Re: Install/Config q's
On Wednesday 20 December 2000 23:50, D-Man wrote:
> Last night I installed Potato using the 'network' method. It was
> very nice! (especially with my 100Mb/s connection).
>
> Debian has more packages in the distro than RH! Very cool! I found
> some debian packages that I hadn't been able to find rpms for
> previously. The only problem is that many of the packages are old
> (ie gnome-*, sawmill, python, etc). When was Potato released? (that
> may be the problem and woody might have the newer packages) How
> unstable is woody?
First of all I will ask what you have in your /etc/apt/sources.list?
To keep really current on the gnome stuff you might want to add
deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main
I've been using ever since potato was released. The only big problem
was a _little_ libc6 meltdown a long time ago (the fix was actually
pretty easy for my machine). Other people have had some problems with
perl5.6. But for the most part I would say it is very stable.
> When I looked at the inittab file, it had a comment saying that
> runlevels 2-5 are mutlti-user. Ok, but not enough information. I
> have been using RH for 2 years, and it has runlevel 5 for X and 3 for
> full multi-user. Does Debian use the same runlevels? I know some
> distros use different nubers than RH. (The inittab should explicitly
> list each runlevel)
Yeah that one confused me for a second too since I came from RPM based
distros. As David noted, just look through /etc/init.d and
/etc/rc?.d/. If you wanted to make runlevel three a console mode, just
change the S??xdm (or gdm or whatever login manager you use) to a
K??xdm or just remove the link.
> I'll probably be back later with more configuration questions, but
> that's all that's on my mind for now.
>
> -D
HTH,
jt
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