On Wednesday 20 December 2000 23:50, D-Man wrote: > Last night I installed Potato using the 'network' method. It was > very nice! (especially with my 100Mb/s connection). > > Debian has more packages in the distro than RH! Very cool! I found > some debian packages that I hadn't been able to find rpms for > previously. The only problem is that many of the packages are old > (ie gnome-*, sawmill, python, etc). When was Potato released? (that > may be the problem and woody might have the newer packages) How > unstable is woody?
First of all I will ask what you have in your /etc/apt/sources.list? To keep really current on the gnome stuff you might want to add deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main I've been using ever since potato was released. The only big problem was a _little_ libc6 meltdown a long time ago (the fix was actually pretty easy for my machine). Other people have had some problems with perl5.6. But for the most part I would say it is very stable. > When I looked at the inittab file, it had a comment saying that > runlevels 2-5 are mutlti-user. Ok, but not enough information. I > have been using RH for 2 years, and it has runlevel 5 for X and 3 for > full multi-user. Does Debian use the same runlevels? I know some > distros use different nubers than RH. (The inittab should explicitly > list each runlevel) Yeah that one confused me for a second too since I came from RPM based distros. As David noted, just look through /etc/init.d and /etc/rc?.d/. If you wanted to make runlevel three a console mode, just change the S??xdm (or gdm or whatever login manager you use) to a K??xdm or just remove the link. > I'll probably be back later with more configuration questions, but > that's all that's on my mind for now. > > -D HTH, jt