Re: Are there such things as diffs for various revision releases?

2002-07-22 Thread Gordon Huff
At 10:49 AM 02/07/22 -0500, Jorg Pitts wrote: Will there be a diff release for say 3.0_r0 and 3.0_r1? Yes. The magic word is upgrade ; go to a mirror like ftp.fsn.hu and look under ../debian/upgrade. I don't get the upgrade CDs myself ... I rsync from, say, _r5 to _r6; can take as little as

Re: Unidentified subject!

2002-08-11 Thread Gordon Huff
At 12:12 PM 02/08/11 +0200, daniel wrote: me llamo dani y me gustaria utilizar linux que es lo mejor del mudo segun me an dicho pero no se de donde vajarmelo ni como por favor diganme desde donde me las vajo un saluna atentamente -=JuR=- En Ingles, por favor. From my inadequate Spanish: My

Re: NEED HELP DOWN LOADING CDS

2002-08-19 Thread Gordon Huff
At 10:54 PM 02/08/19 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could you be more specific? Without more details, I (for example) wouldn't have a clue how to help you. Regards, Gordon --

Re: Ideas/Questions about Jigdo...

2002-12-03 Thread Gordon Huff
At 10:30 AM 02/12/03 -0600, Erisian wrote: First off let me just say that Jigdo is great I like it too. So Jigdo files and the templates are the basis for the iso creation, Backwards, actually. The official iso image is created first, and the jigdo process creates the jigdo and template

Re: newbie - debian 3.0ro to 3.0r1 possible ?

2002-12-18 Thread Gordon Huff
At 05:15 AM 02/12/18 -0800, Linux Geek wrote: hi, i just got debian 3.0r0 .iso files (7 huge files) will i be able to update it to 3.0r1 without downloading the binaries again ? Yes, of course. There are many ways to do this - probably easiest with jigdo. I like rsync. If you used 700MB

Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-25 Thread Gordon Huff
At 09:06 PM 1/25/2003 +, Tom Goulet wrote: I suspect there is a perception problem here. What problems did you have using jigdo-lite? - I had to find out what Jigdo was It's something you want; not a problem. - I had to install Jigdo Download, unpack, read the readme.; installation

Re: help with rsync + win 9x

2003-01-25 Thread Gordon Huff
At 03:20 PM 1/25/2003 -0800, Geek wrote: i installed rsync for win 9x (minimalist approach) http://optics.ph.unimelb.edu.au/help/rsync/rsync_pc1.html Wow. I found that very difficult. I use the rsync from Cygwin (It's in the Pseudo-image-kit.) command i used was : rsync246 -e ssh -avP

Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread Gordon Huff
At 04:11 AM 1/26/2003 +, Tom Goulet wrote: --snip-- I don't need to do that with Wget. It appears that you really *like* wget and that no tool other than wget will keep you happy. (Jigdo uses wget also.) My advice then is to abandon jigdo - either the jigdo-lite version or the

Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread Gordon Huff
At 12:33 PM 1/26/2003 +0100, you wrote: I found it easiest to Google for the missing file and download it to the working directory. Next time I restart Jigdo this file is picked up. It isn't necessary to google for missing files! (At least with jigdo-lite, dunno about jigdo-easy. BTW,

Re: Debian GNU/Linux project

2003-03-07 Thread Gordon Huff
At 05:59 PM 3/7/2003 +0100, you wrote: Hello Timothy, On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:21:41AM -0500, Timothy D. Borbas wrote: What is the line that I need to type in Jigdo to get the images I need to burn onto CD's to setup this OS? Please have a look at http://www.dirac.org/linux/debian/jigdo/

Re: linux

2003-07-19 Thread Gordon Huff
At 11:51 PM 7/18/2003 -0300, you wrote: deseo bajar de internet linux para comenzar a utilizarlo y en espanol,desearia que me enviaran un vinculo de donde poder bajarlo ,es para uso hogareño y algunas aplicaciones de office. Desde ya agradezco la informacion,hasta la proxima

Re: Donating Debian CDs to libraries

2003-07-21 Thread Gordon Huff
At 06:51 PM 7/19/2003 -0500, Aaron J. Enright wrote: Howdy. On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 09:02:48AM -0700, Gordon Huff wrote: I've just had a discussion like this with my local librarian. I can tell you that anything physically written on the disk (in part why I advocate donating an official set

Re: say what?

2003-12-20 Thread Gordon Huff
At 01:13 PM 12/19/2003 +0100, Richard Atterer wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:09:20PM -0800, NymSandra wrote: Why is it that no one seems able to give me directions on jigdo in anything less than 10 hours of reading? I've spent that last 4 hours trying to get it to work and all it ever says

unsubscribe

2003-12-21 Thread Gordon Huff
I have nothing to do with unsubscribe Regards, Gordon At 10:45 PM 12/20/2003 -0700, you wrote: unsubscribe -Original Message- From: Gordon Huff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 10:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; NymSandra Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: say

Re: Getting jigdo to actually work

2004-01-02 Thread Gordon Huff
At 01:42 PM 1/2/2004 -0500, you wrote: Does there exist a set of examples for making the jigdo tools actually produce iso images instead of downloading 4.5 gig of file parts and then crashing with no explanation Well, yes. The Peter Jay Salzman HOWTO has examples. ? I mean, it _seems_ like a

Re: downloading debian

2004-02-06 Thread Gordon Huff
At 11:50 AM 2/5/2004, you wrote: Hi, I wandered into your site to find a downloadable version of Linux I can use. Okeh ... (plain text please) I am currently using XP on a PC Okeh ... recent stuff... The links you have to the US site have a whole list of files, and I don't really know which

Re: Interesting thought

2004-02-17 Thread Gordon Huff
At 07:41 AM 2/17/2004, Robert wrote: I am a first time user want to be,. I went to the page for the downloads to select what I wanted to download, problem is there are many files to download (approx 20 files, most with .template and . jigdo). It does help to read the instructions. Do I want to

Re:

2004-02-29 Thread Gordon Huff
At 03:41 PM 2/29/2004, Richard Atterer wrote: On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 12:54:09PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: On Sunday 29 February 2004 10:58 am, Stefan Willeit wrote: How can i get a debian dvd testing! I can't download it because i can only use windows to download it and my kernel is to old

Re: Command not Found error when running Jigdo-lite to download isos

2004-06-25 Thread Gordon Huff
At 12:09 AM 6/25/2004, Frances A. Brown wrote: Hello, I have been trying to use jigdo-lite to download the iso images (I'm using Windows XP home ed), but when I enter the url at the first prompt with a return I get the following error message: jigdo-lite: sed: command not found Any ideas on how to

Re: Ideas/Questions about Jigdo...

2002-12-03 Thread Gordon Huff
At 10:30 AM 02/12/03 -0600, Erisian wrote: First off let me just say that Jigdo is great I like it too. So Jigdo files and the templates are the basis for the iso creation, Backwards, actually. The official iso image is created first, and the jigdo process creates the jigdo and template files.

Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-25 Thread Gordon Huff
At 09:06 PM 1/25/2003 +, Tom Goulet wrote: I suspect there is a perception problem here. What problems did you have using jigdo-lite? - I had to find out what Jigdo was It's something you want; not a problem. - I had to install Jigdo Download, unpack, read the readme.; installation done! - I

Re: help with rsync + win 9x

2003-01-25 Thread Gordon Huff
At 03:20 PM 1/25/2003 -0800, Geek wrote: i installed rsync for win 9x (minimalist approach) http://optics.ph.unimelb.edu.au/help/rsync/rsync_pc1.html Wow. I found that very difficult. I use the rsync from Cygwin (It's in the Pseudo-image-kit.) command i used was : rsync246 -e ssh -avP

Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread Gordon Huff
At 04:11 AM 1/26/2003 +, Tom Goulet wrote: --snip-- I don't need to do that with Wget. It appears that you really *like* wget and that no tool other than wget will keep you happy. (Jigdo uses wget also.) My advice then is to abandon jigdo - either the jigdo-lite version or the jigdo-easy

Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread Gordon Huff
At 12:33 PM 1/26/2003 +0100, you wrote: I found it easiest to Google for the missing file and download it to the working directory. Next time I restart Jigdo this file is picked up. It isn't necessary to google for missing files! (At least with jigdo-lite, dunno about jigdo-easy. BTW,

Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread Gordon Huff
At 02:36 AM 1/27/2003 +1100, bob parker wrote: Out of curiosity can you download a full cd iso on a dialup connection that is dropped every 4 hours using wget? At the very least you have to find a site that supports resume. Bob I think so ... I'll run jigo-easy (and hence wget) in the background

Re: Debian GNU/Linux project

2003-03-07 Thread Gordon Huff
At 05:59 PM 3/7/2003 +0100, you wrote: Hello Timothy, On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:21:41AM -0500, Timothy D. Borbas wrote: What is the line that I need to type in Jigdo to get the images I need to burn onto CD's to setup this OS? Please have a look at http://www.dirac.org/linux/debian/jigdo/ which

Re: Debian/LFS

2003-05-25 Thread Gordon Huff
At 08:08 PM 5/25/2003 +1000, you wrote: On Sun, 25 May 2003, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Homer Whittaker] If I build a LFS or BFLS O/S starting off from Debian 3.0, can I use Debian Source files to download, update, and run apps on LFS via apt-get or dpkg? Thank you for any information.

Re: linux

2003-07-19 Thread Gordon Huff
At 11:51 PM 7/18/2003 -0300, you wrote: deseo bajar de internet linux para comenzar a utilizarlo y en espanol,desearia que me enviaran un vinculo de donde poder bajarlo ,es para uso hogareño y algunas aplicaciones de office. Desde ya agradezco la informacion,hasta la proxima

Re: Donating Debian CDs to libraries

2003-07-19 Thread Gordon Huff
I've just had a discussion like this with my local librarian. Reviewing the following e-mail leads me to believe I have claimed too much. At 02:26 PM 5/27/2003 -0500, Aaron J.Enright wrote: Hello. I am a librarian, and this is a swell idea. Here are answers to your questions: Is there any

Re: Donating Debian CDs to libraries

2003-07-21 Thread Gordon Huff
At 06:51 PM 7/19/2003 -0500, Aaron J. Enright wrote: Howdy. On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 09:02:48AM -0700, Gordon Huff wrote: I've just had a discussion like this with my local librarian. I can tell you that anything physically written on the disk (in part why I advocate donating an official set

Re: Donating Debian CDs to libraries

2003-07-22 Thread Gordon Huff
At 03:48 PM 7/21/2003 -0500, Aaron J. Enright wrote: Hello. OK, now I'm a little confused...what exactly is the problem here? It's kinda looking like the library is jerking you around. Large, well funded organizations develop a culture of their own. You've heard you can't fight city hall. I mean,

Re: Your jigdo

2003-12-01 Thread Gordon Huff
At 02:08 PM 12/1/2003 -0500, Mitch wrote: The recomended way of doing this just simply does not work. Well ... I've seen it work here... I followed the instructions for the jigdo download and it grabs the index.html and then tells me that the file doesnt exist. Oh ... you probably want to wait

Re: say what?

2003-12-20 Thread Gordon Huff
At 01:13 PM 12/19/2003 +0100, Richard Atterer wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:09:20PM -0800, NymSandra wrote: Why is it that no one seems able to give me directions on jigdo in anything less than 10 hours of reading? I've spent that last 4 hours trying to get it to work and all it ever says

unsubscribe

2003-12-21 Thread Gordon Huff
I have nothing to do with unsubscribe Regards, Gordon At 10:45 PM 12/20/2003 -0700, you wrote: unsubscribe -Original Message- From: Gordon Huff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 10:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; NymSandra Cc: debian-cd@lists.debian.org Subject: Re

Re: Getting jigdo to actually work

2004-01-02 Thread Gordon Huff
At 01:42 PM 1/2/2004 -0500, you wrote: Does there exist a set of examples for making the jigdo tools actually produce iso images instead of downloading 4.5 gig of file parts and then crashing with no explanation Well, yes. The Peter Jay Salzman HOWTO has examples. ? I mean, it _seems_ like a good

Re: downloading debian

2004-02-06 Thread Gordon Huff
At 11:50 AM 2/5/2004, you wrote: Hi, I wandered into your site to find a downloadable version of Linux I can use. Okeh ... (plain text please) I am currently using XP on a PC Okeh ... recent stuff... The links you have to the US site have a whole list of files, and I don't really know which files

Re: Interesting thought

2004-02-17 Thread Gordon Huff
At 07:41 AM 2/17/2004, Robert wrote: I am a first time user want to be,. I went to the page for the downloads to select what I wanted to download, problem is there are many files to download (approx 20 files, most with .template and . jigdo). It does help to read the instructions. Do I want to

Re:

2004-02-29 Thread Gordon Huff
At 03:41 PM 2/29/2004, Richard Atterer wrote: On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 12:54:09PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: On Sunday 29 February 2004 10:58 am, Stefan Willeit wrote: How can i get a debian dvd testing! I can't download it because i can only use windows to download it and my kernel is to old

Re: Fwd: Re: Etch netinstaller has no eth0 in qemu

2007-03-04 Thread Gordon Huff
At 09:26 AM 3/4/2007, Steve McIntire wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:08:58PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:58:06PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Anything that can be done to accommodate users with _very_ slow connections? === snip === ACK. We deliberately

Re: Corrupt DVD Image

2007-03-10 Thread Gordon Huff
At 09:00 AM 3/10/2007, you wrote: Hi. I know you've heard about this problem from others already, but none of the DVD images I have downloaded from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/ have passed the md5 checksum. I

Re: need install 'how to' help

2008-06-08 Thread Gordon Huff
need 'howto' help, newbie to linux, want to install debian to hd on laptop, specs follow You need a local user group. Google for Linux User Group. Regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux CD request

2009-03-12 Thread Gordon Huff
Debian does not send out free CDs. I suggest you join a user group - figure out which CD you want - and ask them for a CD. RegardsMar 12, 2009 08:34:15 AM, mansvikool...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Sir/Madam, I'm a Degree student, I'm a fan of Linux, I want to Install Linux in my System, Can you

Re: please help me

2010-04-01 Thread Gordon Huff
Apr 1, 2010 12:24:11 PM, whiskys...@windowslive.com wrote: now i have sunfire 280r .but i can not install my firend tellme Debian. http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/ so i try to load cd .but i cannot to choose .becuase i dont know debian support sunfire 280r machannic pls sent link to