From: Stratton, D. MSER:E. <Dou...@ge...> - 2004-07-27 21:57:15
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What is the difference between the two debian installs then? One is quite large. Debian-3.0r0.ext3.1gb.bz2 Debian-20040605.ext3.1610mb.bz2 Thanks -----Original Message----- From: ti...@fu... [mailto:ti...@fu...] Sent: Tue, July 27, 2004 12:05 PM To: Stratton, Doug MSER:EX Cc: col...@li... Subject: Re: [coLinux-users] What is on the distro? > Can anyone tell me what is installed in the debian disto for colinux? > Or how to find out what is there? I am a linux newbie. I get to work > with it on and off. If you mean the image files, not much. I think most of them are near minimal 'base' systems, ready to start but containing very little applications. Usually you start by updating the package system (in debian, apt-get update and then apt-get dist-upgrade) and then installing some packages that you are interested in (xterm, mozilla-firefox, gcc, ...). Notice that (at least the images I've tried) are unstable/testing, meaning some packages might be broken at times. If you are new to linux, or have not used spesific distribution for a while, it is really good idea to read their documentation, eg., www.debian.org. -- timo |
From: gboutwel <gbo...@pr...> - 2004-07-29 05:43:28
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As I understand it: > What is the difference between the two debian installs then? One is quite > large. > Debian-3.0r0.ext3.1gb.bz2 Is an 2.4.x based Debian 3.0 (stable/woody) 'base/minimal' image. > Debian-20040605.ext3.1610mb.bz2 Is an 2.4.x based Debian (testing/sarge) 'base/minimal' + development tools (for developing colinux) + some spare 'room' (of course cause you need it for development) image George ---------------------------------------- Single? Find Christian Singles like you! http://www.praize.com/singles/ |
From: <ti...@fu...> - 2004-07-28 07:03:09
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> Debian-3.0r0.ext3.1gb.bz2 IIRC, this is stable. Being larger, I assume it has more stuff installed. I don't have it at hand right now so I can't tell what's installed. However, being stable, it means it has ancient gcc 2.95 with quite limited c++ template capabilities, so I didn't use it for long. Hmm, I guess I could use it too, because I have had a few issues with unstable/testing. I'll download it and try to figure out the contents for you in an hour or so. Completely offtopic, if someone knows how to convert .FON fonts so that I use them with Cygwin X (tried, failed) or VNC (haven't tried yet), please let me know. -- timo |
From: Tim H. <ti...@br...> - 2004-07-28 11:23:52
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ti...@fu... wrote: >> Debian-3.0r0.ext3.1gb.bz2 > > IIRC, this is stable. Being larger, I assume it has more stuff > installed. I don't have it at hand right now so I can't tell what's > installed. However, being stable, it means it has ancient gcc 2.95 > with quite limited c++ template capabilities, so I didn't use it for > long. > > Hmm, I guess I could use it too, because I have had a few issues with > unstable/testing. I'll download it and try to figure out the contents > for you in an hour or so. easy way to check what you have installed on debian dpkg -l this will show you a list of all packages and versions > > Completely offtopic, if someone knows how to convert .FON fonts so > that I use them with Cygwin X (tried, failed) or VNC (haven't tried > yet), please let me know. |
From: <ti...@fu...> - 2004-07-28 09:08:53
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> What is the difference between the two debian installs then? One is quite > large. > Debian-3.0r0.ext3.1gb.bz2 > Debian-20040605.ext3.1610mb.bz2 I don't have unmodified 20040605 anymore, but now I have 3.0r2. It is the version for 2.6 kernels. It does not appear to have any end-user applications, it is a simple base system. However, it appears that this stable image, too, has .. crw-r--r-- 1 root root 2. 0 Jun 23 23:33 /dev/ptyp0 ..which means mortal users cant use xterm nor rxvt. Where does this bug come from? -- timo |