Thanks for your email. However, I think that this is a case of "blame the user." My language is set for English. I clicked on the links from the top-level www.debian.org site and within two minutes I was reading a page that was not in English. ----- Original Message ----- From: "James A. Treacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Simson L. Garfinkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 1:45 AM Subject: Re: language error at http://www.debian.org/releases/2.2/i386/install
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 09:47:00AM +0530, Sthitaprajna wrote: > > "Simson L. Garfinkel" wrote: > > > > > > According to your documentation on > > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-installing.en.ht > > > ml, > > > > > > the link: http://www.debian.org/releases/2.2/i386/install > > > > > > Should be how to install Debian. Unfortunately, it is not in english; the > > > documentation implies that it shoudl be. > > > > How come I get a English documentation at the said address, the original > > note by Perens and others? Or has Debian done a quick check and > > corrected the mistake? > > > The first URL you went to uses the full filename to access the file (includes > the .en.html ending). Most of the links in the site do not contain the > extensions, so when the browser requests a file and suggests a language, the > version of a file in that language can be returned (English is returned if > nothing can be agreed upon). > > As I said, read http://www.debian.org/misc/cn.en.html so you can learn > how to correct the problem. > > -- > James (Jay) Treacy > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
