Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 feb 14, 19:41:00, Erick Ocrospoma wrote: Don't really understand your email, nothing makes sense. This must be considered spam. You shouldn't reply to spam ;) Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers:

Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/02/14 20:20, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 12 feb 14, 19:41:00, Erick Ocrospoma wrote: Don't really understand your email, nothing makes sense. This must be considered spam. You shouldn't reply to spam ;) Spam? NSA backdoors, chemical contrails, fluoride pharmacological conspiracies,

Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:58:48AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 13/02/14 10:24, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Hello List I was very alert for almost 14 years, snipped Great, but I think you're posting to the wrong list. Try trollsrus.org or witlingfools.org

Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-13 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 02/12/2014 06:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 13/02/14 10:24, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Hello List I was very alert for almost 14 years, snipped Great, but I think you're posting to the wrong list. Try trollsrus.org or witlingfools.org HTH Kind regards Makes me think of an article

Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 11:07 -0500, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/12/2014 06:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 13/02/14 10:24, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Hello List I was very alert for almost 14 years, snipped Great, but I think you're posting to the wrong list. Try trollsrus.org or

Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-13 Thread Scott roccVegas
I seem to have an issue as well and my cdn error Scottrocc roccVegas ent.Inc On Feb 13, 2014, at 8:08 AM, Dave Woyciesjes woycies...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 02/12/2014 06:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 13/02/14 10:24, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Hello List I was very alert for almost

Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-13 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Seriously! There is no argument that makes this statistic serious! There is no differential diagnosis Please do not throw around psychological/medical terms of art (differential diagnosis) in that fashion. It's embarrassing, as one doesn't know how

Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-13 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Seriously! There is no argument that makes this statistic serious! There is no differential diagnosis... Rather than just post a snotty remark and leave it at that, (as I appear to have done) here is something you ought to be able to sink your fangs

NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-12 Thread latinfo
Hello List I was very alert for almost 14 years, thinking that someone could come into Debian distributions, to install some kind of backdoor; but i could not imagine that the backdoor has been installed little by little into the Debian people, please see, from

Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/02/14 10:24, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Hello List I was very alert for almost 14 years, snipped Great, but I think you're posting to the wrong list. Try trollsrus.org or witlingfools.org HTH Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-12 Thread Erick Ocrospoma
On 12 February 2014 18:24, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Hello List I was very alert for almost 14 years, thinking that someone could come into Debian distributions, to install some kind of backdoor; but i could not imagine that the backdoor has been installed little by little into the Debian

Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-12 Thread latinfo
On 12 February 2014 18:24, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Hello List I was very alert for almost 14 years, thinking that someone could come into Debian distributions, to install some kind of backdoor; but i could not imagine that the backdoor has been installed little by little into the Debian

Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 10:58 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: Try trollsrus.org :D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1392259005.678.7.camel@archlinux

Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-12 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 2/13/14, lati...@vcn.bc.ca lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: On 12 February 2014 18:24, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Don't really understand your email, nothing makes sense. This must be considered spam. Erick. What worry me, is that usually the decisions are taken with choices, and this time there

Re: [D-community-offtopic] FW: [CTTE #727708] Default init system for Debian - Was: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-12 Thread latinfo
[latinfo, are you subscribed to this list? If so we could stop CC'ing you] No, i am not subscribed, but it is not a problem if you CC me. Thanks On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 03:50:33AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 17:55 -0800, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Normally in Debian,

Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-12 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2014-02-13 0:24 GMT+01:00 lati...@vcn.bc.ca: Hello List I was very alert for almost 14 years, thinking that someone could come into Debian distributions, to install some kind of backdoor; but i could not imagine that the backdoor has been installed little by little into the Debian people,

Re: [debootstrap] Debian distribution SID not working

2011-10-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Jeremy MAURO wrote: I wonder if someone have successfully create a chroot environment in SID? Because I have encountered the following issue: # debootstrap --verbose --variant=minbase --arch=amd64 --include aptitude sid /var/tmp/TESTING http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ ... I: Installing

[debootstrap] Debian distribution SID not working

2011-10-19 Thread Jeremy MAURO
Hi everyone, I wonder if someone have successfully create a chroot environment in SID? Because I have encountered the following issue: # debootstrap --verbose --variant=minbase --arch=amd64 --include aptitude sid /var/tmp/TESTING http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ I: Retrieving Release I:

Re: Distributed Debian Distribution Development

2010-09-02 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko deb...@onerussian.com wrote: Just - Wow... thanks! Hopefully digesting of this tasty post would not cause too much of farting ;-) :) seems might be worth adding (if I am not missing the point), then the concept of derivatives would then

Re: Distributed Debian Distribution Development

2010-09-02 Thread Oscar Morante
Have you seen this project [1]? It looks like they have been already thinking about the git+bittorrent idea. [1] http://code.google.com/p/gittorrent/ -- Oscar Morante Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Re: Distributed Debian Distribution Development

2010-09-02 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Oscar Morante spacep...@gmail.com wrote: Have you seen this project [1]? It looks like they have been already thinking about the git+bittorrent idea. [1] http://code.google.com/p/gittorrent/ yes. it's effectively shelved. the name gittorrent was abandoned

Distributed bugtracker - Was: Re: Distributed Debian Distribution Development

2010-09-02 Thread Olivier Berger
Hi. Le mercredi 01 septembre 2010 à 17:40 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton a écrit : * again: ikiwiki or something similar could well be used as the basis for a distributed bugtracker. I'd suggest you have a look at the SD tool and the incoming debbugs support for it developped by

Re: Distributed Debian Distribution Development

2010-09-02 Thread Olivier Berger
Hi. Le mercredi 01 septembre 2010 à 17:40 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton a écrit : i leave you with this: the idea of the Freedom Box caused quite a stir at debconf2010, but i honestly doubt that, without any experience of getting *yourselves* off of the client-server paradigm, there

Re: Distributed Debian Distribution Development

2010-09-01 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Just - Wow... thanks! Hopefully digesting of this tasty post would not cause too much of farting ;-) seems might be worth adding (if I am not missing the point), then the concept of derivatives would then converge finally to a more digestible, more manageable, and thus more robust mechanism of

Re: Distributed Debian Distribution Development

2010-09-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
potentially allowing sponsorship funds and resources to be retargetted to other areas which would improve the debian distribution. mostly that was words, not actual code, and, before getting all upset at how little progress has been made (cameron dale's fantastic apt-p2p work literally being the only

Re: Distributed Debian Distribution Development

2010-09-01 Thread Arthur Machlas
I'm glad this was cross posted otherwise I would've missed it. Even if there are technical hurdles it's an exciting idea and I'm looking forward to reading the devel mailing list for follow-ups. The point about eating your own dog food is well made i thought, though whether there is any interest

64studio mit welcher debian distribution kreuzen?

2006-10-25 Thread Rico
Hallo mein Zimmernachbar installiert sich grad 64studio (basiert auf debian). Er nutzt dort u.a. die Echtzeitfähigkeiten und den jackd. Pakete wie openoffice gibts bei 64stuio aber nicht. Dafür wollte ich eine Debian distribution mit einbinden. (apt quelle) Welche ist dafür die günstigste. Ich

Re: 64studio mit welcher debian distribution kreuzen?

2006-10-25 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Am Mittwoch, 25. Oktober 2006 12:01 schrieb Rico: Pakete wie openoffice gibts bei 64stuio aber nicht. Dafür wollte ich Gibts auch in Debian nicht. :) Ich vermute mal testing ist wohl am geeignetsten. Oder stable... (Ich kenne 64studio nicht...) Wie kann ich eigentlich festlegen, daß er

Re: 64studio mit welcher debian distribution kreuzen?

2006-10-25 Thread Rene Caspari
Hallo, * Rico [2006-10-25 12:09]: mein Zimmernachbar installiert sich grad 64studio (basiert auf debian). Er nutzt dort u.a. die Echtzeitfähigkeiten und den jackd. Pakete wie openoffice gibts bei 64stuio aber nicht. Dafür wollte ich eine Debian distribution mit einbinden. (apt quelle

Re: installation time for a Debian distribution

2005-12-16 Thread Dexter
to install a Debian distribution onto a computer with a 3.2GHZ Pentium 4 Prescott (800 FSB), and ASUS P4P800e Deluxe motherboard? I would have a 250 GB Seagate hard drive. I was thinking of either sarge or etch, especially etch since I understand that the beta installer would have the 2.6.12

installation time for a Debian distribution

2005-12-15 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
With a speed of between 1.0 and 1.5 mbs on DSL, how long would it take to install a Debian distribution onto a computer with a 3.2GHZ Pentium 4 Prescott (800 FSB), and ASUS P4P800e Deluxe motherboard? I would have a 250 GB Seagate hard drive. I was thinking of either sarge or etch, especially

Re: installation time for a Debian distribution

2005-12-15 Thread Adam James
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 16:29 -0600, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: With a speed of between 1.0 and 1.5 mbs on DSL, how long would it take to install a Debian distribution onto a computer with a 3.2GHZ Pentium 4 Prescott (800 FSB), and ASUS P4P800e Deluxe motherboard? I would have a 250 GB Seagate

RE: faq on choosing a debian distribution - draft 1

2004-10-29 Thread Gilbert, Joseph
If you are worried about security and stability issues, install stable. period. This is the most preferred way. I do not think stable is necessarily the best if you are very concerned about security. Packages with recent security fixes can take time to make it into stable. I have found

Re: faq on choosing a debian distribution - draft 1

2004-10-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Gilbert, Joseph: If you are worried about security and stability issues, install stable. period. Correct! I do not think stable is necessarily the best if you are very concerned about security. Packages with recent security fixes can take time to make it into stable. I

Re: faq on choosing a debian distribution - draft 1

2004-10-29 Thread John Hasler
Joe writes: I do not think stable is necessarily the best if you are very concerned about security. Packages with recent security fixes can take time to make it into stable. Stable gets backported security fixes very promptly. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: faq on choosing a debian distribution - draft 1

2004-10-29 Thread John Hasler
s. keeling writes: Fixes go into _unstable_ first. Then (if they're accepted) they go into _stable_. Eventually, they trickle down (up?) into _testing_. New packages (including ones with security fixes from upstream or the maintainer) go into Unstable and then propagate to Testing. A very

RE: faq on choosing a debian distribution - draft 1

2004-10-29 Thread Gilbert, Joseph
to make it into woody pretty quickly but this is two examples of key services that do not appear to be current. Joe -Original Message- From: John Hasler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 11:08 AM To: debian-user Subject: Re: faq on choosing a debian distribution

Re: faq on choosing a debian distribution - draft 1

2004-10-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Gilbert, Joseph: From: John Hasler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I do not think stable is necessarily the best if you are very concerned about security. Packages with recent security fixes can take time to make it into stable. Stable gets backported security fixes

RE: faq on choosing a debian distribution - draft 1

2004-10-29 Thread Gilbert, Joseph
being less secure than testing. Joe -Original Message- From: s. keeling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 3:14 PM To: debian-user Subject: Re: faq on choosing a debian distribution - draft 1 Incoming from Gilbert, Joseph: From: John Hasler [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: faq on choosing a debian distribution - draft 1

2004-10-29 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gilbert, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you are worried about security and stability issues, install stable. period. This is the most preferred way. I do not think stable is necessarily the best if you are very concerned about security.

Re: faq on choosing a debian distribution - draft 1

2004-10-29 Thread John Hasler
Gilbert, Joseph writes: Well, the version number of sendmail in stable (just one example) seems to be pretty old - 8.12.3. There are known exploits (buffer overflows, etc.) The fixes were _backported_ to 8.12.3 by Debian security. This closes the holes without the changes in functionality

Re: faq on choosing a debian distribution - draft 1

2004-10-28 Thread Jim Hall
new questions. If you can attach both question and corresponding answers that would be great. 3) Any other advice? *** choosing a debian distribution *** 1. How many Debian distributions are there? Read http://www.debian.org

faq on choosing a debian distribution - draft 1

2004-10-24 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
of questions is not a complete list. I would like to receive suggestions about new questions. If you can attach both question and corresponding answers that would be great. 3) Any other advice? *** choosing a debian distribution

Re: faq on choosing a debian distribution - draft 1

2004-10-24 Thread Pedro M (Morphix User)
/useless? 2) Obviously the set of questions is not a complete list. I would like to receive suggestions about new questions. If you can attach both question and corresponding answers that would be great. 3) Any other advice? *** choosing a debian distribution

Debian Distribution

2002-12-08 Thread Santo Caruso
Dear Debian, I'm new italian user of your system. I would to distribuite Debian woody to another people but what I find part of your packages with non-free software for ask then autorization for distribution? Sincerly, Santo Caruso --- Santino skyweb Caruso Membro CS-LUG (Cosenza Linux User

Re: Debian Distribution

2002-12-08 Thread Jens Müller
Santo Caruso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm new italian user of your system. I would to distribuite Debian woody to another people but what I find part of your packages with non-free software for ask then autorization for distribution? You would have to study the license of each single

Re: Debian Distribution

2002-12-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 03:38:45PM +0100, Santo Caruso wrote: Dear Debian, I'm new italian user of your system. I would to distribuite Debian woody to another people but what I find part of your packages with non-free software for ask then autorization for distribution? You need to check

New Debian distribution concept?

2002-05-07 Thread Preben Randhol
I remember I read after potato was released as stable that Debian would start a new concept for the building of the distibution. I haven't heard much after that. Does anybody know if there are any plans / discussions about this? I am asking because if the number of packages in Debian keeps

Re: New Debian distribution concept?

2002-05-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 04:22:06PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: I remember I read after potato was released as stable that Debian would start a new concept for the building of the distibution. I haven't heard much after that. Does anybody know if there are any plans / discussions about this?

Re: New Debian distribution concept?

2002-05-07 Thread shaulka
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 04:22:06PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: I remember I read after potato was released as stable that Debian would start a new concept for the building of the distribution. I haven't heard much after that. Does anybody know if there are any plans / discussions about this?

Debian Distribution

2001-09-29 Thread Scott Henson
I am very intrested in trying the debian distribution, but I am having trouble with the way debian wants me to get the cd. I really dont feel like spending money on something i could get for free, so i dont want to pay for a cd set. Also I am having some real trouble with this program

Re: Debian Distribution

2001-09-29 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 08:12:43PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: | I am very intrested in trying the debian distribution, but I am having | trouble with the way debian wants me to get the cd. I really dont feel like | spending money on something i could get for free, so i dont want to pay for | a cd

Re: Debian Distribution

2001-09-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 08:12:43PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: I am very intrested in trying the debian distribution, but I am having trouble with the way debian wants me to get the cd. I really dont feel like http://cdimage.debian.org/ It was on the download page, of all hard-to-find

RE: Debian Distribution

2001-09-29 Thread Scott Henson
-Original Message- From: D-Man [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 8:12 PM To: Debian-User Subject: Re: Debian Distribution On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 08:12:43PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: | I am very intrested in trying the debian distribution, but I am

Debian distribution with free support

2001-01-08 Thread Holp, John Mr.
Debian People, Someone wrote me an e-mail and included an URL to a seller of Official Debian that included free support. Please re-send the URL as I have lost it. Thanks, John

Re: Debian distribution with free support

2001-01-08 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Holp, John Mr. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010108 11:27]: Someone wrote me an e-mail and included an URL to a seller of Official Debian that included free support. Please re-send the URL as I have lost it. http://www.debian.org/consultants/

Re: Debian distribution with free support

2001-01-08 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Holp, John Mr. wrote: -|Debian People, -| -| Someone wrote me an e-mail and included an URL to a seller of -|Official Debian that included free support. Please re-send the URL as I -|have lost it. -| -|Thanks, -| -|John -| Look here:

Re: Debian distribution with free support

2001-01-08 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:26:35AM -0500, Holp, John Mr. wrote: Debian People, Someone wrote me an e-mail and included an URL to a seller of Official Debian that included free support. Please re-send the URL as I have lost it. This list is the best free support I have seen.

Re: Debian distribution with free support

2001-01-08 Thread Charlie Kroeger
Someone wrote me an e-mail and included an URL to a seller of -|Official Debian that included free support. That was www.libranet.com They do a debian distro variation for $25, looks interesting, here's a paste from their 'support' page, where the 'debian users' are mentioned. Support

Re: Debian distribution with free support

2001-01-08 Thread Guilherme Ceschiatti
Hi! I'd recomend Storm Linux (http://www.stormix.com). It's a great distribution based on Debian, with all the packages compatible. The instalation is even simpler than Mandrake or RedHat, and the plug-and-pray device configuration is very easy with SAS. It's a really great product. []s

debian distribution

2000-04-08 Thread mikej
Hi, my question is simple. When can we expect to see the new Debian distribution out. It has already been over a year since the last release. Any time soon?? Thanks Mike Jennings

Re: debian distribution

2000-04-08 Thread Oki DZ
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, mikej wrote: Hi, my question is simple. When can we expect to see the new Debian distribution out. It has already been over a year since the last release. You can visit www.debian.org and see the available releases. I think on the unstable release, you could get the latest

Re: debian distribution

2000-04-08 Thread Jonathan Heaney
mikej wrote: Hi, my question is simple. When can we expect to see the new Debian distribution out. It has already been over a year since the last release. Any time soon?? Thanks Mike Jennings -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null When potato was frozen over

RE: LINUX installation - Debian Distribution

2000-01-20 Thread Ailton Santos
Friends, Linux - Debian Distribution was installed in my machine successfully, after the command above: boot: linux aha1542=0x134 Thanks, [ ] Ailton S. A. From: Ailton Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: LINUX installation

RE: LINUX installation - Debian Distribution

2000-01-17 Thread Ailton Santos
: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: LINUX installation - Debian Distribution Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 14:10:42 -0500 Interface - Adaptec SCSI, model AHA1540CF/AHA1542CF: IRQ 11, DMA 5, ID 7 PORT 134h BIOS Revisao 2.02 Ender. Base DC000h FIRMWARE

LINUX installation - Debian Distribution

2000-01-07 Thread Ailton Santos
Friends, I need assistance for to install a LINUX 2.0.29 at my machine using a Debian distribution. Configuration: Machine - 486DX2, 66MHZ, RAM-16MB and HD-1GB(SEAGATE ST31230N. Interface - Adaptec SCSI, model AHA1540CF/AHA1542CF: IRQ 11, DMA 5, ID 7 PORT 134h BIOS

RE: LINUX installation - Debian Distribution

2000-01-07 Thread Paul McHale
Interface - Adaptec SCSI, model AHA1540CF/AHA1542CF: IRQ 11, DMA 5, ID 7 PORT 134h BIOS Revisao 2.02 Ender. Base DC000h FIRMWARE Revisao E.0 Soma Verific 4B81h HD ID 0 and PORT 80h Here is something from a previous post that might help:

Smail in an old debian distribution.

1999-08-30 Thread Joao Pedro Gonçalves
Hi, I'm a happy debian user with an old server that i haven't figured until this weekend that it was open relayed, and even worse, the version of smail it's currently using doesn't support relay options, my system is a Debian 1.2, and i really would like to stick on the libc5, the machine is quite

Debian Distribution/Web Page

1998-10-16 Thread Todd Morris
[Well, I fowarded one negative comment. Here is a positive comment that webmaster recieved - Darren] I thought Debian was a rag-tag kludge loosely gopped together on the Internet. After reading reviews of Debian 2.0 and visiting your website, I have to say that I am extremely impressed. The

RE: Getting at Debian distribution files

1998-10-14 Thread David Karlin
An alternative would be to mount the CD on a Windows 95 or NT box on the LAN, and pull the packages off the CD via FTP or NFS, but this would require a FTP/NFS server for 95 or NT which will handle translation of filenames based on TRANS.TBL files - something which I haven't been able to

RE: Getting at Debian distribution files

1998-10-14 Thread Moore, Paul
!! Thanks a lot! Paul. -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 October 1998 17:46 To:Moore, Paul Cc:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Getting at Debian distribution files Moore, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I'm trying to install Debian on a PC at work. I have

Getting at Debian distribution files

1998-10-13 Thread Moore, Paul
Hi, I'm trying to install Debian on a PC at work. I have the Debian 2.0 Official CD from CheapBytes, which installed fine on my home PC (which has a CD drive). The work PC has no CD drive, but it *does* have a network connection. I have got the install through to the point of running dselect as

Re: Getting at Debian distribution files

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Waller
, DHCP leases, etc., but with a CD on my PC so installation was a tad simpler). Martin From: Moore, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Debian Users' debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Getting at Debian distribution files Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:11:50 +0100 Hi, I'm trying to install Debian on a PC

Re: Getting at Debian distribution files

1998-10-13 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Moore, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I'm trying to install Debian on a PC at work. I have the Debian 2.0 | Official CD from CheapBytes, which installed fine on my home PC (which | has a CD drive). [snip] | I have a network connection, so I could get the stuff from the debian | ftp site

Debian distribution

1998-03-09 Thread Pascal MIQUET
I'm trying to make my PS/2 LiNUX ALiVE In order to install LiNUX on an MCA(PS/2) system, DRV and RESCUE must be patched for MCA. Is the 'Official' distribution take care of the MCA ? I've found DRV and RESCUE disks to be able to install BASE floppies :) System is coming to LiFE, but on

How to mirror the unstable debian distribution non-free included and make a debian-cd with it?

1997-11-18 Thread Ranty
I have an slow link (33.600bps modem) so I can not go around downloading too many things, but I have the chance of getting all of it via ethernet, the problem is: -I have to get it in about 300MB pieces. I mean, I have plenty of room in my computer, but the notebook I have to use

Re: How to mirror the unstable debian distribution non-free included and make a debian-cd with it?

1997-11-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Ranty wrote: I have an slow link (33.600bps modem) so I can not go around downloading too many things, but I have the chance of getting all of it via ethernet, the problem is: -I have to get it in about 300MB pieces. I mean, I have plenty of room in my

Re: How to mirror the unstable debian distribution non-free included and make a debian-cd with it?

1997-11-18 Thread Daniel Martin
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Ranty wrote: I have an slow link (33.600bps modem) so I can not go around downloading too many things, but I have the chance of getting all of it via ethernet, the problem is: -I have to get it in about 300MB pieces. I mean, I have plenty of room in my

Debian distribution in the CD-ROM distributed with BOOT magazine.

1997-11-04 Thread ESV Narayanan
I installed Debian from the CD-ROM distributed with BOOT magazine. The computer is a Pentium 200 with 4Gb partitioned into a Win95 half and Linux partitions. Everything went well until I installed Loadlin to boot Linux from Win95 Boot prompt (following the instructions in Loadlin+Win95

Re: Debian distribution in the CD-ROM distributed with BOOT magazine.

1997-11-04 Thread Bruce Perens
If your motherboard is set up to boot from CD and the Boot CD is still in the drive, it might give out that message. Pop the CD out and see what happens. If you determine your boot block really is clobbered, we can tell you how to replace it. I doubt, at this point, that a virus is to blame.

PHT's November 1996 Debian distribution---a few problems

1996-11-25 Thread Max Hyre
is 1.1.11. I used dselect to upgrade---a really nice job. Thanks to you all! Max Hyre --- Start of forwarded message --- Date: Mon, 25 Nov 96 17:27:02 EST From: Max Hyre mhyre To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: A couple of problems with November 1996's Debian