Re: NFS upgrades

Hi Matthew, > I'm currently helping upgrade a server running Debian 2.0 to the 2.2 kernel. > We've managed to satisfy most of the dependencies mentioned in the kernel > documentation other than the NFS one - the changes file suggests 2.2beta40, > while the latest Debian package I've been able to fi

Re: Quicktime player for Linux?

Hi, > > On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 06:36:01PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a Quicktime .MOV player for Linux? > > > > xanim > The problem with xanim though is the fact that it loads the entire movie > into memory before playing. Try playing a 80Mb mov when your total memory

2.2 kernel okay, but bootpc fails

Hi Matt, > I just installed a 2.2.0 linux kernel, and everything works except > bootpc, which is used to give me an IP at startup. The boot process > freezes when bootpc tries to startup, but dies with the message "no > response from BOOTPC server" (or something to that effect). However, > I boot

Re: new kernel release

Hi Jim, > I see that the 2.2.0 kernel is now officially released. > > Does anyone know if there are any problems, or things to be wary of, in > compiling this kernel for Debian hamm? I compiled it today. But read Documentation/Changes first! I guess, you need some packages from potato, e.g. newer

Re: boot messages/logging

Hi Tony, > I'm at a loss to find the way to get all the > boot messages logged to a file. Is there a > recommended procedure or configuration file > change that I can make? dmesg displays boot messages. It is usually run at system startup and it's output redirected to /var/log/boot.msg or a simila

Re: 1 swap vs. 2 swap partitions

Hi Alexander, > > Doesn't this ignore the fact that having two heads working back and > > forth is faster than just one? Part of the reason people do raid arrays, > > even at the lower levels, because they get all the heads working at the same > > time and it lowers access time. I'd think the

Re: vfat -> cp: file: Operation not permitted

Hi there, > I've mounted a vfat partition with these options: > > /dev/hda2 /mnt/dos vfatdefaults,gid=101,umask=0007 > > and whenever a user in the 101 group tries a copy a file within > the filesystem it gets the following error: > > cp: file: Operation not

Re: Gnome

Hi Pat, > I want to install Gnome on Slink but don't want to scatter new versions of > the libraries (eg gtk) arround anywhere. Does anyone know if you can compile > it like KDE where it looks for all libraries relative to a partciular > install path (eg /usr/local/gnome) so the apps that come with

Re: Entpacken von Dateien im .deb-Format

Hi John, > for general information, the translation services at alta vista translated = > the message as: > >I know the files in the deb format also in a Windows surface > = > unpack? And if, how? > =09 Which doesn't quite fit the original meaning... it's just no real babel

Re: Automatic ftping in a script - how?

Hi Frankie, > > > > I want to write a script in which some files are automatically ftped to > > > > another machine (a username and password needs to be entered). Is there > > > > a nice utility which will enable me to do this? > > > > > > check out the ncftpput utility > > No need for any utility

Re: Automatic ftping in a script - how?

Hi there, > > I want to write a script in which some files are automatically ftped to > > another machine (a username and password needs to be entered). Is there > > a nice utility which will enable me to do this? > > check out the ncftpput utility No need for any utility apart from plain ftp: #

Re: AMD-K6 Bogomips problem solved (sort of)

Hi Patrick, > With 2.0.36 compiled as 686 and as 586 i had only 350Bogomips with a 350MHz > K6-2 > > BUT (!) with 2.2.0pre7 compiled with CONFIG_M586TSC=y i have my full 700 > bogomips ! > with it /proc/cpuinfo shows everything right (CPU clock,etc...) > > That's strange isn't it ? Probably a str

Re: start svgalib progs from X

Hi Brandon, > I want to start qwcl (quake world) from xqf (an X game finder). I > remember something that would change the current vt (via chvt maybe) and > then run your non-X program, followed by a change back to X. Does anyone > know of such a program/script? There is a little program called s

Package-Building-Howto?

Hi there, I'm using Debian for over three months now and I'm quite satisfied with it. :-) But as I could not find GNOME .debs, I figured out it would be great to build them myself. So, I digged through several dpkg-*-man Pages, read /usr/doc/dpkg/packaging.html/* and after all failed to figure out