Hello y'all. [anon coward stepping outta shadows]
As per leaving RH7.1 to climb aboard the righteous Debian wagon... I'm about to (after some help from MJR and AS at work) do this at home on a P 533 with RH7.1, where I've been trying all sorts of sound/music related stuff on it, but my main concern is a Toshiba laptop I use for work; it's running win2K, and I mean to do some sound on it. My poison is PD (www.pure-data.org). The laptop's got usual poor sound card - Yamaha AC-XG. The thing is, it is my work machine so I would probably get killed if I lost data, though of course I can back up to server, etc. Anyone have any experience on win2k/Debian dual-booting? Just how hard would it be to get an almost-risk-free system running that? I did it with DeadRat/win98 and NT, but that was I suspect NOT a rock-solid effort.
Sound config on it would be OSS, since I bought the drivers.Yummy.
cheers, David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew John Savory" andrew@luminas.co.uk To: "Earl Brannigan" earl.brannigan@lindenhouse.co.uk Cc: main@lists.alug.org.uk Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 3:50 PM Subject: Re: [Alug] Debian is my friend .... I think
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Earl Brannigan wrote:
Last night I finally ditched a DeadRat 6.2 installation (needed cleaning
up
anyway) and moved to a debian potato installation (bargain from Linux Expo..... free beer as well!).
Congratulations!
1)loved the way apt can just plough through your CDs and catalogue all
the
packages (during the install), but how do you get it to do this in
normal
running (I thought I had the idea but ended up breaking apt!), ie I want
it
to now search through the rest of my catalogue of CDs.
Ok, debian's package management only works for debian archives/cds. You can edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list and add additional CDs if you want, or just use the net. I recommend the following lines:
# Stable deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/non-US stable non-US/main
non-US/contrib non-US/non-free
# Testing Source deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/non-US testing non-US/main
non-US/contrib non-US/non-free
# Security deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
To tell apt it has new archives, use: apt-get update
2)Having broken apt by replacing the file:/file/binary/for/install/disk1 line with something that doesn't work is there a quick way to get it
back.
Or can I just tell apt to go search my CDs again (re: 1).
Again, edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file. The CD line should be something like:
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1
(20010427)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
3)dselect is all very well but I would prefer a nice way to group say
all X
Packages together. Perhaps I'm missing something.
Tasks often do this for you. eg task-gnome-desktop, task-games.
4)Where is XConfigurator ?
In Debian r2.2, you are best off with XF86Setup.
Anyways, any thoughts, experiences or hints and tips to assist in making
my
transfer to the king of Distros as painless as possible much
appreciated.
Ok, if you need more up-to-date software, grab the source from the testing archive and build it locally. Gives you the benefit of latest software on a rock-solid platform. Try:
apt-get -b source antiword
(assuming you've added the deb-src lines to sources.list)
Andrew.
-- All views are my own .... who else would want them?
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