Re: plex86

2004-02-02 Thread Josh Metzler
On Monday 02 February 2004 03:22 am, Erich Waelde wrote: > Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > > According to unstable's plex86 page > > , it has been > > superceded by bochs. But I thought plex86 was a virtual machine > > and bochs was an emulator. Isn't th

Re: plex86

2004-02-02 Thread Erich Waelde
Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > According to unstable's plex86 page > , it has been > superceded by bochs. But I thought plex86 was a virtual machine > and bochs was an emulator. Isn't there a big difference? yapp, I saw that, too. I tried bochs re

Re: [plex86] setup: "user whiptail doesn't exist"

2003-03-17 Thread Joey Hess
Eike Lantzsch wrote: > I'm sure I didn't enter "whiptail" nor "whiptail:" in any dialog. > But anyway, your answer put me back on track. > dpkg-reconfigure didn't work because plex86 wasn't completely > installed. In /var/cache/debconf/config.dat were two "value:"- > entries which are supposed to c

Re: [plex86] setup: "user whiptail doesn't exist"

2003-03-16 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Sunday 16 March 2003 11:09, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:26:36AM -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > When I try to install it with "dpkg -i" I get: > > > > Setting up plex86-kernel-2.4.20 (0.0.20011018-8) ... > > adduser: The user `whiptail:' doesn't exist. > > dpkg: error proces

Re: [plex86] setup: "user whiptail doesn't exist"

2003-03-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:26:36AM -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > When I try to install it with "dpkg -i" I get: > > Setting up plex86-kernel-2.4.20 (0.0.20011018-8) ... > adduser: The user `whiptail:' doesn't exist. > dpkg: error processing plex86-kernel-2.4.20 (--configure): > subprocess post-in

Re: plex86, VMWare, & other emulators (was Re: Desktopproductivity with Debian GNU/LINUX)

2003-01-26 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le dim 26/01/2003 à 04:55, Karsten M. Self a écrit : > plex86 is an x86 hardware emulator. That is, it provides an x86 system, > entirely within software. The primary advantage is that it's very > portable. The primary disadvantage is that it's painfully slow. > > VMWare by contrast is a ha

Re: plex86 problem (where is package xfonts-svga?)

2001-11-26 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 06:48:18 +1100, Steve Kieu wrote: > bochs: # bochs: Cannot open vga font Have you tried installing the "xfonts-dosemu" package? HTH, Ray -- People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming, conniving bastard who doesn't care for any hurt feelings or lost h