Re: Newbie question
jr_martinez@msl.e-mail.com writes:
> - A few months ago I buy a CD with Debian 1.1 distribution included.
> After that, I download Debian 1.2 from www.debian.org.
> I week ago I installed Debian 1.2 but I didn't run dSelect program, in
> that moment. Last night I run dSelect program in order to install
> several packages. When I finished the system was in Debian 1.1. After
> that I reinstall, using floppy disks, Debian 1.2 again. I am not
> very sure what I have rigth know.
>
Hmmm, you know you probably are running Debian 1.2 (or as near as damn
it). That is to say, if you check (with `dpkg -l') which packages you
have, you should find that most of them correspond to the 1.2 release,
not the 1.1 one.
Perhaps the problem is with the `Message of the Day' (the file
/etc/motd, which is printed once a user logs in) or with the login
message (found in the file /etc/issue and printed just before the
login prompt)? In general an installation will (correctly) not
overwrite these files if they exist; so, if they were installed by
Debian 1.1, and not over written then they'll still announce `Debian
1.1', even though the system is 1.2.
If this is the problem, then just edit the files suitably.
Feel free to e-mail me if the problem's more serious.
Cheers,
Graeme
PS. `uname' will only print kernel information (i.e. Linux), it won't
give information about the distribution.
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