Re: debian on a 386 ?

2000-03-21 Thread Heather
> Hi, > > maybe you are on another Debian-Server... on the orig. homesite > http://www.debian.org/releases/ you will see after "Releases by name" the > following "Old versions of Debian" and some links to mirrors, where 1.3.1 is > available for download... for example: > http://archive.debian.or

Re: debian on a 386 ?

2000-03-21 Thread Bernhard Heger
ACA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > maybe you are on another Debian-Server... on the orig. homesite Yep, that's the problem: I've been looking for older versions of Debian on the German Debian server ftp.de.debian.org where these versions are no longer present. I found them at ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian

Re: debian on a 386 ?

2000-03-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 11:13:11AM -0800, Heather wrote: > > > > YES, you can. But you need >4MB RAM. Try Debian 1.3.1, > > > > it's based on libc5 and not so big as glibc (Debian 2.x). > >> Where can I get those older versions of Debian? I've searched through > >> the FTP-server and didn't find an

Re: debian on a 386 ?

2000-03-21 Thread ACA
Hi, maybe you are on another Debian-Server... on the orig. homesite http://www.debian.org/releases/ you will see after "Releases by name" the following "Old versions of Debian" and some links to mirrors, where 1.3.1 is available for download... for example: http://archive.debian.org/debian-archi

auto shutdown PCMCIA if idling

2000-03-21 Thread Benjamin F. Zhou
Hi, I know pcmcia services consume a lot of energy, (the cards are always hot). So I want to write and run a script as batch to shut them down after idling for a certain period of time. Can anyone tell me where I can find such knowledge? thnx Ben

Re: debian on a 386 ?

2000-03-21 Thread Heather
> > > YES, you can. But you need >4MB RAM. Try Debian 1.3.1, > > > it's based on libc5 and not so big as glibc (Debian 2.x). >> Where can I get those older versions of Debian? I've searched through >> the FTP-server and didn't find anything. > Hi again, > > try the "archive" at http://www.debian.o

Re: debian on a 386 ?

2000-03-21 Thread ACA
Hi again, try the "archive" at http://www.debian.org/releases Bye Antonio Bernhard Heger schrieb: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Hi, > > > > YES, you can. But you need >4MB RAM. Try Debian 1.3.1, > > it's based on libc5 and not so big as glibc (Debian 2.x). > > Where can I get

Re: thinkpad , debian doesn t start

2000-03-21 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 01 Jan 1970, dom wrote: >Debian GNU release 2.1 linux 2.0.36 My experience has been that 2.0.x kernels don't work well with Thinkpads, and often don't work at all. I recommend using the latest available kernel. Also if you have a >8G hard drive then you'll need a 2.3.x kernel (or a re

Re: Betr.: debian on a 386 ?

2000-03-21 Thread Benjamin F. Zhou
you may want to try smallinux, then you just need 2MB RAM and 40MB hdd.. There is also a "small"-X: http://smalllinux.netpedia.net/smalllin.htm Enjoy Benjamin Zhou Bernhard Heger wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Hi, > > > > YES, you can. But you need >4MB RAM. Try Debian 1

Re: Betr.: debian on a 386 ?

2000-03-21 Thread Bernhard Heger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > YES, you can. But you need >4MB RAM. Try Debian 1.3.1, > it's based on libc5 and not so big as glibc (Debian 2.x). Where can I get those older versions of Debian? I've searched through the FTP-server and didn't find anything. Thanks. -- This i

[Fwd: X and mouse]

2000-03-21 Thread Charles Baker
Charles Baker wrote: > > I reformatted and reinstalled Debian-Potato on my old Dell XPi133ST. I > had slink working on it before. I tried to use the same XF86Config file > but now I get > > "System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb > -xkm -m us -em1 "The XKEYBOARD k

[Fwd: Help! How not to start X ?]

2000-03-21 Thread Charles Baker
Charles Baker wrote: > > In a message dated 3/14/00 4:14:08 PM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Debian doesn't use runlevels to control whether X starts or not. (Given > that > > this message is being distributed by the debian-laptop list and Ben > > specifically stated

Re: Great X on CPQ Armada1110, just special German keys don't work.

2000-03-21 Thread H.Heinold
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Benjamin F. Zhou wrote: > Hi Debianers, > > thank all the helps and tips I got from you at this great list, I successfully > setup X on my good old CPQ Armada1110 (P75, 2GB, 24MB RAM) with German > keyboard. > There is nothing I can complain about performance compared to Win

Flytning

2000-03-21 Thread Wichmann, Viggo
--- Let's get back from la-la-land here, 'cause this ain't gonna happen

Re: Purchasing a laptop::Anyone fully satisfied with theirs?

2000-03-21 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 11:03:13AM -0800, Heather wrote: > The advantage of LS-120 or ZIPs is that a moderately large number of client > sites I'd visit will have *desktops* with the support. Now that I have a > CD-RW drive it's less of a big whoop. Everyone has CD bays, and the laptops > I have

Re: lilo as boot manager possible ?

2000-03-21 Thread Patrick
> > > > Her's my lilo.conf (/dev/hda1 => win, /dev/hda3 => linux) > > > > boot = /dev/hda > > delay = 40 > > vga = normal > > root = /dev/hda3 > > read-only > > default = new > > > > image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14 > > label = linux > > image = /boot/bzImage-2.2.14 > > label = new > > other