On Wed, 08 May 2002 16:11:58 -0500
D. Michael McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The easy way, it now seems to me, should be to start from scratch with
boot floppies from woody, skipping the brief potato phase of the
installation. But as I understand it, there are no boot floppies or
netinst
Jamin W. Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
However, it may be helpful to install the base-config from unstable and
then run it manually to finish the installation. This can be done rather
easily by configuring a sources.list file listing both the testing and
unstable sources, then
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 01:11:30PM -0500, D. Michael McFarland wrote:
craigw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I did a net install of woody a couple days ago, using a CD I burned
That's what I probably should have done.
I have decided that I will never again touch dselect. Not with a ten
Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Another frontend to try is 'aptitude'. It's quite nice and (to me) a
lot friendlier than dselect.
Of course, you probably just want to get your system working first;)
The easy way, it now seems to me, should be to start from scratch with
boot floppies from
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 11:08:11AM -0500, D. Michael McFarland wrote:
Hello All,
After a hiatus of about a year, I've come back to Linux and have been
playing with my first careful Debian installation. Over the weekend I
did a minimal net install of potato starting with the compact flavor
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
One of the ways I have used in the past is to simply use dselect and add
something like kde, blackbox, or gnome.
I've added blackbox in this way, but I'm still missing something.
That will cause a bunch of
dependencies, and xfree86 will be one
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:38:08AM -0500, D. Michael McFarland wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What response do you get for
# apt-get -s install x-window-system
/
| ness:~# apt-get -s install x-window-system
| Reading Package Lists... Done
| Building Dependency Tree... Done
Hello All,
After a hiatus of about a year, I've come back to Linux and have been
playing with my first careful Debian installation. Over the weekend I
did a minimal net install of potato starting with the compact flavor
of floppies, then used apt-get and some pointers gathered from this
list to
On Mon May 06, 2002 at 11:08:11AM -0500, D. Michael McFarland wrote:
Hello All,
After a hiatus of about a year, I've come back to Linux and have been
playing with my first careful Debian installation. Over the weekend I
did a minimal net install of potato starting with the compact flavor
Andrew Agno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've never used tasksel, but my install of X went fine using dselect
to select xfree86-common, xserver-common and xserver-xfree86; I expect
that most everything else got pulled in automatically.
Andrew.
Yes, that's the sort of hint I needed. I'm going
craigw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I did a net install of woody a couple days ago, using a CD I burned
That's what I probably should have done.
I have decided that I will never again touch dselect. Not with a ten
foot pole. You couldn't pay me enough to suffer the agony and
frustration of
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On Monday 06 May 2002 09:08 am, D. Michael McFarland wrote:
Hello All,
After a hiatus of about a year, I've come back to Linux and have been
playing with my first careful Debian installation. Over the weekend I
did a minimal net install of
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