dpkg question

1997-05-09 Thread Ryan Shaw
in redhat there are source packages and binary packages. one may download the source package and use `rpm --rebuild ' to build binary packages from that. quite easy, and useful in my case. the gcc that shipped with redhat didn't function correctly on my AMD K5 so i had to recompile it and then i

mirroring debian

1997-05-08 Thread Ryan Shaw
greetings. could someone email me their mirror configuration files for mirroring the debian site? i've got the 1.2.4 CD from cheapbytes but would like to mirror bo. i'm on a different system at the moment and cannot check example configurations. many thanks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILIN

clear screen on logout

1997-04-29 Thread Ryan Shaw
i've looked through the archives and haven't found an answer as of yet. i'd like the screen cleared on logout and the login prompt to appear at the top. i've worked around this by using an alias in bashrc, but i'm sure there is a better way. any ideas? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

deity mailing list

1997-04-14 Thread Ryan Shaw
greetings. on comp.os.linux.misc i heard mention of a project underway to replace deselect with a program called `diety' in the upcoming debian 2.0 release. the poster also mentioned a mailing list to discuss to new program and its development. however, upon browsing www.debian.org i couldn't fi

Re: Some thoughts for Debian.

1997-01-20 Thread Ryan Shaw
On Sun, 19 Jan 1997, Gith wrote: > I've been watching the debates about Cds, dividing up non-free, and etc.. > And I had a few thoughts I wanted to throw out at everyone. > > I think if debian is going to succeed, it's going to have to be reduced > to a standard set of "core" applications tha

.mirror file request

1997-01-11 Thread Ryan Shaw
i was wondering if someone could send me their mirror configuration file that they use to mirro the debian distribution tree so that i can work off of it. many thanks in advance. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [E

Re: ZipDrive??

1997-01-10 Thread Ryan Shaw
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to buy a SCSI external zipdrive. I have an aha2940 SCSI > controller. Is there any support for a zipdrive under debian?? How do I > have to compile the kernel for zipdrive support. What do I need (in the > kernel), if I want to use a parallel

Re: kernel 2.0.27

1997-01-08 Thread Ryan Shaw
On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote: > I know i can fix this by running rdev, but how do i run an rdev on a > kernel that wont boot? before writing the new kernel to disk or running lilo on it go into /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot or some similar path (can't remember exactly what it is at the

debian updates tree structure

1997-01-07 Thread Ryan Shaw
i was looking through the debian mirror on caldera and noticed the 1.2.1 tree. i have already downloaded an exact copy of the 1.2 tree (both the binary-all and binary-i386 parts) but have held off changing over to debian from redhat because of some of the posts to this list. i want to wait unti

Re: Any PPP-connection keeping utility ?

1997-01-06 Thread Ryan Shaw
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Zenon Fortuna wrote: > I would like to keep my PPP connection "busy" even during the time, when > I don't use it. Otherwise my ISP will log-me-off after a couple of "idle" > minutes. > A work around is to telnet to any Internet sites and start a loop > (in my case in csh): y

Re: How do people on this list backup stuff?

1997-01-05 Thread Ryan Shaw
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, ugs wrote: > Before I tell you what I do to make a perfect and bootable copy of your > current Linux setup, let me tell you how I have my hard drives configured. on the one hand this sounds like a good system because your backup is bootable, but some problems come to mind. mo

tetex distribution for debian

1997-01-05 Thread Ryan Shaw
the tetex TeX/LaTeX distribution is available in rpm format at any Redhat mirror for anyone wishing to install from a package format as opposed to doing it by hand. and of course rpm is available in deb format for easy installation. i've been using the tetex distribution that i installed via rpm