Gentoo question

2002-10-07 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
I am planning on trying a gentoo install. I would like it all in one partition. Is this possible? The docs talk about different partitions for boot and root. If I use a file system type that /boot expects (ext3), and I change the mount tables (/etc/fstab), what are my chances that it will work.

Re: Gentoo question

2002-10-07 Thread m.w.chang
it's better to have different partitions esp if you plan to upgrade your linux from time to time or you want to play with multiple versions of linux. Roger Oberholtzer wrote: I am planning on trying a gentoo install. I would like it all in one partition. Is this possible? The docs talk about

Re: Gentoo question

2002-10-07 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
I have a partition with user accounts and all my stuff, whihc is not in any OS partition. I typically make a partition for the OS itself, putting the whole OS in the one partition. Selecting the partition gets me the OS. Caldera, as an example, lets me put the partitions how I want. I was just

Re: Gentoo question

2002-10-07 Thread Bob Raymond
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 10:10, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: I have a partition with user accounts and all my stuff, whihc is not in any OS partition. I typically make a partition for the OS itself, putting the whole OS in the one partition. Selecting the partition gets me the OS. Caldera, as an

Re: glibc-2.2.5

2002-10-07 Thread Tim Wunder
Apps that I can't get to compile: xfree86 - get a bunch of atexit errors during make gcc-3.1.1 and gcc-3.2 - Bootstrap comparison failure! gnucash-CVS and kdemultimedia-CVS - atexit errors during configure Some apps compile OK, though. I managed to compile the srpm for binutils 2.11.93 OK and,

Re: Gentoo question

2002-10-07 Thread Collins
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:07:33 +0200 Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07 Oct 2002 10:01:41 +0100 Bob Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 10:10, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: I have a partition with user accounts and all my stuff, whihc is not in any OS

Re: Gentoo question

2002-10-07 Thread Collins
[ snips ] On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 09:30:54 +0200 Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am planning on trying a gentoo install. I would like it all in one partition. Is this possible? The docs talk about different partitions for boot and root. Just decline to create the /boot partition

Re: glibc-2.2.5

2002-10-07 Thread m.w.chang
thank you. here is one prblem when I ran ./configure in proftpd-1.2.6 #include assert.h Syntax error configure:3745: /lib/cpp conftest.c ./configure: /lib/cpp: No such file or directory configure:3745: $? = 126 configure: failed program was: #line 3745 configure #include

Re: Gentoo question

2002-10-07 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 07:28:51 + Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am planning on trying a gentoo install. I would like it all in one partition. Is this possible? The docs talk about different partitions for boot and root. Just decline to create the /boot partition and don't mount it

Re: glibc-2.2.5

2002-10-07 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 m.w.chang spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: you meant after you installed glibc-2.2.5, your gcc-2.95.3 would no longer compile a thing? hmm.. let me try it tonight. do you want me to compile a specific package? If not, I would just

Re: rebuilding perl 5.8.0 plus spamassasin

2002-10-07 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 m.w.chang spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: I got your point. but last time I install Mail::SpamAssassin 2.31, everything finished properly. it seems that the perl shell didn't start the spamd daemon bfore the test 28 hmm.. do

Re: sendmail from source [3]

2002-10-07 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 m.w.chang spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: The site.config.m4 can be placed in /etc/mail rather than in that special devtools/Site directory. Just build your sendmail by: sh Build -c -f /etc/mail/site.config.m4 neat trick. I'll

Re: glibc-2.2.5

2002-10-07 Thread Tim Wunder
On 10/7/2002 1:08 PM, someone claiming to be Douglas J Hunley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Wunder spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: Really? My installation of glibc 2.2.5 seems to have rendered me incapable of compiling *anything* on my Caldera

tabbed text editor

2002-10-07 Thread ronnie gauthier
Anyone know of a decent tabbed text editor? Thanks ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: tabbed text editor

2002-10-07 Thread bof
ronnie gauthier wrote: Anyone know of a decent tabbed text editor? Glimmer is nice, if/when you can get it to compile. See http://glimmer.sourceforge.net/ ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: Open Source certificate authority?

2002-10-07 Thread Philip J. Koenig
On 6 Oct 2002 at 15:51, David A. Bandel boldly uttered: On Sun, 06 Oct 2002 13:39:01 -0700 begin Philip J. Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: I'm looking for the simplest possible way to generate an X.509 certificate. (specifically, I have a piece of network hardware which

Newbie : GCC, Monolithic kernel

2002-10-07 Thread tom
Greets list; This is a long message For a lot of you, this is a nothing chore; for me, I've never done this before, and I apologize for wasting your valuble bandwidth; I'm playing with a COL WS 3.1.1. edition for the time now; I will be dropping this distro, since it appears Caldera is

Re: Open Source certificate authority?

2002-10-07 Thread Marvin Dickens
I suspect this is a simple problem.. can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Phil You are doing all of this as a typical user (Not root) and then trying to execute a script or binary (tk script, more than likely...) as superuser (root): The xserver will not allow the

Tenth Planet?

2002-10-07 Thread tom
Greets all From the Vanlug President in Vancouver, B.C., Canada; Hi, all. Those of you who are into both Linux and astronomy are likely very familiar with XEphem, http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/ Here's some data that's worth plugging into it:

Re: Open Source certificate authority?

2002-10-07 Thread Philip J. Koenig
On 7 Oct 2002 at 13:30, Philip J. Koenig boldly uttered: On 6 Oct 2002 at 15:51, David A. Bandel boldly uttered: On Sun, 06 Oct 2002 13:39:01 -0700 begin Philip J. Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: I'm looking for the simplest possible way to generate an X.509

Re: glibc-2.2.5

2002-10-07 Thread Jerry McBride
On Mon, 07 Oct 2002 00:39:57 -0400 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 06 October 2002 09:21 pm, m.w.chang wrote: glibc-2.3 requires gcc-3.2 and gcc 3.2 is not backward comapatible to older gcc stuffs, right? will it create chaos? you have to use 'checkinstall make install

Re: Newbie : GCC, Monolithic kernel

2002-10-07 Thread m.w.chang
make bootstrap should have a step that do the tsets. read the install/INSTALL file. The site documention is somewhat circular, and I get more frustrated the more and more I read it. I cannot find the link from the site docs. [ either that, or i'm trying to hard ] And please, if testing

Re: sendmail from source [3]

2002-10-07 Thread m.w.chang
ok. but I really need someone to verify my procedure. my write-up will cover teh compilation of cyrus-sasl-1.5.28 froms source as well. I wish I could get 2.1.7 working a _lot_ of people use smrsh (for majordomo, mailman, etc), so it should probaly stay in. just my opinion. write up the

Re: rebuilding perl 5.8.0 plus spamassasin

2002-10-07 Thread m.w.chang
yet your article on adding spam and virus filters for sendmail MILTER was about using perl -MCPAN -e shell, rgiht? that's my next step after I figured out glibc. do you happen to know how to skip the test (didn't even know where to look for in the doc files). I ended up getting out of the

Re: tabbed text editor

2002-10-07 Thread Richard R. Sivernell
On Mon, 07 Oct 2002 13:50:07 -0600 bof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ronnie gauthier wrote: Anyone know of a decent tabbed text editor? Glimmer is nice, if/when you can get it to compile. See http://glimmer.sourceforge.net/ ___

Wireless Under SuSE 8.1

2002-10-07 Thread kbb0927
Hello All Has anyone gotten a simple Linksys WPC11 card to work 'out of the box' in SuSE 8.1 using the standard setup unde yast2 lan? I installed SuSE 8.1 (fresh) on my laptop which ran (sometimes intermittently) a wireless Linksys WPC11 card under 8.0 with tweaking manually. 8.1 comes with a

Re: tabbed text editor

2002-10-07 Thread J. Allen Crider
If you like the emacs family of editors, the latest version of xemacs has tabbed buffers which I find quite nice. (But I've been using emacs/xemacs off and on for nearly 15 years.) A second option that I've been working with recently is jEdit. There is a buffer tabs plugin available for it

Re: Tenth Planet?

2002-10-07 Thread m.w.chang
[ot] tag would be appreciated. :) tom wrote: Greets all From the Vanlug President in Vancouver, B.C., Canada; -- Swiftly. Silently. Invisibly. .~. In Linux we trust. / v \ news://news.hkpcug.org /( _ )\ http://www.linux-sxs.org

Re: Newbie : GCC, Monolithic kernel

2002-10-07 Thread m.w.chang
no. not 'make'. `make bootstrap` linux-sxs.org has an article on compiling gcc. read it first. it worked for me. I did not read this anywhere yet. It seemed to be spelled out pretty well on the installing GCC configuration page as simply; configure make make install. linux-sxs' article

Re: Red Hat 8.0 installation failure

2002-10-07 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, J. Allen Crider wrote: I am looking for suggestions on what I need to do to install or upgrade to Red Hat 8.0. I am using CD-Rs burned from downloaded images. The failure occurs fairly quickly after attempting to start Anaconda, in either graphics or text mode. The

HP 7350V printer and Linux

2002-10-07 Thread Marvin Dickens
Yesterday, I purchased an HP 7350V color injet printer... FWIW, it works like a champ even though it's usb. Further, the driver that I'm using is known as the hpoj driver and the development of this driver is/was sponsored by HP. The HP 7530V auto-detects the paper type and ink cartridge type and

libstdc++

2002-10-07 Thread m.w.chang
what's it? do I need to update it if I am to upgrade glibc to 2.2.5? anyway, I tried to compile it, but got an error about missing install-sh which is really missing. -- Swiftly. Silently. Invisibly. .~. In Linux we trust. / v \ news://news.hkpcug.org

Re: Wireless Under SuSE 8.1

2002-10-07 Thread m.w.chang
you may want to consult the linux-sxs articles first. search for pcmcia gui to set this up during installation, but it fails to work. Pcmcia is recognizing the card correctly and all the right modules are being installed. But it complains that it fails to find an interface for the card on

Re: tabbed text editor

2002-10-07 Thread ronnie gauthier
Thanks for the suggestions. I have decided to use Kate, while not tabs it seems OK for what I need with its tree pane. On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:34:28 -0500 ronnie gauthier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a decent tabbed text editor? Thanks ___