogate out to all of > the FTP mirrors. We then will give it a fe

Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-03 Thread Amos Shapira
Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > My 0.93R6 system at home is the most stable linux system I have ever seen. > Now that 1.1 is nearly ready for release, I agree that it is approaching > the same level of stability. It is true that 0.93 probably is not > compatible with some of the newer hardware and sof

Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-02 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, Amos Shapira wrote: > Then maybe the warning signs in the ftp sites should be updated? Back when > I went for Debian I saw lots of them lying around (and so I went to 0.93R6, > which indeed prooved less stable than "unstable"), as well as when I mirrored > unstable 1.1. My 0.

Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-02 Thread Matthew Bailey
On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > Yes, it's time for us to remove 0.93 from the FTP site. I'll think about > this for a while before I do it, though. Lets be kind to our mirrors.. :) We also need to move the 1.1 into place when this happens. Then we need to create the next gener

Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-02 Thread Martin Konold
On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > Yes, it's time for us to remove 0.93 from the FTP site. I'll think about > this for a while before I do it, though. I vote for not deleting it but for renaming to obsolete or old. We should not remove the last stable version before 1.1 is released and pr

Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-02 Thread Bruce Perens
Yes, it's time for us to remove 0.93 from the FTP site. I'll think about this for a while before I do it, though. Bruce -- Pixar's Toy Story: Over 1/3 Billion dollars world box office so far. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-02 Thread Amos Shapira
Martin Konold wrote: > > Why don't you try installing Debian 1.1 beta instead of 0.93R6? It's > > located in the unstable directory of your friendly Debian mirror site. > > but don't be misled by the 'unstable' name... 1.1 is now in late beta and > > is quite stable now. And the installation proces

Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-02 Thread Martin Konold
> > I do agree. You really should go for 1.1 beta. This version is supposed > > Then maybe the warning signs in the ftp sites should be updated? Back when > I went for Debian I saw lots of them lying around (and so I went to 0.93R6, > which indeed prooved less stable than "unstable"), as well as

Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-02 Thread Bruce Perens
> BTW: When will 1.1 be released? I am uploading yet another pass at the installation floppies today. We're also dealing with some FTP site problems. I'm going to make a new "stable" archive this week, and will let that propogate out to all of the FTP mirrors. We then will give it a few more days

Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-01 Thread Martin Konold
> > Hello, > > I have an old AMD' 80386 40MHz with 4MB of RAM and I really like > > to install Linux on it. I spent some time looking around and > > then I decided to proceed with the Debian distribution. > > Got the five disks of the 0.93R6 version I started the installation > > but with no su

Re: big problems with installation

1996-05-31 Thread Christian Hudon
On Fri, 31 May 1996, Alberto Brizio wrote: > Hello, > I have an old AMD' 80386 40MHz with 4MB of RAM and I really like > to install Linux on it. I spent some time looking around and > then I decided to proceed with the Debian distribution. > Got the five disks of the 0.93R6 version I started the