Re: 2 GB limit with ext2

[Andreas Leitner <nozone@sbox.tugraz.at>]

On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 20:33, Emil Pedersen wrote:
> Oh, and testing would probably do just fine.  For my "normal" work
> machine I use a testing "enhanced" potato.  apt-0.5.4 let you keep one
> default release but gives you the abbility to "hand pick" things from
> testing.  Very neat.  I also use it (apt-get source/dpkg-buildpackage)
> to get testing packages compiled to my system, that if installed the
> standard way would have dragged in to much other new packages.  It
> doesn't always work, but most of the times.  Well worth a try...

I have heard that apt supports this now for a while, but never found out how to set it up and how to use it. Does anybody have any pointers?


tia,
Andreas