Java on Linux

1998-09-02 Thread Steve Byrne
*-Vincent Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | At the start of my next term in CompSci, Java is being introduced as the | main language in most of my courses. Unless the description of the .deb package says that the version is 1.1.5v7 (last I saw it said "v5"), you don't want it. v7 contains significan

Re: UMSDOS as root

1998-08-28 Thread Steve Byrne
I've been trying to run UMSDOS as my root partition for the last week or so. I posted to the debian-user list to see if anyone knew about how to make this work, but I haven't received a reply yet. Debian definitely doesn't support UMSDOS as root out of the box. I can get tantalizingly close to ha

Help installing Debian on UMSDOS file system?

1998-08-25 Thread Steve Byrne
I'm trying to install Debian on my wife's laptop that's currently running Windows 95. She's afraid that if I repartition it to make space for Linux, that she won't be able to reinstall all the Win95 software that's on the disk (it's a Compaq, and they don't ship Win95 installation CDs with their b