Re: sourcing the new install

1999-05-24 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 04:52:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > Sounds like more trouble that it is work. Slink packages (usually) don't > > change, > > because they are the stable distribution. Right now, packages in unstable > > are > > changing. I use apt-get in the apt package to do wha

Re: sourcing the new install

1999-05-24 Thread John Foster
> One thing I was hoping to avoid...I haven't seen slink/apt yet, but I am aware > that it will install from multiple CD's...under the previous release, I had > copied the binaries of Contrib/Non-Free/Non-US to my hard drive, left the i386 > CD in the tray, and told dselect that I was installing fr

Re: sourcing the new install

1999-05-23 Thread Brad
On Sun, 23 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Will I be able to get a Non-Free and Non-US CD, and will apt do the multiple > install from them? Or, if not, how do I make apt aware of where I am keeping > those sets of files? Apt can do much more than installing from CDs. Once you have apt insta

Re: sourcing the new install

1999-05-23 Thread fairfax
> Sounds like more trouble that it is work. Slink packages (usually) don't > change, > because they are the stable distribution. Right now, packages in unstable are > changing. I use apt-get in the apt package to do what you want to do, > keep my system up to date. > One thing I was hoping to avoi

Re: sourcing the new install

1999-05-23 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 10:19:15PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am about to buy a 6GB HDD to supplement the two full 1.6GB HDDs I have, and > then I plan to load slink on my system. I have usually bought the CDs, but > the resellers I have seen on the net don't seem to include the non-free