Bug#1031275: [PATCH v3 1/6] man2/: use IEC or ISO multiples to clarify long numeric digit strings

2023-02-22 Thread Rob Landley
On 2/21/23 19:34, Alex Colomar wrote: > Hi Rob, > > On 2/21/23 18:00, Rob Landley wrote: >> If you're going to tell people to learn something new: 1<<10 is a kilobyte, >> 1<<20 is a megabyte, 1<<30 is a gigabyte, and so on. I've sometimes used >

Bug#1031275: [PATCH v3 1/6] man2/: use IEC or ISO multiples to clarify long numeric digit strings

2023-02-21 Thread Rob Landley
On 2/20/23 09:35, Alex Colomar wrote: > On 2/20/23 15:29, Stefan Puiu wrote: >> Hi Alex, > > Hi Stefan, > >>> 4 KiB is not that much better than 4096, since 4096 is easy to read. >>> For higher numbers such as 33554432, it becomes more important to use 32 >>> KiB. >>> For consistency, using 4 Ki

Re: d-i on serial console with name != ttyS/tts

2006-03-28 Thread Rob Landley
On Sunday 26 March 2006 8:30 pm, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-26 17:40]: > > > I saw the following problem today: I started debian-installer on a > > > machine with serial console, the device node /dev/tts/0 got > > > cre

Re: d-i on serial console with name != ttyS/tts

2006-03-26 Thread Rob Landley
On Sunday 26 March 2006 5:12 pm, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I saw the following problem today: I started debian-installer on a > machine with serial console, the device node /dev/tts/0 got > created Still using devfs names, I see. > but as d-i started I repeatedly got errors saying: > device

Re: init requires /dev/vc devices

2006-02-17 Thread Rob Landley
On Friday 17 February 2006 12:57 pm, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-15 12:12]: > > Lemme see if I understand this: > > > > You have an inittab telling busybox init to spawn things on three > > consoles that either don't ex