Re: Help again with command man.
Hi, On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, A. Tuazon wrote: However, when I was installing the OS via floppies only, shouldn't the installation have installed man for me ? Or do you still have to install man after you install the system ? If you installed from floppies only with no install from CD afterwards or from internet, you have probably only the base-system installed. So your computer is running with nothing but the plain OS. Man-db, X11 and all the other things are still missing. Therefore, could someone please tell me if there is a way to install man via floppies. I'm using an ancient 486 and it only has a hd and 1.44 floppy drive. I'd appreciate any help and thanks again to all those who replied to my previous message. Hmm, it is hardly possible to do with floppies. The *.debs are not optimised to fit on a floppy, e.g. kernel-sources are 12 MB or so large. Do you have a possibility to use a modem or get CDs? The problem is, that with a plain base-install, there is still quite a bunch of packages missing which are necessary to fulfill dependencies. Usually you have to install several additional packages to make one package run. Regards, Kerstin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help again with command man.
Hey guys, i've got the same problem so, could any one tell me which package contains the man ? Rgds KaLeeSan, a new debian - Original Message - From: Kerstin Hoef-Emden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 8:27 PM Subject: Re: Help again with command man. Hi, On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, A. Tuazon wrote: However, when I was installing the OS via floppies only, shouldn't the installation have installed man for me ? Or do you still have to install man after you install the system ? If you installed from floppies only with no install from CD afterwards or from internet, you have probably only the base-system installed. So your computer is running with nothing but the plain OS. Man-db, X11 and all the other things are still missing. Therefore, could someone please tell me if there is a way to install man via floppies. I'm using an ancient 486 and it only has a hd and 1.44 floppy drive. I'd appreciate any help and thanks again to all those who replied to my previous message. Hmm, it is hardly possible to do with floppies. The *.debs are not optimised to fit on a floppy, e.g. kernel-sources are 12 MB or so large. Do you have a possibility to use a modem or get CDs? The problem is, that with a plain base-install, there is still quite a bunch of packages missing which are necessary to fulfill dependencies. Usually you have to install several additional packages to make one package run. Regards, Kerstin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Help again with command man.
Well I finally solved the man problem. Thanks to all that replied (esp. to Paul Smith and Ron Rademaker who gave this newbie some great tips on commands to use while installing via floppy). Folks it is possible to install via floppy but, as the manual does say, it is NOT recommended. You have to download man from the debian ftp site or mirror sites, save it onto floppy, transfer it to the linux machine and then install it. Aside from this program, you also need to download and install groff and jgroff (however, when I installed jgroff, it replaced groff ! ). I have no choice right now but to use floppies as the machine I'm using for Debian is an ancient 486 with no cd-rom, no internet capabilities, a whopping 16 megs of ram, and an astounding 268 megs of hd space =P. Debian does run well on it though. I am using a bw G3 with a high speed connection to download all the files and so far I've kept my sanity. The upswing to all this is I got a chance to actually play around with the commands on Linux, learn how to install basic packages, and get some new life into an old machine. If you want to learn linux via a baptism of fire, do it the way I did. thanks again at
Re: Help again with command man.
Can't you connect the 486 machine to a newer machine via serial or parallel cable? Perhaps with Ethernet? Well I finally solved the man problem. Thanks to all that replied (esp. to Paul Smith and Ron Rademaker who gave this newbie some great tips on commands to use while installing via floppy). Folks it is possible to install via floppy but, as the manual does say, it is NOT recommended. You have to download man from the debian ftp site or mirror sites, save it onto floppy, transfer it to the linux machine and then install it. Aside from this program, you also need to download and install groff and jgroff (however, when I installed jgroff, it replaced groff ! ). I have no choice right now but to use floppies as the machine I'm using for Debian is an ancient 486 with no cd-rom, no internet capabilities, a whopping 16 megs of ram, and an astounding 268 megs of hd space =P. Debian does run well on it though. I am using a bw G3 with a high speed connection to download all the files and so far I've kept my sanity. The upswing to all this is I got a chance to actually play around with the commands on Linux, learn how to install basic packages, and get some new life into an old machine. If you want to learn linux via a baptism of fire, do it the way I did. thanks again at -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- -- Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com
Help again with command man.
Well I just found out why I can't use the method : apt-get install man-db manpages or all the other versions of that string. The machine running Debian is NOT connected to the internet. However, when I was installing the OS via floppies only, shouldn't the installation have installed man for me ? Or do you still have to install man after you install the system ? Therefore, could someone please tell me if there is a way to install man via floppies. I'm using an ancient 486 and it only has a hd and 1.44 floppy drive. I'd appreciate any help and thanks again to all those who replied to my previous message. Thanks at
Re: Help again with command man.
You should have man, but if you don't you can download the appropiate package (man-db), just go to a local mirror, or if you don't know any to ftp.debian.org and download the file man-db_VERSION.deb, get it to your system and do: dpkg -i man-db_VERSION.deb (of course replace VERSION by the version of man-db you've downloaded / are going to download). Ron Rademaker PS. If you're using tcsh, you should do rehash before you can actually use man. On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, A. Tuazon wrote: Well I just found out why I can't use the method : apt-get install man-db manpages or all the other versions of that string. The machine running Debian is NOT connected to the internet. However, when I was installing the OS via floppies only, shouldn't the installation have installed man for me ? Or do you still have to install man after you install the system ? Therefore, could someone please tell me if there is a way to install man via floppies. I'm using an ancient 486 and it only has a hd and 1.44 floppy drive. I'd appreciate any help and thanks again to all those who replied to my previous message. Thanks at -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
