Re: More Urgent HAMM Install help needed

1998-07-30 Thread David B. Teague
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: More Urgent HAMM Install help needed > > In a reply to an installation question you said (in part) With Debian > you "With Debian you only have to keep a minimum of configuration > dat

Re: More Urgent HAMM Install help needed

1998-07-07 Thread CHUCK
In a reply to an installation question you said (in part) With Debian you "With Debian you only have to keep a minimum of configuration data stored on a couple of floppies to completely rebuild a working system from scratch." Is there a list somewhere of what those configuration data are? chuc

Re: More Urgent HAMM Install help needed

1998-07-07 Thread Ivan
Can't argue with you on any of your well made points ! Consider the lessons (almost) learnt. LESSON 1. Duly noted but (please note i am not at all ungrateful for your advice) having had the true stupidity of my ways pointed out to me (using the stable rather than the frozen dist) I really cannot h

Re: More Urgent HAMM Install help needed

1998-07-07 Thread joost
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Ivan wrote: > Hello yet again - I was hoping to be able to sit back for a little while > and just read the chat on my new hamm system but I still seem to have some > problems !!! > > Once again the downloading went mostly well but installation and config are > a major proble

Re: More Urgent HAMM Install help needed

1998-07-07 Thread dpk
Initially errors were that ef2sprogs conflicts with dump and perl pre-depends libc5 (or something like that !) After those errors things looked good for a while BUT then a million errors ( certainly too many to read ) scrolled up the screen and dselect again gave up in disgust !

More Urgent HAMM Install help needed

1998-07-07 Thread Ivan
Hello yet again - I was hoping to be able to sit back for a little while and just read the chat on my new hamm system but I still seem to have some problems !!! Once again the downloading went mostly well but installation and config are a major problem. Initially errors were that ef2sprogs confli

Re: URGENT hamm install help needed

1998-07-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 11:00:21AM -0400, Michael B. Taylor wrote: > > I think elm is the Debian default mail reader, so I assume it will come in > the 'home' installation. It too will work in an xterm or console. Technically, elm was superceeded by mutt, really the best mailer I know (no, I won

Re: URGENT hamm install help needed

1998-07-06 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Ivan wrote: > Thanx for the quick reply Mike. You're welcome :) > > I can understand what you are saying re:install slowly rather than trying > to do everything at once (some people just have no patience!) > > My plan at the moment is to format my h/d (2.5Gb) put in a 12M

REPOST: URGENT hamm install help needed

1998-07-06 Thread Ivan
Thanx for the quick reply Mike. I can understand what you are saying re:install slowly rather than trying to do everything at once (some people just have no patience!) My plan at the moment is to format my h/d (2.5Gb) put in a 12Mb vfat partition to hold base2_0.tgz (loaded as a split file from f

Re: URGENT hamm install help needed

1998-07-06 Thread Ivan
Thanx for the quick reply Mike. I can understand what you are saying re:install slowly rather than trying to do everything at once (some people just have no patience!) My plan at the moment is to format my h/d (2.5Gb) put in a 12Mb vfat partition to hold base2_0.tgz (loaded as a split file from f

Re: URGENT hamm install help needed

1998-07-06 Thread Michael B. Taylor
If the size of your installed system is 400Mb, the disk space required is 400Mb + space for the .deb files + working space. You can delete the .deb files after they are installed (dselect does this for you). So downloading fewer packages might help you. Here is the approach that I use: I di

URGENT hamm install help needed

1998-07-06 Thread Ivan
Hello again The boy sure has got himself into trouble now !!! Having learned heaps by installing bo and then scattering files and other odds and sods at random around my h/d I decided to start again - but this time with hamm, having read on many occasions how stable hamm is. Great set-up in ham