Re: bo to hamm upgrade

1997-12-28 Thread Randy Edwards
Scott K. Ellis wrote: Neither. If you remove libc5, you will break your system and have to reinstall completely. I repeat, DO NOT FORCE THE REMOVAL OF LIBC5 UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. Well, although nearly fatal, I didn't have to do a complete reinstall. I did go ahead and remove libc5 and

Re: bo to hamm upgrade

1997-12-28 Thread Will Lowe
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: reinstall. I did go ahead and remove libc5 and was surprised at how many things it broke. It broke things real good. :-) Since I did Yup. :) have a spare partition on this machine I went ahead and used an old copy of Debian 1.2 and installed the

Re: bo to hamm upgrade

1997-12-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 09:30:56PM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: Scott K. Ellis wrote: Neither. If you remove libc5, you will break your system and have to reinstall completely. I repeat, DO NOT FORCE THE REMOVAL OF LIBC5 UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. Well, although nearly fatal, I didn't

bo to hamm upgrade

1997-12-27 Thread Randy Edwards
Does anyone have a set of instructions for hand upgrading a working bo system to the present hamm? I saw some such instructions posted a month or so ago, but didn't have the foresight to save the message. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated; thanks in advance. Regards,

Re: bo to hamm upgrade

1997-12-27 Thread hawk
Does anyone have a set of instructions for hand upgrading a working bo system to the present hamm? I saw some such instructions posted a month or so ago, but didn't have the foresight to save the message. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated; thanks in advance. You can find them

Re: bo to hamm upgrade

1997-12-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 01:14:56PM +0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a set of instructions for hand upgrading a working bo system to the present hamm? I saw some such instructions posted a month or so ago, but didn't have the foresight to save the message. Any assistance

Re: bo to hamm upgrade

1997-12-27 Thread Randy Edwards
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html Thanks Marcus! One quick question if you don't mind: When installing libc6 in place of libc5, should I force the removal of the essential libc5 package first or force the installation of libc6 in addition to

Re: bo to hamm upgrade

1997-12-27 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: Marcus Brinkmann wrote: http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html Thanks Marcus! One quick question if you don't mind: When installing libc6 in place of libc5, should I force the removal of the essential libc5 package first