Hi Brian,
I think if you just point "apt" (deselect method) to the potato directory
it will take care of the dependencies and any potential conflicts you may
have.
Going from ver 2.1 to potato is probably 80 megs or more, but then with DSL
I guess that's not going to be a problem. ;') lucky guy!
Terry
Brian Lavender wrote:
> I got Debian 2.1 working with a base system and I went back and
> installed a number of potato packages from the net. DSL line is great.
>
> # dselect
>
> I installed a number of packages including XFree86 3.3.3 since I have
> a matrox Millenium card which is not supported under 3.3.2
>
> I am thinking about putting the 2.2.10 kernel on the machine. I saw
> what looked like the 2.2.9 kernel on the package list, but I am
> wondering if I should just download the source and compile it the way
> I want it. I am wondering if this is going to create problems with the
> package manager. Will it?
>
> Is it possible to install potato from scratch?
>
> brian
>
> On Sun, 20 Jun 1999 05:59:24 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>
> >How do I install Debian 2.2?
> >I found the distribution on cdrom.com
> >in the potato directory, but there seems to be
> >no rescue disk or base system. Do I have to create
> >these?
> >
> >brian
>
> --
> Brian Lavender
> Sacramento, CA
> http://www.brie.com/brian/
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