[Wylug-help] Networking Linux PCs

[David Pashley]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Friday 29 November 2002 11:29 am, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, David Pashley wrote:
> > > > Installing from a firewire CDROM onto a laptop with new graphics and
> > > > sound yet installing fine with no intervention is where I suspect
> > > > debian + BSD would suffer.
> >
> > If you use the 6 floppies, shouldn't cause too much problems to get the
> > CD working in debian installer.
>
> But that's what I mean.  Not too much effort, compared with RedHat works
> first time, and Mandrake 'here's a list of modules you might need'.  Not
> that is a slur against mandrake as the list was about 200 strong.
>
debian has 1 kernel disk, one installer disk and 4 driver disks which is
basically /lib/module/$(uname -r).

> > Debian installed pcmcia during setup and dumps it after install if it
> > isn;t needed. You get the option of loading additional modules during the
> > install. Useful if you have a floppy drive and a pcmcia CD.
>
> Same with RedHat from what I've seen.
>

> > Please don't confuse dpkg with apt. There is little to choose between
> > dpkg and rpm, apart from rpm allows file dependancies. apt works well
> > with both dpkg and rpm as connectiva have shown.
>
> Can't dpkg also support 'optional' dependencies, so you can see what
> packages it would like to have installed but doesn't need.
>
Debian packages have depends, recommends and suggests. Dpkg only cares about
depends, but apt looks at recommends too. I think some of the frontends like
dselct and aptitude also look at suggests.

> > Ask people who look after many servers and ask if they want to be
> > upgrading them every 4 months.
>
> True, but then ask the same people if they're using the latest versions of
> RedHat.  Running something like Redhat 7.2 gives you pretty good stability.
>
> --
> "Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one idea."
>                                                      -- Alain
good to see your automagic sig selector is still workign remarkable well.

- --
David Pashley
david@davidpashley.com
Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQE96haiYsCKa6wDNXYRArjcAJoDELgyNi1yszMue23iMPmgCot6HACgp7NF
TEVzZgSbM3nGsCShP70YQ2k=
=WNt7
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----