Re: The first CD

2000-05-17 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Philip" == Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Philip> It is a question of ordering priorities. Newbies do installs. When Philip> people do upgrades they usually experienced, at least they are not Philip> newbies. So ensuring that everything needed for an install is on

Re: install troubles

2000-05-17 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Joey Hess wrote: > So unless this gets fixed, anyone who picks task-gnome-desktop from > tasksel at install time doesn't get gnome or any X stuff. This may not be strictly true. I am sure it will depend on what other task packages you select. If you manage to get the right p

install troubles

2000-05-17 Thread Joey Hess
So it looks like we have an issue with task-gnome-desktop, the base system, and apt. Apt will refuse to install task-gnome-desktop on a fresh base system, because of some insanse dependancy mess. I have mailed Jason the relevant details and he's goingt to try to figure out exactly where the probl

Installation report?

2000-05-17 Thread Julian Stoev
Hi! I am currently installing potato on a slink machine. The machine is at least 1 kilometers away from me and I am doing this over ssh. The machine is mainly used for mail server(qmail). There is wu-ftp installed, ssh1, telnet, pop3. It is 486 with 32 MB RAM, no keyboard and no monitor, ne20

Re: 2.1 upgrade to 2.2

2000-05-17 Thread Matthew Thompson
> For a change, there's no lack of documentation about how networking is > meant to work. > > Cheers, > aj > > (netbase maintainer) Thanks, aj. :) Matthew Thompson http://mattyt.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~mattyt --Someday, I'll have a web page.-- -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: 2.1 upgrade to 2.2

2000-05-17 Thread Rainer Dorsch
The new package asks What IP addresses (or address ranges) should be considered local? I am wondering what that means. Do I enter several addresses for the _local_ machine, do I enter the addresses for the _local_ network (i.e. w/o goping over a gateway) or do I enter the local IP address net

Re: 2.1 upgrade to 2.2

2000-05-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 11:46:40PM -0700, Matthew Thompson wrote: > That's when I discovered that the network-related files in /etc/init.d had > changed considerably. A quick question about this. I really hope this > doesn't sound snippy, or like I'm stepping over the line, but can someone > fami

2.1 upgrade to 2.2

2000-05-17 Thread Matthew Thompson
My apologies in advance for the long post... :) I recently upgraded my modest, home server from 2.1 to frozen. The reason I did this was I thought it would be easier to get my Epson 740 working after the upgrade. Yesterday, I went back to 2.1 by wiping out 2.2 and unpacking the original tarball