Yes, I understand very well NOW that there are no hamm disks yet. My point was that this upgrade of Debian is really expecting a lot of "typical Debian users." At first glance, I thought that disks under dists/unstable/main/disks-i386 would actually belong to the unstable distribution. It is such slight perception that can really make things difficult for most users. For instance, Scott Ellis' Mini-HOWTO is very good - I followed all of the portions of it that called out specific packages and that didn't seem like "suggestions" (as opposed to "necessary steps"). In this case, I did not upgrade libgdm1 and perl and due to another (slight) circumstance, was left with an unusable system after I launched dselect.
The crux of my statement was to say that I have used Debian a long time. I keep up (pretty much) with debian-user. And yet, I was stung HARD by the upgrade to unstable. I do not want to imply that I feel wronged - it IS "unstable" after all. I am just trying to say that this upgrade has a long way to go before it doesn't turn off a lot of "typical" Linux/Debian users. I still tell everyone that Debian is the greatest Linux distribution. Paul On 16-Jan-98 Norbert Veber wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 1998 at 10:07:33AM -0700, Paul Rightley wrote: >> >> On 15-Jan-98 Ben Pfaff wrote: >> > Is it already possible to install a new system directly with hamm? I >> > need >> > to do an install tonight, and want it to be hamm. >> > >> > There aren't an hamm boot disks yet. You have to install bo, then >> > upgrade. >> > >> I wish that this were the case... Unfortunately, under >> dists/unstable/main/disks-i386/current, there are boot >> disks. I now understand that, but I didn't this weekend -- > > uhm, if you look more carefully, you'll notice that the > /ac121/linux/distributions/debian/hamm/hamm/disks-i386/current is actually a > link to: ../../../bo/disks-i386/current which are the bo disks. So in fact > there are NO hamm disks (yet). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .