slink_cd v 1.06 released

1999-02-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
As usual, at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~stevem/DebianCD/ Please give feedback; hopefully we're about there for release, but I still need instructions on how to create useable CDs for all arches, and we will need these testing too... Changes from 1.05: slink-cd (1.06) unstable; urgency=l

Re: ipx-cgsix and X

1999-02-11 Thread Daniel Urbach
John Chapman wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Daniel Urbach wrote: > > > into an unstable condition and I have to go and Kill xdm for things to > > work Correctly. Running start x produces the same error that Neil Levine > > mentioned on the list ie: sunMouseProc ioctl VVIDGFORMAT: invalid > > arg

Please test: impoved sparc and alpha X patches.

1999-02-11 Thread Anders Hammarquist
Hi again. New versions of the merged X pacakges for sparc and alpha are now available. This time with a working xfs. ftp://ftp.cd.chalmers.se/pub/os/Linux/local/iko - or - http://master.debian.org/~iko/ /Anders -- -- Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. Anders Hammarquist

How to begin?

1999-02-11 Thread Jake Griesbach
Hi, Sorry for the ignorance here. I'm interested in installing Debian on a SparcStation 1+, but I'm not sure how to begin. It doesn't have a floppy drive, so I will need to boot over the network or from a CD. I am very familiar with x86 linux, and SunOS 4.1.3 which the machine currently runs. W

Slink release - what's left?

1999-02-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Apologies for the major cross-post - I need input from lots of you... ] Consensus on -testing appears to be that we're about ready to ship the i386 release. I'm adding the final touches to the slink-cd script (v 1.06) right now. Changes from slink-cd v 1.05 up to now are: slink-cd (1.06) unst