Re: Installing Potato or Woody?

2002-05-01 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
me& wrote: > if one would need to install a production server would he choose Potato or > Woody? I have nothing against installing Potato but what bothers me is > ipchains and the relative old kernel. Do I need to be worried about future > packages, who can be interesting, who will not being able

Re: installing potato with MS Natural KB Pro USB

2002-02-07 Thread dman
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:31:24PM -0500, Ray Bowles wrote: | Anyone know why I wouldn't be able to intall potato using a MS Natural KB | Pro (I also have a wireless Intellimouse Pro) both are USB I disconnected | the mouse with the same result. they work under progeny and redhat so it | must be sp

Re: Installing potato and pcmcia on a laptop

2001-11-30 Thread nate
> This could be where I've been going wrong. Whenever I rebuild the > kernel, and at the stage where I run dpkg, I get the warning about > there being an existing /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17 directory. > Normally I move this out of the way before running dpkg, and it > gets recreated by dpkg. How

Re: Re: Installing potato and pcmcia on a laptop

2001-11-30 Thread Paolo Falcone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Thursday 29 November 2001 23:30, Paolo Falcone wrote: > > > /usr/src/modules. >> >> The modules are downloaded already in /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17 >> (as the installer placed them during the installation process) >> Use modconf to install them. > >Yes they are, but wh

Re: Installing potato and pcmcia on a laptop

2001-11-30 Thread Dougie Nisbet
On Thursday 29 November 2001 23:30, Paolo Falcone wrote: > /usr/src/modules. > > The modules are downloaded already in /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17 > (as the installer placed them during the installation process) > Use modconf to install them. Yes they are, but when I rebuild the kernel, I've been d

Re: Installing potato and pcmcia on a laptop

2001-11-30 Thread Dougie Nisbet
On Thursday 29 November 2001 23:48, nate wrote: > on my ibm thinkpads(iSeries and T20) i use the standard > debian kernel, then build my own from sources. i also > install pcmcia from source, and alsa from source. then > i usually install the alsa utils and pcmcia utils from > packages and overwri

Re: Installing potato and pcmcia on a laptop

2001-11-29 Thread nate
> Q) My CD set is 2.2 r3, with kernel 2.2.19pre17. > What is the difference between kernel 2.2.19pre17 and 2.2.19? pre17 is older then 2.2.19. it is a pre release of 2.2.19. i would strongly reccomend, if your compiling your own kernel to go with 2.2.19. not that theres any real problem with the

Re: Installing potato and pcmcia on a laptop

2001-11-29 Thread Paolo Falcone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Q) My CD set is 2.2 r3, with kernel 2.2.19pre17. >What is the difference between kernel 2.2.19pre17 and 2.2.19? 2.2.19 is more recent than 2.2.19pre17 >Q) Which kernel is best to install on a laptop? >Is it the -compact one that I see when I browse dselect? No idea,

Re: Installing potato from remote CDs

2001-09-23 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Wolfgang Hlawatsch wrote: > I want to telnet the SMALL. It does not allow access. In hosts.allow I placed > "ALL". in hosts the IP of the BIG is also mentioned. I tried everything, but > SMALL wants to remain as a single. If you are using xinetd, you will have to disable th

Re: Installing Potato with Promise RAID controller

2001-05-27 Thread Jonas Wolz
Now, after 4 hours of work, I've finally managed to install potato using the linux driver from Promise. If someone is interested in the exact way I did it, I could provide a description. Jonas Am Samstag, 26. Mai 2001 18:55 schrieb Jonas Wolz: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install Potato (2.2r2) on

Re: Installing potato on a reiserfs

2000-09-07 Thread Mark Janssen
David wrote: >Does anyone know if the kernel on potato has been patched to support >reiserfs? but the real question is how do I make my own bootable debian >installs if they don't, and/or I have a new kernel driver I want to be >able to install? The default kernels (and also those on potato th

Re: Installing potato with a 3c905

2000-04-30 Thread Brendan Cully
it's in 3c59x. I'm multitasking, forgive me. On Saturday, 29 April 2000 at 22:45, Brendan Cully wrote: > forget it. I didn't notice it was _compiled in_. The shame. > > Sorry for the wasted bandwidth (again). > > -Brendan > > On Saturday, 29 April 2000 at 22:30, Brendan Cully wrote: > > Hi, > >

Re: Installing potato with a 3c905

2000-04-30 Thread Brendan Cully
forget it. I didn't notice it was _compiled in_. The shame. Sorry for the wasted bandwidth (again). -Brendan On Saturday, 29 April 2000 at 22:30, Brendan Cully wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install potato from boot floppies and I've run into a > stupid problem: I've got a 3c905 on the target m

Re: installing Potato via ppp

1999-12-27 Thread Shaul Karl
> Is there a way to install Potato via ppp when I have only a slink CD and the > base floppies for slink? Can I download some Potato base floppy images? > If you have slink installed and you insists on downloading then apt is probably the way to go. The current set of base floppies are in http

Re: installing Potato via ppp

1999-12-27 Thread Nate Duehr
As always, with the unstable version (potato), you're taking a risk installing it that on the day you decide to upgrade, any of the packages might be very broken. As of a few weeks ago, there was a boot-floppies for potato. I used it to install a machine and they worked with a couple of bugs, whi

Re: Installing Potato with dselect apt

1999-12-21 Thread Nate Duehr
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 09:16:53AM -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: > I reformated my disks and loaded the base potato floppies. > When I run apt under dselect I end up with so many missing > programs that deselect refuses to continue... > > I have selected nothing during dselect, I just want to install

Re: Installing potato

1999-10-06 Thread David Coe
esl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can someone please help me. I would like to install potato. I started > with resc1440.bin found under potato subtree. Last I kenw, you shouldn't use those unless you want to help develop them; they're really not ready yet. Join the debian-boot mailing list if y

Re: Installing potato

1999-10-06 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, esl wrote: > Can someone please help me. I would like to install potato. I started > with resc1440.bin found under potato subtree. Along the way this thing > needs base2_1.tgz which I know is for slink. What am I missing here? I > have every

Re: Installing Potato

1999-06-18 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 19 Jun, Andrew White wrote about "Installing Potato" > I just downloaded the whole of the Potato main, contrib and non-free > dirs..and went through the install... > > When running dselect I get an error... > > ../base/libc6_2.1.1-12.deb containing libc6: > libc conflicts with apt <<0.3.0 >