Re: [ilugd] Information needed about Debian Sarge

2004-02-02 Thread Manish Sharma
And this is what's holding us back - http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- Manish Yahoo! India Mobile: Download the latest polyphonic ringtones. Go to http://in.mobile.yahoo.com ___

Re: [ilugd] Information needed about Debian Sarge

2004-02-01 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: Any clue as to which year in this millenium, the sarge is going to be stable? ;) http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200308/msg00010.html Hello world, Sorry: this is long, and it's probably all relevant. Get a snack and something t

Re: [ilugd] Information needed about Debian Sarge

2004-01-30 Thread Vipul Mathur
Hi Sandip! Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: Aaargh! You expect me to do a complete upgrade over network? I dont live in US dude! What about in amchi Dilli! I have been using Debian unstable full-time since July now and am extremely happy with it! Agreed that here I've very few download constraints--s

Re: [ilugd] Information needed about Debian Sarge

2004-01-30 Thread Pankaj Kaushal
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 13:08, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > Pankaj Kaushal wrote: > > do a apt-get update;apt-get upgrade. > > Aaargh! You expect me to do a complete upgrade over network? I dont live > in US dude! What about in amchi Dilli! Hey its not too much of a pain. you'll need to download no

Re: [ilugd] Information needed about Debian Sarge

2004-01-30 Thread Manish Sharma
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:08:16PM +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > Pankaj Kaushal wrote: > >Hi Sandeep, > > > >Installing debian is very easy if you know what you are doing. :) > > > >Step 1: [snip] > >Step 4: > >do a apt-get update;apt-get upgrade.

Re: [ilugd] Information needed about Debian Sarge

2004-01-30 Thread Manish Sharma
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 08:48:59AM -0600, Rishabh Manocha wrote: > thanks...i had no idea we i could have done all this to make life > easier...i will try it out ASAP.also since u seem to be pretty fluent with > debian...are there any apt sources which i can put into my sourcs.list

Re: [ilugd] Information needed about Debian Sarge

2004-01-30 Thread Rishabh Manocha
thanks...i had no idea we i could have done all this to make life easier...i will try it out ASAP.also since u seem to be pretty fluent with debian...are there any apt sources which i can put into my sourcs.list for security patch downloadsalso the kernel i am currently running is 2.2.20(the on

Re: [ilugd] Information needed about Debian Sarge

2004-01-30 Thread M. Balakrishna Pillai
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:00:31PM -0600, Rishabh Manocha wrote: > As everyone knows...debian is hell to install...however apt does tend to > make your job easier...i just installed debian unstable(sid) on my machine > today. > the way i did is: > downloaded first two cd's of woody and installed th

Re: [ilugd] Information needed about Debian Sarge

2004-01-30 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
Pankaj Kaushal wrote: Hi Sandeep, Installing debian is very easy if you know what you are doing. :) Step 1: You need is either the first cd from the stable branch or the stable boot floppies. Step2: Install the bare minimum debian system from the first cd or your boot floppies. this will get your

Re: [ilugd] Information needed about Debian Sarge

2004-01-29 Thread Pankaj Kaushal
Hi Sandeep, Installing debian is very easy if you know what you are doing. :) Step 1: You need is either the first cd from the stable branch or the stable boot floppies. Step2: Install the bare minimum debian system from the first cd or your boot floppies. this will get your network going. Step

Re: [ilugd] Information needed about Debian Sarge

2004-01-29 Thread Rishabh Manocha
ummmsorry to tell you this but i am ot in delhi...i am actually in the US studying..so i have access to some really fast ISP's and hence i keep downloading all the new distributions that come out. newayz...sorry about this. Rishabh -- Rishabh Manocha http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/rmanocha ***

Re: [ilugd] Information needed about Debian Sarge

2004-01-29 Thread vivek khurana
Hi! Rishab This might sound as noise to some ppl but can i borrow your debian cds(if u r from delhi) for 2 days to install debian on my machine. I cannot download cd images as i have dial up conection to internet. bye vivek = Maling for the love of SHARKS .^`. .^_

Re: [ilugd] Information needed about Debian Sarge

2004-01-29 Thread Rishabh Manocha
As everyone knows...debian is hell to install...however apt does tend to make your job easier...i just installed debian unstable(sid) on my machine today. the way i did is: downloaded first two cd's of woody and installed that...then downloaded first two cd's of sid put them in...changed my /etc/ap

[ilugd] Information needed about Debian Sarge

2004-01-29 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
I have been wanting to try out Debian for quite a while. However, a look at the packages in the "stable" distrib(http://packages.debian.org/stable/) put me off. So I decided to take a look at the "testing" distrib(http://packages.debian.org/testing/). These seemed pretty good. So I decided to