Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2002 #714
On Thursday 01 August 2002 3:32 am,
debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2002 : Issue 714
>
> Today's Topics:
> Re: How Do I download Debian from th [ Ron Johnson
> <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> ] Re: How Do I download Debian from th [ Robert
> Ian Smit <robian@wanadoo.nl> ] Re: Holiday arrangements [ Tom
> Massey <tom_massey@pacific.net. ] Network installation problem [
> "Pablo Alberto Wolter Nio" <wolter7 ] How to build an apt-repository from
> [ Chris Kenrick <chrisk@aurema.com> ] configuring gallery problem
> [ Mirek Dobsicek <m.dobsicek@sh.cvut. ] Re: How to build an apt-repository
> f [ Nick Hastings <hastings@physics.uni ] Re: [DEB-USER] Holiday
> arrangements [ Richard Cobbe <cobbe@airmail.net> ] LOCKUP in 2.4 on Dual
> Xeon, SuperTra [ "Johannes Zuegg" <jzuegg@alchemia.c ] Re: How to build an
> apt-repository f [ Nick Hastings <hastings@physics.uni ] Re: Full-screen
> editor in /bin [ Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> ] Re: Holiday
> arrangements [ Tom Cook <tom.cook@adelaide.edu.au> ] Re: *** I
> BADLY WANT OUT !!!!!!!!!** [ Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@mindsprin ] Re:
> ASUS P4S333 SIS 650 SIS 7012 [ Abdul Latip <dullatip@angin.com> ]
> Mutt/Tin/GNUMACS v. gnus/GNUMACS [ Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.o
> ] Re: Full-screen editor in /bin [ Paul Johnson
> <baloo@ursine.dyndns.o ] Re: Full-screen editor in /bin [ Paul
> Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.o ] Re: Rejig apt Config Now That Woody [
> Nick <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk> ]
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 05:16:06PM -0700, Kristen Brown wrote:
> > I am fairly new to Linux and I would like to out
> > Debian on my new PC. I have been to the installation
> > site but I still can't tell what or how to download.
> > It will be going on a Windows box so is there anything
> > I need to know about how to make it work. Thanx,
>
> It depends on a lot of different things. Are you able to burn a
> cdrom?
>
> If so, it's maybe best to download an iso. Ofcourse you also need a
> fast internet connection for this to be viable. Experienced users
> will probably frown at the suggestion of getting a complete
> installation iso. But it enables you to try a few installs without
> "dynamically" downloading all you need time after time.
>
> If you can't burn a cdrom, you can use floppies or buy a cdrom.
>
> If you read the installation manual, which can be found in the
> documentation section of www.debian.org, all is explained.
>
> Linux and Windows can coexist on a system. Do make sure to have a
> backup in case something goes wrong (it shouldn't). Hopefully your
> system has hardware supported by Linux. Most hardware is.
>
> Installing Debian is not that difficult, but some distributions are
> easier to setup for someone who has little knowledge about
> installing an OS. If you can answer questions about disk partitions
> and some simple networking, the Debian installer works perfectly. If
> those questions pose a problem, you might want to try Mandrake or
> Suse first.
>
> Good luck and hopefully you will have fun.
>
> Bob
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 06:44:34PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote:
> > Yes. I configured it, and the test produces:-.
> >
> > fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
>
> I think the problem here is that you don't have a
> local MTA such as postfix, exim, qmail to handle the
> mail. I think fetchmail needs one running to work.
> Given that hard drives are getting substantially large, it's now quite
> practical to store 7 CDs worth of Woody on the hard drive, rather than
> shuffling CDs. In the past my attempts to cajole the CDs into a usable
> apt repository on the hard drive haven't worked. Any ideas how to do
> this, or tools that do it?
>
> - Chris
> Hi,
>
> * Chris Kenrick <chrisk@aurema.com> [020801 11:03]:
> > Given that hard drives are getting substantially large, it's now quite
> > practical to store 7 CDs worth of Woody on the hard drive, rather than
> > shuffling CDs. In the past my attempts to cajole the CDs into a usable
> > apt repository on the hard drive haven't worked. Any ideas how to do
> > this, or tools that do it?
>
> Check out apt-move. It allows you to put everything in your
> /var/apt/cache into a nice repository that apt-get can read. I can't
> remember exacltly how much tweaking is involved but it goes a little
> like this:
>
>
> So with your cd in your sources.list
>
> 0. Create somewhere for your local mirror
> mkdir /mirrors/debian
>
> 1. Put all your packages in the cache
> apt-get --download-only --reinstall upgrade
>
> 2. Copy all the files from you cache to your local mirror
> apt-move update
>
> 3. Clean out your cache.
> apt-get clean
>
> 4. add your mirror to you sources.list
> deb file:/mirrors/debian sid main contrib non-free non-US/main
> non-US/non-free (or whatever your distribution is)
>
>
> Nick.
> Hi again,
>
> * Nick Hastings <hastings@physics.unimelb.edu.au> [020801 11:13]:
> > Check out apt-move. It allows you to put everything in your
> > /var/apt/cache into a nice repository that apt-get can read. I can't
> > remember exacltly how much tweaking is involved but it goes a little
> > like this:
> >
> > 1. Put all your packages in the cache
> > apt-get --download-only --reinstall upgrade
>
> I just realised that this will only put in the packages you already have
> installed. There must be a commend to list all the packages on your cd.
> Perhaps someone else knows how to do this.
>
> Assuming that this command is called "list-all-on-cd", you could replace
> 1. with:
>
> apt-get --download-only --reinstall install `list-all-on-cd`
>
> Nick.
> On 0, Tom Massey <tom_massey@pacific.net.au> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 06:44:34PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote:
> > > Yes. I configured it, and the test produces:-.
> > >
> > > fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> >
> > I think the problem here is that you don't have a
> > local MTA such as postfix, exim, qmail to handle the
> > mail. I think fetchmail needs one running to work.
>
> man fetchmail
> ...
> -m <command>, --mda <command>
> (Keyword: mda) You can force mail to be passed to an MDA
> directly (rather than forwarded to port
> 25) with the -mda or -m option. To avoid losing mail,
> use this option only with MDAs like proc-
> mail or sendmail that return a nonzero status on
> disk-full and other resource-exhaustion errors;
> the nonzero status tells fetchmail that delivery
> failed and prevents the message from being
> deleted off the server. If fetchmail is running as
> root, it sets its userid to that of the target
> user while delivering mail through an MDA. Some
> possible MDAs are "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -f %F
> %T", "/usr/bin/deliver" and "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
> (but the latter is usually redundant as it's
> what SMTP listeners normally forward to). Local
> delivery addresses will be inserted into the MDA
> command wherever you place a %T; the mail message's From
> address will be inserted where you place
> an %F. Do not use an MDA invocation like "sendmail
> -oem -t" that dispatches on the contents of
> To/Cc/Bcc, it will create mail loops and bring the just
> wrath of many postmasters down upon your
> head.
> ...
>
> So you can pipe it straight to procmail.
>
> Tom
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