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On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> > you should not upgrade ssh when dselect or dpkg is running inside
> > a ssh session.
>
> If anybody else knows of any more gotchas with dselect, I'd love to hear
On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
> 'single' still has many daemon processes running - you can do some
> repair or maintainence work in single mode but you can't safely do an
> fsck because the disks are mounted rw.
>
> some other tasks (like moving a filesystem from one partition to
>
On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:
>
> > I am currently working on a sort of HOWTO for dselect. It seems to
> > be a good idea to include a separate section dedicated to possible x
> > hassles.
>
> there's one other similar "gotcha" which i've r
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:
> Yeah, this is a common problem. You should not upgrade x with dselect
> when running it in an xterm. Actually, I believe to have seen it once,
> somewhere in some documentation, but I can't remember where. Maybe I
> just remember it from neing mentioned on
On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Charles Blair wrote:
> Thanks to Joost Kooi for suggesting I could bypass my mis-installed
> X installation by typing ``linux single'' at the LILO prompt. This
> allowed me to delete some stuff and salvage my system.
'single' still has many daemon processes running - you can
Marco Shinobu Matsumura wrote:
>
> .. I think it`d be interesting to describe what
> was my mistake: after following all the "how to update from an existing
> debian-1.2" instructions, I started dselect in a Xterm, and in the
> middle of the process dselect asked: "In order to upgrade to XFre
>
> Thanks to Joost Kooi for suggesting I could bypass my mis-installed
> X installation by typing ``linux single'' at the LILO prompt. This
> allowed me to delete some stuff and salvage my system.
>
> As a minor matter, typing ``linux emergency'' did not work. I was
> able to get on.
Thanks to Joost Kooi for suggesting I could bypass my mis-installed
X installation by typing ``linux single'' at the LILO prompt. This
allowed me to delete some stuff and salvage my system.
As a minor matter, typing ``linux emergency'' did not work. I was
able to get on. Even though I w
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