Re: Clean hamm installation

1998-01-21 Thread Paul Rightley
No, I never used --force-blah. The trouble was that I had xdm going, and my video card cannot start X more than once (unless there is a reboot in between) - my card is a Diamond Stealth 3000 3D. Also, I had followed the upgrade mini-HOWTO, but had not upgraded libgdbm and perl (since this was on

Re: Clean hamm installation

1998-01-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jan 16, 1998 at 03:15:14PM -0700, Paul Rightley wrote: > Yes, I understand very well NOW that there are no hamm disks yet. > My point was that this upgrade of Debian is really expecting a lot > of "typical Debian users." At first glance, I thought that > disks under dists/unstable/main/dis

Re: Clean hamm installation

1998-01-16 Thread Paul Rightley
Yes, I understand very well NOW that there are no hamm disks yet. My point was that this upgrade of Debian is really expecting a lot of "typical Debian users." At first glance, I thought that disks under dists/unstable/main/disks-i386 would actually belong to the unstable distribution. It is such

Re: Clean hamm installation

1998-01-16 Thread Norbert Veber
On Fri, Jan 16, 1998 at 10:07:33AM -0700, Paul Rightley wrote: > > On 15-Jan-98 Ben Pfaff wrote: > >Is it already possible to install a new system directly with hamm? I > > need > >to do an install tonight, and want it to be hamm. > > > > There aren't an hamm boot disks yet. You have t

Re: Clean hamm installation

1998-01-16 Thread Paul Rightley
On 15-Jan-98 Ben Pfaff wrote: >Is it already possible to install a new system directly with hamm? I need >to do an install tonight, and want it to be hamm. > > There aren't an hamm boot disks yet. You have to install bo, then > upgrade. > I wish that this were the case... Unfortunatel

Re: Clean hamm installation

1998-01-15 Thread Sten Anderson
Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Maarten Boekhold wrote: > > > I noticed that the hamm/main/disks-i386/current directory points to > > bo/disks-i386/current. Does this mean that I can install a clean libc6 > > system using those install disks? Or would a bette

Re: Clean hamm installation

1998-01-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
Is it already possible to install a new system directly with hamm? I need to do an install tonight, and want it to be hamm. There aren't an hamm boot disks yet. You have to install bo, then upgrade. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Clean hamm installation

1998-01-15 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Maarten Boekhold wrote: > I noticed that the hamm/main/disks-i386/current directory points to > bo/disks-i386/current. Does this mean that I can install a clean libc6 > system using those install disks? Or would a better approach be to > install a minimal bo system and then