Re: debian installer (an idea)

2003-06-23 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:48:14AM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: > > More than that, I would love to have unstable and testing release > > shipped with normal debian CDs. > > I think that's a very bad idea; they aren't properly QA'ed (insofar as > we do Q

Re: debian installer (an idea)

2003-06-23 Thread Alfredo Valles
> If testing isn't broken, then we should be taking the opportunity to > release it! In other words, I think the answer is to put more effort > into releasing more often, not into inventing kludges that will hide the > problem. > > The number of people currently working on stabilizing the distribu

Re: debian installer (an idea)

2003-06-23 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:31:12AM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: > On Monday 23 June 2003 10:22 am, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > Unstable and testing change much too frequently for inclusion on any > > CD releases (read daily if not hourly basis). > > Ok, but not everybody have full time access t

Re: debian installer (an idea)

2003-06-23 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:48:14AM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: > Hi people. > > I was thinking (oh, help us god!)... > One of the things I would like in future debian installer is to have also a > "desktop flavor", a mixture of testing and unstable software similar to what > knoppix do. > More

Re: debian installer (an idea)

2003-06-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:31:12AM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: > On Monday 23 June 2003 10:22 am, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > Packages are already compressed. Putting them on a compressed > > filesystem won't gain you much, if anything. There's also a good > > possibility that it will instead in

Re: debian installer (an idea)

2003-06-23 Thread Alfredo Valles
On Monday 23 June 2003 10:22 am, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > Packages are already compressed. Putting them on a compressed > filesystem won't gain you much, if anything. There's also a good > possibility that it will instead increase the size of the file (yes, > increase). Ok, so no compression th

Re: debian installer (an idea)

2003-06-23 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:48:14AM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: > One of the things I would like in future debian installer is to have > also a "desktop flavor", a mixture of testing and unstable software > similar to what knoppix do. > > More than that, I would love to have unstable and testing r

Re: debian installer (an idea)

2003-06-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:48:14AM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: > More than that, I would love to have unstable and testing release > shipped with normal debian CDs. I think that's a very bad idea; they aren't properly QA'ed (insofar as we do QA; certainly they have a good chance of not being inst

debian installer (an idea)

2003-06-23 Thread Alfredo Valles
Hi people. I was thinking (oh, help us god!)... One of the things I would like in future debian installer is to have also a "desktop flavor", a mixture of testing and unstable software similar to what knoppix do. More than that, I would love to have unstable and testing release shipped with nor

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-30 Thread G.LeeJ
> > What keeps me from introducing Linux to my mom, and will for a while, is > the inevitable "But Tom, can I use this greeting card program?", "Tom, > how do I run this .exe file my friend sent me?", "Tom, this 'gimp' thing > is hard and doesn't run my Photoshop plugins, I want Photoshop back.", >

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-29 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 05:00:27PM -0700, Jack Pryne wrote: > If we got this system up and running, Debian would be the *easiest* OS > install anywhere! Debian would take over the planet! Ah, if only it were that easy. When I think about the possibility of introducing Linux to, say, my mom, it

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-27 Thread Paul Huygen
D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 12:24:10PM -0700, Jack Pryne wrote: > > [suggestion for community-wide sharing of config info and experience] > Well, I understood that wat he actually wanted, was to create a kind of automatic install utility. > This all sounds like a nice i

Re: [users] Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-25 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:01:07PM -0700, Nick Jennings wrote: : You are missing the point, installing software and it's dependencies is : one hurdle debian has cleared. But there is much more than that. There : is getting your video card working, your monitor sync set right, your : sound and peri

Re: [users] Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-25 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Nick Jennings writes: > From your post you seem to be under the idea that there is nothing > to impove with debian because of apt-get. I'd just like to add that APT has already been ported so it works with Conectiva RPMs, and RPM-based distributions will soon be using it. Details of how well

Re: [users] Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-25 Thread Nick Jennings
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 11:07:24PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 06:42:39PM -0700, Jack Pryne wrote: > > :machine take care of itself, without ever having to worry about missing > :DLL's, or corrupt registry files. That's the whole idea behind this proposed > :system

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-25 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 07:04:19PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: :> From: "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :> ... :> Except for maintainence, you're reading the best tech support I've :> ever gotten, bar none. Most stuff gets atleast some response within :> an hour, 27x7. I pay through th

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-25 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ... > Except for maintainence, you're reading the best tech support I've > ever gotten, bar none. Most stuff gets atleast some response within > an hour, 27x7. I pay through the nose to get 4h support tht's usually > not as good :) > I really

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-25 Thread John
> This is true, most Windows users haven't bothered to (re)install their OS. not really... i find i need to format and reinstall windows every few months. it becomes unuseable by then. i also find that people who dont do this, start out with a nice fresh new computer, and by the end of 5 months

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-25 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Jack Pryne wrote: > [cut] > > Imagine a P2P network of Debian users who *all* shared their system > configuration information, thus comprising a consensus of proper > configuration for various hardware compositions, (e.g. All users with the > AsusV7 motherboard and Matrox G400 graphics card would

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-25 Thread D-Man
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 12:24:10PM -0700, Jack Pryne wrote: | Greetings all, | | I'm totally new to the list, and I'm not even running Debian yet, but I have | an idea that I'd like to bounce off the group: [suggestion for community-wide sharing of config info and experience]

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
"Jack Pryne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm totally new to the list, and I'm not even running Debian yet, but I have >an idea that I'd like to bounce off the group: > >Consider that one of the major reasons that people don't use any operating

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-25 Thread nico de haer
IL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 10:57 PM Subject: Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?) > No, Windows was just an example of an OS that people might want to migrate > *away* from. There's no reason why someone running Linux, indeed Debian, > could not ru

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-25 Thread Marcus
On 24.06.01 at 22:32 Mark Garland wrote: >So--my experience is that the installation of a basic working Debian system >is not too hard. Configuring peripherals is hard! Yes, I'd agree, that was my experience as a debian newbie also. The basic system installation is friendly, X and Gnome take some

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 06:48:49PM -0700, Jack Pryne wrote: :Sounds like you have some valuable insight into the task at hand! But :consider the fact that this system I propose would not be trying to cram :infinite permutations on a disk. Instead, it would create a communal :reference library,

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jack Pryne
From: "Mark Garland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> So--my experience is that the installation of a basic working Debian system is not too hard. Configuring peripherals is hard! Exactly why users would benefit from a pool of reference which contains, in all liklihood, many users who are running Debian

Re: [users] Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 06:42:39PM -0700, Jack Pryne wrote: :machine take care of itself, without ever having to worry about missing :DLL's, or corrupt registry files. That's the whole idea behind this proposed :system. Though I take your point, I encourage you to get Debian up and running so y

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Mark Garland
- Original Message - From: "Marcus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 4:34 PM Subject: Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?) [snip] > One thing I definately agree on is that Debian could do with easier > installation, or at least more user

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread John Griffiths
At 06:48 PM 6/24/01 -0700, Jack Pryne wrote: ...After all, if you were a confused newbie, wouldn't you >want the shoemaker elves to come and fix your computer while you slept? ;) > That would depend entirely on my fear of the nasty goblins

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jack Pryne
From: "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My initial reaction was a shudder, basicly 'cus I teak everything to within an inch of it's life and hate the limitations of GUI interface for system configuration (you can only stick in so many options). It's a pretty dirty hack, but even that to

Re: [users] Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jack Pryne
From: MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> now looking at how i frequently already disagree with the formatting of config files contained in the packages, or the default settings for an application, i couldn't possibly imagine running such a distributed system. The system I propose would greatly bene

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Debian's already on top. Pollution like RedHat is not required. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, My initial reaction was a shudder, basicly 'cus I teak everything to within an inch of it's life and hate the limitations of GUI interface for system configuration (you can only stick in so many options). But, upon reflection something like this could have a place, but it's a huge undertaking

Re: [users] Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread MaD dUCK
i just wanted to add my two pfennige. see, the reason that debian rocks is that it does not impose configuration tools on you like suse and redhat. it does provide a very cool package system, but everything is under the control of the user and vi. that's the beauty. now looking at how i frequently

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread G.LeeJ
> Personally I decided on Debian after trying Suse and Red Hat first. Same here. > > However, I've been following the Linux distro rankings in one computer > magazine (CHIP, Germany), and Debian is rated lowest amongst 7 others. > I think this is mainly due to lacking "user guidance" during s

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jack Pryne
Marcus wrote: Sounds basically like a good idea to me. It also sounds like a tall order, but why not, if the security issue can be handled :-) One thing I definately agree on is that Debian could do with easier installation, or at least more user guidance. Personally I decided on Debian afte

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jart Berilcosm
What about Silent Waters or Silencer --- Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 12:24:10PM -0700, Jack Pryne wrote: > > One last thing: I'm open to suggestions for naming such a P2P > client. > > Something which expresses community support and freedom from > technic

Re: [users] Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sun, 24 Jun 2001 09:42:19PM +0200): > Debian/GNU Bob > > "Now you can put the stark fist of removal at work for YOU!" hehe, and when you mistype your password three times, it'll prompt you to change it. believe it or not, Micro$oft Bob did that. martin;

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Marcus
On 24.06.01 at 12:24 Jack Pryne wrote: >Imagine a P2P network of Debian users who *all* shared their system >configuration information... Sounds basically like a good idea to me. It also sounds like a tall order, but why not, if the security issue can be handled :-) One thing I definately agree

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jack Pryne
You've got the idea, Nick! This would be so great! Another neat aspect of such a system is that it works *only* with a free OS. If there was a similar system to install/maintain Windows, then Windows piracy would proliferate out of control! (hmm) Nick Jennings wrote: A MS Client doesn'

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Nick Jennings
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 10:47:28PM +0200, nico de haer wrote: > This is horrible!!! > try this new slogan: > > "Debian Install: Windows 9x required. Please contact Micrsoft and PAY > to get your free software running" > > NO WAY !! > A MS Client doesn't mean there wouldn't be a linux clie

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 01:57:55PM -0700, Jack Pryne wrote: > Believe me, I'd never require anybody to be using MS products. ;) Why does this sound so damn funny? ;-) > _ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.m

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jack Pryne
has the potential to revolutionize computing. Jack Pryne From: "Brad Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jack Pryne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 15:12:33 -0500 Howdy, One of the problems I see

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jack Pryne
Thanks for pointing out that omission in my initial post, Nico. I had intended this system to be installed on a system already running some kind of OS. One of the major benefits of this system is that a windows user could, theoretically, download the P2P app, run it, and sit back while it tappe

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jack Pryne
No, Windows was just an example of an OS that people might want to migrate *away* from. There's no reason why someone running Linux, indeed Debian, could not run the same application. Even existing users of Debian could benefit from this by getting support from the community. More vital is the

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jack Pryne
AIL PROTECTED]> To: Jack Pryne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 06:57:03 -0700 Jack Pryne wrote: > Thanks for pointing out that omission in my initial post, Nico. I had > intended this system to be installed on a

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread nico de haer
June 24, 2001 10:38 PM Subject: Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?) > Thanks for pointing out that omission in my initial post, Nico. I had > intended this system to be installed on a system already running some kind > of OS. One of the major benefits of this system

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 12:24:10PM -0700, Jack Pryne wrote: > One last thing: I'm open to suggestions for naming such a P2P client. > Something which expresses community support and freedom from technical > issues... Since you're asking: Debian/GNU Bob "Now you can put the stark fist of remo

An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jack Pryne
Greetings all, I'm totally new to the list, and I'm not even running Debian yet, but I have an idea that I'd like to bounce off the group: Consider that one of the major reasons that people don't use any operating system besides windows is because they need to *instal

Re: Does anyone have an idea how to ...

2000-05-13 Thread kmself
On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 09:34:53PM +0200, Menno Slaats wrote: > I have a question, how to partition my hard-disk > > I have a 8,4 Gb HD, and want to put Windows 2000 and windows millennium > edition, and corel linux and mandrake linux on it. With 8,4 GB and four OSs, you're going to be spare for

Re: Does anyone have an idea how to ...

2000-05-13 Thread Ron Rademaker
Forget windows, partition your hd (lets say: 600 mb corel (both / and /usr/) 600 mb mandrake (both / and /usr/) and a few other partitions (for both distribution) eg. 6,5 gb for /home 700 mb for /var Ron Rademaker PS. Why use 2 different linux distributions? Just use Debian and y

Does anyone have an idea how to ...

2000-05-13 Thread Menno Slaats
I have a question, how to partition my hard-disk I have a 8,4 Gb HD, and want to put Windows 2000 and windows millennium edition, and corel linux and mandrake linux on it. Anyone some idea? Thanks, Menno Slaats

Re: APT setup (was: Re: An idea...)

1999-04-15 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Luis Villa wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > > > In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > > > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Try http://non-us.debian.org/debian as the URL. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, Mitch. It wo

Re: APT setup (was: Re: An idea...)

1999-04-14 Thread Luis Villa
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > > > > > > Try http://non-us.debian.org/debian as the URL. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, Mitch. It works, and I happily have ssh. I'm still

Re: APT setup (was: Re: An idea...)

1999-04-14 Thread Mitch Blevins
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Mitch Blevins wrote: > > In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > > > > > > Try http://non-us.debian.org/debian as the URL. > > > > > > > Thanks, Mitch. It works, and I happily have ssh. I'm still curious, > > > though: why is

Re: APT setup (was: Re: An idea...)

1999-04-14 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Mitch Blevins wrote: > In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > > > > Try http://non-us.debian.org/debian as the URL. > > > > > > > Thanks, Mitch. It works, and I happily have ssh. I'm still curious, > > though: why is non-US called a distribution in apt

Re: APT setup (was: Re: An idea...)

1999-04-14 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > > Try http://non-us.debian.org/debian as the URL. > > > > Thanks, Mitch. It works, and I happily have ssh. I'm still curious, > though: why is non-US called a distribution in apt, when it is in fact a > component?

Re: APT setup (was: Re: An idea...)

1999-04-14 Thread Luis Villa
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > Try http://non-us.debian.org/debian as the URL. > Thanks, Mitch. It works, and I happily have ssh. I'm still curious, though: why is non-US called a distribution in apt, when it is in fact a component? Is this historical or what? Thanks again- Lui

Re: APT setup (was: Re: An idea...)

1999-04-14 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > So I looked at the master lists suggested earlier in this thread and tried > to restore the non-US settings that got fubared earlier in my setup. I > couldn't get it to work. Here's what I've tried: > > 1) using dselect, I choose apt as my access method. > > 2)

APT setup (was: Re: An idea...)

1999-04-14 Thread Luis Villa
So I looked at the master lists suggested earlier in this thread and tried to restore the non-US settings that got fubared earlier in my setup. I couldn't get it to work. Here's what I've tried: 1) using dselect, I choose apt as my access method. 2) After retyping the sites that work (note to a

Re: An idea...

1999-04-13 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 12 Apr, John Galt wrote about "An idea..." > > Perish the thought--I'm going to originate a thread! I was just messing > with /etc/apt/sources.list for the umteenth time to make sure that I could > apt-get this package or that one, when it struck me: wouldn

An idea...

1999-04-13 Thread John Galt
Perish the thought--I'm going to originate a thread! I was just messing with /etc/apt/sources.list for the umteenth time to make sure that I could apt-get this package or that one, when it struck me: wouldn't it be nice if there were a web page or somewhere all valid sources.list lines for mirror

Just an idea...

1998-12-27 Thread Eric Monson
The Debian GNU Linux distribution has a wonderful install program, but... As soon as the basic install process is done (at least in 1.3), you are dropped to text mode and thrown into a series of scripts to continue the installation. I was wondering if Debian could adopt a single, unified way

Re: hmm... an idea

1998-07-08 Thread George Bonser
On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > > I have 1 static IP and I'm thinking about getting an additional dynamic > IP. I'm not exactly sure on how DHCP works, but is there a way to have > the my DNS server (on static IP) updated when the dynamic IP changes? > > THanks > -Paul If you are want

Re: hmm... an idea

1998-07-07 Thread Paul Miller
The IP changes every 24 hours. hmm.. If the two hosts were in the same domain, it shouldn't make a difference (except for secondary servers), right? My interest in doing this is that my ISP only charges additional baudwidth for static IPs... so, I could have a large site on a dynamic IP and a s

Re: hmm... an idea

1998-07-06 Thread Tod Detre
How dynamic is the ip? What I'm getting at is that it takes time to have a hostname propogate through the internet (sometimes up to a week). So if you get this working, and if you're changing ip's every day then some computers on the other side of the world may still point to an ip that has alread

Re: hmm... an idea

1998-07-06 Thread Paul Miller
On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > > > > > I have 1 static IP and I'm thinking about getting an additional dynamic > > IP. I'm not exactly sure on how DHCP works, but is there a way to have > > the my DNS server (on static IP) updated when the dy

Re: hmm... an idea

1998-07-06 Thread dreamwvr
although i have not implemented it myself it is stock with the latest version of dns and bind for unix. regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 05:52 AM 7/5/98 -0400, Paul Miller wrote: > >I have 1 static IP and I'm thinking about getting an additional dynamic >IP. I'm not exactly sure on how DHCP works,

Re: hmm... an idea

1998-07-06 Thread Glynn Clements
Paul Miller wrote: > I have 1 static IP and I'm thinking about getting an additional dynamic > IP. I'm not exactly sure on how DHCP works, but is there a way to have > the my DNS server (on static IP) updated when the dynamic IP changes? BIND 8.* introduces a dynamic update feature, which allow

RE: hmm... an idea

1998-07-06 Thread Russell Berry
have two sets of DNS files, named blah.org, and blah.dhcp, create links to them with the real names, (named.hosts -> named.hosts.org). have your call dhcp with a script that removes the links, and links them to the appropriate files and restarts named (ndc restart). That's one way I suppose... -

hmm... an idea

1998-07-06 Thread Paul Miller
I have 1 static IP and I'm thinking about getting an additional dynamic IP. I'm not exactly sure on how DHCP works, but is there a way to have the my DNS server (on static IP) updated when the dynamic IP changes? THanks -Paul -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Follow-up: RE: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...)

1998-07-06 Thread Kendrick Myatt
FWIW, I went ahead and tried the loadlin deal from the DOS config.sys multi-boot and it worked flawlessly. I used the defaults from the manual.txt as examples, and copied my linux kernel from my floppy boot diskette for the boot image. The line is: shell=c:\loadlin\loadlin.exe c:\loadlin\linux ro

Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...)

1998-07-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "B" == Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: B> The Suse handbook descibes nicely how to set up Linux to appear in the B> NT boot loader. That way one has only one prompt. They have a nice supportdatabase. The NT-Loader entry is http://www.suse.de/support-db/sdb_e/nt.html Ciao, Ma

Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...)

1998-07-04 Thread Brederlow
Dennis Dai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My experience is: install NT first, then install Linux, run LILO to > modify MBR (add a dos option as usual). After reboot, I got LILO prompt > first. If I select dos, NT boot loader came up, there you can select NT > or win95. This is quite different from

RE: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...)

1998-07-03 Thread Dennis Dai
My experience is: install NT first, then install Linux, run LILO to modify MBR (add a dos option as usual). After reboot, I got LILO prompt first. If I select dos, NT boot loader came up, there you can select NT or win95. This is quite different from what has been described in those mini HOWTOs. So

RE: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...)

1998-07-03 Thread Breathnach, Proinnsias \(Dublin\)
sage- > From: Kendrick Myatt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 02, 1998 8:03 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...) > > I'm not sure if my plan will work, but hopefully I'll find out this >

Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...)

1998-07-02 Thread Eric
On Thu, 02 Jul 1998, Kendrick Myatt wrote: >I'm not sure if my plan will work, but hopefully I'll find out this >weekend. Feel free to save me the trouble if someone else has >already tried this and it doesn't work... Actually I just realized >that I may not have time this weekend... but anyway..

Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...)

1998-07-02 Thread Paul Miller
There is a mini FAQ on this.. basically, to boot linux from NT's boot leader you need to do the following: 1) dd if=/dev/hda3 of=bootsect.lnx /bs=512 count=1 (assuming your linux root partition is bootable and /dev/hda3) 2) copy bootsect.lnx to C:\bootsect.lnx 3) add 'C:\bootsect.lnx = "Linu

Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...)

1998-07-02 Thread Kendrick Myatt
I'm not sure if my plan will work, but hopefully I'll find out this weekend. Feel free to save me the trouble if someone else has already tried this and it doesn't work... Actually I just realized that I may not have time this weekend... but anyway... My first hard drive has DOS and Win98 on it.

LATCP anyone?- an idea

1998-06-18 Thread sjc
[I tried to send a message like this last night but accidently screwed up...so I apologize if the old version shoots out of my home mail system at some point to this list] Ok...I have been digging around here at work, and we seem to have a problem. All of us techs ocasionally need to fix Terminal

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

1997-06-25 Thread jdassen
On Jun 24, Peter S Galbraith wrote > Another question: There are many upgrades to make to use a 2.1.X kernels. > Are there Debian packages to do these upgrades? (I have an IDE/ATAPI > PD-CD; I need 2.1.X if I ever want to see the PD side working.) -- The 2.1.X kernels come with a list (Documenta

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

1997-06-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jun 24, 1997 at 03:23:53PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The only Kernel that would *have* to have Java support compiled in would > be the one on the rescue disks. The system could install a different kernel > that would not have JAVA support. Java support in the Linux kernel doesn't

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

1997-06-24 Thread stick
> > > > > I think this is a very good idea - imagine when Debian is ported to other > > hardware platforms and (dreaming maybe) other OS's - one JAVA application > > could handle the installation regardless of Hardware and OS. > > Wait: you've apparently missed the thread that I've been carryin

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

1997-06-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Will Lowe wrote: > The point of the whole idea was to provide a way for people to get > information on and install packages. We discussed the idea that "finding > linux software can sometimes be difficult because we didn't know where to > look" and the fact that, while dpkg is a _GREAT

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

1997-06-24 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> > I was thinking that perhaps this might be a > > decent Java application: you could write essentially the same code to > > run locally in your Java-enabled kernel, and those with web sites that > > mirror debian packages could use the same code (with a few modifications) > > to run in Nets

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

1997-06-24 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > decent Java application: you could write essentially the same code to > > run locally in your Java-enabled kernel, and those with web sites that > > > I think this is a very good idea - imagine when Debian is ported to other > hardware platform

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

1997-06-24 Thread stick
> I was thinking that perhaps this might be a > decent Java application: you could write essentially the same code to > run locally in your Java-enabled kernel, and those with web sites that > mirror debian packages could use the same code (with a few modifications) > to run in Netscape acros

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

1997-06-24 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > I'm not sure if fvwm95 menu entries calling a simple tk/tcl program to > display info on one package is better than a styandalone tk/tcl package > to provide info on all available packages. The standalone package > could be used with any window man

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

1997-06-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> > I think the a frustrating thing with Linux is finding out what's > > available. I think what would attract people to Linux is *showing* them > > all that's available. > > You mean package-wise? Yeah. > > What's missing is an X tool to display the > > package

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

1997-06-24 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > An idea about `menu': > > I think the a frustrating thing with Linux is finding out what's > available. I think what would attract people to Linux is *showing* them > all that's available. You mean packag

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

1997-06-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
dpkg --get-selections > selections > other:~ # dpkg --set-selections < selections This is a very nice feature indeed. An idea about `menu': I think the a frustrating thing with Linux is finding out what's available. I think what would attract people to Linux is *showing* t