[Gllug] Debian gateways

Formi formi at blueyonder.co.uk
Thu Jan 31 02:36:08 UTC 2002


On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Axel Segebrecht wrote:

> > Quick question
> > How do you set the default gateway in Debian.
>
> sorry - no clue...
>
> > This apt thing is
> > bloody brilliant you know. Installed the base system off the CD and
> > then added the woody sources to apt and it just works like a charm.
> > Installed the whole system via apt. Great. It's a very close thing
> > between OpenBSD ports and Debian apt as far as I'm concerned.
> > Mandrake and RedHat can get stuffed with their stupid rpm based
> > nonsense. Now if only someone would port all the cool
> > hardware-detection stuff from Mandrake to Debian (I wouldn't know
> > where to start), we would have the perfect distro.


 Are you aware of the mdk urpm* utilities, they are wrappers around rpm,
 that will solve package dependencies, download from ftp, nfs, ...

 I have been using them a lot lately with a couple of minor glitches.

                                        Formi.


>
> great idea - the installer is really good in Mandrake but the rest
> kind of sucks... although I find the Debian installer ain't too bad :)
>
> > --
> > Stephen Harker
> > steve at pauken.co.uk, http://www.pauken.co.uk
> > "                                    "  -  Marcel Marceau
>
> Axel
>
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