"John Stoffel" <stoffel@lucent.com> writes:
I like apt too so far, but searching for packages seems to have been a bit painful. That is until I learned about the -a flag to apt-show-versions, but since I haven't read my about the apt-get philosophy, I've probably just missed something.
Your problem is you are not using apt-cache. apt-cache search <keyword> <keyword> ... ...will search package names and descriptions for all available packages. apt-cache show <package> will show the description for any available package, and other information (dependencies, etc) After you've used it a couple times, you'll really like it :)
Josh> Use the bf2.4 installer -- it will install a 2.4 kernel by Josh> default.
Hmmm... any examples? Is this part of the 3.0 CDROM image?
According to the manual, CD 5 boots the bf2.4 image. Do you have the official cdroms, or your own? You should be able to find a netinst image online as well. (minimal cdrom installer, which expect to install the rest of the system from the internet) Here are netinst images for testing: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/ -- Josh Huber