Re: Azerty instead of qwerty

Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > > I want to install an azerty (be-latin1) keyboard instead of the standard > qwerty, and I specified this during my Debian/potato installation. > Unfortunately, after reboot the keyboard always is in qwerty-mode, so i have > to login and type loadkeys be-latin1 to h

Re: compiling new kernel

z > > pretend I am a newbie, which i am.please don't tell anybody! > how would you explain this? apt-get install bin86 , the package you need. Alternatively, http://www.debian.org/Packages/frozen/devel/bin86.html has the package you need too: download, then dpkg -i bin86*

minimized icons?

Debians, When I was using slink, the minimised icons for netscape were what I expected- the blue triangle with a wheel, or mail icon. This was neat because the mail icon would change when I had new mail. Now, with potato, they're all little black spiders. Is there any way to change it back to i

glibc 2.1.3 + kernel 2.3.47

debians, I've installed kernel 2.3.47 on my frozen potato box in order to take advantage of large files (>2GB). I can run a test in the box, and it sucessfully creates a 16GB file. ls sees it as a 64MB file, however. When I asked Matti (author of the large file portion), he referred me to the l

Re: problem doing slink -> frozen

orce install some other package that libc6 depended on before I could get libc6 to work, but otherwise I did as you said, and it worked well. ~mindlace

package management?

debians, I have slink running on a production server. Some of the packages are inferior to those I need, but the packages in potato are ok. Can I download those debs and install them without a problem? Also, how do I tell the package management system that I am providing a service by non-debian

resolving conditional packages

debians, I know I can force a package install, but how can I convince dpkg that I provide something (httpd) outside of the package management system? thanks, ethan fremen