greetings all and debian general question
Hello All,
I am new to the list. I wanted to findout from the
experts on this list regarding their evaluations of
debian. The uses for my server will be webhosting,
webemail, dns, firewall, database(backend)?Any
comments or heads up info is appreciated.
Also, I am evaluating debian 2.1r4 from
ftp.sourceforge.net, is this a good source for
downloads, if not, where?
Is debian 2.1r4 stable, is it only 2 cd's?
thanks,
Moe
--- Chanop Silpa-Anan <chanop@syseng.anu.edu.au>
wrote:
> Once upon a time, I heard Gregory Guthrie say
>
> > I have an old (pre-2.x) system, upgraded to 2.0,
> then 2.1, 2.1R4.
> >
> > 1) I wanted to move into X GUI, and have a lot of
> X11 stuff under
> > /usr/X11R6/...
> > but do not have XF86Setup.
> Use xf86config instead.
>
> > I ran dselect from my 2.1 disk (Essential Debian),
> and from both of my
> > 2.1R4 disks, but found no X11 stuff on any of
> them.
> May be on 2nd CD, couldn't remember since I usually
> use apt http/ftp,
> sometimes dselect/apt.
>
> > I tried to point dselect to www.debian/org via
> FTP, but it wanted to
> > download 70+ MB, so I declined.
> have you used apt or apt-method in dselect??
> > I had assumed it would only download a few
> upgrades, and/or give me a
> > selection option of packages before such a big
> download.
> Yes, put package on hold.
>
> > Seems like this should be easy, what am I missing?
> Easy way is to use apt, and put unwant package on
> hold.
>
> Try sth like
>
> apt-get update; apt-get install xserver-svga
>
> After you configure XF86Config, X should run, IIRC,
> at least with X. Install
> your prefer X11 software after that.
>
>
> > 2) If I put in various CDroms, does dselect
> remember what programs are
> > available on each, or do I need to roll all of
> them through each time I
> > want to find something?
> I think dselect does remember things, but you have
> to have dselect-multicd
> installed. Better way is apt, via apt-cdrom.
>
> > 3) I see that Debian 2.1 is not Linux 2.2, but is
> 2.0.30; I want to get
> > proper parport printer/Zip sharing, which seems to
> be in Kernel 2.2, what
> > is the easiest way to get this.
> Since you have slink, install kernel-package and
> roll your own latest
> 2.2.15pre16 should be a good idea.
>
> > 4) On initial boot, we got a nice dselect'ish
> menu, "what type of install
> > to do, .." with a default set of packages. Is
> there a dselect option for this?
> Couldn't remember what is that question for!
>
>
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>
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> | Australian National University
> |
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> |
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