On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 08:56:22PM +1300, Rex Johnston wrote:
You are going to fit testing onto a floppy ?
...
Yes, perhaps i mean't that it's not that obvious how to download the
testing distro onto CD/DVD/floppy(?)
*sigh*. You can fit the installer on a floppy or two, and point it at the
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 21:13, Michael Beattie wrote:
What has happened to the progeny install system ?
*shrug* - I'm not working on the installer. I believe the main reason it
isnt being used, is that the installer that is developed, needs to work on
all 11 architectures released.
Aeee,
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 17:12, John Carter wrote:
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Rex Johnston wrote:
Testing makes a good desktop for friends, and i run Unstable.
Bugger!
That wasted a day and a bit.
Howso ?
You could have at least mentioned that you can't even install Debian
testing at the moment.
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Rex Johnston wrote:
They are rewriting the boot procedure and what is in sarge at the moment
is hostile and broken in the extreme.
Err.. boot procedure?
Sorry, I meant installation procedure. If you boot off the CD you get
dumped into a maze of twisty little passages,
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, John Carter wrote:
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Rex Johnston wrote:
Testing makes a good desktop for friends, and i run Unstable.
Bugger!
That wasted a day and a bit.
You could have at least mentioned that you can't even install Debian
testing at the moment. You can _only_
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:53:16PM +1300, Rex Johnston wrote:
You could have at least mentioned that you can't even install Debian
testing at the moment. You can _only_ upgrade an existing stable
installation.
Well, no, you'd have problems getting it on a media. Your best bet
Bollocks.
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:17:24PM +1300, John Carter wrote:
Sorry, I meant installation procedure. If you boot off the CD you get
dumped into a maze of twisty little passages, often broken.
On behalf of Debian, I apologise that we have decided to rewrite the
installation software for sarge,
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 18:40, Michael Beattie wrote:
You could have at least mentioned that you can't even install Debian
testing at the moment. You can _only_ upgrade an existing stable
installation.
Well, no, you'd have problems getting it on a media. Your best bet
Bollocks.
John Carter wrote:
Time for a wee bout of 'Distro war...
...
Back in the bad old days of Linux 0.99 when Men were Real Men, and little
Plastic Barbies were Really Plastic we used to suck down the source
of each package from the authors site as we needed it, compiled it, and
ran.
If
Time for a wee bout of 'Distro war...
Rex Johnson asked if I was still using Debian...
Nah, I upgraded it to Storm Linux (a Debian variant) for awhile, currently
it is on Redhat 7.3. Hopefully I'll be getting something larger soon and
will upgrade it to DeadBat 8.0 or umm, I don't know.
I
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:15, you wrote:
I'm wondering about trying Gentoo.
Needs a fairly modern machine. 400MHz or hopefully much better I'd say,
otherwise you'll be waiting aeons for the compiles to finish. I installed the
basic stuff and then did an 'emerge kde' and came back a couple of days
John Carter wrote:
Time for a wee bout of 'Distro war...
Rex Johnson asked if I was still using Debian...
Close enough John Carer. :)
It was more a question of whether the 'help' desk snaffled parore or
Matt managed to keep hold
of it.
Nah, I upgraded it to Storm Linux (a Debian variant)
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:15, you wrote:
I'm wondering about trying Gentoo.
Needs a fairly modern machine. 400MHz or hopefully much better I'd say,
I never considered my 500Mhz K6-II to be modern,
not after having drooled over other folk's 1GHz Athlons.
otherwise you'll be waiting aeons for the
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:51, Yuri de Groot wrote:
If there's a high bandwidth connection at the instalfest I'll bring my
computer and upgrade to gentoo.
chris@liberty chris $ du -s /usr/portage/distfiles/
752620 /usr/portage/distfiles
Deities willing, I can bring them along.
--
Sincerely
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