where in the world is /usr/bin/rpc.bootparamd?
Hello!
I'm installing Debian Linux 1.3.1 the hard way, package by package, floppy by
flloppy. Yes, i'm a masochist! :-) But it is very instructive, since i have
never installed any Linux in my life. :-( The PC i'm trying to do this is a
dusty 486, w/o any network connections and w/o a CD-ROM.
I'd like to make it run LAM MPI, a message-passing environment for workstation
networks, in single node mode. LAM MPI needs some TCP/IP services that i
tried to provide with the packages netbase and netstd. The fact is it
complains about a missing /usr/bin/rpc.bootparamd. Since i couldn't find it in
any package, i guess it is in the installation packages; possibly a misinformed
answer to an installation question prevented from being installed. However, i
don't know which is the package that rpc.bootparamd belongs to, and wouldn't
like to install everything again, for obvious reasons. :-)
So, my two questions are:
1) is the above exposition true? Does rpc.bootparamd really lie in some base
package that belongs to the installation?
2) how can i install it w/o having to reinstall everything i have in my dusty
and trusty 486 computer?
BTW two hurrahs for Debian Linux:
1) Debian is really easy to install. Maybe even easier than Windows 95. And
has more intelligent installer, i'm sure.
2) The dusty and trusty 486 was not a good computer to run Win95, but it had
its revival: it runs Linux very fast!
I thank you in advance!
Regards,
--Hilton
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hfernandes@geocities.com
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5657
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