Building a custom debian cd

Hello I know that woody contains an enormous nimber of packages I need only a fraction of the package for my normal work I would like to make a custom bootable cd with a set of commonly used packages. The intended packages are right now in /var/cache/apt/archive What I should do to con

Re: [OT] Open Portable Document Format?

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 06:29:31PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'd strongly encourage you to use tools other than Adobe's proprietary > products, fortunately there are many which can be used to produce PDFs. > Hi Can you point us a few ones (in debian) Sunil

Help setting up USB web cam

Hello I have a 'noname' USB webcam. I am trying to get it working in linux. I installed the module as belo and is getting the following debian:/lib/modules/2.4.14-586/kernel/drivers/usb# modprobe usb-uhci usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $

Caller identification on RAS

Hello I have set up a remote dial in server on Debian (potato) I would like to know if there is any way to find out thw caller id (number from which the call originated ) from my modem. Sunil

Building from source

Hello I have downloaded somepackage..diff.gz somepackage.dsc somepackage.orig.tar.gz from incoming. Presently I have a potato installation How do I make a deb file from the above TIA sunil

Digest

Hello I am subscribed to this list in digest mode. However I am not getting any digests for the past two weeks . Is there any problem with it Is anybody else having similar problem Sunil -- Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil

NFS problem

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Permissions

directories also what is the difference between S and s Sunil -- Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil Powered By Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 Principal, College of Applied Sciences,Calicut,Kerala,India http://geocities.com

What is devpts

Hello My mtab shows devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) what is devpts Sunil

What is devpts

hello I am on potato My mtab shows a line like this devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) Can somebody explai what is devpts Sunil