On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 07:47:53AM +0200, A. Schirmacher wrote:
> Did the set up of ftp.de.debian.org change in the last
> few month? dselect - update does not work correctly
> anymore, although my sources.list was unchanged since
> more than one year. The system is Debian 2.2.
Debian 2.2 is obsol
Hi and thank you.
I was on that site before, but none of the mirror-links worked. The
direct links to potato were broken and on the other side potato isn't so
far in /debian-archive like hamm or slink for example.
But you are right, ONE link on the site answers my question!
Only with the Unite
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:04:17 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi group,
>
>I know potato is obsolete, but today I wanted to update a machine the
>last time, before I do a distribution-update to woody.
>
>But it seems, some apt sources are broken now, I get errors like the
>following when doing "apt-get update
Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If I currently have Potato installed, and a stack of
> Woody CD's, how do I upgrade from Potato to Woody?
>
> Do I have to just install over Potato?
>
> Or, does apt-get or dpkg allow a more graceful upgrade
> in some automatic fashion?
You should be able to dr
on Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 03:03:40PM -0300, Ricardo - Eureka! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I had the same problem a few months ago, when woody was released.
>
> I had the solution this way (via http:)
>
> 1 - apt-get update -uy
> 2 - apt-get dist-upgrade -uy
> 3 - apt-get upgrade -uy
>
> I hope i
I had the same problem a few months ago, when woody was released.
I had the solution this way (via http:)
1 - apt-get update -uy
2 - apt-get dist-upgrade -uy
3 - apt-get upgrade -uy
I hope it works with you!
(Sorry for my english!!!)
--
Ricardo A.Frydman - Analista de Sistemas
Usuario Linux
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:07:00PM -0700, nate wrote:
> D.U. said:
> > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:26:09AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > If I comment out eepro from /etc/modules, my box boots up under the 2.4
> > kernels and I can log in. An odd thing I just noticed is there are no
> > mod
nate wrote:
D.U. said:
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:26:09AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I comment out eepro from /etc/modules, my box boots up under the 2.4
kernels and I can log in. An odd thing I just noticed is there are no
modules loaded at all. However, I can insmod eepro if I
giv
D.U. said:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:26:09AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If I comment out eepro from /etc/modules, my box boots up under the 2.4
> kernels and I can log in. An odd thing I just noticed is there are no
> modules loaded at all. However, I can insmod eepro if I
> give it the
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:26:09AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > The release notes didn't say there were any problems going
> > from 2.2 to 2.4. What did I forget to do?
>
> If you modified /etc/lilo.conf to add the new kernel, did you remember to
> type "lilo" before rebooting? Not doin
D.U. said:
> I searched but didn't find anything in google...
>
> I upgraded a box to 3.0 and that part went fine. But then I
> upgraded to the standard 2.4.18 kernel image deb (from a 2.2
> kernel.
did you add the initrd option to lilo.conf? the 2.4 kernel (at
least the default one) has a real bi
> Could someone do a "which perl" on a debian system
> with potato installed? I need to know where it
> lives.
perl is always in /usr/bin on every debian system i've used ...
nate
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On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 05:22:58PM +0300, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> it seems that `sftp' is not available for the Stable and testing
> distribution:
It's part of the ssh package in testing.
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* Carlos Sousa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020621 15:18]:
> I'd rather my lines mentioned "stable" instead of potato. Would that be
> OK?
Just watch out for when that symlink changes to point to woody instead
of potato. I'd say it's probably safer to keep them saying potato, at
least right now, when that
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 11:18:04PM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote:
> I'd rather my lines mentioned "stable" instead of potato. Would that be
> OK?
Yes, they're symlinked.
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On 20 Jun 2002 18:02:30 +0100 James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ potato/updates main
> > contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/
> >potato/non-US main contrib non-free
>
* Rick Pasotto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020620 13:16]:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 06:02:30PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
> > Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ potato/updates main
> > > contrib non-free
> >
> > > deb http://security.debian
Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have my doubts that you know what you're talking about.
And I have no doubt whatsoever that you have no fcuking clue who
you're talking too.
> 1) I have been doing an 'apt-get update' every day for several months
>with no error (as I pointed out i
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 02:28:39PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 06:02:30PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
> > Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ potato/updates main
> > > contrib non-free
> >
> > > deb http://security.
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 06:02:30PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
> Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ potato/updates main contrib
> > non-free
>
> > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/ potato/non-US main contrib
> > non-free
>
> For a long time I have had in my sources:
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ potato/updates main
> contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/
> potato/non-US main contrib non-free
>
> I am now getting 404 errors. Is this preparatory for the switch to woody?
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 12:17:19PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> For a long time I have had in my sources:
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ potato/updates main contrib
> non-free
> deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/ potato/non-US main contrib
> non-free
>
> I am now
Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ potato/updates main contrib
> non-free
> deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/ potato/non-US main contrib
> non-free
^^^
> I am now getting 404 errors.
Many thanks to all. I've got a clean, working version of gnome now.
Joe
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 08:11:36PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:03:19AM -0400, Joe Biron wrote:
> > Andy, thanks for your help. I've been removing ximian packages in my
> > spare time (HA!) and I
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:03:19AM -0400, Joe Biron wrote:
> Andy, thanks for your help. I've been removing ximian packages in my
> spare time (HA!) and I seem to have gotten them all. a
>
> dpkg -l | grep ximian
>
> and
>
> dpkg -l | grep xim
>
> yeild nothing. Now, I'm just not sure how to
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 08:29, Jeremy Turner wrote:
> I could be wrong (I often am), but try:
>
> apt-get install gnome-session
>
> This should get you something. In your .xsession, put the line
> 'gnome-session'. Maybe someone with more experience can let us know the more
> preferred way?
>
oe Biron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 7:03 AM
> To: 'Anand S'
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg
>
>
> Andy, thanks for your help. I've been removing ximian packages in my
>
again,
Joe
> -Original Message-
> From: Anand S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 9:11 PM
> To: Joe Biron
> Cc: 'Anand S'; debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg
>
>
> On Thu, May 16, 20
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 01:17:36PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Mmm. So I formatted (well, what can I say), reinstalled Potato, changed
> > sources.list to unstable, apt-get update and then apt-get apt dpkg
> > debconf, and I've got the same problem. Can you upgrade from Potato to
> > Sid? When i
Harvey Kelly wrote:
> > Setting up debconf (1.1.4) ...
> > no type given for question at /usr/share/perl15/Debconf/Question.pm line
> > 15.
> > dpkg: error processing debconf (--install):
> > subprocess post-installlation script returned error exit status 255
>
> Mmm. So I formatted (well, what
Well, I haven't got anything else to do tonight...
Reinstalled Potato - hey it's just like windoze with all this
format/reinstalling :) - changed sources.list to Woody, apt-get install
apt dpkg debconf. I'd saved the debs from Sid, and used them in
/var/cache/apt/archives, I had to download anoth
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 12:22:38PM +0100, kellyh wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 11:18:15PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > > I uninstalled pretty much everything from potato - and left just a
> > > skeleton system for the upgrade. Apt-get -f dist-upgrade and then
> > > waited. After downloading ap
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 11:18:15PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > I uninstalled pretty much everything from potato - and left just a
> > skeleton system for the upgrade. Apt-get -f dist-upgrade and then
> > waited. After downloading apt freaked out (I can't remember at which
> > point), so I used d
Hi,
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:16:11AM +0100, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> Hello all,
> Yes, I know it's foolish to go from Potato to Sid in a single bound,
> but hey.
Interesting experiment :)
> I uninstalled pretty much everything from potato - and left just a
> skeleton system for the upgrade. Apt-
n
mind, that there's plenty of documentation out there to help you through
your upgrade troubles.
-Andy
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Anand S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:47 AM
> &g
(a
la apt-get install task-gnome)?
Jeremy
-Original Message-
From: Joe Biron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 6:10 AM
To: 'Anand S'
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg
Uh boy. So how to I rectify this
On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 07:09, Joe Biron wrote:
> Uh boy. So how to I rectify this? I do have several packages that are
> not installing correctly, such as libgnomeprint-data and other packages
> that are in its depends tree.
>
> Should I remove the Ximian sources from my sources.list and then
> "
do a dist-upgrade after that,
will I get the Woody-compatible gnome?
Thanks,
Joe
> -Original Message-
> From: Anand S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:47 AM
> To: Joe Biron
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: potato or woody or tes
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 09:37:45PM -0400, Joe Biron wrote:
> Could someone point a newbie to an explanation of the Debian release
> universe? A friend explained it to me as "Woody is the newest... you
> want Woody". Well, is Potato then the "stable" and Woody the "testing"?
> My \etc\apt\sources.
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:57:22AM +0930, Tom Cook wrote:
> Eventually (in fact it may have already happened, I can't remember)
> woody will be frozen, outstanding bugs will be fixed as well as may be
> and then woody will become the stable distribution.
Woody is almost completely frozen, nothing
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:21:15AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:57:22AM +0930, Tom Cook wrote:
> > Sid is the unstable distribution, and always is.
>
> I.e. as the kid next door in Toy Story? :-)
Yes, or "Still In Development", depending on whom you believe. :)
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:57:22AM +0930, Tom Cook wrote:
> [ big big snip ]
>
> Sid is the unstable distribution, and always is.
I.e. as the kid next door in Toy Story? :-)
> When woody is released as stable, then all the packages in sid are
> migrated into the new testing distribution, which
On Tue, 14 May 2002 13:37, Joe Biron wrote:
> Now, I'm not just a Debian newbie, I'm sort of a Linux intermediabie,
> and as I edited sources.list, I had no clue as to what I was doing, but
> nevertheless, I seem to have the latest versions of Debian (3.0?) and
> GNOME, after hours of playing with
On 0, Joe Biron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could someone point a newbie to an explanation of the Debian release
> universe? A friend explained it to me as "Woody is the newest... you
> want Woody". Well, is Potato then the "stable" and Woody the "testing"?
Yes.
> My \etc\apt\sources.list is
* Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim (rms46@vlsm.org) [020501 07:48]:
> Hello:
>
> These following are three tests of "switching to woody". They were
> conducted on a Pentium 200Mhz/ 32Mbyte RAM/ 4 Gbyte IDE Disk/
> eepro100 ethernet board. The result may be interesting, if you have
> a simple X11 system w
* Andreas Maresch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello!
Recently I got a Digital ALPHAstation 255. Of course, I wanted to
install a real OS: Debian Potato for ALPHA.
I deleted the existing NT-partiton (via the BIOS) and inserted my
boot disc and the first CD.
Unfortunatly, the BIOS only seems to
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 05:51:55PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote:
| Alan Poulton wrote:
| >
| > I was wondering.. should I be sticking with Potato or switch to Woody?
| >
| (snip)
| > If I upgrade to Woody, how do I do it? Would I just edit
| > /etc/apt/sources.list, replace all "stable" with "woody",
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 05:51:55PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote:
> Alan Poulton wrote:
> > I was wondering.. should I be sticking with Potato or switch to Woody?
> >
> (snip)
> > If I upgrade to Woody, how do I do it? Would I just edit
> > /etc/apt/sources.list, replace all "stable" with "woody", then
Alan Poulton wrote:
>
> I was wondering.. should I be sticking with Potato or switch to Woody?
>
(snip)
> If I upgrade to Woody, how do I do it? Would I just edit
> /etc/apt/sources.list, replace all "stable" with "woody", then apt-get
> update; apt-get upgrade ?
> A friend of mine, who knows way
Hi Pontus!
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Pontus Edvardsson wrote:
> I need to install Potato on a Dell PE4400 server that has a PERC3/Di hardware
> raid. I've tried several different preconfigured rescue-disks, but none of
> them have worked. After having spent over a week on this, I believe I need to
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:10:31PM +, Martin Edward John Waller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I upgraded to XFree 4.1 to support my Matrox
> Millenium G450.
> I had loads of dependency problems but eventually
> got there.
>
> It appears hwoever I still have dependency
> problems and have got my system
Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 04:31:09PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote:
>
>> Hi, I followed a suggestion from this list to update dpkg and apt
>> first during the upgrade. For the most part this worked great. A
>> couple of small things.
>>
>> Unless I pushed the wrong button
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 04:31:09PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote:
> Hi,
> I followed a suggestion from this list to update dpkg and apt first
> during the upgrade. For the most part this worked great. A couple of
> small things.
>
> Unless I pushed the wrong button and refused a new kernel, 2.2.2
Xeno Campanoli wrote:
>
> If the "ip_always_defrag" is in my /proc/sys/net/ipv4 directory, and the
> value is "0", that means the facility is in the Kernel or available as a
> module and I just need to turn it on with echo
> "1">/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_always_defrag, right?
Sorry guys, I found my a
Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:13:04AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible to create a upgrade-woody package that depends on
>> dpkg and apt and any other prerequisites that loads them and
>> then as a post process starts apt-get(the new version) to do the
>> a
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:13:04AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote:
| Thought I'd post my experiences here with my Potato to Woody
| upgrade.
Given the recent number of posts discussing potato->woody, I think
I'll post my (recent) experience as well. Presumably most of the
posts were regarding pro
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:13:04AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote:
> Thought I'd post my experiences here with my Potato to Woody upgrade.
> Being a idiot, I haven't followed this list for awhile and didn't read
> the release notes until after the upgrade but I think the results may be
> interesti
On 17 Feb 02 21:31:06 GMT, will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> what's the potato-friendly way to get galeon installed?
galeon hasn't been potato-friendly since about version 0.7.x. It is a
bleeding-edge gnome application that requires libraries and other
facilities only available in gnome
on Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 09:35:01AM -0600, Alex Malinovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Galeon should work with no problems on a Potato system. I had it running
> for a couple of weeks on my desktop before I upgraded to sid. I've run
> it on a P133 with 40 megs of RAM with no major problems. And Ga
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 03:31:06PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
| what's the potato-friendly way to get galeon installed?
Why do you want to stick with potato? If you're installing galeon, it
must be a workstation, not a server, so what's wrong with woody/sid?
It is much easier ("possible" is a b
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 16:40, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> (If it is not a production server, I recommend you to upgrade system to
> the "testing". If it is a server, why install X or galeon, anuyay.)
Good point. Personally, I think Woody's been ready for your average
desktop user for months. I use sid ex
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 03:31:06PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> what's the potato-friendly way to get galeon installed?
> i've got potato(stable) set up including
>deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
> (all one line) in my /etc/apt/sources.list but of cou
Hi will!
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, will trillich wrote:
> what's the potato-friendly way to get galeon installed?
> (basically same inquiry as before, but with a more pertinent
> subject line and a bit more elaboration on the details:)
>
> i've got potato(stable) set up including
>
> deb http:
Lo, on Sunday, February 17, will trillich did write:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 09:35:01AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > Galeon should work with no problems on a Potato system. I had it running
> > for a couple of weeks on my desktop before I upgraded to sid. I've run
> > it on a P133 with 40 m
I call Debian guilty of 2 counts :-)
1) Too easy user interface for the upgrade and maintenance.
2) Too stable for "testing" distribution.
Read on to find out why:
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 10:20:04AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> I've been seeing a lot of discussions in various places about
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 09:35:01AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> Galeon should work with no problems on a Potato system. I had it running
> for a couple of weeks on my desktop before I upgraded to sid. I've run
> it on a P133 with 40 megs of RAM with no major problems. And Galeon is,
> by far, th
Galeon should work with no problems on a Potato system. I had it running
for a couple of weeks on my desktop before I upgraded to sid. I've run
it on a P133 with 40 megs of RAM with no major problems. And Galeon is,
by far, the most superior browser I've had the pleasure of EVER using.
There are re
on Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:05:52PM -0600, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> i know that somewhere out there someone has concocted a list of
> potato-friendly x-window-system web browsers. nice comparison
> table. relative functionality and speed. utility. bugginess.
I've reviewed browser
> > mozilla seems slow, konq i havent had much experience with,
>
> It's almost unusable here, but I attributed that to the machine -- on a
> Pentium Classic 166MHz, _everything's_ slow, even with 96MB. ;) Once I
As I said before, I'm with a Pentium 100, 32MB, Opera 6, WindowMaker, a
tweaked ke
> > Opera6 is woody-hostile?? Since when? I use O6tp3 with GNOME
> > & Sawfish, and it works really smooth.
I use Woody and WindowMaker in a Pentium 100, 32mb ram. I Tried Opera 5 and it
just segfaults when I invoke it. Opera 6 runs very fast and never crashed. I
love these mouse gestures too.
> to try it. Could you elaborate on what you mean by v6 being
> "hostile"? What sort of behavior have you observed? And were you
> able to get the Sun JRE working with it?
see my other mails in the thread, i explained the problems..
haven't tried the sun JRE..
>
> You know, I bought into Oper
On 8 Feb 2002 1:13AM, nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> so, what browsers are available as potato-friendly *.deb for X?
>
> Opera 5 and Opera 6 are potato friendly. in my experience
> opera 6 is woody-hostile though. opera 5 works good in woody.
Hmm, I didn't know Opera was available as a
> Opera6 is woody-hostile?? Since when? I use O6tp3 with GNOME
> & Sawfish, and it works really smooth.
for me, since the beginning (TP1). My laptop at home
runs woody and TP1, TP2 and now TP3 all segfault instantly
on startup, on my desktop at work which runs woody, it starts
but the "back" f
On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 06:12, nate wrote:
>
> > so, what browsers are available as potato-friendly *.deb for X?
> Opera 5 and Opera 6 are potato friendly. in my experience
> opera 6 is woody-hostile though. opera 5 works good in woody.
Opera 6 is working fine for me in woody, and I've found it to
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 22:12:51 -0800 (PST) "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
[snip]
> Opera 5 and Opera 6 are potato friendly. in my experience
> opera 6 is woody-hostile though. opera 5 works good in woody.
[big snip]
Opera6 is woody-hostile?? Since when? I use O6tp3 with GNOME
& Sawfish, and i
> i know that somewhere out there someone has concocted a list of
> potato-friendly x-window-system web browsers. nice comparison
> table. relative functionality and speed. utility. bugginess.
>
> searching at google finds wy too many not-even-close pages.
>
> so, what browsers are available a
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 05:33:31PM -0500, scook wrote:
> I kept trying, changing to idepci flavor and using different diskettes,
> and finally got one to format without errors.
> Now I am just using lilo on hda and when I give up I
> dd if/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1
> (from page 137
I kept trying, changing to idepci flavor and using different diskettes,
and finally got one to format without errors.
Now I am just using lilo on hda and when I give up I
dd if/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1
(from page 137 of _Running Linux_)
My big problem now is hard disk errors that
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 06:32:04AM -0500, Sam Cook wrote:
> I am a new user trying to install vanilla potato from an existing dos
> partition. Everything seems to go okay until I try to create a boot
> disk.
> I get errors with the format of the floppy (invariably). Dos system has
> no problems wi
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 03:56:35PM -0500, Jeff Flowers wrote:
> >Id say they are the right images. They'd be the
> >old potato boot disks, which would do the job.
> >The base2_2.tgz base image will be different
> >most probably.
> >
> >Kind Regards
> >Crispin
>
> Even the base2_2.tgz has a Jun 13
>Id say they are the right images. They'd be the
>old potato boot disks, which would do the job.
>The base2_2.tgz base image will be different
>most probably.
>
>Kind Regards
>Crispin
Even the base2_2.tgz has a Jun 13 date. I'm started to get frustrated
because I am looking all over the Debian ftp
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 05:26:20PM -0500, Jeff Flowers wrote:
> I'm confused.
>
> I want to install Debian (Potato) 2.2r5. I drilled down to
> /debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/, where I find the directories
> "current" and "2.2.26-2001-06-14". Current is a link to "2.2.26-2001-06-14".
> I then
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 10:26:12PM -0500, John Dalbec wrote:
> apt-get dist-upgrade died while configuring gcc-doc with the message
> perl: libc6: version GLIBC_2.2 not found - needed by libdb.so.3.
> attempting 'apt-get -f install' failed with the same message.
> I installed libc6 from /var/cache
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.14.1711 +0100]:
> You've got an old libc and aren't upgrading it yet. I don't know why
> (I would have thought dist-upgrade would do it).
mh. miraculously it suddenly worked. gotta love *and* hate computers...
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:45:02PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
| trying to get my last potato box up to testing. simply changed the deb
| line in sources.list from stable to testing (deb-src is still unstable),
| and security as well as adrian's 2.4.x kernel deb lines are still on
| stable, as al
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:50:41AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> Hello to all!
>
> I am installing potato 2.2r2 from the distribution CDs in a new machine which
> has the 3c905c NIC. After selected the 3c59cx module and complete a minimal
> installation, I can't put the NIC to work. I sear
Hello! its me again!
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:50:41AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> Hello to all!
>
> I am installing potato 2.2r2 from the distribution CDs in a new machine which
> has the 3c905c NIC. After selected the 3c59cx module and complete a minimal
> installation, I can't put t
Thanks for all the tips... I think I'll get that done for my laptop.
Hibernation is kinda funky on that thing, and it's not good to lose data.
Calyth
Thus spake Paolo Alexis Falcone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> converting from ext2 to ext3 needs not an unmount. You only need to
> issue the tune2fs -j /device/devicename for it will only add a journal
> inode to the existing ext2 filesystem.
>
> But as a previous post stated, you can't use the new fil
Calyth wrote:
>I remember that converting to ext3 requires to have the drive to be
>umounted before you can convert. On my laptop, I was lazy and I only
>have one partition for linux (the root partition). If so, then wouldn't
>I need to use a boot disk to convert ext3? can someone help?
converti
#include
Justin R. Miller wrote on Sun Jan 06, 2002 um 09:13:32PM:
> > I remember that converting to ext3 requires to have the drive to be
> > umounted before you can convert. On my laptop, I was lazy and I only
There was only one buggy kernel which requried this, 2.4.10. Normally you can
create
Thus spake Calyth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I remember that converting to ext3 requires to have the drive to be
> umounted before you can convert. On my laptop, I was lazy and I only
> have one partition for linux (the root partition). If so, then
> wouldn't I need to use a boot disk to convert ext3?
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 10:20:03PM +0800, Aldous B Bernardo wrote:
> Can someone enlighten me what's Potato, Woody, and all those Debian
> codenames? How is Debian versioned? is it with the kernel version?
Debian release names aren't related to the kernel version. Releases
happen pretty much whe
names from Toy Story i believe..
At 10:20 PM 12/29/01 +0800, Aldous B Bernardo wrote:
Greetings,
Can someone enlighten me what's Potato, Woody, and all those Debian
codenames? How is Debian versioned? is it with the kernel version?
Thanks!
Aldous
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brian r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> First, once I have Debian running I really like it. Especially the
> apt-get solution for upgrading. However, I have installed Debian on
> 3 different workstations and 1 file server and the process was very
> different each time.
How so?
> From the point
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 09:37:04AM -0800, brian r wrote:
>
> cdrom and audio:
>
> I want one of my workstations to be an MP3 server. It is a Pentium 150,
> 48 MB of RAM, and 15 GB HD. I installed Afterstep, and a bunch of
> cd/audio/mp3 software from the potato cd. My problem is cdrom won't rea
Patrick Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Howdy,
>
> I just upgraded from potato to woody. As I expected, it didn't go so
> smoothly. Bottom line: X wouldnt start. I went to irc where some guy
> (thanks eeyore!) told me to get xserver-xfree86 package. A quick
> apt-get and it worked.
>
> I h
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:31:58 +0100, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
> which is the easiest way to read formatted sgml docs in potato?
SGML is a language in which you can define the structure documents must
conform by writing DTDs == document type definitions. Well-known DTDs are
those for HTML and
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:34:52PM +0800, Paolo Falcone wrote:
> Woody or Sid is already 2.4 ready, as they're always updated
> regularly (with Sid the most number of iterations -- weekly if
> I'm not mistaken).
Daily. New packages are installed on the master archive at around 8pm
UTC each day, an
Oki DZ wrote:
>I see.
>I can see the source of my confusion, I believe. I always use >unstable; when
>Potato was unstable, that was the one I used. Then >Potato become stable, but
>I didn't change the sources.list (still >pointed to unstable).
>Then I did apt-get dist-upgrade. So, inadvertently
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