mixing slink and potato?

Hi, I have a machine running slink, but I need some packages only available on potato. Is it possible to install those packages (preferably with dselect or apt-get) without updating the whole system to potato? As soon as I included the unstable directories in apt, dselect forced me to update the

eth0 not working on remote machine (outch!)

Hello everyone, I'm in deep trouble: Yesterday, I updated my remote server, which is sitting in Belgium (I'm in NJ,USA), using dselect. My box is a P100 running potato. I then rebooted, and nothing came up! This morning I called someone over there, who told me the machine boots, but says eth0

Printer Okidata OL400e config?

Hi, I have a Debian (slink) system connected (parallel port) to an Okidata OL400e printer, and of course, I don't have the manuals of the printer. I've been unsuccessful until now to find documentation on how to configure it, and my random trials have failed. Could anyone give me a hint on how

how to create a dummy /dev/dsp

Hi, I have slink installed on an old Pentium 75 box, WITHOUT a sound card. When I installed the system, it apparently didn't create a /dev/dsp. How do I create one that doesn't do anything? Thanks, Stefan.

What do I do with tarballs?

Hi, dselect is great, but what do I do when there is no deb package for the soft I want? I know of course how to install somethng from a tarball, my question is just: where do I do it? Where do I put the package etc. and make sure I am not messing up dpkg? Are there any conventions for that? Is

Partitions and install problem

Hi, When I installed hamm some time ago, I had the following problem: apparently, dselect downloads everything before installing. Having only one partition, and not too big (400Mb), at some point, it ran out of space, and I just couldn't do anything anymore. Luckily, I had some free space on the

Install - which device drivers?

Hi again, Ok, I'm installing slink right now, and I'm currently in the part where you install device drivers. Now, How do you know which are the ones you need? most of them have only one short line of explaination, (one even just has a '.'), and several seem to do the same thing. Is ther eany

Help! I can't even login!

Hi, I have a debian system installed on my box, and it has been working fine for the past 6 months or so. Yesterday, I decided it was time to update my packages, so I ran dselect, it downloaded about 100Mb of stuff, and started installing them. Everything went fine, until it started displaying