On Friday 13 July 2001 00:39, Kurt Wall wrote:
Bruce Marshall offered this little gem:
[snippage]
% Just found another 'wide decision' in SuSE 7.2
%
% Tried to add a user... like webmaster. Should be an easy thing to do.
%
% Nope... It es verboten to add a user uhnless it be 2 to 8
Bruce Marshall opined:
% On Friday 13 July 2001 00:39, Kurt Wall wrote:
%
% No, neither dumb nor totally dumb. Only recently has support for
% user names longer than 8 characters developed. As long as you stay
% within a strictly Linux (and, I believe, a strictly 2.4+ kernel
% and glibc =
Ah, finally someone has mentioned what I hated about SuSE when I
installed it around v6.1 or so. Many of the design decisions made are
almost indecipherable to mere mortals, requiring lots of time and
investigation. There doesn't always seem to be a good reason, just a
because we felt like it
We seem to have some problems with re-compiling in this list and it is due to the fact
that many
here now are Caldera refugees grin with differing distros in the list now.
Initrd is a script that is called since the introduction of 2.4.x kernels. In Cladera
it resides
in
On Thursday 12 July 2001 06:48 pm, Keith Antoine wrote:
| I would imagine that if it is necessary with Cladera then it
| probably is also with other distros.
nah. the geniuses at suse have rejiggered this, too, probably to make
it easier to undo changes not approved by the suse high council
I am so glad to see that you are your _'OLD_ happy self again Denis g.
Yes I read your article and it was very helpful to me in that I will not be installing
it, cos,
if you had problems then I must by definition be worse off, if I did.
The only other distruibutions that are left to me
On Thursday 12 July 2001 19:32, dep wrote:
On Thursday 12 July 2001 06:48 pm, Keith Antoine wrote:
| I would imagine that if it is necessary with Cladera then it
| probably is also with other distros.
nah. the geniuses at suse have rejiggered this, too, probably to make
it easier to undo
Bruce Marshall offered this little gem:
[snippage]
% Just found another 'wide decision' in SuSE 7.2
%
% Tried to add a user... like webmaster. Should be an easy thing to do.
%
% Nope... It es verboten to add a user uhnless it be 2 to 8 chars in length!!
%
% Dumb... totally dumb.
No,
Hi, Rick:
Could this be a problem processing stage 1 (or beyond) of GRUB?
Regards,
Glenn
On Tuesday 10 July 2001 08:28 am, you wrote:
On Tuesday 10 July 2001 08:26, you wrote:
Collins
2 Quick questions,
1.
I have followed you SxS for 2.4.3 Kernel build except I am
building
On Tuesday 10 July 2001 14:26, you wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:14:48 -0500 Rick Sivernell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Collins
Got compile with no error, no unresolves.
On SxS you say modify menu.lst
menu.lst now:
kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.6-modular vga=274 quiet root=/dev/hda1
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 21:07:28 -0500 Rick Sivernell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Tuesday 10 July 2001 14:26, you wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:14:48 -0500 Rick Sivernell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Collins
Got compile with no error, no unresolves.
On SxS you say modify menu.lst
Rick:
I haven't been following the thread do you need to know who to build
an initrd file?
Bruce
I beleive that my settings from xconfig may not be proper at this time. I
will retry to set the configuration tomorrow. Marcus sent a earlier post
about initrd.sh. I will try
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