emacs20 and liblockfile0 under potato

1999-09-24 Thread mmiller
Under potato I can't install emacs20 since it depends on liblockfile0, and liblockfile0 'does not appear to be available', according to dselect. 'apt-get install emacs20' says something similar. I just ran 'apt-get update', and here's my sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable mai

Re: To the Debian Project, IMHO

1999-09-15 Thread mmiller
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 10:19:37AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > It would also be sad to leave behind the Unix heritage of simple > utilities that can pipe to each other to do useful things. This is more than a heritage, this is a cornerstone of a useful computing environment. I thought VMS wa

Pulled /home from / to New File Sys

1999-09-10 Thread mmiller
I ran out of space on /, so I decided to pull /home into its own partition. I created /dev/hda8 and made an ext2 file sys there. I then mounted /dev/hda8 on /mnt, and issued 'cp -rp /home/* /mnt' This looked good, so I changed /etc/fstab to reflect this new home for /home, and rebooted. I'm happ