Sorry, I have to fix a typing mistake.
To link create a link you should use the ln command not ls.
Best wishes,
Paulo.
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Paulo José da Silva e Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ph.D. Student in Applied Math.
University of São Paulo - Brazil
http://www.ime.usp.br/~rsilva
May the code be with you :-)
On 18/1/2000 Irving Frederick wrote:
I just installed a base potato system using the
current disk downloads
from the Debian FTP site. All went well until I
tried to mount my cdrom
drive. I was given an error message to the effect
that the cdrom device
does not exist. I then went to my /dev
In attempting to install Debian on a G3 powerbook I have encountered a
number of minor problems:
1. No floppy drive. Connectivity is no problem (ethernet/external
scsi/cdrom) but not having a CD or another linux system to make an image
has made things difficult. Though most of the difficulties I
On 14/1/2000 David Grant Cheney wrote:
1. No floppy drive. Connectivity is no problem (ethernet/external
scsi/cdrom) but not having a CD or another linux system to make an image
has made things difficult. Though most of the difficulties I have had
could have been avoided if it weren't for:
2.
do the potato boot-disks contain the base package selecion menue? i used
the disks from before a week and did run in troubel with this.
gerhard
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Clyde Wilson wrote:
Has anyone installed the Potato base from floppies and then used
apt-get or dselect using apt to install other packages?
Yes, and I downloaded the images via a Linux Slackware machine, so I could
execute dd without problem.
Fortunately, I had the PPP
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Clyde Wilson wrote:
I have so far found this to be an impossible task! Guess CD installation
has spoiled me...
I haven't tried this, but...
if you mount the CD on a web server and you change the contents of
/etc/apt/sources.list to point to the web server, I think you
At 08:54 AM 12/29/99 -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote:
Has anyone installed the Potato base from floppies and then used
apt-get or dselect using apt to install other packages?
Yes.
I have so far found this to be an impossible task! Guess CD installation
has spoiled me...
No problem here, what is your
It seems that the two Perl versions add some confusion.
Without correcting this, apt-get and dselect using apt
don't work
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Onno wrote:
At 08:54 AM 12/29/99 -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote:
Has anyone installed the Potato base from floppies and then used
apt-get or dselect
Has anyone installed the Potato base from floppies and then used
apt-get or dselect using apt to install other packages?
I have so far found this to be an impossible task! Guess CD installation
has spoiled me...
Clyde Wilson wrote:
Has anyone installed the Potato base from floppies and then used
apt-get or dselect using apt to install other packages?
Yes. This week, on a ThinkPad. Once I got IP-Masquerading to work so
I could upgrade over the Internet, I only had the incredibly annoying
Perl 5
Thanks Carl, it was the Perl 5 problem.
Now it works as advertised.
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Carl Fink wrote:
Clyde Wilson wrote:
Has anyone installed the Potato base from floppies and then used
apt-get or dselect using apt to install other packages?
Yes. This week, on a ThinkPad. Once I
Hi!
I installed potato today on a new machine. Everything went
smoothly. However, the bit after you reboot and choose a user account
and root password in which you select the packages profile for your
machine (i.e., if you're gonna use it as a sever, scientific
workstation, developer...)
hello,
I have to repartition my disk (completely) and have potato system
there now, but would just like to install it directly this time since
upgrading from slink did not go very well the first time.
I downloaded the boot floppy and root disk and the base2_2.tgz files
et al, I intend to
Hi all,
I'm new to Debian, but familiar with Linux.
I run a couple of PowerMacs with LinuxPPC and now I tried to install a
potato snapshot on one of these machines.
The preparation I did are as follows:
Have a booting LinuxPPC installation, prepared a 1GB partiton with
mke2fs. Mounted the
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 12:20:40 +0200, Andreas Tobler wrote:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of adduser:
adduser depends on perl-base; however:
Package perl-base is not installed.
This is the root of your problem. Many other packages fail because their
maintainer scripts
Hi,
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 12:20:40 +0200, Andreas Tobler wrote:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of adduser:
adduser depends on perl-base; however:
Package perl-base is not installed.
This is the root of your problem. Many other packages
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 14:11:27 +0200, Andreas Tobler wrote:
Try downloading a perl-base .deb and installing that with dpkg
(dpkg -OEG -i perl-base*deb).
I have the whole snapshot on CD-Rom.
Did so: dpkg -OEG -i perl-base_5.004.05-1.deb
- Skipping deselected package perl-base
Oops. That
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 14:11:27 +0200, Andreas Tobler wrote:
Try downloading a perl-base .deb and installing that with dpkg
(dpkg -OEG -i perl-base*deb).
I have the whole snapshot on CD-Rom.
Did so: dpkg -OEG -i perl-base_5.004.05-1.deb
- Skipping
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 14:47:35 +0200, Andreas Tobler wrote:
Unpacking perl-base
dpkg:dependency problems prevent configuration of perl-base:
perl-base depends on perl5-base;however;
Package perl5-base is not installed.
..
When I try to install a perl-5*-base I get an error about
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Andreas Tobler wrote:
Setting up libc6 (2.1.1-12.2) ...
Current default timezone: 'US/Eastern'.
Local time is now: Wed Dec 31 21:42:03 EST 1969.
Universal Time is now: Thu Jan 1 02:42:03 UTC 1970.
Run `tzconfig' if you wish
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 13:45:47 -0500, Brad wrote:
The file /usr/sbin/update-rc.d is in the dpkg package, i'm not sure why
you don't have it...
It's not the file Andreas doesn't have; it's the interpreter (/usr/bin/perl)
he doesn't have yet (as it's a symlink managed by update-alternatives and
I've had similiar problems installing debian until I switched
base2_2.tgz files.
The current file (2.1.99.0-1999-07-20) seems to have these problems
with no easy way of solving them. Using a slightly older file
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 13:45:47 -0500, Brad wrote:
The file /usr/sbin/update-rc.d is in the dpkg package, i'm not sure why
you don't have it...
It's not the file Andreas doesn't have; it's the interpreter
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 13:45:47 -0500, Brad wrote:
The file /usr/sbin/update-rc.d is in the dpkg package, i'm not sure why
you don't have it...
It's not the file Andreas doesn't have; it's the interpreter (/usr/bin/perl)
he doesn't have yet (as it's a
I must be doing something wrong.
I downloaded the entire pototo dist
main/binary-i386
main/disks-i386
contrib/binary-i386
non-free/binary-i386
And installed it via install.bat from dos.
When after going through the initial base install to I reboot and
dselect runs. I just choose Workstation
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