On Jun 12 2000, John McBride wrote:
> Rogerio Brito wrote:
> >
> > More professional? More canned, that is. :-) Easier to the
> > newbie, perhaps?
>
> My customers use software, they don't install it. If I had to install
> Debian as a demo, I would seriously consider refusing.
Rogerio Brito wrote:
>
> On Jun 10 2000, John McBride wrote:
> >
> > I tentatively agree. But my employer (for example) would take
> > RedHat, Storm or Corel over a raw debian, simply because their
> > installs are far more modern and professional.
>
> More professional? More canned, that
On Jun 10 2000, John McBride wrote:
> kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > RedHat is a system you install many times (note: biased opinion, but
> > based on upgrades 4.2 -> 5.0 -> 5.2).
> >
> > Debian is a system you install twice (once to learn how, once to get it
> > right).
>
> I tentatively agree
Yes, agreed my miskake sorry.
Regards JohnG
32865e97b5342e762ab140e00f3da23b - Just 'Debian'
On 12 Jun 2000, John Hasler wrote:
> John Gould writes:
> > What I like to do when installing Debian on a new system is to follow all
> > the prompts until it asks whether I would like to install one
John Gould writes:
> What I like to do when installing Debian on a new system is to follow all
> the prompts until it asks whether I would like to install one of the
> specified package sets or a custom install. Then select 'custom', but
> don't select any packages with deselect. Re-boot and run de
Hmm,
Hello John, sounds like you've had lots of problems? Well here's my
two pennyworth... What I like to do when installing Debian on a new system
is to follow all the prompts until it asks whether I would like to install
one of the specified package sets or a custom install. Then select
'cust
Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, John McBride wrote:
>
> > XF86Setup will start working right. Main problem now is that when I log
> > in through gdm/helix gnome, there is no wm started -- just a gray
> > stipple and a single button 2 menu. sawfish is installed and conf
Hi,
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, John McBride wrote:
> XF86Setup will start working right. Main problem now is that when I log
> in through gdm/helix gnome, there is no wm started -- just a gray
> stipple and a single button 2 menu. sawfish is installed and configured,
> but not launching I guess. Any h
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 01:23:41AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> John McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Carl Fink wrote:
> >> It should, I grant you, but have you tried "dpkg -S"?
> >
> >here's a nasty one:
> >
> >> expectk
> >bash: expectk: command not found
> >
> >root> dpkg -S expectk
> >dpk
Colin Watson wrote:
>
> John McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >As soon as I got a base system working, I updated my sources.list and
> >used "apt-get update". It failed after retreiving the pkg files with an
> >E: message that some package names were too long. Presumably, my 2.1
> >slink CD ha
Colin Watson wrote:
> John McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >As soon as I got a base system working, I updated my sources.list and
> >used "apt-get update". It failed after retreiving the pkg files with an
> >E: message that some package names were too long. Presumably, my 2.1
> >slink CD has
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 04:38:35PM -0700, John McBride wrote:
>> After running this command (update-rc.d -f gdm remove), rebooting, and
>> typing "startx", I get a grey stipple screen with no window manager.
>> There's probably more to it, or my install has gone bad in
John McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>As soon as I got a base system working, I updated my sources.list and
>used "apt-get update". It failed after retreiving the pkg files with an
>E: message that some package names were too long. Presumably, my 2.1
>slink CD has a version of dpkg or something
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 04:38:35PM -0700, John McBride wrote:
> Mike Werner wrote:
[...]
> After running this command (update-rc.d -f gdm remove), rebooting, and
> typing "startx", I get a grey stipple screen with no window manager.
> There's probably more to it, or my install has gone bad in som
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 04:38:35PM -0700, John McBride wrote:
> Mike Werner wrote:
> >
> > John McBride wrote:
> After running this command (update-rc.d -f gdm remove), rebooting, and
> typing "startx", I get a grey stipple screen with no window manager.
> There's probably more to it, or my insta
John McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Carl Fink wrote:
>> It should, I grant you, but have you tried "dpkg -S"?
>
>here's a nasty one:
>
>> expectk
>bash: expectk: command not found
>
>root> dpkg -S expectk
>dpkg: *expectk* not found.
Ah, here you have a different search facility ;)
dpkg -S s
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 03:34:03PM -0700, John McBride wrote:
> kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> >
> > > You'll ohh and ahhh as apt-get fails on package name lengths that are
> > > too long!
> >
> > Sorry? Details? Never seen this.
>
> As soon as I got a base system working, I updated my sources.l
John McBride wrote:
> Mike Werner wrote:
> >
> > John McBride wrote:
> >
> > > Actually, I strongly prefer startx, but don't see how to disable gdm
> > > without breaking helix-gnome -- it seems to require gdm. You can't
> > > simply edit /etc/inittab like you can on RedHat. apt-get remove gdm
>
Mike Werner wrote:
>
> John McBride wrote:
>
> > Actually, I strongly prefer startx, but don't see how to disable gdm
> > without breaking helix-gnome -- it seems to require gdm. You can't
> > simply edit /etc/inittab like you can on RedHat. apt-get remove gdm
> > pulls helix-gnome off the system
Carl Fink wrote:
>
> It should, I grant you, but have you tried "dpkg -S"?
>
here's a nasty one:
> expectk
bash: expectk: command not found
root> dpkg -S expectk
dpkg: *expectk* not found.
web page shows:
interpreters/expect5.24
interpreters/swig
root> apt-get install expect
[candidates : 5.2
Hans writes:
> Same here: I just had my potato system working, wanted to install latex,
> apt-get decides to update 63 packages and now pon/poff doesn't work
> anymore. It just gives me 'pppd not started. None stopped'.
Please post copies of /etc/ppp/peers/provider, /etc/chatscripts/provider,
and
John McBride wrote:
> Actually, I strongly prefer startx, but don't see how to disable gdm
> without breaking helix-gnome -- it seems to require gdm. You can't
> simply edit /etc/inittab like you can on RedHat. apt-get remove gdm
> pulls helix-gnome off the system. I'll review those files.
Actual
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> > You'll ohh and ahhh as apt-get fails on package name lengths that are
> > too long!
>
> Sorry? Details? Never seen this.
As soon as I got a base system working, I updated my sources.list and
used "apt-get update". It failed after retreiving the pkg files with a
At 02:16 PM 6/10/00 -0700, John McBride wrote:
>Yes, you too can experience the thrill of installing and upgrading the
>Debian distro!
>
Same here: I just had my potato system working, wanted to install latex,
apt-get decides to update 63 packages and now pon/poff doesn't work
anymore. It just give
Carl Fink wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 02:16:45PM -0700, John McBride wrote:
>
> > You'll visit the debian.org site approximately 3,596,391 times finding
> > out what package provides a command you need...since apt-get doesn't
> > have "what-provides" or query options.
>
> It should, I gra
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 02:16:45PM -0700, John McBride wrote:
> Yes, you too can experience the thrill of installing and upgrading the
> Debian distro!
Been there, done that, got the evil grin plastered all over my mug.
> You'll impress your neighbors with your buff pinky muscles, built after
> h
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 02:16:45PM -0700, John McBride wrote:
> You'll visit the debian.org site approximately 3,596,391 times finding
> out what package provides a command you need...since apt-get doesn't
> have "what-provides" or query options.
It should, I grant you, but have you tried "dpkg -
Yes, you too can experience the thrill of installing and upgrading the
Debian distro!
You'll impress your neighbors with your buff pinky muscles, built after
hours of banging the living bejeesus out of the enter key to accept the
default configurations for a plethora of programs you never use or a
28 matches
Mail list logo
