Re: fdos for making a HD- bootable Linux

1998-05-17 Thread M.C. Vernon
> Hello all Linuxers, Greetings! > Me too, i have still a question, that i believe not beeing answered > yet. Its a little bit strange: My Debian distrib is obviously missing > the 'fdos' package needed by the mbr(?) tool to make Linux bootable from > the harddisk. If im right and didnt post a

Re: fdos, and ncftp

1997-06-12 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
On 10 Jun 1997, Alair Pereira do Lago wrote: > > There already is a package with ncftp. It is in the non-free tree on any > > decent debian-ftp-server. You won't find the non-free tree on most > > "Cheap"-CDs like Cheap-Bytes (I think) or Infomagic's (I know) >

Re: fdos, and ncftp

1997-06-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Carl Fink wrote: > Two questions: I'll leave the other for someone else, since I installed dosemu by getting the sources and compiling it myself. > > As for NcFTP -- can a mere newbie user request a new package? I'm > used to NcFTP, which I've used on Panix (Sun) and on my

Re: fdos, and ncftp

1997-06-10 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > There already is a package with ncftp. It is in the non-free tree on any > decent debian-ftp-server. You won't find the non-free tree on most > "Cheap"-CDs like Cheap-Bytes (I think) or Infomagic's (I know) You guessed wrong. Ch

Re: fdos, and ncftp

1997-06-10 Thread Randy Edwards
> (i.e. dosemu) that fdos is recommended, but not available. In fact, a > search of the Debian FTP structure shows that there *is* no fdos > package. What's up? With the new package of dosemu, fdos comes as part of dosemu and therefore isn't used as a separate package any more.

Re: fdos, and ncftp

1997-06-10 Thread freak
> As for NcFTP -- can a mere newbie user request a new package? I'm > used to NcFTP, which I've used on Panix (Sun) and on my home machine > under OS/2. Sure, I could compile it myself, but I'm afraid that as > soon as I do, a package would be released and I'd have a hard time > upgrading. :-)

Re: fdos, and ncftp

1997-06-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
Those packages are in the non-free or contrib sections which are usually not included on CD-Rom. Try ftp.debian.org. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Two questions: : I'm trying to set up a Debian system using a disk from Cheap*Bytes : (part of their 5-disk set). dselect says for a c

Re: fdos

1997-06-02 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > > :On Sat, 31 May 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: > : > :> Ok, perhaps I'm dreaming, but I thought fdos was in frozen at one time. > :> Now it's not ... I see that it's in uns

Re: fdos

1997-06-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: :On Sat, 31 May 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: : :> Ok, perhaps I'm dreaming, but I thought fdos was in frozen at one time. :> Now it's not ... I see that it's in unstable though ... this isn't a big :> deal as I'm just setting up a machine to play around wi

Re: fdos

1997-06-01 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 31 May 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Ok, perhaps I'm dreaming, but I thought fdos was in frozen at one time. > Now it's not ... I see that it's in unstable though ... this isn't a big > deal as I'm just setting up a machine to play around with. Can I >

Re: fdos

1997-06-01 Thread Alexandre Lebrun
Alexandre On Sat, 31 May 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Ok, perhaps I'm dreaming, but I thought fdos was in frozen at one time. > Now it's not ... I see that it's in unstable though ... this isn't a big > deal as I'm just setting up a machine to play around with. Can I > install the unstable f