Re: Potato on laptops
> At 02:49 PM 12/17/1999 -0800, Drew Parsons wrote:
>
> >Did you try wvdial? I found that that worked for me while pppd was
> >misconfigured.
>
> Just tried... and got some progress !
> The modem is dialing. And it goes online, but comes
> a message:
>
> 'Don't know what to do'
> 'Starting pppd and hoping for the best'
>
> Then I try to open Netscape and nothing.
>
> Do Ihave to add something in wvconfig ?
>
> >
> >Have you set up apt? You have to enter the address of the ftp server you
> ...................
> >By the way
> > apt-get dist-upgrade
> >will upgrade from slink to potato.
>
> Yes. I have already apt.
> /But of course untill I can't get online from Linux I can't do that.
>
> Thanks
> Dada
Actually, you could use MSwin to download raw debs that you want into
a section of your MSwin space, mount them under linux as type vfat,
and use a file: URL in /etc/apt/sources.list
What I'm not quite clear on is how it gathers its package info, but I'm
sure someone else here will comment on that. As a side thought, is anyone
cutting potato CDs? If not, I see a market for it. Debian Under Construction.
Make the djinni bottle yellow with the black diamond on it. Or something.
-* Heather Stern * Starshine Technical Services * star@starshine.org *-
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