Re: NFS upgrades

1999-02-09 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Matthew, I'm currently helping upgrade a server running Debian 2.0 to the 2.2 kernel. We've managed to satisfy most of the dependencies mentioned in the kernel documentation other than the NFS one - the changes file suggests 2.2beta40, while the latest Debian package I've been able to find

Re: Quicktime player for Linux?

1999-02-01 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi, On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 06:36:01PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: Does anyone know of a Quicktime .MOV player for Linux? xanim The problem with xanim though is the fact that it loads the entire movie into memory before playing. Try playing a 80Mb mov when your total memory + swap is

2.2 kernel okay, but bootpc fails

1999-01-27 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Matt, I just installed a 2.2.0 linux kernel, and everything works except bootpc, which is used to give me an IP at startup. The boot process freezes when bootpc tries to startup, but dies with the message no response from BOOTPC server (or something to that effect). However, I booted

Re: new kernel release

1999-01-26 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Jim, I see that the 2.2.0 kernel is now officially released. Does anyone know if there are any problems, or things to be wary of, in compiling this kernel for Debian hamm? I compiled it today. But read Documentation/Changes first! I guess, you need some packages from potato, e.g. newer

Re: 1 swap vs. 2 swap partitions

1999-01-24 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Alexander, Doesn't this ignore the fact that having two heads working back and forth is faster than just one? Part of the reason people do raid arrays, even at the lower levels, because they get all the heads working at the same time and it lowers access time. I'd think the same

Re: boot messages/logging

1999-01-24 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Tony, I'm at a loss to find the way to get all the boot messages logged to a file. Is there a recommended procedure or configuration file change that I can make? dmesg displays boot messages. It is usually run at system startup and it's output redirected to /var/log/boot.msg or a similar

Re: Gnome

1999-01-22 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Pat, I want to install Gnome on Slink but don't want to scatter new versions of the libraries (eg gtk) arround anywhere. Does anyone know if you can compile it like KDE where it looks for all libraries relative to a partciular install path (eg /usr/local/gnome) so the apps that come with

Re: vfat - cp: file: Operation not permitted

1999-01-22 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi there, I've mounted a vfat partition with these options: /dev/hda2 /mnt/dos vfatdefaults,gid=101,umask=0007 and whenever a user in the 101 group tries a copy a file within the filesystem it gets the following error: cp: file: Operation not

Re: Entpacken von Dateien im .deb-Format

1999-01-21 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi John, for general information, the translation services at alta vista translated = the message as: I know the files in the deb format also in a Windows surface = unpack? And if, how? =09 Which doesn't quite fit the original meaning... it's just no real babelfish.

Re: Automatic ftping in a script - how?

1999-01-19 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi there, I want to write a script in which some files are automatically ftped to another machine (a username and password needs to be entered). Is there a nice utility which will enable me to do this? check out the ncftpput utility No need for any utility apart from plain ftp:

Re: Automatic ftping in a script - how?

1999-01-19 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Frankie, I want to write a script in which some files are automatically ftped to another machine (a username and password needs to be entered). Is there a nice utility which will enable me to do this? check out the ncftpput utility No need for any utility apart from plain

Re: AMD-K6 Bogomips problem solved (sort of)

1999-01-18 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Patrick, With 2.0.36 compiled as 686 and as 586 i had only 350Bogomips with a 350MHz K6-2 BUT (!) with 2.2.0pre7 compiled with CONFIG_M586TSC=y i have my full 700 bogomips ! with it /proc/cpuinfo shows everything right (CPU clock,etc...) That's strange isn't it ? Probably a strange

Re: start svgalib progs from X

1999-01-17 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Brandon, I want to start qwcl (quake world) from xqf (an X game finder). I remember something that would change the current vt (via chvt maybe) and then run your non-X program, followed by a change back to X. Does anyone know of such a program/script? There is a little program called

Package-Building-Howto?

1999-01-15 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi there, I'm using Debian for over three months now and I'm quite satisfied with it. :-) But as I could not find GNOME .debs, I figured out it would be great to build them myself. So, I digged through several dpkg-*-man Pages, read /usr/doc/dpkg/packaging.html/almost-* and after all failed to