Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2001-03-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Will, Your appoach is normal one to get from potato to woody. It does not harm but I think it is pointless for this case. What I am doing is avoid installing normal minimum potato itself. Only base2_2.tgz is installed from potato. By mangling with /etc/apt/sources.list during installation,

Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2001-03-20 Thread will trillich
installation started and then driver disks? base disks? Can I not go directly to getting things off the network after booting in with the rescue and root disks? install potato/stable, then munge /etc/apt/sources changing stable to woody (or testing) and then apt-get update

Wanna be a Debian user...

2001-03-16 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I have been using Red Hat Linux exclusively for a little over a year now, but feel that it is time to reinstall my system sometime soon. I was thinking I would like to switch to Debian, but have a few questions: 1. The first thing is that I would like to install completely via ftp. I have a

Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2001-03-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
I think some thing wrong with time stamp,... Anyway: installation started and then driver disks? base disks? Can I not go directly to getting things off the network after booting in with the rescue and root disks? Install woody using potato boot disks ide-pci kernel on ide boot disk enables

Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2001-03-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 01:52:20PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: 3. This isn't really related to the installation procedure, but I was just wondering why Woody still uses XFree86 3.3.6 and not 4.0.1 (for the video cards that are supported), or am I missing something? Woody has XFree86 4.0.2

Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2001-03-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
Sorry about that. I noticed (too late) that I had replied to an old message which had somehow been resent to the list. On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:49:15PM -0800, nielsen wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 01:52:20PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: 3. This isn't really related to the installation

Wanna be a Debian user...

2000-10-12 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I have been using Red Hat Linux exclusively for a little over a year now, but feel that it is time to reinstall my system sometime soon. I was thinking I would like to switch to Debian, but have a few questions: 1. The first thing is that I would like to install completely via ftp. I have a

Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2000-10-12 Thread Francois Fayard
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 01:52:20PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: Hi, I have been using Red Hat Linux exclusively for a little over a year now, but feel that it is time to reinstall my system sometime soon. I was thinking I would like to switch to Debian, but have a few questions: 1. The

Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2000-10-12 Thread Hubert Chan
Jeff Hornsberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have been using Red Hat Linux exclusively for a little over a year now, but feel that it is time to reinstall my system sometime soon. I was thinking I would like to switch to Debian, but have a few questions: 1. The first thing is that I

Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2000-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
Jeff Hornsberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. The first thing is that I would like to install completely via ftp. I have a CD burner, but I'm not very interested in burning a CD for one time use if I don't have to. With RH I just have to get the network boot disk image and boot off that and from

Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2000-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
Francois Fayard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you try to switch to Woody, it's true that you will have the last packages (But do you really care about the last version of Exim, Gcc ?) but the system will be really unstable. I think it's really a bad idea to install Woody for the time being.