Re: apt-get not working anymore

2009-09-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Klaus Ethgen writes: > Hi, > > maybe that is an issue for debian-user, so I put it in the To too > although I am not subscribed there. > > If you look to Bug #497617 there is a long time bug in apt first only > targeting the German translations but now it is independent of the > locales. > > When

Re: apt.conf and ia32-apt-get

2009-07-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Dave Witbrodt writes: > Does the new 'ia32-apt-get' system honor anything in /etc/apt after > initially being installed, such as 'apt.conf'? Or should 'apt.conf' > be copied to '/etc/ia32-apt'? > > > Dave W. It does honor it. It actualy comes with /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00ia32-apt-get too. MfG

Re: ia32-apt-get on Sid

2009-07-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Dave Witbrodt writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Dave Witbrodt writes: >>> I use Sid, and have been interested in the appearance of the new >>> ia32-apt-get facility. >>> >>> I see that ia32-apt-get has its own configuration files in >>

Re: ia32-apt-get on Sid

2009-07-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Dave Witbrodt writes: > I use Sid, and have been interested in the appearance of the new > ia32-apt-get facility. > > I see that ia32-apt-get has its own configuration files in > > /etc/ia32-apt > > After reading /usr/share/doc/ia32-apt-get/README.Debian, I'm a bit > confused on how this new

Re: progress, but... - re. fixing LVM/md snafu

2009-04-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Miles Fidelman writes: > Hello again Folks, > > So.. I'm getting closer to fixing this messed up machine. > > Where things stand: > > I have root defined as an LVM2 LV, that should use /dev/md2 as it's PV. > /dev/md2 in turn is a RAID1 array built from /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 and > /dev/sdc3 > > Inst

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-04-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am 2008-04-25 16:07:51, schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli: >> You are asking generically Packages without specifying a mirror. Are >> they granted to be identically replicated among all mirrors? Of course >> they *probably* are due to how mirroring works, b

Re: Header files amd64 etch

2007-07-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A mixed compilation (ifort/gcc 4.1.2) of Amber9 on amd64 etch > dual-core-opterons (Linux deb32 2.6.18-3-k7 #1 SMP Mon Dec 4 17:23:11 UTC 2006 > i686 GNU/Linux) > requests the following header files; > > WcActCB.c:22:28: error: X11/IntrinsicP.h: No su

Re: etch RC1 installer

2006-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Aimed at adding X to my amd64 etch workstation, I > wonder whether X is treated in amd64 (no 32 chroot, > pure 64 as far as it may be pur) like in i386. > > In a new installation of i386 etch netinstall with > latest etch RC1, no nvidia driver was ins

Re: Debian Installer etch RC1 released

2006-11-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Roberto C. Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061114 14:58]: >> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:19:13AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: >> > >> > * The 2.6.17 kernel should support installing from most CD-ROM/DVD >> > drives in systems with a SATA controller. Howe

Re: Problems with Wine on Debian AMD 64

2006-11-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Glen M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi , > > I'm a total noob to linux so bare with me, I've had a friend help me > through alot of this so far. > I am trying to get 'wine' installed with 32bit libraries in order to > run some 32 bit applications. > > Initially I started with installing ia32-li

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
helices <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:07:13:13:47:58+0200] scribed: > > >> The amd64.debian.net is at the same level as sarge if you include the >> proposed updates. The only difference to official sarge is tha

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Excuse me for chiming in, but I think many places simply look > for the best performance and productivity/dollar(euro). We do use the PGI > compiler, > mostly because gnu had not had a f90-f95 compiler, and partly because > of, maybe, a 10% improvement in

Re: boolean search

2006-06-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Don Montgomery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Francesco, > > Any text editor will have hotkey search on case-insensitive character > strings, which allows you to use a text file to store and find > unstructured text data. For ease of use, I especially like the > "incremental search" feature in emac

Re: ia32 chroot caveat(s)

2006-06-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > They were installed by default in my case. I carried out a net installation > (mirror debian.inode.at) on multi-dual-opteron from > etch beta2 release, downloaded 20 May > 2006. It was raid1 with partitions /, /usr/, /var, swap, /tmp, with grub on

Re: ia32 chroot caveat(s)

2006-06-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This confirms that I was right in reserving the 64bit machine for 64bit > applications and the 32bit machine for 32bit applications. It is easy to > communicate between the two. > > Because the calculations at 64bit are long lasting, I use a usb ca

Re: native 32 bit binaries on amd64

2006-06-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
edwardsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While I understand that to keep a purely 64-bit environment some > recommend that AMD64 users set up a chrooted environment, I would like > to know: > > 1. The practical disadvantages of installing the ia-32 libraries to > run, for example, open office Ia32

Re: ia32 chroot caveat(s)

2006-06-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
edwardsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While the chroot has relieved several problems with amd64, two issues > should be raised: > > 1. Using the 32-bit firefox is problematic because it will not serve > as a useful directory viewer unless one does some significant > binding. a chrooted applicatio

Re: SOLVED: Software-RAID1 on sarge (AMD64)

2006-05-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Kilian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Kilian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> In the last few days, I was struggling to convert a remote machine >>> with two identical SATA disks (sda and sdb) to a Software RAID >&g

Re: SOLVED: Software-RAID1 on sarge (AMD64)

2006-05-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Michal Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Kilian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> 5. Copy the existing Debian system to the new RAID >>> >>> $ mkdir -p /mnt/newroot >>> $ mount /dev/md0 /mnt/n

Re: SOLVED: Software-RAID1 on sarge (AMD64)

2006-05-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Kilian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the last few days, I was struggling to convert a remote machine > with two identical SATA disks (sda and sdb) to a Software RAID > 1. Especially the boot-part was tricky as I had no console access to > the machine. The whole procedure was done remotely via S

Re: Compiling packages for the standard distribution with -Os instead of -O2

2006-05-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:02:57AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >> For Etch and Sid, it is probably a good idea to use -Os instead of -O2 at >> least on the bigger arches (ia32, ia64, amd64, etc), as we can probably >> trust gcc not t

Re: Compiling packages for the standard distribution with -Os instead of -O2

2006-05-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Rogério Brito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi there. > > I think that this may be interesting to anybody that has to work with > computers that are not the latest/more recent as most people in richer > countries seem to

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 12/21/05, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Finally, assuming I succeed in setting up the system the way I > li

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Finally, assuming I succeed in setting up the system the way I like, can I > simply edit the sources file to return back to the Debian fold? You are assuming wrong. You will run into several problems with incompatibilities between ubuntu and Debian. M

Re: One stage rsync

2005-12-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Olleg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> That said, what happens when e.g. the rsync stops halfway? > > I make experiment, kill rsync server on transfer. > >> Does it update the files it already has? > No >> Does it keep the f

Re: One stage rsync

2005-12-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Olleg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all. > I am working on debian and debian-amd64 mirror. There are two > recommended mirror scripts. In both two stage rsync, first to download > packages, second to update index files after download. > I use one stage, here example: > rsync --verbose --recursi

Re: Issues with CD burning (invalid CDs)

2005-07-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Krzysztof Wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russell Shaw wrote: >> S. Massy wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I have a Toshiba Satellite 1110 (which comes with a cd-r/w burner) with >>> which I have burnt countless CDs in the past without so much as the >>> shadow of a problem. Now, however, things h

Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tim Connors wrote: >> Or what about >> automatically doubling each time it runs out of room, and starting again >> (along with an appropriate warning message as to how not to keep doing >> this)? > > Kinda defeats the purpose of limiting the amount of s

Re: Can I autogen Build-Depends like I can Depends, with shlibs?

2004-03-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Number Six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is more of a -user question, but only devs would know: > > My dh_make -generated debian/control and debian/rules uses dh_shlibdeps > to automatically generate the Depends: line, which rocks. > > Do I have to manually specify the Build-Depends line,

Re: Why Linux, Why Debian

2004-02-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I have been asked to give a talk at my local LUG with that > topic. The audience is fairly technical, and there is going to be a > companion talk "Why FreeBSD" later in the year. Why not debian bsd? :) Might be a nice addon at th

Re: initrd with sshd ?

2003-11-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
e-bone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I am just curious if something like this is possible. > > I essentially need a two part boot process. > > I would like to have linux first boot to an initrd with a sshd running > on it. > Then, after connecting to this system over the network, I would lik

Re: Setting up network interfaces?

2002-10-07 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 07/10/02 Marc Shapiro did speaketh: > > > > > Where do I set up these items so that they will be initialized at > > > bootup, instead of using dhcp? It looks like I need to change > > > /etc/interfaces and possibly /etc/hosts, but I'm not sure

Re: utempter.h ?

2002-06-07 Thread Goswin Brederlow
"Ted Goodridge, Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Which package is utempter.h in? X needs it to build xterm... > > Thanks in advance, There is no such thing unless its new or only in the sources. Did you install the build-depends for X? %zgrep utempter.h Contents-i386.gz % (sorry, only have t

Re: Help needed : kernel panic unable to mount root fs

2002-05-30 Thread Goswin Brederlow
"Shree Raman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi all!! > > I am experiencing a tough time as my system had a kernel panic. it > happened while I was installing openoffice. The system hunged and > there was no way left other than rebooting & then a kernel panic > prompt. > > > I had installed deb

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-29 Thread Goswin Brederlow
"Ted Goodridge, Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The woody alpha install images have that nasty loop bug with the base > pkg. > Ted Still? Sid/unstable too? You can install till your in that loop and then replace the faulty deb with a newer one. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-29 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Robert Funnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 28 May 2002, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > >edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to woody, and do apt-get > > >dist-upgrade > > > > > This usually works great, but for an upgrade of this magnitude (between > > releases), I'd strongly recommend d

Re: Some Crazy and Happier Ideas for 2002

2002-01-01 Thread Goswin Brederlow
"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [] A spanking new hardware platform without any compromise to aged standards > is released and produced. Linux is the OS of choice together with BSD and > other Open OS's. Plain boxes with just a couple connectors, stylish, vector, > plain [] // Oh well, sick of

Re: mkisofs

2001-01-02 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can somebody indicate what excatly must the command line be to > copy the contents of a cd to some file and store it as iso > image? I tried different options to do it, but the md5sum > didn't match afterwards. Somet

Re: [potato] blank windows

1999-11-23 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In some programs, xv, gnome-terminal, gnomicu, gv, to name a few, I get > blank windows. The window itself comes up ok, but there is no text! In > xv, it opens with a black background and doesn't display any pictures! > > Any ideas? What hardware/software

Re: Can't boot from floppies - HELP!

1999-10-24 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Jake Griesbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to boot from the Debian rescue disk to install linux for the > first time. I have an adaptec AIC-7890 scsi card, so I was typing > > linux aix7xxx > > to boot. > After the kernel loads, I get the following after the scsi driver loads: > >

Re: slink problems

1999-08-06 Thread goswin . brederlow
From: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Stephane Bortzmeyer writes: > > Many other suggestions have been made to solve the problem. It is not easy. > > You have to find: > > > > - a good scheme (think of X11-only installers, without a tty), > > - implement it (i.e. modify 3000 packages' {pre,po

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

1999-07-12 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Carl Mummert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >#pragma pack(1) > >struct {}; > >#pragma pack() > > > >Which forces the layout to be as you specified. > > > >Using a command line option is a Bad Idea (tm) as it may corrupt glibc's > >structures > > To test a resonse to the original message, I made th

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

1999-07-12 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Joop Stakenborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For instance, if the structure were: > > struct foo { > char text[3]; > int num; > }; > > sizeof would return 6 and not 5. So it's obvious that the compiler is > placing a pad byte between text and num to align num. I want it to > stop! A

Re: Debian-M68K install problems

1998-07-27 Thread Brederlow
Hans-Olov Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > This is my first post to the list and I hope someone out there can help me? > (Tell me if i should send this to the m68k-list instead.) > > I boot Debian with "root.bin" which automagically runs the installer. After > I've entered the path

Re: Can't Copy 161 MB

1998-07-04 Thread Brederlow
Dennis Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I need to do is change one of my Debian (version 1.3) partitions into 2 > separate partitions. There is presently 161 MB of files in hda6 (the > partition I want to subdivide) and on my Windows half of the computer in > Drive D: (hda5) I have 190MB

Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...)

1998-07-04 Thread Brederlow
Dennis Dai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My experience is: install NT first, then install Linux, run LILO to > modify MBR (add a dos option as usual). After reboot, I got LILO prompt > first. If I select dos, NT boot loader came up, there you can select NT > or win95. This is quite different from

Re: Debian Linux booting details

1998-07-03 Thread Brederlow
Robert Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a document which would walk through all the phases and the > resources/files used by Debian Linux while booting ??? > > I went through the usual inittab, /etc/init.d files but some things are > probably escaping my attention. > > Thank you.

Re: [Debian] Running Linux from CD

1998-07-03 Thread Brederlow
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 03:21:33PM +0200, Niklas Höglund wrote: > > > is it possible to run Linux completely from CD. We have created > > > > I think older v

Re: [Debian] Running Linux from CD

1998-07-03 Thread Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 09:44:50AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > is it possible to run Linux completely from CD. > > Probably yes, if a system has sufficient RAM. One would have to combine some > things: [snip] 8 MB's are perfectly fine for this. I used a setup of

Re: [Debian] Running Linux from CD

1998-07-02 Thread Brederlow
Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > is it possible to run Linux completely from CD. We have created > a product on top of Linux but now face the problem of having to > install Linux every time we give a demo to a potential costumer > (when running on the customer's PC). Being ab

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-27 Thread Brederlow
Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 25 Jun 1998, Brederlow wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > On 23 Jun, BARBELET Philippe wrote: > > > > > But I think people want an exact list of the output that is generated > >

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-27 Thread Brederlow
Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think It may be rather difficult to implement, as wouldn't it mean a program > taking over the boot process and it would then be this program that controled > the execution sequence of the init scripts. Also how would you tell if the

Re: Swapping Hard Drives on the fly

1998-06-25 Thread Brederlow
Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey Folks, > > I have a 1.2G IDE HD that I have in a removable drive cady on my Bo > system. It's not a 'hot-swap' drive or anything sophisticated like that, > and on my Windoze system I wouldn't have even considered pulling it out > while the PC was run

Re: Installing 95 & NT w/out frying Linux. [Important]

1998-06-25 Thread Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi, > I have heard some ppl on the list frying their Linux installations > when > installing 95/NT. So can someone please instruct me as to a -safe- way of > removing & installing 95 & NT. Win95 should be fine, but WinNT will fry your boot menu. Make a bootdis

Re: Need help running man on newly installed Debian system

1998-06-25 Thread Brederlow
"Fungame Game" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have recently installed Debian using the instructions on the web site. > (I used a 5 floppy set). Everything seems to work fine. But man is > missing (or so I think). I cannot access the manpages (am i doing it > incorrectly by using man?) and what

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-25 Thread Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On 23 Jun, BARBELET Philippe wrote: > But I think people want an exact list of the output that is generated > after the kernel is done and the init scripts have started. So this is > not the 'complete' solution. > This is just a stab in the dark. But could something

Re: none

1998-04-25 Thread Brederlow
Patrick Duvaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Mrvn, i hope you can German, i'think > > Also, Es hat sich was getan mit Deinem Tip. Die CV64/3D hatte einen grauen > Screen geoefnet, ohne text > Wenn ich einen Kernel normal, mit multiscann oeffne, dann bleibt der Kernel > v2.x bei > Calibrating