Re: Great experience with debootstrap

2009-05-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
Harry Rickards: > -- snip lots of useful info > > Thanks for the help and pointers. Thanks for sharing your findings! J. -- Watching television is more hip than actually speaking to anyone. [Agree] [Disagree] signature

Re: Great experience with debootstrap

2009-05-05 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/05/09 09:39, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Harry Rickards: >> On 4 May 2009, at 22:12, Jochen Schulz wrote: >>> You are probably looking for something like xsetroot. I have no idea >>> how openbox handles background images. > -- snip >> Sorry for not

Re: Great experience with debootstrap

2009-05-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
Harry Rickards: > On 4 May 2009, at 22:12, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> You are probably looking for something like xsetroot. I have no idea >> how openbox handles background images. -- snip > Sorry for not making it clearer, but I want to change the colour of the > background of a program (a pa

Re: Great experience with debootstrap

2009-05-05 Thread Harry Rickards
On 4 May 2009, at 22:12, Jochen Schulz wrote: Harry Rickards: I just thought I'd tell everyone about the great experience I've had recently with debootstrap. Congratulations! I used deboostrap once to install Debian on a remote machine via SSH using only the swap partition as the initial ro

Re: Great experience with debootstrap

2009-05-04 Thread Jochen Schulz
Harry Rickards: > > I just thought I'd tell everyone about the great experience I've had > recently with debootstrap. Congratulations! I used deboostrap once to install Debian on a remote machine via SSH using only the swap partition as the initial root filesystem. Installing Debian has become t

Great experience with debootstrap

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
I just thought I'd tell everyone about the great experience I've had recently with debootstrap. My PC can't run off of a normal Debian disc, as the X server refuses to boot, saying that no suitable screens are found, and my wireless card (Edimax EW-7318USg) doesn't work as thr the rt73usb w