Re: Updating from Storm 2000 to Debian 2.2r2
Hi,
Welcome to Debian!
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001, K. Matthew Victor wrote:
> Greetings, I need some guidance in the task of upgrading my system. I
> currently have installed Storm 2000 which is really Debian 2.2r1
> (Potato) with a few graphical tools to make it easier to install and
> administer for the 'newbie'. Yes? I came to Debian from Red Hat 5.2 -
> 7.0. But I am very new to the 'Deb.' ways, which as I learn them seem
> vastly better. So, anyway: I bought the Debian 2.2r2 binary & src. disk
> sets from Mr. O's Linux site, now I need to find out how to set up apt
> sources.list to enable apt-get upgrade to find the stuff on the CD-ROMs.
Look at 'man apt-cdrom' for administering cdrom's in sources.list.
Also, might want to 'man 5 source.list' for more info. For example
these are my cdrom entries on my Deb box (commented out as I usually
use http entry instead):
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r2 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20001207)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r2 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20001207)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
> Yes? Also, since I've not yet really installed very many of the packages
> from the 3900+ that are readily available I would like to upgrade the
> package index as the initial install of the Storm 2000 did at the end of
You should be able to do this with just a simple 'apt-get update' (as
root). You also might want to introduce yourself to 'apt-cache search
<packagename>' as a useful tool.
> the first full boot up. One last question this time: I often use
> VariCAD for CAD work which I've found to be really great with the XiG 3D
> Accelerated X-server, the XiG server ships with full OpenGL in the Pro.
> version, which is why VariCAD runs better in it than MesaGL. So does,by
> the way, VMWare, which I also use for many of the FEA simulation
> programs that I must use. Anyone using the XiG 3D Accelerated X-server
> on Debian? XiG does'nt support Debian, they say, because of non-standard
> init. and xinit protocols. Thank You in advance any advice is welcome
Since XiG server's proprietary, I'm not that surprised that they provide less
diversity of linux distributions on which their X-server can run.
It's always a matter of tradeoffs...
Hope the above helps and take care,
Daniel
> (p.s. I am reading, or will shortly be, the READMEs on the 2.2r2 disks
> while I await). K. Matthew Victor
>
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Daniel A. Freedman
Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics
Department of Physics
Cornell University
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