RE: Network install of woody or sid via potato (was Re: Enough ti me wasted, moving on)

2002-03-01 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 13:09, McGillan, Patrick wrote: > My preferred method, and I've used it twice in recent days, is to unplug > from the network before the finish of the install. The program crashes out > with a minimal install. Then I do these steps; > > plug the network back in > edit '/etc/

RE: Network install of woody or sid via potato (was Re: Enough ti me wasted, moving on)

2002-03-01 Thread McGillan, Patrick
> A couple of posters have mentioned a network install. Where are the > details spelled out? Are we talking installing from a running > machine? Already network enabled? My situation is that I have 2 > desktops before me. A full well used redhat 7.1 on one machine and A > solaris x86 on anoth

Network install of woody or sid via potato (was Re: Enough time wasted, moving on)

2002-03-01 Thread Geordie Birch
elect part. Switch to another console, point your /etc/apt/sources to woody or sid, then apt-get update&&apt-get dist-upgrade. Then install all the rest of the stuff you want. Geordie. -- Finally, the number of Unix installations has grown to sixteen, with more expected. -Unix Manual, Third Edition, February 1973.

Re: moving from potato to woody (or sid)

2002-01-27 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 11:48:13PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just wanted to know, as a "normal" user (as in, not completely > new, but no guru either), how hard would it be to move to woody, or > sid? > > Is it not that difficult? giving the fact that i

Re: moving from potato to woody (or sid)

2002-01-27 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 11:48:13PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I just wanted to know, as a "normal" user (as in, not completely > new, but no guru either), how hard would it be to move to woody, or > sid? > > Is it not that difficult? giving the fa

Re: moving from potato to woody (or sid)

2002-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 11:48:13PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I just wanted to know, as a "normal" user (as in, not completely > new, but no guru either), how hard would it be to move to woody, or > sid? > > Is it not that difficult? giving the fa

moving from potato to woody (or sid)

2002-01-26 Thread camilo
Hi, I just wanted to know, as a "normal" user (as in, not completely new, but no guru either), how hard would it be to move to woody, or sid? Is it not that difficult? giving the fact that i have a fair knowledge of "moving" around in console, editing files, do some twea

Re: From potato to woody (or sid?)

2001-09-05 Thread Timeboy
On 2001.09.05 13:33 Vittorio wrote: > First question: > What are the main differences between the two distros? Woody will become stable in then next months. Now it is the distri for testing the newer software till it will be real stable. Sid is much more unstable. This is the distri for testing

From potato to woody (or sid?)

2001-09-05 Thread Vittorio
was thinking of woody or sid. First question: What are the main differences between the two distros? Second question: How should I modify the following two lines in sources.list to use with dselect? deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.it.debian.or

Re: woody or sid

2001-08-17 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 12:16:47AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's kind of neccesary that my system is stable cause it is running a > website. > But my whole problem started when I wanted to install the unstable nmap > cause I wanted the newest as possible. I'm now thinking of installing s

Re: woody or sid

2001-08-16 Thread John Galt
installing sid >on my second pc (now running windows cause I'm playing Tombraider) so I can >run the newest nmap on that one. > > >> On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Should I upgrade to woody or sid from potato? >>> >>> Ple

Re: woody or sid

2001-08-16 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Should I upgrade to woody or sid from potato? > > Please give me your opinion. I've upgraded 3 machines from potato to woody. But each time, there were packages that were only in sid (some gnome packages, for example). So I updated

Re: woody or sid

2001-08-16 Thread qmichiel
Tombraider) so I can run the newest nmap on that one. > On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Should I upgrade to woody or sid from potato? >> >> Please give me your opinion. > > That completely depends on your needs. Are you suffering because y

Re: woody or sid

2001-08-16 Thread Mark Carroll
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Should I upgrade to woody or sid from potato? > > Please give me your opinion. That completely depends on your needs. Are you suffering because you're missing the bleeding edge features or software? Do you have the time to work o

woody or sid

2001-08-16 Thread qmichiel
Should I upgrade to woody or sid from potato? Please give me your opinion.