Hi,
Two questions:
1. Is the spreadsheet wingz available for debian - I couldn't find it.
Or is there a spreadsheet which allows the importation of wingz files?
2. Which spreadsheet to people recommend?
Thanks,
Mark.
Hi,
Either this list has gone suddenly silent since about the 10th of
December, or I have been mysteriously unsubscribed from
debian-user-digest. I suspect the latter and have just sent off an email
to be subscribed again.
This isn't the first time it has happened, and last time I was
When is Debian 1.4 coming out officially? I thought Debian was now
working on roughly a three month cycle time for new releases - are we
giving up on this strategy?
Cheers,
Mark.
_/\___/~~\
Hi,
I haven't received any debian-user digests now since about 9th or 10th of
December! Does this mean there is some problem with the mailing of the
digests?
I tried resubscribing to the list just in case I had been accidently
unsubscribed, but I still haven't received anything!
Cheers,
I used dselect's FTP mode to install emacs-19.34, X, and AfterStep.
My problem is that *neither* `Alt' key is being interpreted as `Meta'
by emacs. AfterStep's `Alt-Tab' combination works well enough to switch
between windows.
I much prefer `Alt-x' to `Esc-x' as a means of entering an
I, like Thomas Vaughan, have been having problems getting emacs to
recognise the Alt key under X. (The system is a Toshiba laptop.)
Daniel Martin wrote:
What is the result of the following commands:
xmodmap
xmodmap -pke | grep -E '64|11[356]'
Here are the results:
$ xmodmap
xmodmap: up
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I, like Thomas Vaughan, have been having problems getting emacs to
recognise the Alt key under X. (The system is a Toshiba laptop.)
The `problem' is that the Alt keys aren't acting as the Meta keys
I didn't see the original message from Bruce, but from some snippets I
gather the name Trove was being suggested. This sounds good to me, and
better than the other names I've seen suggested.
Cheers,
Mark.
P.S. When will the first version be released? And how is it looking at
the moment?
Hi,
I have debian installed on a single partition, a partition which
I suspect is greatly fragmented (is there an easy way to tell?). I wish
to use the program e2defrag to defragment it, but have realized this could
be more difficult than I first thought.
I see that the partition will need to
Hi,
A friend of mine has installed debian on his laptop. I tried running pon.
It runs without complaining, but doesn't do anything much. The modem
doesn't make any of the usual noises associated with an attempt to
connect. When I do plog, it comes up blank. When I do a ps, it seems
that pon
Hi,
I am trying to compile the kernel. The README says I should make sure
/usr/include/asm, /usr/include/linux, and /usr/include/scsi directories
are just symlinks to the kernel sources. They are not, so should I do a
rm -rf asm linux scsi as they suggest? Does this interfere with dpkg
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Mark Phillips wrote:
A friend of mine has installed debian on his laptop. I tried running pon.
It runs without complaining, but doesn't do anything much. The modem
doesn't make any of the usual noises associated
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Jeff Gunter wrote:
Silly question: can he use the modem at all? Is he using a pcmcia modem or
hooking up to a serial port? Some pcmcia configs have trouble w/ interrupt
conflicts...
I'm not sure if he can use the modem at all. I'll see if I can find out.
He is using
Hi,
Well I don't know why, but plog has suddenly started to work. At least we
now have a clue as to why pon isn't working. It comes up with the
following:
Oct 21 22:36:51 genoa pppd[239]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
Oct 21 22:36:51 genoa pppd[239]: tcgetattr: I/O error
Oct 21 22:36:51
Hi,
A friend has been having trouble with his modem. It is a pcmcia card
modem for his Toshiba laptop. Upon installing debian, we decided to try
and get pon working. After setting up the scripts, we ran pon. We
couldn't hear any sound of dialing from the modem, and running plog
displayed
Can you tell, just by looking at /proc/interrupts, whether there is an
interrupt conflict?
In particular, how does it work for pcmcia cards for a laptop?
Thanks,
Mark.
_/\___/~~\
Hi,
I can't find a /etc/hosts file in the Debian distribution. When I go
dpkg --search etc/hosts
it doesn't find it. Does Debian have this file?
The lack of it has cause problems for a friend. He wrote:
Whenever I have PCMCIA cards running on my (Toshiba) laptop it is
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Adam Shand wrote:
I can't find a /etc/hosts file in the Debian distribution. When I go
dpkg --search etc/hosts
it doesn't find it. Does Debian have this file?
Yep Debian does have it and it is called /etc/hosts . If it doesn't exist
just create it.
Hi,
The ALT key works under emacs when in console mode. But it doesn't work
under X. Is there any reason for this? How can I fix it?
Perhaps I need to use xmodmap? I heard something about a userfriendly
version of this. Does anyone know what it's called?
Thanks,
Mark.
When I try to run either fr (filerunner) or tkman, it comes up with
similar messages, both complaining about the lack of the font:
-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*
It works fine on my machine at home, and as far as I can tell, they both
have the same fonts installed. So, what
Hi,
A friend and I have been having problems getting ppp to work on his
laptop. Everything works with the chat script until just after ppp is
engaged. Then it complains as follows.
pppd Serial connection established
Using interface ppp0
Connect:ppp0 - /dev/ttyS1
LCP: timeout sending
Hi,
I added the line:
xterm.scrollBar:true
In a .Xdefaults file to turn on scrollbars automatically on xterms, but X
seemed to ignore this. How does Debian deal with Xdefaults? And where
can I read about these things?
Thanks,
Mark.
I didn't receive any reply to the following. Does nobody know?
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Mark Phillips wrote:
When I try to run either fr (filerunner) or tkman, it comes up with
similar messages, both complaining about the lack of the font:
-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, bleach wrote:
Shouldn't it be: xterm*scrollBar:true (on)
Maybe. I was copying another file. How did you find out about the
correct format?
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Mark Phillips wrote:
I added the line:
xterm.scrollBar:true
In a .Xdefaults file to turn
I am trying to run a number of programs like filerunner and tkman, but get
errors like:
font -Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* doesn't exist
However this font _does_ exist as can be seen when I execute the command:
$ find /usr/lib/X11/fonts \( -name fonts.dir -o -name
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Daniel Martin wrote:
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Mark Phillips wrote:
I am trying to run a number of programs like filerunner and tkman, but get
errors like:
font -Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* doesn't exist
However this font _does_ exist as can
My friend's Toshiba laptop has a PCMCIA modem card. When it is dialing
the number, you can't hear it - it doesn't make any sound. I've tried
lots of things like atm1, atm2, checking for interrupt conflicts, but
nothing seems to work. I've even tried borrowing someone else's modem
card and
My friend's Toshiba laptop has a PCMCIA modem card. When it is
dialing the number, you can't hear it - it doesn't make any sound.
Toshiba laptops have a hotkey combination to control the audio output.
On my 610CT it is fn/f-4. You might want to make sure that the speaker
hasn't been
I used aptitude to upgrade a headless server from Debian stable to Debian
testing. The upgrade did not generate any error messages, but when I
rebooted I could not ssh into the box (connection refused) nor do I get any
output on a monitor I attached to the box (no signal). Apache does not
appear
/fstab.
I hate it when things like that come back to haunt you years later.
Mark
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Peter Viskup skupko...@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/24/2013 05:51 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
Peter,
Can I access the log if I boot the machine with a live cd of some kind?
Mark
I am running Debian testing (amd64) and after running an aptitude
update/upgrade my wired network stopped working. I get a cable unplugged
message. The cable is OK and the router is OK and the link pulses are
there. My wireless is still working.
My system:
Linux version 3.1.0-1-amd64 (Debian
I have a 320 GB drive which dual boots Windows and Debian:
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512
.emacs file. I believe this qualifies as a Debian bug (for the auctex
package?).
AFAIK it is not. AUCTeX is separate package for Emacs, and there is
native(?) tex-mode in Emacs. In other words, if someone wants to use
AuCTeX, she/he should put require tex-site in .emacs.
The fact that
I am presently attempting to install both XFree86 and Netscape to a
Debian O/S which I recently setup. My lack of knowledge in this area
leaves me with a huge amount of questions, as you can see below.
Are you using dselect to install your debian system? It should tell you
automatically what
Hi,
Is there a debian distribution for the macintosh. A friend is trying to
install redhat on his mac - I'd recommend debian except I'm not sure there
is a debian version for the mac?
If there is one, is it any good?
Cheers,
Mark.
Hi,
I've just installed scilab_2.2-4.deb from the non-free section of hamm.
But it doesn't seem to be working. I type scilab at the prompt and it
exits without giving any error messages, without poping up any windows or
anything. It just does nothing!
Am I doing something wrong, or is this
Hi,
I am wanting to move to the 2.0.33 kernel on a toshiba laptop. The resume
mode was working fine under the old 2.0.30 kernel - it was a custom made
kernel, compiled to include Advanced Power Management.
I have just compiled the 2.0.33 kernel, again so that apm is included.
But unfortunately
Hi,
I am just installing debian on a new laptop. I've come across a couple of
problems so far.
1. When rebooting, it unmounts the disks and everything, and then just
hangs. It doesn't reboot. This is particularly annoying because to do a
hardware reboot, I need to remove the keyboard.
2.
On 7 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...windows 95 says it's on COM4. I set it up for ppp but when I
run pon I get:
tcgetattr: Input/output error(5)
What is wrong?
That usually means that there isn't any hardware on that port. What does
'setserial /dev/ttyS3' say?
It says:
Hi,
I'm trying to install hamm on a Digital HiNote Ultra 2000 laptop. It
comes with an Integrated 10/100BaseT Ethernet and 56K Modem Xircom Combo
card (built in internally). It doesn't give me much info on it, but I
have reason to believe (from the linux web page for this laptop) that it
is a
Hi,
I realize hamm hasn't been officially released, but it is in beta, so
surely there would be a new unstable by now? What is it called and
where can I find it? I've looked on several debian mirror sites and can't
seem to find anything.
Cheers,
Mark.
Sorry about the spelling, but when I spelt it correctly, the debian-user
server kept on thinking I wanted to unsubscribe, when in reality I just
wanted to talk about the fact that I am being flooded with lots of
messages from people who want to unsubscribe!
Am I the only one, or are there other
Hi,
I have installed hamm on a new Digital HiNote Laptop. It has a built in
Xircom ethernet/modem card - ie both the ethernet and the modem are on the
same card. I know it is possible to get this all working because I have
heard people with a RedHat system have done so without too many
Hi,
I need to compile the 2.0.31 kernel. Unfortunately there is
not a debian package for the 2.0.31 kernel, so I downloaded the upstream
version, unpacked it into /usr/local/src, created links and followed the
instructions for make-kpkg in order to make a kernel image package.
Unfortunately it
I didn't ever notice an announcement of the release of Debian 2.0 on Linux
Announce (apart from the beta announcement). Maybe I just missed it ---
did someone see it?
Just thought I'd mention it because we do want people to know about it I
think!
Cheers,
Mark.
On 3 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Mark I need to compile the 2.0.31 kernel. Unfortunately there is
Mark not a debian package for the 2.0.31 kernel, so I downloaded the
Mark upstream version, unpacked it into /usr/local/src, created
Mark links
What links did you create?
On 3 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Mark == Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mark /usr/include/sys/types.h:45: conflicting types for `mode_t'
Mark /usr/local/src/linux-2.0.31/include/linux/types.h:12: previous
declaration
Mark of `mode_t'
Something is seriously wrong
On 3 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Mark I am at a loss to know what to try next.
Me too. I can only tell you what works for me, which is: I
unpack kernel sources in /usr/local/src/kernel; I ignore the bit
about symlinks, and I use make-kpkg; but it has been a while since I
On 3 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Mark The links I created were:
SNIP
I compile kernels in /usr/local all the time, and I never have
created any of these links ... they are not required.
I made the links because that's what the README file for the linux
kernel says to do. As
Hmm. I started this thread, but it moved to a different topic very
quickly! Getting back to the original point: there have been a couple of
responses from people who have said that they did see the release of
Debian 2.0 on Linux Announce, yet I don't think I ever received it ---
I am
On 3 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
in make menuconfig, turn off anythig you do not need
immediately, like any unknown drivers. (look at makefiles and .config
to know what to turn off).
I too have a hinote vp 575 laptop and a Xircom ehternet/modem
card, but I have not yet
Hi,
My email access is via a unix machine at my university. I run Debian on a
machine at home and connect to uni via ppp over a modem. If I want to
send email from home, I rlogin to the uni machine and then use a mailer
running on the uni machine.
It would be nice if I could email the outside
Not quite what you want but these links might be useful:
http://www.suse.de/~rj/english/tosh440CDX.html
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
Cheers,
Mark.
__
I'm trying to get printing working on a friend's new laptop. He actually
had it working on his old laptop. When we tried printing first up,
it didn't print, and we got the following error:
$ lpq
Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Generic dot-matrix printer entry'
Queue: 1 printable job
Server: pid
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 09:43:56PM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote:
I'm trying to get printing working on a friend's new laptop. He actually
had it working on his old laptop. When we tried printing first up,
it didn't print, and we got
Why don't we merge the two package management systems? It would be
in Linux's best interest in the long term to have a single packaging
standard.
Is this feasible?
-
Mark Phillips
machine, but the thing
which worried me most was the fact that the attempt to nfs mount didn't
timeout. Which means that my system is entirely dependent on the other
system in order to boot.
Why is this so?
Thanks.
-
Mark
it is? Or is there now a new way of finding
out what the flags mean?
Thanks.
-
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]
They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!
-
grep ppp
-
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]
They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them
?
Thanks for your help.
Mark.
-
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]
They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
Mark Phillips wrote:
As I already explained, pppd has a nasty habit of thinking the link is
dead when it isn't really. With the old setup, the persist option
simply told pppd to renegotiate handshaking with the ppp process at the
other end
distribution would be a major selling point for the
distribution. At the moment, Debian's TeX direction seems a little
confused.
-
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]
They told
settings? What does ATC1D2 mean and do? Is there any document
on the net explaining basic modem commands and basically how a modem
works. I really don't have a clear picture at the moment.
Thanks.
-
Mark Phillips
Paul Seelig writes:
Mark Phillips writes:
I think it is in Debian's interest to think carefully about how to get
the best possible TeX distribution. I think for a lot of people, having
a great TeX distribution would be a major selling point for the
distribution. At the moment
Hi,
I am trying to set my system clock, but get the error:
/sbin/clock -u -w
ioctl: Invalid argument
Any ideas about what's wrong?
Thanks.
-
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED
When I try and set the CMOS clock I get the following error:
# /sbin/clock -u -w
ioctl: Invalid argument
I would be most grateful if someone could tell me why it doesn't work.
Thanks.
-
Mark Phillips
.
Thanks.
-
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]
They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them
Hi,
Could someone please confirm whether the answer I gave below to a friend
about perl is correct?
Thanks,
Mark.
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 10:49:30 +0930 (CST)
From: Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Perl
Dear Bill
I've tried a lot of editing apps (and conversion utilities) in hamm,
but I can't find one that edits postscript or acrobat files. Does
anyone know what package I can use to edit a ps or pdf form that uses
Times-Roman fonts in a variety of point sizes, with some lines (no
graphics)?
Try
Hi,
I want to view a pdf file, so I used xpdf but got the following:
$ xpdf cgtntk.pdf
xpdf version 0.6
Copyright 1996 Derek B. Noonburg
Error: PDF file is encrypted and cannot be displayed
Error: * Decryption support is currently not included in xpdf
Hi,
I have just installed a third IDE hard drive (my board supports up to 4).
I have configured the BIOS. Now I want to use lilo to make it possible to
boot from it (it currently has DOS on it), but when I try, it comes up
with:
# lilo
Added linux *
Added dos
ide: probable bad entry for
I have been wondering about whether putting a swap partition on one IDE
drive, while putting most of linux on a different IDE drive will speed up
swap by allowing both disks to be accessed at the same time.
Unfortunately I think I read somewhere that when you have a Master/Slave
IDE pair, only
This not answer your question, but...
Did you tried with gv, it's also a gs frontend but much nicer and _useful_
Yes I did try, but it didn't work.
Cheers,
Mark.
__
I have just installed a third IDE hard drive (my board supports up
to 4). I have configured the BIOS. Now I want to use lilo to make it
possible to boot from it (it currently has DOS on it), but when I try,
it comes up with:
# lilo
Added linux *
Added dos
ide: probable bad
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Phillips writes:
[snip]
I tried booting anyway but it failed, complaining that it wasn't a system
disk. However my Dad (whose disk it was before giving it to me) swears it
was bootable.
So what's wrong? On my father's computer
tzconfig - sets your timezone
date - sets your system clock
hwclock - sets your hardware clock
xntp - keeps your system time correct by reference to Internet
timeservers
What is the difference between hwclock and clock, between xntp and
netdate? And which
Re-arrange your drives like this and let me know if it fixes the situation:
HDA - ok
HDC - Set as HDB
HDB - Set as HDC (Linux does not care where additional partitions are)
I did almost this, except instead of swapping hdb and hdc, I simply
detached hdb temporarily. Low and behold it
Graham Pople ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
There is a version of tetex-base 0.9 to go with the available version of
tetex-bin 0.9. It's somewhere on Debian's FTP server, here:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/tex/
Just right-click on the tetex-base0.9 directory, and
Has anyone had any experience with siag (Scheme in a Grid)? I have looked
at the web page (http://www.edu.stockholm.se/siag/) and it looks pretty
good. But it would be nice to get some feedback from people who have
actually used it! How good is it and how does it compare to other
spreadsheets?
I want to mirror hamm on my machine at home, but because the site I was
mirroring from died, I am now mirroring from a different site. The
problem is that mirroring doesn't seem to neccessarily keep the same time
stamp for some reason (to do with timezones), hence if I switch to another
site
I want to know which site to mirror debian from and want to choose the
fastest naturally. I have pinged different sites to find which has the
fastest return times. But this method may not be the best, because some
sites may slow down significantly when the load is increased. Is there
any
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 04:39:23PM +1200, Richard L Shepherd wrote:
Has anyone heard of a telnet-proxy package (especially for linux and
Debian of course)?
We have some people who have (and want to keep) their subnet blocked
for offsite access (so they do all their WWW browsing via a
Hi,
I am currently running a bo system, but want to upgrade to hamm. I
think I have read that upgrading to hamm requires special care and
involves taking special steps. I was under the impression that there
existed documentation that would explain all this, however I have searched
a debian
Hi,
I have looked everywhere and can't find any mention of rtf2latex being
provided for debian. Am I right in thinking it hasn't been packaged yet?
Cheers,
Mark.
__
Of course newsgroups are fine provided you have access to a good news
feed. The one I have access to is rather unreliable. It seems that many
messages simply don't get through, and there are often periods when news
groups have no messages at all in them for a day or two. (Not that I have
tried
Hi,
I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade to hamm. I downloaded the
upgrade script along with all the necessary packages and ran it. The
first time I ran it, there were problems:
dpkg: regarding dpkg_1.4.0.22.deb containing dpkg, pre-dependency problem:
dpkg pre-depends on libstdc++2.8
I am trying to upgrade to Hamm. I have run the autoup script, I think
successfully. Now I am trying to run deselect to upgrade everything else,
but it bombs out when I try to install, complaining that:
Looking for part 1 of dpkg-perl ...
I am still having problems upgrading to hamm. I have run autoup.sh
successfully (I think). Now trying to install, running dselect I get:
Looking for part 1 of slang0.99.38 ...
/usr/local/store0/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/base/slang0.99.38_0.99.38-5.deb
Running dpkg -iB for slang0.99.38 ...
The last few days I have been upgrading to hamm. I rebooted my computer
and it died badly. Instead of coming up with lilo, it repeatedly typed:
LI
LI
LI
LI
LI
LI
...etc
down the screen. It looks like the boot sector has been corrupted or
something like that, but I don't know what I've done
Back again. I've tried a few more things and thought I should report what
I've found. (In case you didn't read my earlier email - I've had a major
crash while attempting to upgrade to hamm.)
I have managed to boot under a rescue disc (I think it's a bo one). I
copied e2fsck from my brother's
it!)
Is there anyone in particular I should be sending this to?
Waiting anxiously,
Mark.
-Forwarded Message
Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 21:15:53 +0930 (CST)
From: Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Help! Major crash in Hamm upgrade
Thanks guys for your help! I can't thank you enough!!!
Use the Debian Rescue disk to boot your system but mount your existing
root partition as the root instead of allowing the rescue disk to mount a
ram disk as root. For example, when presented with the boot: prompt
from the rescue disk
I have just upgraded to hamm.
pon seems to work okay, but plog doesn't come up with anything. I suspect
this is because
/etc/syslog.conf
has changed, but I'm not sure. I had a look, but I don't know how to
change it to fix the problem. Does anyone know?
Thanks,
Mark.
On Tue, 2 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Mark Phillips wrote:
I have just upgraded to hamm.
pon seems to work okay, but plog doesn't come up with anything. I suspect
this is because
/etc/syslog.conf
has changed, but I'm not sure. I had a look, but I
Hi,
I've recently upgraded to hamm. The auctex package installed fine,
but it doesn't seem to start up when I use emacs!
Previously when I loaded a latex document into emacs, it would
automatically go into auctex mode. Now when I do it, it goes into a
non-auctex, tex mode. I can do a M-x
I've recently upgraded to hamm, but can't install netscape. Apparently
it depends on xlib6 which I had to deselect because it conflicted
with xlib6g. Is there a version of netscape which uses the newer
library? Or is there a way of installing both?
I thought that netscape had made the
Yes. You could recompile your kernel to include transparent proxy
support. This would automagically redirect all connection attempts
to the corresponding proxy servers.
Can you easily switch between real internet and proxy internet using
this solution?
Can I configure lynx to use a
Hi,
I run latex a lot and every time I run it, it has to load in library files
from disk, which takes time. I could try to buy a fast but expensive SCSI
drive, but I thought probably a cheaper way would be to buy more memory
and somehow use it to cache my existing hard drives -- ie stuff which
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
Mark Phillips wrote:
I run latex a lot and every time I run it, it has to load in library files
from disk, which takes time. I could try to buy a fast but expensive SCSI
drive, but I thought probably a cheaper way would be to buy more memory
Hi,
I'm installing Debian. I'm partitioning as follows:
100 Meg root partition
3 Gig /usr partition
100 Meg root partition - identical copy
This is just in case one root partition dies - I'll have a backup. What
is the best way to make the second root partition an identical copy?
Also, I
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