Re: update packages without confusing apt

2000-11-15 Thread Gianluca Montecchi
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 15:20:49 Florian Kessler wrote: > Hi all, > > i would like to update to kernel 2.4 within potato. To meet the > requirements > listed in in the file changes (kernel documentation), i have to download > some packages. How can i do this without confusing apt? The only problem I

iproute2 and traffic control

2000-10-16 Thread Gianluca Montecchi
Hello. I am some troubles with iproute2. I am working with the kernel versione 2.4.0-test9 on a laptop with a pcmcia network card. I am trying to setup the laptop to have some control over the bandwidth, using iproute2. Following the "Linux 2.4 Advanced Routing HOWTO", I try: tc qdisc add de

Problems with the shaper modules.

2000-07-18 Thread Gianluca Montecchi
Hello. i am trying to set up the shaper modules, following the istructions that I found with the linux kernel, without any success, so I have some questions: - I need in any case two or more network adapter ? (there is nothing to say yes or not into the docs) - I configured ip_alias, ip_forw

Re: MS Proxy with Linux

2000-07-13 Thread Gianluca Montecchi
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 08:01:26AM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote: => Hi, => => Have anyone been able to use MS Proxy Server with => Linux client? => => Please explain the configuration of the MS proxy server => as well as the Linux client box! Try to use the tsocks library, setting the LD

Re: Image copy of a floppy, how?

2000-07-06 Thread Gianluca Montecchi
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 08:02:34PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: => I created a boot floppy during my kernel upgrade, but I would like to => create another copy-backup in case a problem occurs with my only boot => floppy. I am not sure how to do it, I read that: A quick method can be: # cat /de

Re: Debian Potato and Helix Gnome

2000-06-09 Thread Gianluca Montecchi
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 09:32:50PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: => Hi Glyn, => => I suspect that they just call it woody because it came after the potato => freeze - it doesn't seem to depend on anything in woody. I installed it => on a Potato system with no (significant) problems. You must have t