Re: Debian DSELECT

1998-09-16 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Greg Frye wrote: I have 4 NT Servers running MS SQL Server 6.5 and though there is a lot of documentation, it isn't always that easy to follow or necessarily accurate. I have found Linux support through this mailing list and other newsgroups to be FAR superior to paid MS

Re: Debian DSELECT

1998-09-15 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Kent West wrote: Concerning databases: I was trying to find a way to connect to a SQLServer database from a Linux client. From responses I've receieved on this list, I've decided it can't be done. But until I decided that, I tried PostGresQL and couldn't figure out down

Re: Debian DSELECT

1998-09-15 Thread Greg Frye
I understand the frustration. I am there, also. But don't give up, it will pay off. I have learned more about Linux and the software for it in the past year than I have about NT and it's software in the past 4 years (as far as what makes it tick). Start at the PostgreSQL home

Re: Debian DSELECT

1998-09-15 Thread Greg Frye
I also just found the URL to a good article on Linux and PostgreSQL (http://www.networkcomputing.com/unixworld/tutorial/018.html) (the link is on the PostgreSQL.org 'news flash' page). Greg Frye wrote: I understand the frustration. I am there, also. But don't give up, it will pay off. I

Re: Debian DSELECT

1998-09-14 Thread Kent West
At 09:55 PM 9/13/1998 +0100, you wrote: Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i Joris 2. D O C U M E N T A T I O N ( why all these cryptic files and no real Joris database ??? HTML yes?) There are manpages, which are often quite good help if all you need

Re: Debian DSELECT

1998-09-14 Thread Richard Hoskins
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LaTex, etc, may be far superior to wordprocessors, but again, there's the psychological issue of leaving one world (Windows) and trying to find similarities (WordPerfect, Word, Excel, etc) in the new world (Linux). This is the source of all your problems.

Re: Debian DSELECT

1998-09-14 Thread Kent West
At 02:49 PM 9/14/1998 -0400, you wrote: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LaTex, etc, may be far superior to wordprocessors, but again, there's the psychological issue of leaving one world (Windows) and trying to find similarities (WordPerfect, Word, Excel, etc) in the new world (Linux).

Re: Debian DSELECT

1998-09-14 Thread Steve Tremblett
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Kent West wrote: snip difficult for me to wade through. Typically I come away from a three-hour documentation-reading session having gained nothing. I've often thought about contributing to the documentation projects, yet until I understand how the thing works, I can't

Re: Debian DSELECT

1998-09-14 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Kent West wrote: At 09:55 PM 9/13/1998 +0100, you wrote: Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i Joris 2. D O C U M E N T A T I O N ( why all these cryptic files and no real Joris database ??? HTML yes?) There are

Re: Debian DSELECT

1998-09-14 Thread Vincent Murphy
I would really just suggest that you get a book called Running Linux (O'Reilly) and read it. I learned more about Linux in that one book (I consider myself reasonably proficient in how the thing works) than I did in lots of other bits `n' pieces on the web (slashdot et al.). Alternatively get

Debian DSELECT

1998-09-13 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Lo, Though the DSELECT program is easier than most linux installation programs i wonder if it just aint possible to write something decent on this matter. All of the linux distributions fail on two points and so does DEBIAN. 1. Easy of use and installation (though now i mind less after 2 weeks

Re: Debian DSELECT

1998-09-13 Thread Martin Schulze
I have big difficulties understanding what you're trying to express in your mail. I apologize if I got you wrong. Joris Lambrecht wrote: Lo, Though the DSELECT program is easier than most linux installation programs i wonder if it just aint possible to write something decent on this

Re: Debian DSELECT

1998-09-13 Thread Greg Vence
You going to hear that most of the things you've suggested are being address or 'in the works.' The reason for this is that Debian Linux are from the Unix background. 1) Supported by volunteers. The volunteers are usually building stuff they find useful and donate it back to the public.

Re: Debian DSELECT

1998-09-13 Thread Nicolai Guba
Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i Joris 2. D O C U M E N T A T I O N ( why all these cryptic files and no real Joris database ??? HTML yes?) There are manpages, which are often quite good help if all you need is a summary and a reminder of what

Re: Debian dselect question (solved)

1997-01-14 Thread Robin Rowe
Thanks! Problem solved. Trying the manual approach didn't work (dselect said the contrib directory didn't exist), but the soft links did work: mkdir /install ln -s /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8 /install/stable ln -s /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/contrib /install/contrib Robin There are two ways I can think of to

Debian dselect question

1997-01-13 Thread Robin Rowe
Hi. In October I got Debian on the CD-ROM from Dale Scheetz, but had some problems getting it to work with my CD-ROM. I got sidetracked and have only recently gotten back to trying to finish installing Debian. I now have the base system installed but have a problem installing any packages. When I

Re: Debian dselect question

1997-01-13 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 17:30:01 PST Robin Rowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: When I run dselect it asks me for the location of the Packages-Master file. I assume what it wants is /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/indices/Packages-Master-i386, and therefore enter the directory path to that file. However, dselect

Re: Debian dselect question

1997-01-13 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Robin Rowe wrote: ... objects that it can't find /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/indices/stable/binary-i386. There is no 'stable' directory on my CD. I was just wondering if you had mounted your CD-rom before you ran dselect?

Re: Debian dselect question

1997-01-13 Thread Robin Rowe
No, you should enter /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8, not indices. Sounds logical, but dselect still didn't work. The screen output is something like this: |- | Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device name [] __/dev/sonycd__ |