debian newbie

[Jason Brown]

sure.  edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file and change the ftp or http
entries to "potato" where it says either "slink" or "stable".  If you only
have cdrom entries in the sources.list file, run the config option within
dselect to set up the servers easily.

Jason Brown

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, joel@silverw.com (Joel Dudley) wrote:
> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 16:56:50 -0700
> To: <Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> From: joel@silverw.com (Joel Dudley)
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: debian newbie
> 
> After my recent RPM follies on Mandrake I have started playing with
> Debian.  I was able to get and burn an iso of slink, but I was wondering
> if it were possible to use something like apt-get to bring my system up
> to potato standards.  Thanks.
> 
> - Joel
>
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> story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he
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> rock,
> he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for
> centuries."
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> - Dr. Robert Jastrow
>         Founder of NASA"s Goddard Institute for space studies
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