On 01 Feb 1998 22:42:53 EST, Ben Pfaff wrote: > I'm considering a fresh hamm install, however I haven't found much > information about installing hamm fresh. I presume that bash and libc > would be non-issues (at least for installation), but beyond that, what > can I expect, in terms of errors -- both quantity and complexity? > > There aren't any hamm install disks yet AFAIK. You have to install > bo, then upgrade to hamm.
Oh -- that wasn't what I expected. > Also, I've always installed debian with cdrom and this time I want to > start with a hard drive install, but I only want to download selected > packages, then follow up with ftp. Will dselect panic if many packages > in the list of available packages aren't on my hard drive? If so, > what's a good way to generate a list of available packages, or is this > a bad thing? > > I think this will work. But remember that upgrading to hamm replaces > every package, not just a few, due to the fundamental glibc changes. > This means that you end up downloading hundreds of megabytes for large > installs. Hmm.. I suppose I can install a base bo and upgrade that. Thanks again Ben, -- D a v i d S t e r n ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .