When I used this source:
deb ftp://ftp.kde.tdyc.com/debian potato kde contrib
it would work -- could find it or something.
Todd Witter
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On 28 Jul 00, at 19:28, Mircea Luca wrote:
> "G. Snyder" wrote:
>
> <SNIP>
> > probably leave you with a working system. "apt-get dist-upgrade" has
> > only produced disasterous results for me....I cannot overemphasize
> > disasterous. Basically everything hangs, and when you reboot, you get a
> > lot of junk in the boot messages until the whole thing just locks up.
> >
> Interesting.Using the sources listed on my web-page I kept my sytem
> uptodate
> to potato without any major problem.That was before
> Potato-Test-Cycle-3(last week).
> Disclaimer-Can't say for sure about SAT and SAS since I don't use
> them,but
> there are potato version compiled by Stormix.
> The only problems I've seen are :
>
> 1: lilo.If you run lilo again(you don't have to) you lose the graphical
> menu.
> The stormix version can be reinstalled.
>
> 2: kdm :you lose the background and the stormix logo.I managed to get
> them back once,it's not that hard.
>
> 3.If you use kde then you have to make sure that
> /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager points to /usr/bin/kde
>
> 4.the file /etc/network have to be renamed(deleted) otherwise the
> netbase
> postinst script will fail(I think this was at TestCycle1,don't remember
> if it was fixed at TC3)
>
> > Also, using Storm Package Manager (I don't know how you could use SAS)
> > is possibly not the best idea, since programs which are running at the
> > time may hang.
>
>
> Actually it would be a good idea to logoff then killall kdm(gdm)(xdm)
>
> > If you want a representative view of potato, go to the
> > Stormlinux-testers-list archives for July since, (correct me if I am
> > wrong, you beta testers) the test version of the next release is
> > essentially just "potato" anyway. It seems like the beta testers are
> > more prone to admitting the "cons" in the interest of ironing out the
> > bugs before the next stable distribution release...in any case, you will
> > get an idea of the problems you could potentially have with some of the
> > applications if you upgrade right now.
>
> The beta archive won't help too much in this case since the packages we
> are speaking about are different than a regular Debian potato-I mean
> the Stormix
> specific ones.Different enough that it won't help here IMHO .
>
> > Good luck!
> > -Glen
> >
> Out of curiosity have you used the same sources I have listed?
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> deb ftp://ftp.stormix.com/debian potato main
>
> deb ftp://ftp.stormix.com/storm potato main
>
> deb ftp://ftp.kde.tdyc.com/debian potato kde contrib
>
> deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
>
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/ potato non-US/main non-US/contrib
> non-US/non-free
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