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Post #283,058 by boxley 4/25/07 2:12:24 PM Reply	debian question I download postal_0.66_i386.deb dinking around I find ar -x postal_0.66_i386.deb gives me a control.gz data.gz. So how do I actually get the beast installed? thanx, bill Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 51 years. meep reach me at [link\|mailto:bill.oxley@cox.net\|mailto:bill.oxley@cox.net]
Post #283,059 by cwbrenn 4/25/07 2:20:34 PM Reply	Oooo, I know this one! dpkg -i postal_0.66_i386.deb "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
Post #283,060 by boxley 4/25/07 2:22:26 PM Reply	thanks! Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 51 years. meep reach me at [link\|mailto:bill.oxley@cox.net\|mailto:bill.oxley@cox.net]
Post #283,061 by boxley 4/25/07 2:37:00 PM Reply	arrgghh. /me frustrated I have mepis installed on local disk. How do I get to a straight debian install from here? Packages wont install and the dependencies puke as well. the pkg tzdata_2007d-1_all.deb for example ives the following error dpkg -i tzdata_2007d-1_all.deb (Reading database ... 73376 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking tzdata (from tzdata_2007d-1_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing tzdata_2007d-1_all.deb (--install): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/zoneinfo/NZ', which is also in package locales dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: might just go back to solving my pthread problems on solaris thanx, bill Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 51 years. meep reach me at [link\|mailto:bill.oxley@cox.net\|mailto:bill.oxley@cox.net]
Post #283,079 by folkert 4/25/07 5:37:52 PM Reply	First boot into Mephis... Then mount your disk the way it would be for a chroot. You know "/" is mounted on "/target", "/boot" on "/target/boot", "/usr" on "/target/usr", etc... then run "debootstrap" with the proper switches (Mephis has debootstrap). Then once installed, "chroot /target /bin/bash" and continue installing base from there. Once you do the base plus a few (like openssh-server, a kernel, grub... etc), exit from the chroot and then do `grub-install --root-directory=/target /dev/<bootdevice>`. Where bootdevice should be something like /dev/hd(a-j) or /dev/sd(a-j) then setup a nice stanza for grub to boot from and then finish up from there. And, Debian testing and unstable just went pthreads only. No longer supporting non-pthread (or Linux Threads as they call it). Libc 2.4 and after eliminated it. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* Freedom is not FREE. Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars? SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0; 0 rows returned.
Post #283,081 by boxley 4/25/07 5:51:15 PM Reply	will give it a shot tomorrow Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 51 years. meep reach me at [link\|mailto:bill.oxley@cox.net\|mailto:bill.oxley@cox.net]

debian question - (boxley) - (5) - April 25, 2007, 02:12:24 PM EDT

Oooo, I know this one! - (cwbrenn) - (1) - April 25, 2007, 02:20:34 PM EDT

thanks! -NT - (boxley) - April 25, 2007, 02:22:26 PM EDT

arrgghh. /me frustrated - (boxley) - (2) - April 25, 2007, 02:37:00 PM EDT

First boot into Mephis... - (folkert) - (1) - April 25, 2007, 05:37:52 PM EDT

will give it a shot tomorrow -NT - (boxley) - April 25, 2007, 05:51:15 PM EDT

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