RE: Debain Installation (was RE: topics for next meeting)

["Paul Sims" <nospam [at] lombard.co.uk>]

I still shudder thinking about trying to install 3.1 a while back. I'l take your word for it that things are easier now. : )

On Tuesday, February 29, 2000 3:23 PM, Bob Ham [SMTP:u9rah [at] dcs.shef.ac.uk] wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Paul Sims wrote:
> 
> > As for installing Debian in a hurry - is this even possible, (at least, 
> > without a Priest of the Black Art of dselect present) unless in the guise 
> > of Corel ; )
> 
> I personally simply select the major selections at the start, eg
> Development Workstation, Network Server, etc, and then completely skip
> the package selection in dselect.  If a package isn't installed that you
> need (like telnetd for Dev Station :/ ) you can just use dpkg to install
> it.
> 
> I stick clear of dselect anyway.  It's a little overwhelming and I
> rarely install anything from the distribution (working mostly from .debs
> from the unstable tree.)  For example, I reinstalled Debian "Slink &
> 1/2" about 2 weeks ago and already have glibc 2.1.3, gcc 2.95.2, XF86
> 3.3.6 and a number of updated packages yet dselect will be nowhere in
> any .bash_history's :)
> 
> Bob


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