Small problems with Sarge net-install

2004-09-24 Thread Art Edwards
I have used the Sarge net-install CD to build several machines and I'm pretty impressed. I have one problem that I will state now and a couple of recommendations. I was building a cluster node and did not want a /home directory (mounted from the head node via automount). During the

Re: Small problems with Sarge net-install

2004-09-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h My recommendations are: 1. libc6-dev should be part of the standard installation. It includes all of the standard header files (stdio.h, for example). This depends on _your_ needs! For example, I don't think that the compiler is seen as part of a user-oriented operating

Re: Small problems with Sarge net-install

2004-09-24 Thread Art Edwards
Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h My recommendations are: 1. libc6-dev should be part of the standard installation. It includes all of the standard header files (stdio.h, for example). emacs seems to be a failry common user application. During the

Re: Small problems with Sarge net-install

2004-09-24 Thread Loïc Minier
Art Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Fri, Sep 24, 2004: My original problem was with md5. Can anyone tell me how to turn on md5 AFTER installation? bee% grep -i md5 /var/cache/debconf/config.dat Name: console-data/bootmap-md5sum Template: console-data/bootmap-md5sum Name: passwd/md5 Template:

Re: Small problems with Sarge net-install

2004-09-24 Thread Art Edwards
Loïc Minier wrote: Art Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Fri, Sep 24, 2004: My original problem was with md5. Can anyone tell me how to turn on md5 AFTER installation? bee% grep -i md5 /var/cache/debconf/config.dat Name: console-data/bootmap-md5sum Template: console-data/bootmap-md5sum Name:

small problems

2000-09-06 Thread Rubbish5
Hi, These are a few easy problems that have got me confused. There are one or two I can't remember the specifics of, but the really simple ones are as follows. 1. Touchpad! In windows it defaulted to no tap-clicking... you know, where tapping the pad is taken as a mouse click. Well now it's

Re: small problems

2000-09-06 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 12:14:07PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. CDROM. Once I load up my GUI, if I hit the eject button it pops right out, but at the command line it doesn't. Now I'm probably ignorant to some basic truth of Linux here, but since I prefer to work at the command line

small problems PS

2000-09-06 Thread Rubbish5
Hi, Another one I forgot: I'm running GNOME with enlightenment, and when I'm in root, the pager (GNOME's pager, I got rid of enlightenment's) displays the icons as if they were programs. Each of these (the link to home and then 3 urls) are called 'gmc'. If I close the programs the icons go

Re: small problems PS

2000-09-06 Thread David Z Maze
Rubbish5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: R5 Another one I forgot: I'm running GNOME with enlightenment, and R5 when I'm in root, the pager (GNOME's pager, I got rid of R5 enlightenment's) displays the icons as if they were programs. Well, there's an easy answer here: don't log in to X as root. In

Re: Small problems from recent Potato upgrade

1999-12-05 Thread John Pearson
On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 01:50:34AM -0600, John Foster wrote I just upgraded a very stable pure Slink system to Potato and I have a few legacy problems ( I think)! [snip] For some reason Enlightenment is set as the default and the Gnome control panel will not change it. Yes I told it to

Small problems from recent Potato upgrade

1999-12-04 Thread John Foster
I just upgraded a very stable pure Slink system to Potato and I have a few legacy problems ( I think)! Emacs is stuck--won't install or be purged-no dependencies unaccounted for. Sound (OSS commercial) is installed but none of the Gnome sound effects work. Players, mixers, etc all OK. For some

Re: small problems after installing potato

1999-05-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
P == Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: P software with dselect, it tries to upgrade my custom kernel to the P default 2.2.5 kernel (my custom kernel is also 2.2.5). How did you build it? When you use kernel-package, you can use a revision number that is higher than any that could possible be

Re: small problems after installing potato

1999-05-16 Thread Pollywog
On 15-May-99 Martin Bialasinski wrote: P == Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: P software with dselect, it tries to upgrade my custom kernel to the P default 2.2.5 kernel (my custom kernel is also 2.2.5). How did you build it? When you use kernel-package, you can use a revision number

Re: small problems after installing potato

1999-05-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 11:42:25PM -, Pollywog wrote: On 15-May-99 Martin Bialasinski wrote: P == Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: P software with dselect, it tries to upgrade my custom kernel to the P default 2.2.5 kernel (my custom kernel is also 2.2.5). How did you

small problems after installing potato

1999-05-15 Thread Pollywog
I have had some small problems after installing potato. (I upgraded via the web from Slink). The worst problem is that whenever I try to configure the newly installed software with dselect, it tries to upgrade my custom kernel to the default 2.2.5 kernel (my custom kernel is also 2.2.5). If I

RE: KDE.. a few small problems but WOW!!

1999-05-14 Thread Pollywog
On 14-May-99 Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: For some reason I find that there are times when the desktop simply locks up for a few minutes then unfreezes. No disk activity and no load to cause resourses to be at fault. I have had this problem with some of the unstable versions, and with a

Re: KDE.. a few small problems but WOW!!

1999-05-14 Thread Ralph Winslow
Pollywog wrote: On 14-May-99 Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: For some reason I find that there are times when the desktop simply locks up for a few minutes then unfreezes. No disk activity and no load to cause resourses to be at fault. Isn't KDE supposed to mimic Windoze? Of course it locks

Re: KDE.. a few small problems but WOW!!

1999-05-14 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 02:50:15AM -0500, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: I really only have 1 complaint and thats that I simply can not figure out how to use rxvts in KDE. While I can open them they are always off to the top/left hand side of the screen and pushed off almost completely. I can

Re: KDE.. a few small problems but WOW!!

1999-05-14 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 5/14/99 9:43:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I really only have 1 complaint and thats that I simply can not figure out how to use rxvts in KDE. While I can open them they are always off to the top/left hand side of the screen and pushed off

Re: KDE.. a few small problems but WOW!!

1999-05-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 14 May 1999, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: I really only have 1 complaint and thats that I simply can not figure out how to use rxvts in KDE. While I can open them they are always off to the top/left hand side of the screen and pushed off almost

Small problems with HAMM

1998-10-21 Thread Carsten Wimmer
Hi! A few days ago I completely switched from SUSE 5.1 to Debian 2.0 HAMM, and it's a really great distribution. But some small problems are still left: - The backspace key behaves like the delete key in XEmacs 20.4 nomule, but only if I run XEmacs on the Console. Under X it works as expected

A few (small) problems w/libc6 update

1997-11-21 Thread Nelson, R.A \(Richard/Rick\)
I needed updates to perl and bash, one thing led to another and now I found myself upgrading everything to hamm. Everything went well ;^} just a few problems: 1) SUDO fails to parse the sudoers file (already reported) 2) man database for some things in /etc/alternatives (xemacs, ctags,