Cheapbytes Debian 2.1
Has anyone successfully installed Debian 2.1 from a Cheapbytes CD? I keep getting error messages with dselect stating that some of the packages are out of date and I need a newer version. I am a newbie with Debian but not with Linux, having installed redhat and Slackware many times. Allen -- Linux: If you're not careful, you might actually learn something.
Re: Cheapbytes Debian 2.1
Allen Wong wrote: Has anyone successfully installed Debian 2.1 from a Cheapbytes CD? I keep getting error messages with dselect stating that some of the packages are out of date and I need a newer version. I am a newbie with Debian but not with Linux, having installed redhat and Slackware many times. Allen I have. I installed slink with them, but I don't remember any error messages though. That was about a month ago, so who knows? I do remember that I had bought some hamm cd-roms from cheapbytes, and they gave me a lot of problems. Maybe the discs are messed up in some way? Since then, I've decided to live dangerously and use potato -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ http://www.debian.org
Re: Cheapbytes Debian 2.1
Yes and the source for the kernel modules is missing. If you untar the kernel tar.gz in /usr/src the modules code is not there. Someone needs to get Cheapbytes to be more careful with Debian. Never the less, I did get it to work just fine, but its tricky. Rob Blue Star Ranch _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Cheapbytes Debian 2.1
Care to share exactly how to get it to work? I've got it coming in the mail and I'd like some background on how exactly to get it too work. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Cheapbytes Debian 2.1
Mark Wagnon wrote: Allen Wong wrote: Has anyone successfully installed Debian 2.1 from a Cheapbytes CD? I keep getting error messages with dselect stating that some of the packages are out of date and I need a newer version. I am a newbie with Debian but not with Linux, having installed redhat and Slackware many times. Mark, Is it safe to say that this is not because of my own stupidity? I checked the files in the CD against the files on a Debian FTP site and the version numbers match. Yet, dselect keeps telling me that netbase and a few other packages are not the right version. I ignore it and tell it to install anyway, but it kicks out an Error 1, I think, something about some script not being there. I then press return and I am sent back to the main menu. Ordinarily, I buy from LSL. Are their Debian CDs better? I bought from Cheapbytes this time because I wanted to try Stampede Linux too. Allen I have. I installed slink with them, but I don't remember any error messages though. That was about a month ago, so who knows? I do remember that I had bought some hamm cd-roms from cheapbytes, and they gave me a lot of problems. Maybe the discs are messed up in some way? Since then, I've decided to live dangerously and use potato -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ http://www.debian.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Linux: If you're not careful, you might actually learn something.
Re: Cheapbytes Debian 2.1
OK, here is some notes on Cheapbytes Debian 2.1 The first binary CD is the one to use. The second CD is a smaller kernel and software set for laptops. So use the first. Just boot off of the CD and select the defaults for the directories under source media. Some will complain that they do not exist. That is okay. All we are interested in is the main i386 for now. I used the scientific workstation selection as a base. Then I removed a few packages that I did not need. Keep in mind that the libraries and programs for X are not absolutely current. I use Window Maker and upgraded it to .51 from .20. Note that Window Maker is stable, fast, and easy to install. Although KDE 1.1 is easy too. KDE 1.1 is not on the CD either! I really like Enlightenment but the version on the CD is too old. I used to run Redhat. Redhat has some hacks that I do not like. For example, using Window Maker it always overwrites the Gnustep config in your local directly. Redhat is ok if you don't like to configure hands on, but in my opinion it is a hack. Debian is much easier to configure and really use. The development enviro is better under Debian. I had problems with Perl/Tk on Redhat. It goes on. When you are ready to configure your sound you need to recompile the kernel. Don't panic its easy with Debian. I always compile a kernel anyway. Since you may be missing your module source you will keep the usr/lib/module/ directory of modules. Just do a depmod -a after building a new kernel. Maybe your CD was corrected. I received one of the first. If your module source is there after untarring the /usr/src/kernel.src.gz then ignore this. To config your printer just run magicfilter. It works. Don't forget to make your audio devs with 'makedev audio'. Buy the way I got gqmpeg to work and the skins. The mpg123 decoder is very fast. But I downloaded all this from the net to get the latest versions. I use the tkmixer. I works very well. I also have the new zip drive interface working with the imm.o module. So, sound works, printer works, X works, Zip Drive works, Perl/Tk works :-). Anyway thats a start. Rob Bluestar Ranch --- James Moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Care to share exactly how to get it to work? I've got it coming in the mail and I'd like some background on how exactly to get it too work. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Cheapbytes Debian 2.1
Care to share exactly how to get it to work? I've got it coming in the mail and I'd like some background on how exactly to get it too work. I didn't have any problems at all with the Cheapbytes CDs, I got them a week ago, and they are just plain perfect. I did the following: Booted from the Binaries 1 CD, did all the normal configuration stuff. Then it booted and got ready to install all the packages with dselect. In dselect: - I selected the Multi-CD ACCESS method. - According to the readme on the CDs, I put the Binaries 2 CD in the drive, and then ran UPDATE. - Then I selected all the packages I wanted, then ran INSTALL, and that's it!It installed the packages from the first CD, then asked for the second CD, and installed those packages also. Not even one error message! I bought 9 sets of Debian CDs from Cheapbytes for my friends at the University, and no one has mentioned any problems either... I hope this helps. Alexis Maldonado.
Re: Cheapbytes Debian 2.1
Yes and the source for the kernel modules is missing. If you untar the kernel tar.gz in /usr/src the modules code is not there. The 2.2.3 Kernel tarball is on the Source 2 CD. I just got the patches for 2.2.4, and 2.2.5, and I've been running 2.2.5 for a couple of days. Someone needs to get Cheapbytes to be more careful with Debian. Never the less, I did get it to work just fine, but its tricky. I've been using their CDs for more than one year, and I've always felt that they were fine. Maybe I've been lucky, but I've never had a problem with their CDs. Alexis Maldonado. Rob Blue Star Ranch _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Cheapbytes Debian 2.1
On 13-Apr-99 Rob Lundahl wrote: OK, here is some notes on Cheapbytes Debian 2.1 The first binary CD is the one to use. The second CD is a smaller kernel and software set for laptops. So use the first. Just boot off of the CD and select the defaults for the directories under source media. Some will complain that they do not exist. That is okay. All we are interested in is the main i386 for now. I used the scientific workstation selection as a base. Then I removed a few packages that I did not need. Keep in mind that the libraries and programs for X are not absolutely current. I use Window Maker and upgraded it to .51 from .20. Note that Window Maker is stable, fast, and easy to install. Although KDE 1.1 is easy too. KDE 1.1 is not on the CD either! I really like Enlightenment but the version on the CD is too old. If you buy the 4 CD set, KDE is on source disk #2, but all in deb packages. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
Re: Cheapbytes Debian 2.1
On 13-Apr-99 Alexis Maldonado wrote: Yes and the source for the kernel modules is missing. If you untar the kernel tar.gz in /usr/src the modules code is not there. The 2.2.3 Kernel tarball is on the Source 2 CD. I just got the patches for 2.2.4, and 2.2.5, and I've been running 2.2.5 for a couple of days. Someone needs to get Cheapbytes to be more careful with Debian. Never the less, I did get it to work just fine, but its tricky. I've been using their CDs for more than one year, and I've always felt that they were fine. Maybe I've been lucky, but I've never had a problem with their CDs. Alexis Maldonado. I was disappointed by the fact that my CD's don't have source for KDE, just deb packages. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
Cheapbytes Debian 2.1 - Thanks
Hey everybody! Thanks for all the advice. I'll try it again. Allen -- Linux: If you're not careful, you might actually learn something.
RE: Cheapbytes Debian 2.1
The way I understand it KDE uses some sort of non-free widget library. That is why they don't come with Debian Distributions. I would assume that CheapBytes includes it because they think it is a good idea. -Original Message- From: Pollywog [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 2:17 PM To: debian-user list Subject: Re: Cheapbytes Debian 2.1 On 13-Apr-99 Alexis Maldonado wrote: Yes and the source for the kernel modules is missing. If you untar the kernel tar.gz in /usr/src the modules code is not there. The 2.2.3 Kernel tarball is on the Source 2 CD. I just got the patches for 2.2.4, and 2.2.5, and I've been running 2.2.5 for a couple of days. Someone needs to get Cheapbytes to be more careful with Debian. Never the less, I did get it to work just fine, but its tricky. I've been using their CDs for more than one year, and I've always felt that they were fine. Maybe I've been lucky, but I've never had a problem with their CDs. Alexis Maldonado. I was disappointed by the fact that my CD's don't have source for KDE, just deb packages. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Cheapbytes Debian 2.1
Allen Wong wrote: Is it safe to say that this is not because of my own stupidity? I checked the files in the CD against the files on a Debian FTP site and the version numbers match. Yet, dselect keeps telling me that netbase and a few other packages are not the right version. I ignore it and tell it to install anyway, but it kicks out an Error 1, I think, something about some script not being there. I then press return and I am sent back to the main menu. Ordinarily, I buy from LSL. Are their Debian CDs better? I bought from Cheapbytes this time because I wanted to try Stampede Linux too. That's strange. I'm not very familiar with the ins and outs of dselect. Just a thought: I looked up netbase and saw that it's in the base utilities. Maybe someone else will chime in here if I'm wrong, but I am thinking that this set of packages is installed after you set up your partitions and before you reboot to run dselect (Is this correct? --anyone?). Maybe you can make some install floppies and install the base system from them, then when you reboot and run dselect install from the cd-rom. See http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-install-all-from-floppies for info on doing this. I used to buy from LSL too, but they seemed too expensive to me (with shipping and everything). They also dropped their My Debian products (or I just can't find them) which you could pick and choose from. -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ http://www.debian.org
Re: Cheapbytes Debian 2.1
I've just installed slink from the Cheapbytes CD's with no problem, once I figured out 1 little detail. Dselect at 1 point asks for the location of the non-free, non-US, and local branches. These aren't on the Cheapbytes CDs and you have to answer 'none', otherwise you get an error (I had originally been trying scan). TTFN On 13 Apr 99, at 10:59, Allen Wong wrote about Re: Cheapbytes Debian 2.1: Mark Wagnon wrote: Allen Wong wrote: Has anyone successfully installed Debian 2.1 from a Cheapbytes CD? I keep getting error messages with dselect stating that some of the packages are out of date and I need a newer version. I am a newbie with Debian but not with Linux, having installed redhat and Slackware many times. Mark, Is it safe to say that this is not because of my own stupidity? I checked the files in the CD against the files on a Debian FTP site and the version numbers match. Yet, dselect keeps telling me that netbase and a few other packages are not the right version. I ignore it and tell it to install anyway, but it kicks out an Error 1, I think, something about some script not being there. I then press return and I am sent back to the main menu. Ordinarily, I buy from LSL. Are their Debian CDs better? I bought from Cheapbytes this time because I wanted to try Stampede Linux too. Allen I have. I installed slink with them, but I don't remember any error messages though. That was about a month ago, so who knows? I do remember that I had bought some hamm cd-roms from cheapbytes, and they gave me a lot of problems. Maybe the discs are messed up in some way? Since then, I've decided to live dangerously and use potato -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ http://www.debian.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Linux: If you're not careful, you might actually learn something. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null == Jan M.- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint:397D 093C E802 964E 5316 B90A 93CE 6696 Thought for the day: When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. --Albert Einstein
Re: Cheapbytes Debian 2.1
On 13-Apr-99 Jan Muszynski wrote: I've just installed slink from the Cheapbytes CD's with no problem, once I figured out 1 little detail. Dselect at 1 point asks for the location of the non-free, non-US, and local branches. These aren't on the Cheapbytes CDs and you have to answer 'none', otherwise you get an error (I had originally been trying scan). that part tripped me up too. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
