Let me try that again... it would NOT work... it could NOT find deb
ftp://ftp.kde.tdyc.com/debian potato kde contrib. I must still be
waking up. :)
Todd
On 31 Jul 00, at 7:55, TODD WITTER wrote:
> 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
> > _______________________________________________________________________________
> >
> > --
> > The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
> > Alan Saporta
> > My waste of cyberspace=
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> >
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