On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> the "contrib" cdrom of the official cdset
> should contain a livefilesystem, only to repair an installed linux.
>
> i want that filesystem to have all text editors (see the current discussion),
> and every programm that might be usefull to repa
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> Instead of the two-cd's-without-source, I'd rather see a special
> lightweight _single_ Debian cd for i386 that carries:
> ...
> A cd like this, with approximately 250 meg binaries, 250 meg sources, 40
> meg documentation, 10 meg kernels and a 100 meg live filesystem would
> ma
Previously Steve Dunham wrote:
> The only isapnp devices I know of are audio. Are there any SCSI or
> enet devices? (If so a table would be necessary as they are discovered.)
Yes, my adaptec 152x card is PnP. hint: don't use isapnp after booting
from a PnP scsi-card!
Wichert.
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On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 06:10:16PM -0500, Martin Alonso Soto Jacome wrote:
> Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The only isapnp devices I know of are audio. Are there any SCSI or
> > enet devices? (If so a table would be necessary as they are discovered.)
>
> Yes, a lot of modern soundc
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> Well, this sounds find, but I've never observed this to actually work.
>
> [5:30pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg -s ntfs2.0.33
> Package: ntfs2.0.33
> Status: install ok installed
>
> [5:30pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# modprobe ntfs
> /lib/modules/2.0/fs/n
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Yann Dirson wrote:
> Jason Gunthorpe writes:
> > Hm, we should really talk to the kernel people.. but here is my thoughts,
> > #1 - If person X compiles a module for kernel x.x.x and it doesn't work
> >on your compile of x.x.x then you need to recompile your kern
On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 07:17:19PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> For instance, in this case you may not have mod versions enabled, it might
> be possible to convice ntfs to build without them and it might work, but
> it is equally good for you to compile your kernel with mod versions
> enabled to
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, James A.Treacy wrote:
> I've discussed this with Jason and he's against it. He feels that it will be
> too
> much administrative overhead to keep a list of acceptable mirrors. The reason
> we would want to set up restrictions is to prevent just anyone from mirroring
> from
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>>
>> Well, this sounds find, but I've never observed this to actually work.
>>
>> [5:30pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg -s ntfs2.0.33
>> Package: ntfs2.0.33
>> Status: install ok installed
>>
>> [5:30pm] [EMAIL
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > The thing you must realize is if those symbols are no present in your
> > kernel then there is nothing you can do to make that module work.
>
> Not strictly true. The symbols refered to above are always in the kernel, but
> the checksum is very much ve
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> What exactly is that checksum a checksum of? I would hope that it is a
> hash of the function signature which should be constant for any kernel
> version. If it is a hash of the contents then there is no point in having
> binary modules..
It is computed from the signatu
Although this is really a broader issue than just linux or debian
I thought I would present it to you guys and girls first.
One of the major problems with unix is that, for new users,
it is a bear to configure.
I was thinking about this this afternoon an an idea struck me
on a great way to solve
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> "Ronald" == Ronald Lembcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ronald> I had the same problem with my selfburned hamm cd's... the
Ronald> debian-hamm kernel seems to prefere joliet over
Ronald> rockridge with mount -o nojoliet the symlinks
Ronald>
After writing this I realized that I did not give any good reason for
while it is needed so here it is.
The Standard Configuration System solves the problem of the difficulty
in managing unix (and especially linux) machines forever.
Although there are many front end for configuring various parts
> Lets ask Andrew to add CHAP like authentication - that will clear my
> complaints. I don't like the idea of IP based authentication, it is weak
> and it is a pain to admin.
Too late --- he's already added it :-)
In the /etc/rsyncd.conf file on the target, you need something like this:
[debia
I intend to package ud, the uptime daemon. This package should be ready in
a few days.
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steve Shorter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Exactly! System "rescue" is fundamentally different from
> "installation". It is logical and expedient to seperate the two functions.
Take a look at the rescue disks on ftp.varesearch.com. They're very good.
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Sh
I don't mind having people mirror off debian.crosslink.net; it has
lots of capacity. The past problems with debian.crosslink.net not
mirroring correctly, and the underlying problem of my having no time
to fix it, have been resolved. Currently I'm mirroring it over
rsync/ssh to master; but by hand
> The layout of the registry will be similar to Microsoft's windows
> registry however it will be far more powerful.
...
> So what do you think of this idea?
IMHO The registry is the main reason that on Windows the solution to every
problem is ``re-install from scratch''.
What happens when you ge
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the right place for this.
Don't you mean:
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>Ronald> another problem with joliet... a bug in mkisofs and
>Ronald> mkhybrid (at least in the newest available versioin
>Ronald> arround april 6th)
>
>Ronald> when you make a bootable cd with joliet _and_ rockridge
>Ronald> the information for the bios that it is a bootable cd
On 11 Jun 1998, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
[]
> So:
>
> * We need a way to make the kernel prefer iso9660 with rock-ridge over
>Joliet. The kernel currently prefers Joliet over iso9660 with
>rock-ridge, so symlinks are invisible on CD-ROMs that are both
>iso9660 and Joliet.
[]
I followe
Philip Hands wrote:
> > >I thought debian's 2.0.33 had the FAT32 patch. This is the same as the
> > >joilet
> > >stuff AFAIK. Does this mean that you are using a non-standard kernel or am
> > >I
> > >just totally wrong here?
> >
> > i don't know what [EMAIL PROTECTED] is useing (no symlinks at h
On Wed 03 Jun 1998, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Sat, 30 May 1998, Jay Wardle wrote:
>
> > [...Raul wrote...]
> > > If this can't be fixed easily, perhaps we ought to promote lprng to
> > > standard and demote lpr to optional. Yes, I know that bug-for-bug
> > > compatability is a nice thing, but in m
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jun 12 10:34:48 1998
>>Ronald> another problem with joliet... a bug in mkisofs and
>>Ronald> mkhybrid (at least in the newest available versioin
>>Ronald> arround april 6th)
>>
>>Ronald> when you make a bootable cd with joliet _and_ rockridge
>>Ronal
--On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 7:53 am +0100 "Philip Hands" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The layout of the registry will be similar to Microsoft's windows
>> registry however it will be far more powerful.
> ...
>> So what do you think of this idea?
>
> IMHO The registry is the main reason that on Windo
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Hi,
I am a german physics-student right now studying in Uppsala, Sweden.
Really soon I want to register as a new Debian-maintainer and take over
some orphaned packages (bibindex, xbattle, p2c?) to help to reach the goal
of a completely maintained distribution.
No
On Wed 10 Jun 1998, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 09:10:37AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 02:26:50PM +0200, Michael Dietrich wrote:
> > > who maintains the mkdosfs package
> > There's no separate mkdosfs package anymore; it has been merged into
I don't know how to handle this:
My swig package in frozen has a small, but `important' bug dealing with
version numbers (#20068, swig: dpkg thinks 1.1p5-1 < 1.1.b5.p2-1).
I thought about simply rebuilding the package with a changed revision
number "1.1.p5-1" which would fix the bug in a very
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 03:54:57PM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
> Now I don't know: When I recompile the package using the official g++ 2.90
> / libstdc++ 2.80 combo, this may introduce new bugs, therefore I'm sure
> Brian won't allow this to go into frozen.
IIRC, at least one package has been fi
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 03:54:57PM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
> But when I compared the resulting packages, I found that the old package
> had been built with a g++/libstdc++ based on 2.7.2, while nowadays g++
> 2.90 is the official C++ compiler, going with libstdc++2.8.
>
> Now I don't kno
Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you take a look at the bug report, you'll see that there's a
> workaround already in place for this bug, but the maintainer left the
> bug report intact because he wants to find a cleaner solution.
>
> Hence this discussion of lpr <-> lprng is pretty mu
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 10:05:05AM -0400, Brian White wrote:
> > Bug #22325, marked important, says that my package guavac has an
> > unsatisfied suggestion on java-virtual-machine. I need your
> > advice on what to do about it.
> I'd do either:
>
> 1) ignore the "suggests" problem
I think this
> "TN" == Thimo Neubauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TN> Really soon I want to register as a new Debian-maintainer and
TN> take over some orphaned packages (bibindex, xbattle, p2c?)
Too late, I already took over bibindex (the packag
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 12:23:28AM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> One of the major problems with unix is that, for new users,
> it is a bear to configure.
I definitly agree (and am glad im not one of those "new users"). In fact
most "new things" that one has never configured before take a while
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 11:40:30PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
>
> > Package: bootdisk (pseudo)
> > Maintainer: Maintainer Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 20779 Debian 2.0 won't boot of a hard disk after install
> >
David Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 08:35:47PM +0100, Chris Reed wrote:
> >As listed in The Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List for 1998-06-08, p3nfs is still
> >linked against libc5, and the maintainer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Billy
> >C.-M. Chow) cannot be contacted.
> >
> >I have
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 12:23:28AM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>
> > One of the major problems with unix is that, for new users,
> > it is a bear to configure.
>
> I definitly agree (and am glad im not one of those "new users"). In fact
> most "new things" that one
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 12:56:42PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Wed 03 Jun 1998, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > On Sat, 30 May 1998, Jay Wardle wrote:
> >
> > > [...Raul wrote...]
> > > > If this can't be fixed easily, perhaps we ought to promote lprng to
> > > > standard and demote lpr to optional.
On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 03:37:11PM +0100, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote:
> I wanted to know what ssl-enabled browsers we have in debian now. Also
> does anybody know if ftps:// is a valid URL for ssl-enabled ftp?
fortify (in non-US) can patch Netscapes to support
reasonable crypto.
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 08:47:37PM +0300, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 03:37:11PM +0100, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote:
> > I wanted to know what ssl-enabled browsers we have in debian now. Also
> > does anybody know if ftps:// is a valid URL for ssl-enabled ftp?
>
> forti
> "Thomas" == Thomas Hohenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Thomas> I followed the discussion above. I have two SuSE Linux
Thomas> 2.0.33/2.0.34 systems. The first system has my cdrecorder
Thomas> attached. I patched this one with the Joliet patch and a
Thomas> 2k blocksize p
> "Philip" == Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the right place for this.
Philip>
Philip> Don't you mean:
Philip> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a separate mailing list just for CD
burning software under
Now, don't get me wrong...I hate windows registries just as badly as
anyone else, and I've been using linuxconf on and off for ages. But
this has one darn good idea to it: many programs using the same data
source. For instance, I just installed this machine with one hostname
before realizing that
Quoting Adam P. Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I know there were a few cyrix-specific fixes introduced in 2.0.34.
> Maybe some of the people experiencing this problem might test it out
> with that kernel? That might push out to definately try to get 2.0.34
> in for hamm release. (Although AFAIK, i
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > My name is Peter Hum and I am a program manager at Eicon Technology. We
>> > are currently in the process of porting our driver for our ISDN PRI/BRI
>> > adapter into Linux. I would like to know we can have this driver
>> > integrated into your next release of the kernel.
Hi
Dan Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now, don't get me wrong...I hate windows registries just as badly as
> anyone else, and I've been using linuxconf on and off for ages. But
> this has one darn good idea to it: many programs using the same data
> source. For instance, I just installed th
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 12:29:41PM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 12:23:28AM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> >
> Second off
> data will be regually exported to text based backup files (say like
> every hour) so if something goes wrong it ca
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 03:38:59PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> If vi would fit on the rescue disk, do you think we would be discussing
> ae?
>
> To be able to do an install with the rescue disk the space priorities
> don't allow anything but ae in that environment. When you can get vi's
> binary
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "DEBIAN: Sorry, you need a ph.d. in computer science, 10-year-experience
> in unix system administration or a good handbook on the obscure "vi" program
> before you can edit a file during installation process.
> Don't even think of installing it."
Er..
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 02:41:56PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "DEBIAN: Sorry, you need a ph.d. in computer science, 10-year-experience
> > in unix system administration or a good handbook on the obscure "vi" program
> > before you can edit a file dur
"There's always one more bug"
I got it. At least, I got one...
Adam P. Harris writes:
> I know there were a few cyrix-specific fixes introduced in 2.0.34.
> Maybe some of the people experiencing this problem might test it out
> with that kernel? That might push out to definately try to get 2.
Previously Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> That's exactly what it means. As Wichert pointed out, you need PCI for
> ALSA to work - period. If you don't want PCI then you must hack alsa.
I'll add some checking to the postinst of ALSA to check for PCI support
in the kernel and warn if it isn't there.
> I
Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hm, be careful with 2.0.34...
Sounds like it should go in extra, for now.
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Hi folks,
I was trying to fix that javalex package lately but failed
constantly. I don't speak any Java at all, this could be a reason.
I'd like to receive some help. The program gets called with the
following command
/usr/bin/java JavaLex.Main $*
The main problem is that there is no JavaLe
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hm, be careful with 2.0.34...
>
>Sounds like it should go in extra, for now.
OTOH our news server didn't survive longer then a day with 2.0.[0-3] and
runs rockstable with 2.0.34 ...
At 06:34 -0700 1998-06-11, Amos Shapira wrote:
>I do a lot of remote administration too (actually, almost exclusively)
>using ssh. I know that ssh is not freely distributable with debian
>(due to the crypto limitations)
It isn't just the crypto, ssh isn't DFSG free either.
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At 13:39 -0700 1998-06-10, Remco van de Meent wrote:
>Hey,
>
>I'm currently applying for being a Debian maintainer (using the Debian
>Developer's Reference).
>
>I created a package of the Webalizer software:
>
>Package: webalizer
>Status: install ok installed
>Installed-Size: 108
>Maintainer: Remco
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