Re: Setting up network interfaces?

2002-10-07 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 07/10/02 Marc Shapiro did speaketh: > > > > > Where do I set up these items so that they will be initialized at > > > bootup, instead of using dhcp? It looks like I need to change > > > /etc/interfaces and possibly /etc/hosts, but I'm not sure

Re: utempter.h ?

2002-06-07 Thread Goswin Brederlow
"Ted Goodridge, Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Which package is utempter.h in? X needs it to build xterm... > > Thanks in advance, There is no such thing unless its new or only in the sources. Did you install the build-depends for X? %zgrep utempter.h Contents-i386.gz % (sorry, only have t

Re: Help needed : kernel panic unable to mount root fs

2002-05-30 Thread Goswin Brederlow
"Shree Raman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi all!! > > I am experiencing a tough time as my system had a kernel panic. it > happened while I was installing openoffice. The system hunged and > there was no way left other than rebooting & then a kernel panic > prompt. > > > I had installed deb

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-29 Thread Goswin Brederlow
"Ted Goodridge, Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The woody alpha install images have that nasty loop bug with the base > pkg. > Ted Still? Sid/unstable too? You can install till your in that loop and then replace the faulty deb with a newer one. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-29 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Robert Funnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 28 May 2002, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > >edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to woody, and do apt-get > > >dist-upgrade > > > > > This usually works great, but for an upgrade of this magnitude (between > > releases), I'd strongly recommend d

Re: Some Crazy and Happier Ideas for 2002

2002-01-01 Thread Goswin Brederlow
"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [] A spanking new hardware platform without any compromise to aged standards > is released and produced. Linux is the OS of choice together with BSD and > other Open OS's. Plain boxes with just a couple connectors, stylish, vector, > plain [] // Oh well, sick of

Re: mkisofs

2001-01-02 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can somebody indicate what excatly must the command line be to > copy the contents of a cd to some file and store it as iso > image? I tried different options to do it, but the md5sum > didn't match afterwards. Somet

Re: [potato] blank windows

1999-11-23 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In some programs, xv, gnome-terminal, gnomicu, gv, to name a few, I get > blank windows. The window itself comes up ok, but there is no text! In > xv, it opens with a black background and doesn't display any pictures! > > Any ideas? What hardware/software

Re: Can't boot from floppies - HELP!

1999-10-24 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Jake Griesbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to boot from the Debian rescue disk to install linux for the > first time. I have an adaptec AIC-7890 scsi card, so I was typing > > linux aix7xxx > > to boot. > After the kernel loads, I get the following after the scsi driver loads: > >

Re: slink problems

1999-08-06 Thread goswin . brederlow
From: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Stephane Bortzmeyer writes: > > Many other suggestions have been made to solve the problem. It is not easy. > > You have to find: > > > > - a good scheme (think of X11-only installers, without a tty), > > - implement it (i.e. modify 3000 packages' {pre,po

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

1999-07-12 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Carl Mummert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >#pragma pack(1) > >struct {}; > >#pragma pack() > > > >Which forces the layout to be as you specified. > > > >Using a command line option is a Bad Idea (tm) as it may corrupt glibc's > >structures > > To test a resonse to the original message, I made th

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

1999-07-12 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Joop Stakenborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For instance, if the structure were: > > struct foo { > char text[3]; > int num; > }; > > sizeof would return 6 and not 5. So it's obvious that the compiler is > placing a pad byte between text and num to align num. I want it to > stop! A