Stefan Nobis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I installed Kernel 2.4 on Debian Potato (2.2.r2). Some packages from unstable
are needed to do so and i compiled all from source for a Debian 2.2r2
system. Here are the recompiled packages (apt-get-able):
deb http://www.snobis.de/debian extras/kernel24
Hi.
I installed Kernel 2.4 on Debian Potato (2.2.r2). Some packages from unstable
are needed to do so and i compiled all from source for a Debian 2.2r2
system. Here are the recompiled packages (apt-get-able):
deb http://www.snobis.de/debian extras/kernel24/
Have fun with it.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can you give us a rundown on how to get this to work? I followed the
instructions in the README but the permissions and owner/group bits never
stayed the way I wanted them. (eg: root.audio for all of /dev/sound,
If you use devfsd from unstable then there is a file
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
instead of /dev/hda1 or /dev/wd0a whenever i need to do anything
related to raw devices is a performance improvment. nor is writing
huge kludgy initscripts or bloated daemons just so i can do:
I can't see why a daemon about 30k in size is bloated.
See
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Andreas == Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Andreas 2.) boot. fsck will fail. do manual fsck, remount / rw,
Andreas edit /etc/fstab: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
Andreas /boot ext2 defaults 0 2
Andreas
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
very funny, im sure you would like it if someone FORCED you to use
*only* KDE or *only* gnome. the Free software movement is about
freedom and choices and *options* i should have the *option* to turn
that `feature' off.
don't force your preferences
Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
/etc/adduser.conf
When running useradd, though, I get the following:
adduser and useradd are two quite different programs. Try using adduser and
you will get what you want.
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Stefan.
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, first of all, you want to assign the user an address via DHCP,
or else it's an administrative nightmare.
You can use Radius, LDAP-based solutions and surley much more. With
PPPoE there are even more possibilities to hack IP-addresses then
without
Linux Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This may sound like a silly question, but what is the
use/purpose of PPP over Ethernet? Why is it better than setting up a
connection with ifconfig eth0?
It's not better, it's very silly. But there are reasons. The one used
here in germany: Most
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Smart people *can* get IPs that haven't been assigned to them, and
it's a PITA to root them out. PPPoE, while a hack, addresses this
concern for providers. I wish we used it.
Tell me more about this. What about configuring the routers only to
route
John L. Fjellstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
it doesn't matter if you have it compiled/installed. modprobe will
automagically load it into memory when you need it. Not sure why
the installation said you could damage(?)/mess up the installation
if you installed a module for a hardware device
Bill Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Missing files in the compile.
The log follows. Snipped out all the good makes. This was a second run.
If you got postgresql with apt-get source... then there are 3 files:
*.orig.tar.gz
*.diff.gz
*.dsc
The last one, postgresql_7.0.2-2.dsc, contains some
Bill Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
2% [2 potato/main 4344/821kB 0%] [1 unstable/main 27145/380kB 7%]
Err ftp://ftp.debian.org potato/main Packages
Data socket timed out
apt could not get the new list from the server so you can't do
anything with apt for this server. First get a
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Simon
Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SM dialogs are ok, this is not the issue. The real issue is not to
SM fall into the Microsoft or RedHat paradigm. This is a flavour of
Hmmm... don't think so.
SM Unix, Unix is not trivial, Unix is a fairly mature fully
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jason Wright
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JW Also, I spend a lot of time in my job working on servers on the
JW other side of the world, hidden behind slow, overloaded WAN links.
JW Sure I *can* (and sometimes do) use ssh to run GUI apps on these
I know, what you
I think most people miss some important points:
- A text or graphic mode UI is some times the most effective user
interface, some times a command line driven interface is more
effective.
- Even the best of the experts is very happy if a good tool is easy to
use, so it costs less time to
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Laing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ML \documentclass[10pt,letterpaper]{letter}
ML \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
Try using
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
ML \usepackage{times}
You are using times, which is postscript, which uses T1 encoding. So
there should be no
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Keith G. Murphy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
KGM If the Amiga folks are not going to use any of the GNU tools, or
KGM dpkg/apt especially, that would be a perverse decision. In fact,
KGM not making it based on/compatible with m68k Debian would be
KGM perverse, seems
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I gather I need a HUB or a switch for anything more than two hosts?
Mark If you're using cat5. If you're just using coax cable, you
Mark don't need a hub or switch and can just hang everything off the
Uh? What coax cable is
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hamish Moffatt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hamish What is your point? I never claimed unsolicited attachments
Hamish were acceptable, only that solicited ones of any size should
Hamish work.
Then pay for it.
The problem is not the transport but at your ISP. Your
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hamish Moffatt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The problem of (huge) attachments or huge mails in general is, that
the recipient often never asked to get it, but the sender sended it
without being asked to do.
Hamish In the case of mailing lists, I agree. In the case
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hamish Moffatt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hamish Wrong solution. Users should not have to adapt to technology
Hamish (within reason); the technology should allow users to send
Hamish huge email attachments if they need to. Otherwise it should be
Hamish fixed.
One
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hamish Moffatt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hamish reason); the technology should allow users to send huge email
Hamish attachments if they need to. Otherwise it should be fixed.
OK, but then the user should be prepared to pay for it!
And often people in the USA
Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I can't tell the difference between 16bpp and 24bpp 24 colour JPEG
files, viewed with xv.
OK, i'm no profi on this matter, but i'll try to explain:
First, your eyes can't differentiate between more than some thounds
colors (IIRC about 2.000 - 4.000
Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Easy... as suggested, change the `apt-get clean ...` line from
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/install to something thus - `true ...`
OK - i know how to change it now, but nevertheless i think the default
should be to ask the user when something is to be
Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Cant say I have seen this one, but I imagine that dselect is wise to only
delete _installed_ packages.. so there is no need to keep them anyway.
(Unless you actually need them)
apt is very *bad* in this place - if you use apt as method in dselect,
Dave McFadden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If MS is successful at 'embracing and extending' Java, then HTML, TCP/IP
and the OSS world will soon feel the suffocating arms of MS wrapped around
them.
Hey, don't forget some people even managed to decode SMB for NT in the
SAMBA project. If MS really
Carl Vilbrandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there a replacement for Quicken/Quickbooks ?
There are some clones for Quicken like gnucash or cbb, but i found
nothing like Quickbooks. But i tried to run Quickbooks with wine and
it works quite well... it's not as stable as i would wish, but i works
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Could Braden not simply try Ctrl-Alt-F2 to switch to a non-X virtual console?
I'm too new at Linux to know, but I'd at least try it.
No. If the X-Server isn't configured yet and you start xdm, xdm starts
the X-Server. The Server exits at once and returns
Christopher Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Also, one other question. Is it possible to start two seperate X
sessions, so that you could say have one X session running WindowMaker
and the other one running E or something else, and switch between them
via control-alt-fn or whatever?
If you
Nuno Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Every time I start X (with windowmaker) it opens a xterm session ! ;(
How can I disable it !?
Look in /etc/X11/Xsession and maybe /etc/X11/wdm/Xsession. At the end
of these files there is the line which starts xterm.
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