Re: How was the slink -- potato switch? How will be potato -- woody? When?

2002-04-29 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
Josip Rodin wrote: When you install from scratch you lose the configuration file changes on the old installation. It is not a problem, since most of the configs are default anyway. Set the debconf level to critical and you'll only get the most important questions. May I know how/ what/

Re: How was the slink -- potato switch? How will be potato -- woody? When?

2002-04-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 11:20:08AM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: When you install from scratch you lose the configuration file changes on the old installation. It is not a problem, since most of the configs are default anyway. Maybe for you... Set the debconf level to critical

RE: How was the slink -- potato switch? How will be potato -- woody? When?

2002-04-26 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| However, | - may I know what happened during the slink-potato switch period? I had a slink box that upgraded to potato just fine. | - was there a sufficient grace period before slink was deleted | from the mirrors? IIRC, potato will be moved to archive.debian.org and remain there like other

Re: How was the slink -- potato switch? How will be potato -- woody? When?

2002-04-26 Thread Preben Randhol
-get dist-upgrade ? However, - may I know what happened during the slink-potato switch period? - was there a sufficient grace period before slink was deleted from the mirrors? - may I know where to get information about potato to woody switch plan? what will happen on May 1st ? - what

Re: How was the slink -- potato switch? How will be potato -- woody? When?

2002-04-26 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
- besides very slow, it was not straight forward since many packages were deleted, but some replacements were not installed (e.g. sawmill -- sawfish). Fortunately, it was just a test system, and not a production one. However, - may I know what happened during the slink-potato switch period

Re: How was the slink -- potato switch? How will be potato -- woody? When?

2002-04-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 03:23:14PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: - what is better: to use potato or stable in the production systems' sources.list? isn't potato = stable? Sure it is. Today. Next month, though, if all goes as planned, stable will point to woody. potato will, of course,

Re: How was the slink -- potato switch? How will be potato -- woody? When?

2002-04-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:00:32PM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: I believe that most packages will be upgraded when stable is changed from potato to woody. I guess that that process will be relatively slower since it has to delete/ replace the old packages first before installing the

Re: How was the slink -- potato switch? How will be potato -- woody? When?

2002-04-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:00:32PM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: I believe that most packages will be upgraded when stable is changed from potato to woody. I guess that that process will be relatively slower since it has to delete/ replace the old packages first before installing the

How was the slink -- potato switch? How will be potato -- woody? When?

2002-04-25 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
deleted, but some replacements were not installed (e.g. sawmill -- sawfish). Fortunately, it was just a test system, and not a production one. However, - may I know what happened during the slink-potato switch period? - was there a sufficient grace period before slink was deleted from

Adaptec 1542 with slink/potato?

2001-09-15 Thread John Conover
Anyone using an Adaptec 1542 with slink/potato? CD work OK? Thanks, John -- John ConoverTel. 408.370.2688 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 631 Lamont Ct. Fax. 408.379.9602 http://www.johncon.com/ Campbell, CA 95008 Cel. 408.772.7733

Re: Adaptec 1542 with slink/potato?

2001-09-15 Thread Sean Quinlan
--- John Conover [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-09-15 11:50): Anyone using an Adaptec 1542 with slink/potato? CD work OK? I have that card in my firewall machine, running potato, and it works fine. I used the boot floppies to install from though (I installed from the net because my potato CD 1 has

Slink-Potato, Perl version

2001-06-23 Thread Marcus
I have slink installed and want to upgrade to potato, but I'm relatively new to Debian (and Linux). I read two explanations on upgrading, but still have a few newbie type questions: Is apt-get upgrade sufficient, and what does apt-get dist-upgrade do? I read that I should make sure all packages

Re: Slink-Potato, Perl version

2001-06-23 Thread Disembodied Head
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 07:00:18AM +0200, Marcus wrote: I have slink installed and want to upgrade to potato, but I'm relatively new to Debian (and Linux). I read two explanations on upgrading, but still have a few newbie type questions: Is apt-get upgrade sufficient, and what does apt-get

Re: Slink-Potato, Perl version

2001-06-23 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 07:00:18AM +0200, Marcus wrote: I have slink installed and want to upgrade to potato, but I'm relatively new to Debian (and Linux). I read two explanations on upgrading, but still have a few newbie type questions: Is apt-get upgrade sufficient, and what does apt-get

Re: Slink-Potato, Perl version

2001-06-23 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 23 June 2001 08:44, Joost Kooij wrote: Performing large scale upgrades can be attempted using only apt-get, is in most cases asking for trouble. This is not a shortcoming in apt-get, it just doesn't have all the needed user interfaces to dependends management that dselect does.

Re: Slink-Potato, Perl version

2001-06-23 Thread Joey Hess
Marcus wrote: Is apt-get upgrade sufficient, and what does apt-get dist-upgrade do? From the apt-get man page: dist-upgrade dist-upgrade, in addition to performing the func­ tion of upgrade, also intelligently handles chang­ ing dependencies

Re: Slink-Potato, Perl version

2001-06-23 Thread Marcus
On 23.06.01 at 15:44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use dselect, and configure it to use apt as its access method... Thanks Joost for that detailed mail. I've printed it out and I'm off to familiarise myself further with dselect. I was quite surprised though because a debian book I looked at online

upgraded modutils slink - potato

2001-03-30 Thread Petr Danek
Hi list, i did upgrate from slink to potato. Apt-get announced that modutils_2.1* are upgraded to modutils_2.3.11* and thatpath[fs] should be changed to: /lib/modules/2.0.36/fs. After reboot my system was complaining a lot about modules.. Where should i apply the change of path[fs]

Re: Actualización Slink = Potato

2001-03-06 Thread IJAS
Gracias a todos por vuestra ayuda...gracias a vosotros finalizé mi actualización con exito... pero... al final me puse a jugar con el dselect y no me di cuenta que la mayoría de los paquetes estaban puestos como eliminar (¿POR QUE? ¿Es un bug?¿que tendría que haber hecho?) y de repente me encontre

Re: Actualización Slink = Potato

2001-03-05 Thread Luis M . García
El Dom 04 Mar 2001 22:47, Ignacio J. Alonso escribió: Bueno por fin me decidí a actualizar... [...] Por otra parte, a pesar de haber hecho update-modules force me ha dejado de funcionar la tarjeta de sonido(SB AWE 64) y no se si algo más ¿ideas? Por si te sirve de ayuda, a mí me pasó lo

Actualización Slink = Potato

2001-03-04 Thread Ignacio J. Alonso
Bueno por fin me decidí a actualizar... el problema de libpam0g que os comentaba en un correo anterior lo solucioné con la orden: apt-get -o apt::force-loopbreak=1 --fix-broken --show-upgrade dist-upgrade aparte de algún que otro aviso de perl sobre los locales, todo va bien hasta que llega al

Help: Trouble updating Slink - Potato

2000-11-30 Thread Berthold Cogel
I NEED HELP!!! Each time I try to update Debian Slink, the process is terminated because of some problems with the perl packages. The update of perl fails because perl-base is not configured. It doesn't matter how I update the system. It's the same problem with 'apt-get dist-upgrade',

Re: Help: Trouble updating Slink - Potato

2000-11-30 Thread Dean
Hi Berthold: Since no experts have spoken yet, I'll throw some ideas out. If its' always perl-base giving the trouble, can you try upgrading or downloading this first? Sometimes when installing or up-grading I've had to dpkg -i several times to get everything working. hth Dean Berthold

RE: Actualizacion slink-potato desde CD-ROM: imposible

2000-09-22 Thread Arregui-García, Javier
-Mensaje original- De: Gerardo Aburruzaga Garca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: lunes 18 de septiembre de 2000 11:40 Para: Lista de Debian GNU/Linux Asunto: Actualizacion slink-potato desde CD-ROM: imposible (omito tu mensaje por no alargar...) Hola, Te envío aquí un mensaje

Re: Actualizacion slink-potato desde CD-ROM: imposible

2000-09-19 Thread Antonio Castro
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Gerardo Aburruzaga García wrote: Hola. Qué poco tráfico tiene esta lista. Tras más de año y medio de espera y de sufrir con la slink y el nuevo hardware sin soporte, aquí llegó por fin la potato. La he instalado en un par de máquinas y bien. He actualizado 3 ó 4 máquinas

Re: Actualizacion slink-potato desde CD-ROM: imposible

2000-09-19 Thread García
El mar, 19 sep 2000, Antonio Castro escribió: Yo continuo con la Slink. La última actualización de Debian me dió más trabajo de lo que yo esperaba y estoy indeciso. No puedo permitirme estar sin máquina ni un solo día. Lo que quiero decir es que a pesar de no poder ayudarte comprendo tu reacción

Re: Actualizacion slink-potato desde CD-ROM: imposible

2000-09-19 Thread Cosme P. Cuevas
El Mon, Sep 18, 2000, Gerardo Aburruzaga García... Hola. Qué poco tráfico tiene esta lista. ¡Y que dure! :-) Endispués con apt-cdrom add le endiño los 4 CDs para que los registre. Más aluego le doy el apt-get update y se lo traga todo. La hora de la verdad: apt-get dist-upgrade. Voy a

RE: Actualizacion slink-potato desde CD-ROM: imposible

2000-09-19 Thread Ricardo Villalba
-Mensaje original- De: Gerardo Aburruzaga García [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Lista de Debian GNU/Linux debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: lunes 18 de septiembre de 2000 12:08 Asunto: Actualizacion slink-potato desde CD-ROM: imposible [...] Endispués con apt-cdrom add le endiño los

Actualizacion slink-potato desde CD-ROM: imposible

2000-09-18 Thread García
Hola. Qué poco tráfico tiene esta lista. Tras más de año y medio de espera y de sufrir con la slink y el nuevo hardware sin soporte, aquí llegó por fin la potato. La he instalado en un par de máquinas y bien. He actualizado 3 ó 4 máquinas por red, y sin mayor problema. Pero... para mi casa y

Update Debian Slink-Potato: Problems with Soundblaster AWE64 and kernel 2.2.x

2000-09-06 Thread Berthold Cogel
Hallo! I have a weird problem with Debian 2.2: Since I updated my system from Debian 2.1 to Debian 2.2, sound doesn't work anymore. - Debian 2.1: Sound is fully functional with kernel 2.0.x and kernel 2.2.x (I tested one of my backups to make sure). - Update to Debian 2.2: Sound through

Re: tetex slink - potato

2000-08-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Aug 2000, paul tanner wrote: After the upgrade I can't use the extra stuff that I had in /usr/local/lib/texmf. After examining a copy of my old slink installation I found the ``local'' link in texmf/ and in /usr/share/texmf I added: ln -s /usr/local/share/texmf local and moved my

Re: tetex slink - potato

2000-08-23 Thread Christoph Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (paul tanner) writes: After the upgrade I can't use the extra stuff that I had in /usr/local/lib/texmf. After examining a copy of my old slink installation I found the ``local'' link in texmf/ and in /usr/share/texmf I added: ln -s /usr/local/share/texmf local and

tetex slink - potato

2000-08-22 Thread paul tanner
After the upgrade I can't use the extra stuff that I had in /usr/local/lib/texmf. After examining a copy of my old slink installation I found the ``local'' link in texmf/ and in /usr/share/texmf I added: ln -s /usr/local/share/texmf local and moved my local stuff to: /usr/local/share/texmf and did

question about apt and slink-potato

2000-08-21 Thread alice
I seem to be missing the man pages for apt-get on my slink box so I wondered for all intents and purposes what's the actual difference between doing apt-get dist-upgrade and just using dselect on a box where all the sources use the term 'stable' instead of 'slink' after potato has gone

Re: Applixware 5 on Debian slink, potato or woody?

2000-08-11 Thread Pap Tibor
Hi! I'm using applixware 4 on a Debian Potato system. I have an old Pentium 100 with 64Mb RAM only. It looks fine, can read files coming from MS office, and very fast. It takes only few seconds to startup om my machine. So I don't know any good reason to upgrade it, or change it to another office

Re: Applixware 5 on Debian slink, potato or woody?

2000-08-11 Thread Stefan Bellon
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pap Tibor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using applixware 4 on a Debian Potato system. I have an old Pentium 100 with 64Mb RAM only. It looks fine, can read files coming from MS office, and very fast. It takes only few seconds to startup om my machine. So I

Re: Applixware 5 on Debian slink, potato or woody?

2000-08-09 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Stefan Bellon wrote: A friend of mine runs Applixware 4.4.1 on his Debian system (mixture of potato and woody). But he says that it's quite buggy and looks outdated. But otherwise it performs quite well. For the installation he took the RPMs and alienated them to deb

Re: Applixware 5 on Debian slink, potato or woody?

2000-08-09 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Aplixware 5.0 runs well for me under Potato. No problems at all with the installation. -- Pedro

Applixware 5 on Debian slink, potato or woody?

2000-08-08 Thread Stefan Bellon
Hi all! A friend of mine runs Applixware 4.4.1 on his Debian system (mixture of potato and woody). But he says that it's quite buggy and looks outdated. But otherwise it performs quite well. For the installation he took the RPMs and alienated them to deb packages. Then he make a link from /opt to

Re: Applixware 5 on Debian slink, potato or woody?

2000-08-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Stefan Bellon wrote: sbello Now I'd like to know whether anybody has experience with the later sbello Applixware 5 on Debian systems. Does it install without problems? installs flawlessly, runs like crap though. for some reason it takes about 5 minutes to load on a p3-500

Re: Old ? Revisited. Was: [woody-potato, woody-slink, potato-slink?]

2000-07-30 Thread montefin
In early July, when Anthony first asked the question below, I sort of kept my eye out for an answer or two on it: John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: Out of sheerest curiosity, since I'm not having any problems with woody beyond the X/gpm mouse grabbing and X-fb corruption, is there a way to

Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel

2000-07-11 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: The wd module was there on the list, but install failed. The latest set of boot disks is missing the 8390 module which is loaded before the wd module. That should be fixed soon. I installed debian 'slink' and got it working. I did not have to

Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel

2000-07-11 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 09:08, virtanen wrote: The wd module was there on the list, but install failed. The latest set of boot disks is missing the 8390 module which is loaded before the wd module. That should be fixed soon. I installed debian 'slink' and got it working. I did not

Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel

2000-07-06 Thread virtanen
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote: It's a kernel problem, not a distribution problem. Your kernel, as compiled, probably does not have the wd.o module. Try recompiling the kernel and select Western Digital/SMC cards in 'make menuconfig', either 'y' or 'm'. That doesn't admit wd

Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel

2000-07-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 08:39:20AM +0300, virtanen wrote: On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote: It's a kernel problem, not a distribution problem. Your kernel, as compiled, probably does not have the wd.o module. Try recompiling the kernel and select Western Digital/SMC cards in

Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel

2000-07-06 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: The wd module was there on the list, but install failed. The latest set of boot disks is missing the 8390 module which is loaded before the wd module. That should be fixed soon. Meanwhile, what could I do? What kind of packet to install to get

Configuración eth Slink - Potato

2000-07-05 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Hola, he de disponer la siguiente configuración de red de Potato: $ cat /etc/network/interfaces iface lo inet loopback iface eth1 inet dhcp iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.7 network 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 192.168.255.255 En una máquina que corre

Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel

2000-07-05 Thread virtanen
On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: Yup, the card is there. That's good ... Tried two things: 1) tried to install 'Potato'. (I used 'slink' earlier) That doesn't admit wd module at all. So the network didn't start working. 2) Tried to install 'Corel 1.1'. Did not make network

Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel

2000-07-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
It's a kernel problem, not a distribution problem. Your kernel, as compiled, probably does not have the wd.o module. Try recompiling the kernel and select Western Digital/SMC cards in 'make menuconfig', either 'y' or 'm'. On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:30:41PM +0300, virtanen wrote: On Tue, 4 Jul

woody-potato, woody-slink, potato-slink?

2000-07-03 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
Out of sheerest curiosity, since I'm not having any problems with woody beyond the X/gpm mouse grabbing and X-fb corruption, is there a way to downgrade from woody to potato, from woody to slink, and from potato to slink? I would assume a forced apt-get dist-upgrade with appropriate lines in

CAE/SPICE for Slink/Potato

2000-06-24 Thread Bill
Hi all, I'm trying to model a circuit, actually a high powered inverter and I'm trying to find a simulation program to do it. All the W9x programs I've found so far are demos, not able to handle all the components. Does anyone have any idea as to where I can find sims for Linux and their

Re: CAE/SPICE for Slink/Potato

2000-06-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya bill donno if any of these works etc.etc... spice comes from berkeleydonno the url... here some collections... http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/dists/potato/main/source/electronics/ http://www.staticfreesoft.com/ ( aka ElectricEditor ) http://www.kegel.com/linuxeda/ have fun linuxing

Re: CAE/SPICE for Slink/Potato

2000-06-24 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Bill wrote: B Hi all, B I'm trying to model a circuit, actually a high powered inverter and I'm B trying to find a simulation program to do it. All the W9x programs I've found B so far are demos, not able to handle all the components. Does anyone have any B idea as

Samba printing problem after upgrade slink-potato

2000-06-21 Thread Alexander List
Hi, I just upgraded our office fileserver to potato, running samba 2.0.7-2, lprng 3.6.12-6 and an HP LaserJet 4050 TN connected to the LAN. Everything worked fine until the upgrade from slink to potato. The following (very) weird thing happens now: - when I lpr a file from the Linux box

Upgrading slink - potato - any problems?

2000-06-20 Thread Thomas Roessler
On http://debian.schlittermann.de/, I read that there is no easy upgrade path from slink to potato. Is this still true?

Re: Upgrading slink - potato - any problems?

2000-06-20 Thread Nate Bargmann
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 01:19:04PM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote: On http://debian.schlittermann.de/, I read that there is no easy upgrade path from slink to potato. Is this still true? I would answer no to your question. I've done two slink to potato upgrades and it went very well. Of

Re: problems with apt-get upgrade slink - potato

2000-04-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
Try again in a little while. This sometimes happens. Make sure to run apt-get update again first. On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 09:36:12AM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote: I tried to do a slink-potato upgrade, I put the potato debian site in /etc/apt/sources.list, and let go with atp-get update

problems with apt-get upgrade slink - potato

2000-04-15 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I tried to do a slink-potato upgrade, I put the potato debian site in /etc/apt/sources.list, and let go with atp-get update -- works fine... apt-get dist-upgrade -- problems... Each time I would only get a few files, but after 15-20 tries, I seem to have almost everything; almost

Re: problems with apt-get upgrade slink - potato

2000-04-15 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
atp-get update-- works fine... apt-get dist-upgrade -- problems... Each time I would only get a few files, but after 15-20 tries, I seem to have almost everything; almost.. Run update again if that fails find out if you are behind one of those defective HTTP proxies :| Jason

problems with apt-get upgrade slink - potato

2000-04-14 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I tried to do a slink-potato upgrade, I put the potato debian site in /etc/apt/sources.list, and let go with atp-get update -- works fine... apt-get dist-upgrade -- problems... but, (see below) it looks like I get only a few fiels, adn many many errors which seem server related

Xfree and glibc trouble after slink - potato

2000-03-27 Thread Lee Malatesta
I just upgraded from slink to potato. Well, actually the upgrade was from rain (Storm Linux 2000) to potato. Aside from learning the hard way to never run apt-get dist upgrade from an xterm, things went pretty smoothly. After several days of reconstructing my XF86Config (Storm's installer

Re: Xfree and glibc trouble after slink - potato

2000-03-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 09:12:03PM -0500, Lee Malatesta wrote: 1. kdm won't start on boot. I get an error on the console: Checking for valid XFree86 configurationUnable to check. Not starting X display manager. after loggin in, startx works just fine. 2. I can't start a terminal

Slink-potato migration

2000-03-10 Thread Nathan Strong
I'm trying to finish migrating from Slink to Potato. It's been mostly successful, but after a 50mb download I am now getting odd errors from apt. Here's what's been done so far: 1) Installed Slink from bootable CD-ROM up to the first reboot. 2) After the reboot, said no to choosing a group of

apache, ssl, slink, potato and apt

2000-03-04 Thread Mark Symonds
Hi, I'm trying to do something here which is probably a bit wacko. I'm running slink and have not upgraded to potato due to a lack of hdd space, but need php3.0.15 and that version is not available for slink. In an act of senseless desperation I went ahead and changed my sources.list to use

Re: apache, ssl, slink, potato and apt

2000-03-04 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Mark Symonds wrote: So my question is, what do I do to get ssl back? Am I going to need to get the mod_ssl tarball? auric{root}/usr/lib/cgi-bin#apt-cache search apache.*ssl apache-ssl - Versatile, high-performance HTTP server with SSL support apache-common - Support files

Re: apache, ssl, slink, potato and apt

2000-03-04 Thread Mark Symonds
-Original Message- From: Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark Symonds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, March 03, 2000 9:42 PM Subject: Re: apache, ssl, slink, potato and apt On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Mark Symonds wrote: So my question is, what

Re: apache, ssl, slink, potato and apt

2000-03-04 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Mark Symonds wrote: # deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free # deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free I did the apt-get update ... why wouldn't it show up?

slink - potato upgrade - safe NOW?

2000-02-04 Thread Rick Macdonald
I need to move on to the 2.2.x kernel and glibc 2.1. Is there anywhere look for some guidelines/problems if I upgrade now? The list of 271 release-critical bugs is a bit scary... ...RickM...

Re: slink - potato

2000-01-22 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 05:01:44PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: I think Wouter meant to download one package at a time, then install it, then go fetch the next and so on. This way you could do with _a lot_ less free space for keeping the debs before installing them... I think a wrapper script

Re: slink - potato

2000-01-21 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 06:43:08PM -0800, Nick Jennings wrote: This brings up a question that i've had for sometime, but haven't yet asked anyone. Why the hell does Debian insist on putting some very disk space consuming directories in /var ?? such as: /var/ftp /var/cache

Re: slink - potato

2000-01-21 Thread Nick Jennings
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 08:06:16PM -0500, Edward Kear wrote: One way to get around that problem would be to do this: rmdir /var/lib/dpkg/methods/some-method/debian mkdir /home/debian ln -s /home/debian /var/lib/dpkg/methods/some-method/debian before you start upgrading. That will

Re: slink - potato

2000-01-21 Thread Edward Kear
At 05:05 PM 1/20/00 -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Hi, My box running slink here would like to do the potato upgrade but I'm concerned that it might run out of disk space: Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity

Re: slink - potato

2000-01-21 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 05:01:27PM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: No it's not safe for you to upgrade - not enough disk space. When I downloaded everything it was 155MB. You need to delete quite a few files from your root file system. I had this problem too. Why isn't there an option for apt to

Re: slink - potato

2000-01-21 Thread PAUL_SEELIG
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: Why isn't there an option for apt to let it download the deb for a package only just before installing it? That way, upgrading small systems would be a lot easier. AOL! Have you already sent in a wishlist bug report?

Re: slink - potato

2000-01-21 Thread aphro
try apt-get -d that tells apt to download ONLY and not to install. nate On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: hanegr On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 05:01:27PM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: hanegr No it's not safe for you to upgrade - not enough disk space. When I hanegr downloaded

Re: slink - potato

2000-01-21 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 02:37:45PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: Why isn't there an option for apt to let it download the deb for a package only just before installing it? That way, upgrading small systems would be a lot easier. AOL!

Re: slink - potato

2000-01-21 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 07:34:18 PST, Eric G . Miller writes: On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 02:37:45PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] m wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: Why isn't there an option for apt to let it download the deb for a package only just before installing it? That way,

Re: slink - potato

2000-01-21 Thread David Teague
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 07:34:18 PST, Eric G . Miller writes: $ apt-get -d upgrade Only downloads the debs.! No wishlist bug report required. I think Wouter meant to download one package at a time, then install it, then go fetch the next and so on.

slink - potato

2000-01-20 Thread Mark Symonds
Hi, My box running slink here would like to do the potato upgrade but I'm concerned that it might run out of disk space: Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda1 296633 24881332500 88% / /dev/hda3 675175 343296

RE: slink - potato

2000-01-20 Thread Lewis, James M.
Hi, My box running slink here would like to do the potato upgrade but I'm concerned that it might run out of disk space: Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda1 296633 24881332500 88% / /dev/hda3 675175

Re: slink - potato

2000-01-20 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Hi, My box running slink here would like to do the potato upgrade but I'm concerned that it might run out of disk space: Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda1 296633

dhelp problems with slink/potato hybrid.

2000-01-16 Thread Iain Pople
Hi, I finally took the plunge and started upgrading some packages to potato. I am now suffering from the much talked about problem of dhelp complaining about documentation in /usr/doc Here is an example from running apt-get install libcgi-perl Setting up libcgi-perl (2.76-13) ... cannot open

Re: Debian Slink/Potato w/SMP

1999-12-23 Thread John Foster
Steve Lamb wrote: Does anyone have an experience with Debian on an SMP machine? Is it stable? How well does it perform? --- As you can see we have no probs with them :-)) -- AdVance-Computing Systems We sell fine quality servers and

Debian Slink/Potato w/SMP

1999-12-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Does anyone have an experience with Debian on an SMP machine? Is it stable? How well does it perform? -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls.

Re: Debian Slink/Potato w/SMP

1999-12-22 Thread Robert Rati
I use it and it works great. The distribution really isn't a factor when you're talking about performance. It's a really minor thing. The kernel is what gives you the performance for the most part, and I run 2.2.13 with no problems at all. Well, aside from a hardware issue, but that's being

Re: Debian Slink/Potato w/SMP

1999-12-22 Thread aphro
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: morphe Does anyone have an experience with Debian on an SMP machine? Is it morphe stable? How well does it perform? I've been running linux 2.0.36+securelinux with slink since april on a dual p2-233 and it runs great..i can't really judge performance

Re: Debian Slink/Potato w/SMP

1999-12-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, December 22, 1999, 12:36:37 PM, aphro wrote: i also run a BP6 with dual celeron 466 at home with slink and linux 2.2.10 and it runs good(not taking into account the unstable mainboard) What is wrong with the BP6? That was the board I am considering to use. -- Steve C.

Re: Debian Slink/Potato w/SMP

1999-12-22 Thread aphro
To avoid typing out a couple pages to show what i do.. read this thread i started on bp6.com : http://www.bp6.com/discus/messages/2/272.html?FridayDecember1719991046pm and take a look at my case.. http://www.firetrail.com/~aphro/camera/inside-the-beast.jpg

Re: Debian Slink/Potato w/SMP

1999-12-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, December 22, 1999, 1:34:26 PM, aphro wrote: and take a look at my case.. http://www.firetrail.com/~aphro/camera/inside-the-beast.jpg http://www.firetrail.com/~aphro/camera/the-outside.jpg Well, no offense, but did you really expect decent cooling in that small of a case?

Re: Debian Slink/Potato w/SMP

1999-12-22 Thread aphro
cooling in my case is *excellent*, like i said the cpu never gets to 35C, and i got a high quality power supply, high RPM fans, overtemp alarm..etc..by contrast when i first got the machine(before i added all the extras) CPUs routinely exceeded 52C. in terms of SMP i'd reccomend an ASUS

Re: Debian Slink/Potato w/SMP

1999-12-22 Thread aphro
also, i forgot to mention that because of the smaller case the airflow is QUITE swift, with ~75CFM worht of fans in the back and 35CFM fan in the front nate On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: morphe Wednesday, December 22, 1999, 1:34:26 PM, aphro wrote: morphe and take a look at my case..

Q: Where to configure things in slink/potato

1999-12-05 Thread Svante Signell
Hello, Having installed slink (twice) and upgraded to potato (twice) I'm wondering if somebody can give pointers to the appropriate tools/files to change for configuring different utilities. I have been running redhat since 5.0 to 6.1+ with rawhide. For rpm-based distributions I am rather

Re: Q: Where to configure things in slink/potato

1999-12-05 Thread Brad
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 02:08:08PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: Personally I think you should separate installation from configuration into different parts. The configuration could be made mandatory, but not until you have a bootable base system (HD and floppy) up and running. Actually, i

Re: Q: Where to configure things in slink/potato

1999-12-05 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 12/05/99, Svante Signell addressed Q: Where to configure things in slink/potato: Having installed slink (twice) and upgraded to potato (twice) I'm wondering if somebody can give pointers to the appropriate tools/files to change for configuring different utilities. Most everything

Re: Slink - Potato: Problem with ppp/chat/pcmcia/modem?

1999-11-22 Thread Graham Williams
Thanks for the reply John. Below are details from my log files. pointers to what I should be reading or exploring further are most welcome. Graham Williams wrote to debian-user on 22 Nov 1999 08:02:22 +1100: Graham I just used apt-get dist-upgrade to move from a slink to Graham a

Re: problem with slink -- potato

1999-11-21 Thread Jutta Wrage
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dpkg: error processing libsane_1.0.1-1999-10-21-3_alpha.deb (--install): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/sane/libsane-apple.la', which is also in package sane dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered

Slink - Potato: Problem with ppp/chat/pcmcia/modem?

1999-11-21 Thread Graham Williams
I just used apt-get dist-upgrade to move from a slink to a potato distribution on my Laptop (Dell Latitude CPi D300Xt). Had a minor problem with configuring some packages because of perl. I manually dpkg --install perl* and then got apt-get going again. Almost succeeded, failing in the end on

Re: Slink - Potato: Problem with ppp/chat/pcmcia/modem?

1999-11-21 Thread John Hasler
Graham writes: Issuing pon or pppd directly,... What do you mean by pppd directly? I get (in the plog file) chat[...]: Can't get terminal parameters: Input/output error. Please post the complete set of messages. I believe pppd is working okay, since if I mimic the modem on my

Re: problem with slink -- potato

1999-11-20 Thread Ron Farrer
Joost Witteveen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Did you try --force-overwrite ? Thanks, that fixed that probem. Now: Setting up xonix (1.4-13) ... Use of uninitialized value at /usr/sbin/suidregister line 92. suidregister: bartw: no such user dpkg: error processing xonix (--configure): subprocess

problem with slink -- potato

1999-11-20 Thread Ron Farrer
I'm trying to upgrade from slink to potato. Most of the packages are upgraded, but there is about 190MB worth of stuff that gets hung up. I tried doing 'dpkg -i' on the package it fails on to see what the problem is and here is what I get: mustang:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i

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