Re: Infomagic LDR debian, and, What's Hamm and Bo?
I wish you luck, Robert. I had used the previous few sets of CD from Infomagic to install Debian. My memory reminds me that Infomagic is BAD for Debian !! There were important packages, for instance I can remember that xlib6_3.2-1a.1.deb which I thought is quite important nowadays wasn't in the April CD set!! I had to go to the Debian site to get it before I could continue. I find it difficult to imagine how this packag, an others, could have been left out !! I had similar problems with earlier Infomagic CD sets. Next time, I will stick to the Official Debian CD. I think it is cheaper as well. HC -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Info(no)Magic April CDROM
I have had problems install Debian with the InfoMagic April CDROM. The package 'xlib6_3.2-1a.1.deb' and 'latex_2e-7.deb' are physically not there !!! I would imagine xlib6 is too important to be omitted from the CDs. I think the worse bit is that both packages are referred to in the Pacakages.gz files. That confused the whole installing process totally. I eventually, after a hugh amount of struggle, managed to figure out that they are not actually in the CDs and that one has to ftp copies from the Debian site. But that discovery came too late, I had to install Slackware instead and yet another lost opportunity to introduce Debian to new organizations! I must admit the Slackware is very easy to install and I did not have any problem eventhough this was my first time installing Slackware. I have used the last 3 CD sets released by InfoMagic and if my memory serves me right, I have encountered problems with each and every one of them. If I were a totally new guys trying to install Debian using these CD sets, I would probably give up and install other Linux distribution instead; and as a matter of fact, this was what one of my colleague did not too long ago. Knowing how good Debian is, I don't think this type of mishap will put me off. I wonder what other people think about this CD set ?? I have secured another chance of putting Debian onto another PC's and I hope I wouldn't mess up this time. Cheers, H.C. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
psdatabase in /
Dose any one have any idea what this file does ?? Installing a new kernel image using make-kpkg updates this file, but this file is not mention in the Kernel-Howto. It doesn't seem to exist on Slackware machines ?? Cheers H.C. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: .gz ??? what, how?
Joost Kooij wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, David Miles wrote: > > > I need to read information in manual.txt > > > > when I went to the /usr/doc/lilo subdirectory, the closest filename that > > resembled this was Manual.txt.gz > > > > This is not readable by an editor. Is there something special about the > > .gz?? > > It is GZipped. you can unzip it with `gunzip', or use `zmore' instead of > `more', or `zless' instead of `less'. Ofcourse, these are all pagers. But > I bet there's some emacs mode to read and write gzipped files. > > `man gzip' is your friend. > > Cheers, > > Joost > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? > e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Yes, if you put (auto-compression-mode) in your .emacs file, then emacs will automatically unzip/uncompress your file into a buffer. The buffer will be compressed if you keep the .gz/.Z extension when you write it out again. However, if you drop the .gz/.Z extension on writting out, then it will not be compressed. H.C. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Books on Debian
David Wright wrote: > > Two problem(s) with a book: (a) you're really only buying a few pages of > Debian-specific stuff which (b) is almost out-of-date before it's > published. I'd far rather have just a good annotated bibliography of all > the Debianised documentation. As I think I've said before, one really > needs to be able to track down and consult documentation in the order > > Debian-specific > Linux-specific > Unix-specific > I agree with you entirely on these two points. To people who has installed and used Debian before, not having a book is no big deal. But for others who don't have a clue about Debian/Linux, convincing them that they don't need a book is not a very straight forward matter. In fact, some of them get very nervous on the suggestion that they might not be able to buy any book on that particular Linux distribution which they are about to get. I think a book in cases like these is more of a symbol for the peace of mind than anything else. My point is, having Debain's book on the shelves of bookshops raises the visibility of Debain and may actually encourage people to choose it over other distributions. H.C. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Books on Debian
I wonder if the Debian team has any plan of publishing a book on how to install/use/administer a Debian system ?? I suspect people who are new to Linux and haven't decided which distribution to install may find the idea of a reference book very reassuring. Who knows, this may turn out to be the factor that tips the balance in favour of a Debian system over others. I know some people would say one doesn't need a book cause there are all those guides that come with the distribution. But for people who are new to Linux or who are reponsible for setting up and maintaining a network of Linux boxes, a complete reference book is a very attractive thing to have. I am about to install Linux on a Pentimum II box with 512MB of memory for some people. One of the thing they demand is the supply of a few reference books on the Linux distribution that I have installed so that they can learn to use and run the system themselves. Now, because there is not (correct me if I'm wrong) a book on Debain but there are books on Slackware, I think I would have no choice but to install Slackware instead of the Debian. Another setback !! Something for the team to think about. Cheers, H.C. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
