I decided to try out kernel 2.6.0 on my new laptop. Everything works
mostly well, except when I stress my machine. It has a P4 3.2 GHz
processor with HT. When I stress it, I keep getting messages about
"Temperature above threshold" (for both CPUs) and later,
"Temperature/speed normal".
I'm not
I seem to recall something about autops2 not really working
correctly. I'd be inclined to remove bits that refer to autops2.
Also, in the docs, it has ps2auto, but gpm -t help lists autops2. On
the same lines as the ps2auto, it has "(Woody)" in parens--I'd
probably move that to a comment on the
Deedra Waters writes:
> I'm supposed to start school in august, and I'm getting a gateway solo
> 1450 for a laptop for classes. I'm curious as to wether any of you know
> how well this type of laptop will work with linux. I've heard both that
> the gateway laptops work with linux and that they
Raffaele Sandrini writes:
> "nonwheeled" mouse to logitech ones. I ask you now if there is a
> 100% way (99% are enough :-) ) to sucessfully run all mice on all
> systems with the same config --> is there a generic ps2 Driver? I
> search something like "Standard PS/2 Mouse" on M$ Windows wich c
How about creating a local woody mirror (using apt-move) with the
stuff you'll install plus a woody install CD? Just check out the
thread on "Woody install insists on using Potato packages"--basically,
either skip both tasksel and dselect in the install (which I always
do) and install other packa
Andrew Perrin writes:
> I seem to remember a good step-by-step guide to upgrading the kernel under
> debian, but can't find it now. I'd like to move to 2.4.18 but am rather
> timid about it.
Here's how I do it:
1. edit /etc/kernel-img.conf:
% echo "do_initrd = Yes" > blah
2. use dselect or apt-
Alice M. Pinard writes:
> I don't upgrade distros very often, is there documentation I could be
> pointed to to read on what steps I should take? And is there anything
> special about moving to an unstable distribution? (Again, I've only ever
> used stable distributions before)
Well, I've neve
You can also use one of the kernels from testing or unstable, which
can mount ext3 partitions. I believe there are also 2.4 kernels for
potato, but don't know exactly where they are--your trusty internet
connection to google can find them, I'm sure.
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> > This is caused by having Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)
> > enabled.
...
> Whats that? ECN?
Yes. Either I misunderstood your question or you didn't read my
message :)
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This is caused by having Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)
enabled.
You can disable it using:
echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
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Take a look at:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html
Section 2.2 tells you how to create a local package repository.
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Tom Allison writes:
> Where is a good place to park an Environment Veriable like RSYNC_RSH?
In your startup script. Perhaps .profile or .bashrc.
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> Thanks for this useful info!
> How did you set the IRQ for the card? The 3c90xcfg.exe (dos config util)
In general, one can change the IRQ by assigning one in the BIOS.
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Nothing to equal purify (or so I've heard), but there are some things
that help:
mpatrol
Electric fence (efence)
A garbage collector: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/
I've had very good success by using a combination of the latter
two--efence is quite a memory hog, but works, and gc
D. Michael McFarland writes:
> Of course, I hit a snag, or I wouldn't be posting. I didn't install
> XFree86 or any other X packages the first time around, thinking I'd
> wait and get the latest of everything once I'd switched to woody.
> That's turning out to be harder than I expected, with t
dman writes:
>
> Sometimes I want to rename cvs-managed files or directories or I want
> to move a file/dir to a different directory. The only way I have
> found, so far, to do that is to go to $CVSROOT and manually change the
> repository (potentially dangerous) or to remove and add the fil
Grant Edwards writes:
> On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 10:05:23AM -0700, Andrew Agno wrote:
>
> > I'm using the modules from the kernel image.
>
> Are the modules in /lib/modues//kernel/drivers/
Well, some stuff is--ds, i82* pcmcia_core, tcic and yenta_socket.
&g
I'm using the modules from the kernel image.
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Grant Edwards writes:
> Somebody else out there must be using PCMCIA support. It
> simply _can't_ be as broken as it appears to be.
I don't think it is. On my testing box, the stock 2.4.17 kernel and
pcmcia modules works fine.
Andrew.
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Keith O'Connell writes:
> Most excellent - that was the answer I needed to get it to work. I
> would like to know the reason for the name change. I now have to
> have two names for the same driver in /etc/modules so that I can
> boot between 2.2 & 2.4 as and when I need to!
Well, you can alway
You can also check out descriptions on the web, if you need a web
interface:
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
What I usually do with fresh installations is just install what I need
(emacs, vim, gcc, etc), then when I need something, I either look on
Google and then check if Debian has it (
Or use 'man -k' with some keyword, or use info.
Andrew.
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> So, the primary question is, is there an easy way to set the permission on
> directories, only directories, and all sub-directories? A related question
> is how to use ls to list only directories.
Use find; eg:
% find /starting/from/here -type d -print
This prints all directories and subdi
Michael Meskes writes:
> I'm experiencing with ext3 it appears I have some questions that maybe
> anyone of you can answer:
>
> - Is it possible to use ext3 for the root partition with the stock
> debian kernel? My ext3 roots work nicely with a hand made kernel but
> the stock Debian one
Is it even possible to have a umask set so that newly created files
have the s bit set? It seems that the only way for this to happen
is by having an alias which chmods things afterwards or by making dirs
under dirs with the group s bit set.
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Andrew Agno writes:
> % tune2fs -l /path/to/device | egrep has_journal
Just to have a record of this in the archives (sorry for getting this
info twice, Mark), debugfs does this handily, plus lots of other
stuff:
% debugfs
debugfs: open /path/to/device
debugfs: features
Filesystem featu
Mark Carroll writes:
> Great, thanks! Everything has converted nicely, apparently. (-: (Well, at
> least 'mount' reports everything is now ext3!)
Unfortunately, mount sometimes lies to you. To make sure you have
journaling, use:
% tune2fs -l /path/to/device | egrep has_journal
The argument is
Patrick Kirk writes:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:33:45AM -0700, Andrew Agno wrote:
> >Patrick Kirk writes:
> > > Perhaps I'm utterly mistaken here but I think the .journal is the
> > > journal part of journalling file system. A quick look at the ext3
&
Patrick Kirk writes:
> Perhaps I'm utterly mistaken here but I think the .journal is the
> journal part of journalling file system. A quick look at the ext3
> howto says how to put it on another file system but I don't know why
> you would bother with ext3 if you don't have a journal.
I think
Mark Carroll writes:
> introducing lots of .journal files? Can I make a bootdisk or something
> that can convert what's normally my root partition? It looks like, if the
> FS is mounted, you get .journal files.
Yes to your last question. Just get a rescue disk/CD, boot from it,
make sure your
Grant Edwards writes:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:46:52PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote:
> >
> > > Where can I find the .config files for the kernel image
> > > installed by the normal Debian install process?
> >
> > /boot/config-2.4.17-bf2.4
> > or whatever kernel you are running.
>
> Thank
Steve Juranich writes:
>
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
> EndSubSection
>
> by hitting I cycle through 1024x768, 800x600, and 600x400
Well, I suppose yo
Hanspeter Roth writes:
> But what about the testing distribution? Does it also get `implicit'
> security fixes by new versions?
> Or is it safer to stick with stable?
Well, it follows the usual rules, so eventually things will filter
down. In the meantime, I believe you have to grab things fro
John Hasler writes:
> Andrew writes:
> > Don't security updates also go to unstable?
> No. Security updates are almost always done by backporting the fix to the
> version of the package that is in stable. The version in unstable is
> almost always a more recent one. If it is vulnerable it w
Don't security updates also go to unstable? So you can either grab
them early, or wait until they make it to testing.
Andrew.
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Paul 'Baloo' Johnson writes:
> On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
> Is this one of the USB quickcams? If so, how'd you get it working?
Before downloading anything, I'd look into the pwc module, which is
already in 2.4.18. Add in the hotplug scripts (which may or may not
be necessary), mak
Sridhar M.A. writes:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 06:46:58PM -0800, Andrew Agno wrote:
>> Yes, the pwc, I think. I've gotten it recognized using on testing,
>> with hotplug and 2.4.18 installed. I have yet to actually do anything
>> with it.
>>
Jens Gecius writes:
> Try package vgrabbj. It might work, although, no promises. I had
> reports of quickcam-users who got it to work (not with 2.4.18,
> though).
>
> Isn't there a kernel-module (non-third-party)?
Yes, the pwc, I think. I've gotten it recognized using on testing,
with hotp
> > > *~U@
> >
> > This looks like you've got the wrong driver for your printer then.
> >
> But the test page worked...
Yeah, but you can't trust a test page to exercise everything about a
printer driver. In fact, it really only tells you that there is a
connection between your computer a
Well, it looks like you'll have to get the latest XFree86 server,
which is not yet at http://people.debian.org/~branden/. You could
always do it yourself, of course :). You could just install the X
stuff using the Xinstall.sh script and assume that when a deb comes
out, it'll overwrite everything
Possibly a problem with an interaction with any power-saving mode you
have?
Andrew.
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Paul Mackinney writes:
> Andrew Agno declaimed:
> > If it's raw postscript, you'll just see text. Is that what you get?
> It looks like gibberish:
>
> *~U@
This looks like you've got the wrong driver for your printer then.
> I'm really trying to
Paul Mackinney writes:
> I can print text from emacs, but when I print from Abiword or Mozilla,
> it spews page after page of what I assume is raw postscript code. I
> haven't found anything in the CUPS docs that covers this. Where to I
> start troubleshooting?
If it's raw postscript, you'l
On my machine running the testing distribution, it would be something
like this:
1. Install cupsys and its dependencies.
2. Point your browser to: http://localhost:631/admin
3. Click 'Add Printer' under the Printers section
4. Enter a name, location and description and continue
5. Enter your devic
timothy bauscher writes:
> I just installed gpm after reading your setup.
> My PS/2 mouse instantly left the screen, and
> X would make a beep sound whenever i moved
> the mouse. My settings were:
>
> device: /dev/psaux
> type: autops2
> repeat type: m83
>
> Those were the defaults prov
Karsten Heymann writes:
> I have once again come upon bash problem I can't solve. I'm writing a
> little bash frontend and one of the programs expects a option that includes
> spaces and is composed from two other shell var's. Example:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> A="Hello"
> B="Karsten"
> C=$A $B
stan writes:
> I'm porting a small application that reads some temperature probes conected
> to srvial ports from HP-UX to Debian Woody.
>
> It opens up the serial ports, sends a few charatcers, and then listens for
> the reply. What serial port device names should I be using for the 2
> onb
Kent West writes:
> I've got two Debian (Sid) boxes in different parts of the house. Can I
> put in a wireless NIC into each one of them, and them talk to each
> other, or must I have a Wireless Access Point as an intermediary?
You don't need a WAP, just put the cards into Ad-hoc mode. You w
Well, my version says:
Debian GNU/\s 3.0 \n \l
Andrew.
Since all you need is an unmounted partition, you can just use a
rescue disk with access to tune2fs and its libraries--just copy all
these to some handy partition or your rescue disk, set
LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and I think you're okay.
Or, if you have access to a fairly complete and up to date rescue CD
hanasaki writes:
> Is tehre a way to do SSH CVS from Win? WinCVS?
To the first, you can use cygwin (http://sources.redhat.com) and use
the SSH from there. I believe that cvs should also be available on
cygwin.
If you want to use WinCVS, check out:
http://www.wincvs.org/ssh.html
Andrew.
dman writes:
>
> I want to allow my dad to shut down the router/gateway. I want to do
> this by creating a login name "halt" that simply shuts down. I did
> this by making /sbin/halt the shell. As I understand it, only root is
> allowed to halt a system, so I made halt owned by root:halt w
Patrick Kirk writes:
> Kinda hard to give a long version of this so hrer's the short and easy
> way:
>
> fsck the hdd and install Debian.
>
> Of course you may want to backup some data first. Its wise keeping a
> Red HAt partition to boot into...you'll never use it oince installation
> i
Oki DZ writes:
> I'm currently downloading the SDK from Sun. Has anyone been successfully
> running it? Was there any problem?
It works for me. In my applications, it's even noticeably faster. I
believe that some others have had some problems, but you'll need to
test it, I guess.
Andrew.
I believe this is because you're trying to access the X server over
TCP. Either use ssh -X (with /etc/ssh/sshd_config configured to allow
forwarded X connections), or edit /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc and remove
the option to not listen to tcp.
Andrew.
Pedro Quaresma de Almeida writes:
> In one of my Debian-machines I am not being able to X-connect
> remotely.
Hmm, do we have a FAQ for this? Anyhow, the problem is that the X
server, by default, doesn't listen for TCP connections, which means
you can't remotely connect. I'm assuming you're us
Richard Otte writes:
> I recently discovered that /tmp on my machine is rather small, around
> 50mb. I was trying to use xcdroast, but was unable to extract an audio
> cd to /tmp because it wasn't big enough. This is strange, because I
> probably have 50gb empty on my hard drive. I'm wonderi
Timothy R. Butler writes:
> "1" to a "0"). Ah, I feel much better - today I had to reboot into
Oops. Glad you caught that--too much typing, too little thinking.
Andrew.
I would guess that ECN might be turned on:
% cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
To turn it off, use:
% echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
For info on ECN:
http://www.icir.org/floyd/ecn.html
and of course, Google.
Andrew.
Darryl L. Pierce writes:
> I've asked in the past and never got an answer that worked. I'm at a
> point again where I want to get my Gateway port replicator to work with
> my laptop. I can use everything on it but the PCMCIA slots. How do I
> tell linux to use the two slots that are in the repl
My machine was freezing up during the boot process at the hwclock.sh
init.d script (and still would if it were enabled). When I change the
script to run:
hwclock --debug --hctosys $GMT $BADYEAR
which expands to
hwclock --debug --hctosys --utc
it freezes at "Waiting for clock tick..."
The BIOS s
Patrick Kirk writes:
> Now that its all working nicely, I've added the new partitions to fstab like
> so:
>
> /dev/hdc1 /home/engineering ext3 rw 0 2
> /dev/hdc3 /home/data ext3rw 0 2
>
> Is this correct or should I use defa
Harris, Jason writes:
> Can I plug the new hd at hdb, make the partition structure I want, put the
> install image somwhere on any disk/partitions, then boot to a floppy, give
> some input to the loader and have it start installing locally ?
Yes, or something like that, anyhow. Just put the dr
Take a look at http://www.agate.com/
And in particular,
http://www.agatetech.com/products_shuttle.html
I've never used it, but it looks interesting, and claims to support
Linux.
Andrew.
I've used gc with C source, which works well. You may also want to
look at mpatrol.
Andrew.
Romain Lerallut writes:
> Thanks also to Andrew and caphuso on #debian for how to remove the
> journal (I'll read some more man tune2fs :)
Actually, the tune2fs thing just removes the flag that says it has a
journal. If you have a .journal file or files lying around and want
to get rid of them,
Romain Lerallut writes:
>
> However, it would seem that my root partition is still mounted
> as ext3, though it's specified as ext2 in /etc/fstab:
Make sure that if you're using modules, ext2 is done before ext3
(check in /etc/mkinitrd/modules). If you have ext3 in the kernel,
then you have t
I've done a few installs from a hard drive with previous data (like a
/home directory, for instance). There are some things omitted from
the manual when I last checked it. Basically, it's the same as the
floppy stuff, which you seem to have figured out. I've never tried
putting the driver floppy
Muhammad Humayun Khan writes:
> I am new tolinux i have a problem.
> debian linux. i am using "gcc"(for c++ i m using g++) to compail my c++
> program .
> i try it but it will not work.
> i write my program in c++ using "vi" and save it in a file new1.cc
> then login as root and run this com
Stephen Gran writes:
> I've got my LAN set up and running, and so far so good. I'm using a
> gateway/router/firewall (hadrian) to stop unwanted traffic and allow
> internet access and LAN access to everybody else. Then I have
> gashuffer, my main workstation, and a Win box that my girlfriend
Alexander List writes:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Sven Schumacher wrote:
>
> > > 5.) edit /etc/fstab replacing ext2 with ext3
>
> > You cant use ext3 for root fs if you use ext3 as a module.
>
> Are you sure about this? ext2 is also a module in the latest stock
> kernels, have a closer look
Ones I've heard of (but I've never used one):
Eclipse (www.eclipse.org), KDevelop (which I imagine you could use in
a Gnome environment), Kylix from Borland, CodeWarrior from Metrowerks,
Redhat's Source-Navigator, Dev-C++ from BloodshedSoftware (also on
Sourceforge), Moonshine from Suite 3220, Code
I think it may have something to do with the following lines:
[Engine.Engine]^M
GameRenderDevice=SDLGLDrv.SDLGLRenderDevice
WindowedRenderDevice=SDLGLDrv.SDLGLRenderDevice
RenderDevice=SDLGLDrv.SDLGLRenderDevice
In .loki/ut/System/UnrealTournament.ini
Also look at the various options under
[SDLGLD
Walter Tautz writes:
> how do I make it invisible? I converted existing ext2 file systems
> while they were mounted.
I'm not sure that you can, unless you remove the file, unmount the
filesystem, and then add the journal again.
Something like (assuming /dev/blah is mounted at /blah):
% # make
Sure. Install an ntpd server somewhere (or find one that you can use)
and use ntp on all your boxes. This ensures that you have the same
time on all your machines. Then use at (as long as you don't have
much else running on the machines) or NQS
(http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=17238)--sour
If it didn't get automatically created for you, then you can make a
new one using mkinitrd. Don't forget to check out
/etc/mkinitrd/{mkinitrd.conf,modules}. You may need something like:
ext3
ext2
in the modules if you need ext3 on boot.
% mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-... /lib/modules/...
Andrew
Kapil Khosla writes:
> I have exceeded my LInux Partition space and and want to
> increase the partition size now.
> I have 2 windows partitions on /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2.
> Is there any way of giving that space to Linux without
> formatting my disk,
First, make backups of everything impo
% man ssh-agent
% man ssh-add
Just put your public key into authorized_keys (or authorized_keys2,
depending on the version of sshd the remote side is running), and
you're all set:
% ssh-agent
% # paste the output to your shell
% ssh-add .ssh/identity
% # or ssh-add .ssh/id_dsa or whatever your pr
Something like the following in a file:
! Swap left control and caps lock keys
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
remove Control = Control_L
keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
add Lock = Caps_Lock
add Control = Control_L
then just use xmodmap on that file.
Andrew.
Try setting the term to ansi.
In bash type shells:
% export TERM=ansi
% lynx
or
% TERM=ansi lynx
In csh type shells:
% setenv TERM ansi
% lynx
Andrew.
I believe that those are scans for some sshd hole. Not too sure which
one, but I assume yours doesn't have it if you got the log message.
Andrew.
Wayne Topa writes:
> So it seems you have a setup that people would be very interested in.
Surely I'm not the only one that runs 2.4.17-686 with an ext3 root
partition, which just works after installing it via apt-get? And
hopefully I'm not the only one who's tried it with 2.4.17-386...
Andrew.
dman writes:
> What is your root fs there? If either
> a) root fs is not ext3
> or
> b) ext3 module is in your initrd and loaded by the kernel during
> boot
>
> you can have it as a module. (this is a general statement; perhaps
> there is something special regarding ext
> > Please describe what you did to "change the root partition to ext3"
> > Did you make the filesystems/ext3 option a module or installed in the
> > kernel? It can't be a module!
>
> Sure it can. On one computer I have, I'm running 2.4.17-686 from
Okay, and reading the help for CONFIG_
> Andrew Agno([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> > I'm having a problem with recent installs of Debian. My install
> > process goes like this:
> >
> > Install a base potato dist.
> > Upgrade to testing.
> >
> > After do
I'm having a problem with recent installs of Debian. My install
process goes like this:
Install a base potato dist.
Upgrade to testing.
After doing this, I change the root partition to ext3, and install a
2.4 kernel (2.4.17). When I reboot, the very first mount of / mounts
it as ext2:
kernel:
doxygen
Peter Jay Salzman writes:
> begin: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote
> > Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > Read http://kitenet.net/programs/sshcvs
> >
> > It uses plain-text passwords, which is pretty insecure, yes.
>
> joey, i have no problem with plain text passwords.
>
> just as long a
Andrew Agno writes:
> Richardson, Martin writes:
> > Does anyone know where foobar originates from, and its meaning?
>
> Check the latest version of the Jargon Dictionary (for example at:
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/index.html)
Whoops. That should be the Jargon File.
Andrew.
Richardson, Martin writes:
> Does anyone know where foobar originates from, and its meaning?
Check the latest version of the Jargon Dictionary (for example at:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/index.html)
foobar:
[very common] Another widely used metasyntactic variable; see foo for
etym
Robert L. Harris writes:
> If I want to convert a blank disk to ext3, compile the kernel then
> what? Is there a simple how to?
mke2fs -j /dev/hdc
or whatever device you want.
To convert to use a journal, try:
tune2fs -j /dev/hdc
Andrew.
Try using your favourite high level package manager and search for
ppd.
Andrew.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ % apt-cache search malloc
> > ccmalloc - A memory profiler/debugger
> > debauch - A malloc debugger
> > dmalloc - Debug memory allocation library
> > electric-fence - A malloc(3) debugger
> > fda - C malloc debug library
> > gccchecker - Memory access debugger for C l
Phillip Deackes writes:
> On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:30:26 -0800 (PST)
> Andrew Agno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Check out /etc/network/interfaces. You need something like:
> > auto eth1
> > iface eth1 inet static
> > address 192.168.1.1
>
Phillip Deackes writes:
> The command I need to setup my second network card is 'ifconfig eth1
> 192.168.1.1 up'. What I would like to do is have this set up for me
> automatically when my machine boots. I can't see where I would need to put
> the command.
Check out /etc/network/interfaces. Y
Rory O'Connor writes:
> I've got a drive that's completely full of files, mounted at /home/dir.
> I added a second drive so I could continue storing files of the same
> type, and mounted it at /home/dir2.
>
> Is there a way to make it so that it appears these files are all in one
> dir?
J.A.Serralheiro writes:
> right. It should be strlen(buff )
Just a word of warning: strlen can be a problem if the buffer is not
filled with stuff that you can validate--ie: if buff isn't a NULL
terminated string, then it looks for the NULL byte off the end of the
buffer, which can lead to much s
> If "the Lloyder" wants another install idea I've always had good success
> by doing minimum floppy disk installs and using apt-get to download
> further packages.
I'd have to agree with this. It's extremely easy to do. You can also
download a bunch of stuff onto a (spare) partition first,
Kurt Lieber writes:
> Does anyone know what the correlation is between text-based emacs
> and x? (this is the emacs20 package from woody -- NOT xemacs21) Is
> this something I can safely override (probably not) or work around
> and still use the debian package system?
You can grab the emacs s
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I want:
> / -> hda1
> /home, /tmp, /usr, /var, -> dha5
I don't think you can do this, because you can only map one directory
to a partition. You can try splitting up hda5 into 4 partitions, and
doing the mapping you give.
Andrew.
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