Re: Manual Install of SILO/Debian

2011-03-12 Thread A E [Gmail]
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Doug wrote: > The following assumes that (at least) the Solaris drive is IDE, not SATA. > If it's SATA, then you need to > find out if there are "master" channels and "slave" channels driving the > hard disks, and proceed as > suggested. You can at least proceed

Re: Manual Install of SILO/Debian

2011-03-12 Thread Doug
On 03/12/2011 09:39 PM, A E [Gmail] wrote: Hello All, P.S> Sorry about cross-posting, but you never know who has the answer :) This might be a stupid question but I'm wondering if someone knows (and if it's possible) to install debian on a hard drive manually from a "boot.img" file? I have

Manual Install of SILO/Debian

2011-03-12 Thread A E [Gmail]
Hello All, P.S> Sorry about cross-posting, but you never know who has the answer :) This might be a stupid question but I'm wondering if someone knows (and if it's possible) to install debian on a hard drive manually from a "boot.img" file? I have a situation like so: an x86 machine with Solari

Re: Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info

2008-11-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,06.Nov.08, 18:35:52, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Or you could just feed the list to 'dpkg --get-selections' ;) > > > Do you mean dpkg --set-selections? Yes, of course [blush]! > I suppose that would work because aptitude should then install those, > with the dependancies and mark thing

Re: Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info

2008-11-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 10:57:12PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,05.Nov.08, 12:58:42, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > aptitude install > > > > Remember to escape the newlines with \ > > > > I forget what the maximum command-line length is; it may be an issue > > depending on how many pac

Re: Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info

2008-11-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,05.Nov.08, 12:58:42, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > aptitude install > > Remember to escape the newlines with \ > > I forget what the maximum command-line length is; it may be an issue > depending on how many packages you manually installed. > > You could make the package list with one pack

Re: Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info

2008-11-05 Thread green
On Wed, 2008.11.05, 310, Brian McKee wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:30 PM, green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [save] > > # Save a list of all installed packages > > aptitude -F "%?p" --disable-columns search \~i >| installed-all > > # Save a list of all installed packages with their versions >

Re: Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info

2008-11-05 Thread Brian McKee
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:30 PM, green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008.11.05, 310, Brian McKee wrote: >> I'd like to 'clone' the installed software on a machine. I can find >> lots of references to this procedure >> > Backup installed package list on current machine >> > dpkg --get-selec

Re: Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info

2008-11-05 Thread green
On Wed, 2008.11.05, 310, Brian McKee wrote: > I'd like to 'clone' the installed software on a machine. I can find > lots of references to this procedure > > Backup installed package list on current machine > > dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt > > move selections.txt to the new machine Set p

Re: Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info

2008-11-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 12:11:55 -0500, Brian McKee wrote: > Hi All, > > I'd like to 'clone' the installed software on a machine. I can find > lots of references to this procedure > > Backup installed package list on current machine > > dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt > > move selections.

Re: Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info

2008-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 12:11:55PM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: > I'd like to 'clone' the installed software on a machine. I can find > lots of references to this procedure > > Backup installed package list on current machine > > dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt > > move selections.txt to the

Re: Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info

2008-11-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
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Re: Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info

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Re: Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info

2008-11-05 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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RE: Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info

2008-11-05 Thread Robert Caruso
McKee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 9:12 AM To: List Debian User Subject: Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info Hi All, I'd like to 'clone' the installed software on a machine. I can find lots of ref

Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info

2008-11-05 Thread Brian McKee
Hi All, I'd like to 'clone' the installed software on a machine. I can find lots of references to this procedure > Backup installed package list on current machine > dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt > move selections.txt to the new machine Set package list on new machine and > install pac

Re: Manual install permissions

2002-12-24 Thread Russell
Seneca wrote: On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 01:24:23AM +1100, Russell wrote: I installed a CAD package to /usr/local/vutrax, and the install instructions say to set the permissions to rwx for all. Is there a better way? Should i add a user and group called "vutrax", and add myself to the vutrax group?

Re: Manual install permissions

2002-12-24 Thread Seneca
On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 01:24:23AM +1100, Russell wrote: > I installed a CAD package to /usr/local/vutrax, and the install > instructions say to set the permissions to rwx for all. > Is there a better way? Should i add a user and group called "vutrax", > and add myself to the vutrax group? rwx for

Manual install permissions

2002-12-24 Thread Russell
Hi all, I installed a CAD package to /usr/local/vutrax, and the install instructions say to set the permissions to rwx for all. Is there a better way? Should i add a user and group called "vutrax", and add myself to the vutrax group? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Libranet [was: Manual install/configuration]

2002-10-18 Thread Wendell Cochran
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 01:21:32 -0700 From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [SNIP] > Debian tends toward a text / curses based installer, and config-file > based management, rather than GUI tools. There _are_ GUI alternatives > to both if you lean that way, but they're neither required nor

Re: Manual install/configuration

2002-10-16 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:04:35AM +0100, snowch wrote: > I am new to Debian. Does debian have the ability to be manually configured > in such a way, or is most of the install configuration taken place via. a > graphical installer? The configuration files, mostly, reside in /etc/* also. You ca

Manual install/configuration

2002-10-16 Thread snowch
I've been using a few different linux distros and have also recently tried OpenBSD. One of the things I like about OpenBSD is that the install is very basic, and most of the post install configuration is performed by manually editing files in /etc/* . The reason I like this is because I know

Re: manual install

2001-05-16 Thread Peter Cordes
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 08:50:24AM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > That's consistent with what I've found so far. I can boot the box into > single user > mode but it'll hang trying to initialize inetd if I try a normal boot. The > network is > broken when I do get the box up so I'm guessing that

Re: manual install

2001-05-16 Thread Andrew D Dixon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:36:30PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Yes, you can do that. > > > > > > There is a script in /sbin (I think) called unconfigured.sh > > > that you want to hack. > > > > That's just a script that prints out

Re: manual install

2001-05-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 02:31:18PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > Hi All, > I've got a machine here that I'm trying to install Debian on. Right now > it boots over the network but it does have a hard disk and I'd like to > install Debian on the hard disk. > > My problem is that I can't get dboots

Re: manual install

2001-05-15 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Kevin van Haaren wrote: > I probably won't be able to help, but before ANYONE can help they'll need to > know exactly what machine you have. The more info you can provide on > make/model/processor speed/etc... the more likely you're to get help. It's a Briq from total impact (http://www.totali

manual install

2001-05-15 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Hi All, I've got a machine here that I'm trying to install Debian on. Right now it boots over the network but it does have a hard disk and I'd like to install Debian on the hard disk. My problem is that I can't get dbootstrap to run. I try passing yaboot the argument, initrd=root.bin in

Re: [NEWBIE ALERT] Interchangebility of manual install vs dselect/dpkg

2000-07-31 Thread Jean-Philippe Guérard
Le 2000-07-31 16:24:07 +0100, Jean-Jack M. Riethoven écrivait : > I am relatively new to installing my own Debian system (2.1r4). Until now, > I have managed quite well with dselect. However, I haven't been able to get > X up and running yet on my video card (a Diamond Viper 550 16Mb). What happe

[NEWBIE ALERT] Interchangebility of manual install vs dselect/dpkg

2000-07-31 Thread Jean-Jack M. Riethoven
Hi, I am relatively new to installing my own Debian system (2.1r4). Until now, I have managed quite well with dselect. However, I haven't been able to get X up and running yet on my video card (a Diamond Viper 550 16Mb). I checked the various faq's and docs and they suggested I install 3.3.6 of X