hello Julian, first we have to get your base system up. You have to decide if you want libc5 (bo) or libc6 (hamm) It is not a good idea to have half and half. To upgrade to hamm there is a howto that tells you how to upgrade from libc5 to libc6. It is on the debian site somewhere. Once you have that sorted out you can get the programs that you want to install. the trick is to go to the hamm directory structure and get the libc5 and install that then you can install libc6. But read the howto and you should be ok and we can take it from there. I hope this helps you and if there is anything wlse that me or the debian-user list can do, don't hesitate to ask. Hope this helps. Paul
On Sat, 23 May 1998, Julián Cardona wrote: > Hi! > > I'm installing Debian (hamm) in two machines, a 386SX with > 4 MB RAM and 80 HD and a 486 with 22 MB RAM and 323 HD. > I was very pleased to see the two new (?) preselections, > a basic system that fits in about 40 MB of disk, and a > standard system that occupies about 120 MB. Great, that > was precisely what I needed! > > Sorrowfully, I had problems with both installations. In > the basic system, libc5 conflicted with libc6 and I was > left with a system without manpages, among other things. > In the standard system I got errors in a couple of > packages (modutils and bibtex, I think -I could check it-). > The standard system also tried to replace my passwords > and group files and asked me twice to select a dictionary > (american/british) ... and keeps asking me that *every* > time I run dselect. > > Of course the resulting systems are usable and work fine, > but I'd like to get rid of those little annoyances ... > How can I: > > a. Install manpages (which depends on things that depend > on libc5) and libc6 on the basic system? I suppose it's > not a problem, since the standard system probably does > something like that. BTW, something in perl also > depended on libc5, but dselect seemed to work fine (?). > > b. Tell dselect passwords, group and dictionary are > alive and well and don't need to be reconfigured > every time? This trouble I had also in a machine I > debianized a month ago (after freeze, before deep > freeze). > > Besides, I might do some testing on the installation > procedures if that helps ... I mean, I can keep installing > on these two machines from scratch and reporting errors if > that's of any use. I think an absolutely clean and smooth > installation might do a very good first impression on every > new user, and the basic/standard preselections are a big > step in that direction. > > Other than that, I have only the most positive things to > say about Debian 2.0, the system and the community (develpers > and users) behind it. Thanx a lot for your *excelent* work! > > > JulianC > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
