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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers really dumb question... Post 4952 by justchillin on Sunday 5th of August 2001 01:56:55 AM
Old 08-05-2001
really dumb question...

ok i decided to go with Mandrake so i went to the site to download it and that took me to a mirror site. ok. so once i get there were can i find the install file(s) that i need? i only see a series of folder and files. the ones that say intall are instructions but i don't see the files themselves.
also the install instructions that i see are to run linux from windows without partitioning. everything i've read says that you are supposed to partition your drive when running 2 operating systems, and i've also read that Mandrake will do that automatically???

thanks for your help...
 

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PULL-DEBIAN-DEBDIFF(1)					      General Commands Manual					    PULL-DEBIAN-DEBDIFF(1)

NAME
pull-debian-debdiff - find, download, and generate a debdiff SYNOPSIS
pull-debian-debdiff [options] <package> <version> [distance] DESCRIPTION
pull-debian-debdiff attempts to find and download a specific version of a Debian package and its immediate parent to generate a debdiff. OPTIONS
package The source package to download and diff. version The most recent of the two versions you want to diff. distance If specified (default 1), the debdiff is against that many versions previous. -h, --help Display the usage instructions and exit. -f, --fetch Simply download the specified version and exit. -d DEBIAN_MIRROR, --debian-mirror=DEBIAN_MIRROR Use the specified mirror. Should be in the form http://ftp.debian.org/debian. If the package isn't found on this mirror, pull-debian-source will fall back to the default mirror. -s DEBSEC_MIRROR, --debsec-mirror=DEBSEC_MIRROR Use the specified Debian security mirror. Should be in the form http://security.debian.org. If the package isn't found on this mirror, pull-debian-source will fall back to the default mirror. --no-conf Do not read any configuration files, or configuration from environment variables. ENVIRONMENT
All of the CONFIGURATION VARIABLES below are also supported as environment variables. Variables in the environment take precedence to those in configuration files. CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
The following variables can be set in the environment or in ubuntu-dev-tools(5) configuration files. In each case, the script-specific variable takes precedence over the package-wide variable. PULL_DEBIAN_DEBDIFF_DEBIAN_MIRROR, UBUNTUTOOLS_DEBIAN_MIRROR The default value for --debian-mirror. PULL_DEBIAN_DEBDIFF_DEBSEC_MIRROR, UBUNTUTOOLS_DEBSEC_MIRROR The default value for --debsec-mirror. SEE ALSO
debdiff(1), dget(1), pull-debian-source(1), ubuntu-dev-tools(5) AUTHORS
pull-debian-debdiff was written by Stefano Rivera <stefanor@ubuntu.com>, a clone of a tool by Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>. This manual page was written by Stefano Rivera, based on the original by Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <a.starr.b@gmail.com>. ubuntu-dev-tools December 2010 PULL-DEBIAN-DEBDIFF(1)
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