Re: Two basic problems I couldn't find docs for

1997-01-09 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: Don Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ...[snip] > > That is true, but if an OS has to be installed three or four times, > something is seriously wrong. > > Daniel > Installing an operating system, that is based on several parts, all coming from diffe

Re: Two basic problems I couldn't find docs for

1997-01-09 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
> From: Don Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ...I think it's "sometimes" valuable to do a couple of trial runs > with a new installation until you start to understand how the whole > thing works, if you can afford the time. I guarantee you, things > become a lot clearer on the third or fourth insta

Re: Two basic problems I couldn't find docs for

1997-01-09 Thread Don Morton
Terrence M. Brannon wrote: > > How do you tell dselect/dpkg "get me back to where I was before I > started adding and removing packages" ? > cd /; rm -rf * then start over :-) Seriously, whether it be mcc-interim (remember that one?!), (what came before slackware, I've alre

Two basic problems I couldn't find docs for

1997-01-08 Thread Terrence M. Brannon
I chose remove from Dselect not knowing what I was in for. I lost pon, poff, etc. 1- I typed dpkg --search pon but it did not show me which pkg pon was in... only where swapon et al were. 2- typing capital U at the line All packages in Dselect does not install the set of packages that debian was