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Re: mispackaged packages..



On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 10:59:40AM +0200, Eberhard Burr wrote:
>fine from the second drive. The difference between the two drives is,
>that the first one got partitioned by cfdisk during install
Forget cfdisk!
And if you use BSD-disklabels you don't even need a DOS-formatted
partition and MILO...
(but remember to reboot after writing the partition table with fdisk!)

>> We plan on working on docs a bit more.  Unfortunately, most of us are
>> better programmers (and workaholics) than we are at documenting things
>> <g>.  I'll note the suggestions, though, and see if we can improve things
>> for the people who are totally new to Alpha.  To be fair, the main Debian
>> install doc is REALLY lacking as far as good installation instructions.
>> The README that Loic generated with the boot disks is far better and
>> probably should be more prominant on the CDs.

In the meantime I've earned some experience with installing Slink on
an AS200. I can contribute some documentation in English or adapt the
Install-Manual for Alpha in German if anybode is interested. I don't know
the other Alphas, though.

David
-- 
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
  -- Henry Spencer


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