Re: light weight desktop for browsing

2004-08-16 Thread Tony Pitman
Ron, Good to know. So the front runner combination at this point is xfce and Dillo. Tony On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 11:26 +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 02:42:29PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 13:21 -0600, To

Pre-compiled for VME box?

2004-08-16 Thread Bill Janssen
I have a VME box with a MVME 162-222 and a MVME 320B-1. The 162 I know something about but I know very little about the 320B. The 162 does not have disk support so the 320B would have to provide the disk interface. Does the Debian distribution for the 162 have the "smarts" to interface with the

Re: light weight desktop for browsing

2004-08-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 11:26 +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 02:42:29PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 13:21 -0600, Tony Pitman wrote: [snip] > > If you really want some lightweight window manager, try twm.

Re: light weight desktop for browsing

2004-08-16 Thread Tony Pitman
Finn, Nice tips, I will check it out. Tony On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 02:42:29PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 13:21 -0600, Tony Pitman wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a light weight desktop that I can install on my old > > > Quadra7

Re: light weight desktop for browsing

2004-08-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 00:22 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 04:07:10PM -0600, Tony Pitman wrote: > > Wouter, > > > > thanks, I will try and see if I can get it to work on my system. Is there a > > light weight desktop you would recommend to go along with it? > > Why do yo

Re: light weight desktop for browsing

2004-08-16 Thread Finn Thain
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 02:42:29PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 13:21 -0600, Tony Pitman wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a light weight desktop that I can install on my old > > > Quadra700? I have a 100mb drive and a 230mb drive

Re: light weight desktop for browsing

2004-08-16 Thread Tony Pitman
Joel, Thanks for the tips. I am still fighting with getting base deb installed, so I will keep this around for when I get that far. Tony I'm using IceWM on a Qudra 840av w/128M RAM and a 4G HD -- not that I think you'd need such hardware to run it. It's pretty quick and I don't think i

Re: light weight desktop for browsing

2004-08-16 Thread Joel Ewy
I'm using IceWM on a Qudra 840av w/128M RAM and a 4G HD -- not that I think you'd need such hardware to run it. It's pretty quick and I don't think its hard disk footprint is too enormous though I don't remember exactly how big it is. It's a little more featureful than twm but not near

Re: light weight desktop for browsing

2004-08-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 04:07:10PM -0600, Tony Pitman wrote: > Wouter, > > thanks, I will try and see if I can get it to work on my system. Is there a > light weight desktop you would recommend to go along with it? Why do you need a full desktop if all you want to do is browse the web? Desktops

Re: light weight desktop for browsing

2004-08-16 Thread Tony Pitman
Wouter, thanks, I will try and see if I can get it to work on my system. Is there a light weight desktop you would recommend to go along with it? Tony On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 02:42:29PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 13:21 -0600, Tony Pitman wrote: > > Does anyone know of a lig

Kernel 2.6 for m68k/amiga

2004-08-16 Thread Storm66
Hello, Is it possible to get a 2.6 kernel for m68k or the "general" kernel from debian is OK ? Are there some pre-requisite to compile it ? (gcc or binutils version for example). If it is possible I will try to compile (and run ?) it on my A2000/060. Regards JP Pozzi -- Storm66 <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: atari-bootstrap changes finished

2004-08-16 Thread Petr Stehlik
V Po, 16. 08. 2004 v 23:37, Christian T. Steigies píše: > spurious k there (from Stehlik?). Yup, you did, does that count as a buffer > overflow or is TOS just overwriting the last char on a 80 char screen? TOS has two modes of the VT52 terminal in TOS - either it wraps long text to new line or it

Re: atari-bootstrap changes finished

2004-08-16 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 11:05:10PM +0200, Petr Stehlik wrote: > > - new bootstrap works with FastRAM on Centurbo2 and Afterburner040 cards > properly. Works on my Falcon, sorry no mem or powersupply yet to get the CT60 going. The 2.4.27 kernel works as well, entering lowmem mode in the installer

Re: light weight desktop for browsing

2004-08-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 02:42:29PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 13:21 -0600, Tony Pitman wrote: > > Does anyone know of a light weight desktop that I can install on my old > > Quadra700? I have a 100mb drive and a 230mb drive. > > > > I know that the gnome desktop takes a lot

atari-bootstrap changes finished

2004-08-16 Thread Petr Stehlik
Hi, I have just finished the planned changes to atari-bootstrap. I may write a more detailed description later if you wish but here is a short summary: - new bootstrap loads ramdisk into TT/FastRAM by default which fixes all sorts of problems with ST-RAM swap, with videoram full of garbage and fa

Re: light weight desktop for browsing

2004-08-16 Thread Tony Pitman
Ron, I have 36mb of RAM. It is the hard drive space that is the main concern. Can you tell me what are the minimum options I can choose during the debian install of packages to get a desktop and the Dillo browser and fit it all on the drives I have? Tony On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 13:21 -0600, Tony P

Re: light weight desktop for browsing

2004-08-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 13:21 -0600, Tony Pitman wrote: > Does anyone know of a light weight desktop that I can install on my old > Quadra700? I have a 100mb drive and a 230mb drive. > > I know that the gnome desktop takes a lot of room. > > All I want to do is browse the Internet with this comput

light weight desktop for browsing

2004-08-16 Thread Tony Pitman
Does anyone know of a light weight desktop that I can install on my old Quadra700? I have a 100mb drive and a 230mb drive. I know that the gnome desktop takes a lot of room. All I want to do is browse the Internet with this computer. Nothing more. Tony Pitman Shatalmic Company

Re: m68k und ipv6?

2004-08-16 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 10:12:19AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Kilian Krause wrote: > > Looking at the linux-m68k.org page, they only recommend 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 > > which is obviously not an option (for security reasons). So it looks > > That's obsolete. If you want 2.4,

Re: m68k und ipv6?

2004-08-16 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi Geert, Am Mo, den 16.08.2004 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven um 10:12: > On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Kilian Krause wrote: > > Looking at the linux-m68k.org page, they only recommend 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 > > which is obviously not an option (for security reasons). So it looks > > That's obsolete. If you want 2.

Re: m68k und ipv6?

2004-08-16 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Kilian Krause wrote: > Looking at the linux-m68k.org page, they only recommend 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 > which is obviously not an option (for security reasons). So it looks That's obsolete. If you want 2.4, I recommend 2.4.27 (unless Mac or Atari and 2.4.27 doesn't work). BTW, non-m

Re: m68k und ipv6?

2004-08-16 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi Finn, > I just remembered where I saw this before -- nptl glibc under a non-redhat > 2.4 kernel. Also, on m68k, I saw this failure when I was booting a kernel > with an ELF binfmt module not compiled into the kernel, and the kernel > unable to load it. You might hit this with 2.6 kernels if > m

Re: Setup help needed on Amiga

2004-08-16 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is on a stock install because I don't have it hooked to the Internet > to get updates with. That is because I don't have a network card, and I > can't find the PLIP module. Where is it and how can I get my hands on it. > (2) Install the plip mo