Re: Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?

1998-10-16 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Enrique! > On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 02:40:38PM -0500, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > > > > 1. Official booting disketes - DOES NOT work (tecra also!) > > 2. Official kernel 2.0.34 - DOES NOT work (constant reboot) > > > > The only thing that work was loadl

Re: Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?

1998-10-15 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, John! Thanks for reminding me about that. Part of the reason I forgot is that there is no direct link to it from main Web page. Perhaps FAQ-O-Matic deserved it's place on Main page. Sasha. > kushni> > kushni>If there were some Debian oriented database, where one could > kushni>add his ex

Re: Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?

1998-10-15 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, > > Therefore, I don't think this is laptop installation problems in > general. I think that this may be specific to some laptops, but not all. > > -Seth Agree. If there were some Debian oriented database, where one could add his experience about installation of Debian on some unu

Re: Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?

1998-10-15 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, > I have an IBM ThinkPad 380XD. I have found that 2.0.x kernels just don't > work properly, my machine will crash or shutdown during boot. I believe that > the best thing that can be done to support laptops is to create boot disks > with 2.1.125 kernels. 2.1.125 works well on my laptop in e

Any Swim 2.1 users?

1998-06-18 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, I posted this question in debian-user and got no reply :( May be some of experts could help me out. Our university kindly bought us Motif for Linux (SWim 2.1) from Linux System Labs (http://www.lsl.com). On the CD they send there is an installation for redhat, but nothing for debian. Ge

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Dale! Sorry to jump in (I have almost no expertise in tzconfig), but I have US/Central in timezone and date, xntp work fine for me. May be it's not broken? How should one check? Sasha. > Sorry to have stayed out of this but I have been busy... > > Bottom line...tzconfig is broken. > > T

Re: Building a connection with Kachina Tech.

1998-06-15 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Johnie! > > Some SAL classifications include chemistry, biology, artificial > intelligence, physics, astronomy, relational DBMS, parallel computing, > geographic information systems, and scientific data processing and > visualization, some of which are poorly described by "math". > Agreed.

Re: Building a connection with Kachina Tech.

1998-06-15 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, > > What do people think of creating a new ftp directory called say, > "sci"? Many of the packages in Scientific Applications for Linux > don't fit cleanly into "math". > I would leave it the way it is. "Scientific" is not well defined. To a certain extent it's not defined at all. Sasha

Re: Building a connection with Kachina Tech.

1998-06-15 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, > > Kachina Technologies is strongly interested in Debian Sparc for the > hardware they distribute. They are offering resources for this effort with > the goal being a "commercial" grade Debian distribution. > I have a little comment which is not quite you were asking for. But perhaps it

Report on Successfull Debain 2.0 installation

1998-06-03 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, I send this message yesterday, but perhaps it did not quite make it through, at least I did not notice it on the list... I successfully installed Debian 2.0 on Gateway 2000 computer (P-166) using installation disks 2.0.6. First of thanks for the nice job! There were no real problems an

Debian 2.0 installation report.

1998-06-02 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, I installed Debian 2.0 using installation disks 2.0.6 on Gateway2000 computer (P2-166). First of thanks for the nice job in organising installations disks! Everything went very smoothly, I did not have any major problems. Well, I failed once when I did not realise that one should use ha