On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:10:21PM EDT, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:36:08PM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
> >Just for the record: I tried installing "etch" about three months ago
> >but the installer was unable to detect my PC card. I fooled him by going
>
> Ah, I can se
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:36:08PM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
>Just for the record: I tried installing "etch" about three months ago
>but the installer was unable to detect my PC card. I fooled him by going
Ah, I can see where that might be a problem. I've never installed in
that manner - I install in
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:20:56AM EDT, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 09:51:48PM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
>
> >> I will assume that you, as a relatively new Debian user, are running
> >> stable (sarge).
> >
> >Yes. But the main reason is that I am a new Debian user on
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 09:51:48PM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
>> I will assume that you, as a relatively new Debian user, are running
>> stable (sarge).
>
>Yes. But the main reason is that I am a new Debian user on a laptop :-(
I have taken the middle path with Debian, and use testing. This gives
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cga2000 wrote:
[...]
Very clear explanation. What I am worried about when doing this sort of
thing is that since I don't know the debian packaging system this may
have side-effects that will bite me at some point in the future. In
other words I do not understand the implications. Such as what hap
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 05:22:44PM EDT, Marvin Renich wrote:
> * A.J.Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060605 03:04]:
> > cga2000 wrote:
[..]
>
> Compiling is not hard, but there are already Debian packages with Vim
> 7.0, so you can simply install them (they may not be quite as up-to-date
> as the
