Re: creating a local mirror

2005-01-05 Thread David T-G
Alexandros, et al -- ...and then Alexandros Papadopoulos said... % % On Wednesday 05 January 2005 13:11, David T-G wrote: % > % > I would like to create my own mirror for the purpose of installing ... % % http://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror Sounds great; thanks for the p

creating a local mirror

2005-01-05 Thread David T-G
cumstances? TIA & Happy New Year! :-D -- David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! pgpinrbopdMJ8.pgp Description: PGP signature

debootstrapping via knoppix, and what next?

2005-01-05 Thread David T-G
a local mirror? I'd sure appreciate it! PS -- Does anyone have subscription info for a knoppix-installer list? TIA & Happy New Year! :-D -- David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! pgp9kIfTFMC4C.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: where to get old hard drives?

2004-08-01 Thread David T-G
d enough. HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! pgpnvC3ZTvYg2.pgp Description: PGP signature

debootstrap finally works, i think

2004-06-14 Thread David T-G
else who is trying to figure out how to use this thing. Thanks for all the help & HAND :-D -- David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! pgpXebrQnuAQc.pgp Description: PGP signature

back to debootstrap troubles

2004-05-27 Thread David T-G
oint? If not, can I accomplish it at all? If so, how? If not, do you hav any recommendations for doing a few chroot server installs at the slow end of a lousy DSL connection? TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl N

Re: where are my posts?

2004-05-27 Thread David T-G
Hi again -- ...and then David T-G said... % % If this gets through and you can see this one, please let me know if you % saw my debootstrap post(s). At least I can see this one! TIA agai & HAND :-D -- David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpng

where are my posts?

2004-05-27 Thread David T-G
) If this gets through and you can see this one, please let me know if you saw my debootstrap post(s). TIA & HAND Curious, :-D -- David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! pgpzwvK8vdCBU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: problems with debootstrap and stable or sarge

2004-05-25 Thread David T-G
Hi, all -- Yes, I'm back with more questions :-/ ...and then Colin Watson said... % % On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 08:56:37PM -0400, David T-G wrote: % > % > What's the minimum set that I need for, say, sarge? I don't want to have % > to download 8G of mirror just to use

Re: [OT] Debian Users: Please boycott Paypal

2004-05-20 Thread David T-G
ut I think that that went out the window with the buyout. I know that they've really ticked me off on a personal account I have with them! HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! pgpehhHksTx4H.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] Debian Users: Please boycott Paypal

2004-05-20 Thread David T-G
screet as Emma). Hands-off subscription management a la paypal is an added bonus, but I could easily write an (or use an existing) interface to bill every month if necessary. % others Oh, that's helpful... *snicker* TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://justpickone.org/

Re: problems with debootstrap and stable or sarge

2004-05-20 Thread David T-G
and ask a % different question. Okey dokey. % % David T-G wrote: % > I have a trash-able SuSE system I want to use to do a chroot install % > of Debian before trying it on my LFS-based server. I have extracted % > the debootstrap package contents, have /mnt/suse81 ready to catch the %

Re: problems with debootstrap and stable or sarge

2004-05-20 Thread David T-G
Colin, et al -- ...and then Colin Watson said... % % On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 08:56:37PM -0400, David T-G wrote: % > % > What's the minimum set that I need for, say, sarge? I don't want to have % > to download 8G of mirror just to use 1/3 of it. % % You can probably use deb

Re: problems with debootstrap and stable or sarge

2004-05-19 Thread David T-G
Colin, et al -- ...and then Colin Watson said... % % On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 05:24:24PM -0400, David T-G wrote: % > % > Aha! I don't have any such pool/ directory. I'll go and download that % > now. % % Right, you need the .debs to be in the same layout as on Debian m

Re: problems with debootstrap and stable or sarge

2004-05-19 Thread David T-G
Colin, et al -- ...and then Colin Watson said... % % On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 09:55:59AM -0400, David T-G wrote: % > % > hp:~ # debootstrap --arch i386 --verbose sarge /mnt/suse81 file:///mnt/empty/ ... % > I: Retrieving adduser % > E: Couldn't download adduser % % Hm, so

Re: problems with debootstrap and stable or sarge

2004-05-19 Thread David T-G
Colin, et al -- ...and then Colin Watson said... % % On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 04:43:43PM -0400, David T-G wrote: % > % > debootstrap --arch i386 --verbose stable /mnt/suse81 file:///mnt/empty/ % > % > (and also 'woody' in place of 'stable') but it puked on ad

problems with debootstrap and stable or sarge

2004-05-18 Thread David T-G
back again, I downloaded about 700M in sarge and tried debootstrap --arch i386 --verbose sarge /mnt/suse81 file:///mnt/empty/ with exactly the same results. What do I need to download to get myself going? TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://justpickone.org/davidtg/

Re: shiny (was "Re: CLI")

2004-02-20 Thread David T-G
lish -- ...and then i'll teach you to turn away. said... % % David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: % DTG> ...and then i'll teach you to turn away. said... % DTG> % i didn't mention that it's a quarter i swallowed a month ago. :D % DTG> E

Re: CLI

2004-02-19 Thread David T-G
lish, et al -- ...and then i'll teach you to turn away. said... % % David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: % DTG> ...and then i'll teach you to turn away. said... % DTG> % ok, i give: 1010011010 % DTG> Ahhh... Er, interesting. That definitely should have been wort

Re: CLI

2004-02-19 Thread David T-G
Richard, et al -- ...and then Richard Lyons said... % % On Thursday 19 February 2004 16:04, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: % > David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... % > DTG> 0100 0101 % > DTG> then? If it isn't that then I'm out of ideas.

Re: CLI

2004-02-19 Thread David T-G
lish -- ...and then i'll teach you to turn away. said... % % David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... % DTG> 0100 0101 % DTG> then? If it isn't that then I'm out of ideas. % % that's much too obvious. % % ok, i give: 1010011010 Ahhh... Er, inte

Re: geeks (was "Re: CLI")

2004-02-19 Thread David T-G
Paul, et al -- ...and then Paul Morgan said... % % On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:50:18 -0500, David T-G wrote: % % > Oh, for the days when Linux really was just for geeks... :-) % % OK, I can't resist as this thread is so way off topic anyway... *grin* % % A geek is walking along a coun

Re: CLI

2004-02-18 Thread David T-G
lish -- ...and then i'll teach you to turn away. said... % % David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: % DTG> ...and then i'll teach you to turn away. said... ... % DTG> come to mind, but those would be awfully long in binary. [Of course, % DTG> after seeing your back, maybe

Re: CLI

2004-02-18 Thread David T-G
etic, nauseating and creepy all at the same time. % % hey, that's EXACTLY what i was going for! *snort* % % lish "everybody has a question % [EMAIL PROTECTED]if not an adoring letter." -jc HAND :-D -- D

Re: CLI

2004-02-18 Thread David T-G
Paul -- ...and then Paul Morgan said... % % On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:17:06 -0800, Nano Nano wrote: % % > On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 04:13:22PM -0500, David T-G wrote: % >> What about a switch with a 1 and 0? From what I've read of you so far it % >> would obviously be 't

Re: CLI

2004-02-18 Thread David T-G
f you so far it would obviously be 'turned on' :-) % % lish % [EMAIL PROTECTED] HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Scien

Re: make (was "Re: cdparanoia & a song in negative space")

2004-02-17 Thread David T-G
D % % $ make out % make: *** No rule to make target `out'. Stop. % % Rats! Silly; you're not using a parallel make. She didn't say to make out alone! :-) HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * soci

Re: CLI

2004-02-17 Thread David T-G
lish -- ...and then i'll teach you to turn away. said... % % David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... % DTG> [Admittedly, there might be some problems with my current wife.] % % hey, we can have a joiner if she's cute. :D Way, and my daughters even like horses, but t

Re: CLI

2004-02-16 Thread David T-G
Monique -- ...and then Monique Y. Herman said... % % On 2004-02-16, Ken Gilmour penned: % > On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 16:38, David T-G wrote: % > % >> What?!? A girl who uses the command line? That's even rarer than a % >> guy who uses the command line (hard en

Re: CLI (was "Re: cdparanoia & a song in negative space")

2004-02-16 Thread David T-G
ick, someone make out with me! :D What?!? A girl who uses the command line? That's even rarer than a guy who uses the command line (hard enough to find these days). Marry me! [Admittedly, there might be some problems with my current wife.] HAND ;-D -- David T-G * T

Re: cdparanoia & a song in negative space

2004-02-16 Thread David T-G
lish -- ...and then i'll teach you to turn away. said... % % David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... % DTG> collection comes to about 4700 tracks from a few over 600 CDs, but unl % DTG> in my naughty days of 15k tracks, these are all legal :-) Please at % DTG> least summ

Re: cdparanoia & a song in negative space

2004-02-15 Thread David T-G
gh a cassette instead of directly into your laptop audio?(!??) HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://just

moving Win XP partition

2004-02-14 Thread David T-G
I can give my swap space those fast cylinders? TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://just

Re: good mailers (was "Re: Has anyone ever thought ...")

2004-02-08 Thread David T-G
mutt :-) HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx g

Re: references

2004-02-06 Thread David T-G
Thorsten, et al -- ...and then Thorsten Haude said... % % Hi, Hi! % % * David T-G wrote (2004-02-07 00:03): % >Basically, any affirming superlative describes mutt accurately and well. % % Your $indent_string still sucks, but this is now sigged. Nice to hear from you, too :-) Glad

Re: references (was "Re: Has anyone ever ...")

2004-02-06 Thread David T-G
affiti.com/pgp/johannkoenig.pgp HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/dav

Re: is debian right for me?

2004-02-05 Thread David T-G
Mark -- ...and then Mark Roach said... % % On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 13:07, David T-G wrote: % % > I need to be able to build and install the system in slice hda3 while % > running from hda2 and then I'll do a test boot and eventually set hda3 as ... % > Can debian be installed in thi

Re: Kernel 2.6: swap file or partition?

2004-02-05 Thread David T-G
rever there is room. I go with a swap slice whenever I am able. % % --M. Kirchhoff HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, &qu

is debian right for me?

2004-02-05 Thread David T-G
f packages and things? TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/