Re: install trouble: stuck at select tasks
At 10:03 PM 11/24/00 -0800, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lawrence H. Robins wrote: .. accidentally exited the select tasks program before making most of the selections that I wanted, and now I can't figure out how to restart this program. Run tasksel. Thanks for that tip, also thanks to Alex. Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED]. From the install manual, section 7.24 Select and Install Profiles: The system will now ask you if you want to use the pre-rolled software configurations offered by Debian. This is the purpose of the dselect program, described below. But this can be a long task [rest of quoted material snipped] This documentation seems thoroughly out of date, debian 2.1-era. Well, the document may be thoroughly out of date but it is the official Debian 2.2 install guide 2.2.17 date 11 September 2000 (to be fair the Debian web site does mention that the install guide may lag behind the releases). Lawrence H. Robins e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?
I'm curious to know what strategies are used by regular subscribers to this list to deal with the high volume of messages (250/day)? Suppose you only want to see messages with certain keywords in the subject line, or only replies to your questions, and filter out all the others? Also, is there any way to filter the messages **before** downloading them from your ISP to your local machine, which takes time in itself? (Note: I am just getting started with Debian, and am not yet familiar with most of the packages. This message is being written from an e-mail client program (Eudora) in another OS. Eudora doesn't seem designed to handle huge mailing lists - I hope there is something better in Debian.) Lawrence H. Robins e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
install trouble: stuck at select tasks
Hello, I am (trying to be) a new Debian user. I have the 2.2r0 CD set and got through most of the installation without a problem, but near the end of the install, after installing the base system, booting it, creating a root account and a user account, I accidentally exited the select tasks program before making most of the selections that I wanted, and now I can't figure out how to restart this program. The program that I want can't be dselect by itself (right?), because dselect knows about the 3950 or so different packages on my Debian CDs, but not about tasks. From the install manual, section 7.24 Select and Install Profiles: The system will now ask you if you want to use the pre-rolled software configurations offered by Debian. This is the purpose of the dselect program, described below. But this can be a long task with around 3950 packages available in Debian! So you have the ability to choose tasks or profiles instead. A task is a work you will do with the machine such as Perl programming or HTML authoring or Chinese word processing. You can choose several tasks. ..[paragraph skipped] Soon, you will enter into dselect. If you selected tasks or profiles, remember to skip the Select step of dselect, since the selections have already been made. Frustratingly, the manual doesn't explain how to get back to the task selection step, before running dselect, after a mistake like mine. Lawrence H. Robins 13138 Diamond Hill Dr. Germantown, MD 20874-5901 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daytime phone (M-F): 301-975-5263 evening phone: 301-540-4833
Re: pseudo-image-kit (for Windows) problem
At 10:00 PM 7/29/00 -0400, Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, you could download the floppy disk images and then just use apt to complete the install over the Internet. That's how I installed on this very machine I'm typing on. CDs do make it easier, though. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net I need CDs because the computer on which I plan to install Debian (home) is not the same as the computer with the fast net connection (work). I did manage to work around the pseudo-image-kit(Windows) problem: created a 1-byte target file (potato-i386-1.raw) and then ran the rsync program, which worked just fine, exact command: rsync --verbose --progress --stats --block-size=8192 aurolinux.mit.edu::potato_test-cycle-3/i386/potato-i386-1.raw . As the documentation of the pseudo-image kit explains, you really only need rsync. The reason to first run make-pseudo-image (pointing to any Debian package mirror) and then rsync (pointing to a Debian CD image mirror) is just to shift most of the download work from the CD image servers to the package servers (thus reducing network traffic on the CD image servers). Further, the first binary CD (for each architecture) is now available on the main Debian ftp site, presumably to encourage wider testing: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian-cd/potato_test-cycle-3/ Lawrence H. Robins Ceramics Division Natl. Inst. of Stds. and Tech. 100 Bureau Dr., Stop 8522 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8522 Tel: 301-975-5263 FAX: 301-975-5334 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pseudo-image-kit (for Windows) problem
I was trying to use the pseudo-image kit for Windows (pseudo-image-kit-2.0.zip) to generate CD images of Debian 2.2 (Potato) test cycle 3. (I am not yet a Debian user. but decided to try to get started this way.) I read the instructions in the pseudo-image kit and executed the following exact command, in a DOS box running under Windows 98, in the same directory that contains the unpacked pseudo-image-kit files: make-pseudo-image potato-i386-1.list ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian It seemed to work for a while, and created a temporary directory and a bunch of temporary files (which I kept in case they contain any clues to the problem), but then a Windows error dialog box popped up, and said the following: SH caused an invalid page fault in module KERNEL32.DLL at 0187:bff7a382. Registers: EAX= CS=0187 EIP=bff7a382 EFLGS=00010206 EBX=00520b84 SS=018f ESP=0254f138 EBP=0254f15c ECX=00420cf4 DS=018f ESI=0104 FS=36a7 EDX=00420cf4 ES=018f EDI=0374 GS= Bytes at CS:EIP: 89 50 04 8d 04 33 50 ff 75 08 e8 70 fd ff ff eb Stack dump: 0374 0042000c 0042 00520b84 0520 0521 0254f184 bff7a541 0042 00520b84 0104 bfee Then the make-pseudo-image script started cycling between the bash and sleep commands, apparently in an infinite loop, so I closed the DOS box. Can anyone help? TIA! (If the problem can't be solved, of course the alternatives are to download the entire CD image file via FTP or HTTP from a site like http://aurolinux.mit.edu, or just wait until the official release when the CDs can be ordered from a vendor.)
