Re: Re: InfoMagic's new LDR

1997-05-31 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, 13 May 1997, Portuesi Simone wrote: > > > I'd like just to add one thing to it, it'll be confortable (at least for > > me) that the mirroring can be done from another computer. I'll explain > > better: you che the Packages file on a PC connected

Re: CD organization (was Re: InfoMagic's new LDR)

1997-05-14 Thread tgakem
> > > RE: this product in general: > > What would be expected? The product contains multiple > distributions and is not oriented towards Debian. The vendor has quite a > range of products. Those who want Debian Linux should get it from vendors > who use Debian, like Debian, advocate Debian

Re: Re: InfoMagic's new LDR

1997-05-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 13 May 1997, Portuesi Simone wrote: > I'd like just to add one thing to it, it'll be confortable (at least for > me) that the mirroring can be done from another computer. I'll explain > better: you che the Packages file on a PC connected to internet, bring > it to a PC not connected to the

Re: Re: InfoMagic's new LDR

1997-05-13 Thread Portuesi Simone
> > Even better would be a tool for the end user with ftp/http capability > to compare his CD against the current image over the internet and > pick up any updates automatically. How about something that built > a symlink tree on the HD with all symlinks initially pointing to the > CD copy of eac

CD organization (was Re: InfoMagic's new LDR)

1997-05-13 Thread Paul Wade
RE: this product in general: What would be expected? The product contains multiple distributions and is not oriented towards Debian. The vendor has quite a range of products. Those who want Debian Linux should get it from vendors who use Debian, like Debian, advocate Debian, breathe Debia

Re: InfoMagic's new LDR

1997-05-13 Thread tgakem
> > Hi, > > I've been a buildmaster making deliveries for commercial products in > the past and religiously followed a "build-&-install-clean-and > -test-before-delivery" method. (See summary at end.) > > [ ramble sounds good to me ] > > You're responsible for what you deliver--they're resp

Re: InfoMagic's new LDR

1997-05-13 Thread Christian Leutloff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Benedict Chong) writes: > Is anyone going to come up with a similar install guide? It is maintained with the boot-floppies package by Sven Rudolph. A german version is (will be) available to (from my homepage). Bye Christian -- Christian Leutloff, Aachen, Germany eMai

Re: InfoMagic's new LDR

1997-05-12 Thread Leslie Mikesell
> > provide a consistency check for complete CD's, so that companies like > > InfoMagic can easily check what they press. I have the impression the > > Eric, I suspect you are correct. I do have a tendancy to over-react to > bad situations. What kind of consistency check would we need to > pr

Re: InfoMagic's new LDR

1997-05-12 Thread Leslie Mikesell
> > Hmmm, This makes two straight that the infomagic folks have sent out with > > a bad Debian distribution on it. Their December, 1996 LDR with the > > original Debian 1.2.0 was also full of problems. Not to mention they > > still haven't put anything about how to install Debian in the bookle

Re: InfoMagic's new LDR

1997-05-12 Thread Edward McKnight
ht be responsible to verify a master CD before it goes to press. Regards--and thanks for a fine distribution! --emk > Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 12:49:33 -0400 (EDT) > From: Francis Swasey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: InfoMagic's new LDR

1997-05-12 Thread Benedict Chong
Sheesh. I ordered the latest LDR because I was hoping to get the (according to Infomagic's sale blurp) latest 'stable' Debian release. The case of the missing links reminds me of the reason why I never used the original Yggdrasil Linux CDROM I ordered ages ago. Looks like I didn't get what I pai

Re: InfoMagic's new LDR

1997-05-12 Thread Francis Swasey
On Mon, 12 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I wonder, is it time to request they stop distributing Debian? > > provide a consistency check for complete CD's, so that companies like > InfoMagic can easily check what they press. I have the impression the Eric, I suspect you are correct.

Re: InfoMagic's new LDR

1997-05-12 Thread A. M. Varon
On Mon, 12 May 1997, Francis Swasey wrote: > Hmmm, This makes two straight that the infomagic folks have sent out with > a bad Debian distribution on it. Their December, 1996 LDR with the > original Debian 1.2.0 was also full of problems. Not to mention they > still haven't put anything about

Re: InfoMagic's new LDR

1997-05-12 Thread tgakem
> > Hmmm, This makes two straight that the infomagic folks have sent out with > a bad Debian distribution on it. Their December, 1996 LDR with the > original Debian 1.2.0 was also full of problems. Not to mention they > still haven't put anything about how to install Debian in the booklet >

Re: InfoMagic's new LDR

1997-05-12 Thread Francis Swasey
Hmmm, This makes two straight that the infomagic folks have sent out with a bad Debian distribution on it. Their December, 1996 LDR with the original Debian 1.2.0 was also full of problems. Not to mention they still haven't put anything about how to install Debian in the booklet they include

InfoMagic's new LDR

1997-05-12 Thread tgakem
Hi everyone, I bought the latest release of InfoMagic's famous 6-CD-ROM set, in order to upgrade my system from 1.1.4 to 1.2.10. I found that several files were missing. Among them is the xlib6_3.2-1a.1.deb package which is vital to be able to run X-applications. At least this file was present