Re: Clean hamm installation
Yes, I understand very well NOW that there are no hamm disks yet.
My point was that this upgrade of Debian is really expecting a lot
of "typical Debian users." At first glance, I thought that
disks under dists/unstable/main/disks-i386 would actually belong
to the unstable distribution. It is such slight perception that can
really make things difficult for most users. For instance, Scott
Ellis' Mini-HOWTO is very good - I followed all of the portions
of it that called out specific packages and that didn't seem like
"suggestions" (as opposed to "necessary steps"). In this case,
I did not upgrade libgdm1 and perl and due to another (slight)
circumstance, was left with an unusable system after I launched
dselect.
The crux of my statement was to say that I have used Debian
a long time. I keep up (pretty much) with debian-user. And yet,
I was stung HARD by the upgrade to unstable. I do not want to
imply that I feel wronged - it IS "unstable" after all. I am
just trying to say that this upgrade has a long way to go
before it doesn't turn off a lot of "typical" Linux/Debian
users.
I still tell everyone that Debian is the greatest Linux distribution.
Paul
On 16-Jan-98 Norbert Veber wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 1998 at 10:07:33AM -0700, Paul Rightley wrote:
>>
>> On 15-Jan-98 Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> > Is it already possible to install a new system directly with hamm? I
>> > need
>> > to do an install tonight, and want it to be hamm.
>> >
>> > There aren't an hamm boot disks yet. You have to install bo, then
>> > upgrade.
>> >
>> I wish that this were the case... Unfortunately, under
>> dists/unstable/main/disks-i386/current, there are boot
>> disks. I now understand that, but I didn't this weekend --
>
> uhm, if you look more carefully, you'll notice that the
> /ac121/linux/distributions/debian/hamm/hamm/disks-i386/current is actually a
> link to: ../../../bo/disks-i386/current which are the bo disks. So in fact
> there are NO hamm disks (yet).
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