Wow, that's the first Debian installer that made it all the way
through on this machine.
Thanks!
--alan
On Dec 13, 2007 2:38 AM, Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wednesday 12 December 2007 15:00, Alan Ezust wrote:
> > True, I *can* install debian
True, I *can* install debian, except that I was trying to use Etch,
and etch's installer crashed in the middle of its process, leaving me
with an un-bootable system, due to the recent-ness of my computer. I
didn't try Lenny yet on this laptop (dell D630) so I don't know if
this problem was fixed, b
I want to run alsaconf. It's not there.
i want to run snddevices script. It's not there either.
I search and search the ubuntu forums. In the end, it seems everyone
in ubuntu-land must resort to compiling alsa from SOURCE to get sound
on their laptop. WTF?!?
Obviously ubuntu is having serious prob
Hi, I have a strange problem with apt-get over https:// protocol
I built apt-0.7.2 from source, for debian etch, because
apt-transport-https was not included in the repository.
Most of the time, apt-get update and apt-get upgrade work fine over
HTTP://, but what I've noticed is that after I chan
On 7/5/07, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 05-Jul-07, 14:06 (CDT), Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Do den 5. Jul 2007 um 20:57 schrieb Alan Ezust:
> > I passed -y as an option, and then during the postinst, I have a
> > situation where the
Hi - i was wondering, I'm trying to run apt-get upgrade in a
non-interactive shell.
I passed -y as an option, and then during the postinst, I have a
situation where the package has a configuration file which is newer
than what it is about to replace. I would like it to just replace the
configurat
let's say you need to build from source a program such as "gimp" which has
many library dependencies. You don't know what they are, and you want debian
to auto-install the -dev packages you need. apt-get build-dep is your
friend.
/etc/apt [EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-get build-dep gimp
Reading package l
On 3/26/07, Warren Turkal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 26 March 2007 12:09, Alan Ezust wrote:
> I tried building using make-kpkg with --initrd binary options, and ended
> up with a cpio archive. Why? I have no idea.
An initramfs is a cpio archive.
I am assuming that are you
Yes, I'm referring to the initrd.img-2.6.16.XX-bla-di-blah file that is
installed by dpkg when I install the generated kernel-image .deb file that I
created using make-kpkg (--initrd binary)..
On 3/26/07, Warren Turkal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 26 March 2007 12:09, Alan
I tried building using make-kpkg with --initrd binary options, and ended up
with a cpio archive. Why? I have no idea.
I looked at the output of the make-kpkg command and was unable to determine
which tool it was using to make the initramfs. I suggest some output be
generated that shows not only
Question #1: For creating packages, as per the suggestions in
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO/#AEN88
There is this step that requires you to copy the control file from the
debian subdir to debian/DEBIAN directory. Could someone explain to me why is
this ste
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