Re: kernel 2.2.16 (2.2.17pre10 !)

2000-07-07 Thread Nathan Myers
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 05:44:05PM -0700, cls--colo spgs wrote: > successfully, i compilied and installed kernel > 2.2.16. Not to change the subject, but I have had good success, finally, with 2.2.17pre10. Previous kernels (since 2.2.15) would thrash miserably under various circumstances in N

Re: kernel 2.2.16 (2.2.17pre10 !)

2000-07-07 Thread Nathan Myers
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 05:44:05PM -0700, cls--colo spgs wrote: > successfully, i compilied and installed kernel > 2.2.16. Not to change the subject, but I have had good success, finally, with 2.2.17pre10. Previous kernels (since 2.2.15) would thrash miserably under various circumstances in

kernel 2.2.16

2000-07-07 Thread cls--colo spgs
laptopdebs, successfully, i compilied and installed kernel 2.2.16. oddly, it only works for my deskbox. the 2 laptops would have nothing to do with it _after the 2d reboot_. (in other words, the laptops would boot the compiled 2.2.16 kernel from a floppy, but when i rebooted after that, from

kernel 2.2.16

2000-07-07 Thread cls--colo spgs
laptopdebs, successfully, i compilied and installed kernel 2.2.16. oddly, it only works for my deskbox. the 2 laptops would have nothing to do with it _after the 2d reboot_. (in other words, the laptops would boot the compiled 2.2.16 kernel from a floppy, but when i rebooted after that, from

Re: Installing potato on a laptop

2000-07-07 Thread Heather
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > I have a mate who wants me to install linux on his system. Unfortunatly for > some reason the floppy and cdrom can't be used at the same time. > The url for his system is at the following, > http://www.olecomp.com/ihdesk/portab_u/EchosP/Ech

Re: apt-cache (was as86 ...)

2000-07-07 Thread Heather
> > > I think it can. Try it on a package that you haven't got installed. > > > Brendan Simon. > > > > No -- the reason it works in this particular case is because as86 is > > mentioned in the description of bin86. If a file isn't mentioned in the > > description, or somewhere similar, apt-cache

Re: Installing potato on a laptop

2000-07-07 Thread Heather
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > I have a mate who wants me to install linux on his system. Unfortunatly for > some reason the floppy and cdrom can't be used at the same time. > The url for his system is at the following, > http://www.olecomp.com/ihdesk/portab_u/EchosP/Ec

Re: apt-cache (was as86 ...)

2000-07-07 Thread Heather
> > > I think it can. Try it on a package that you haven't got installed. > > > Brendan Simon. > > > > No -- the reason it works in this particular case is because as86 is > > mentioned in the description of bin86. If a file isn't mentioned in the > > description, or somewhere similar, apt-cach

Re: Installing potato on a laptop

2000-07-07 Thread matthschulz
I think on debian-cd's is a from dos bootable linuxkernel. It's named when i right remember loadlin.com or loadlin.exe. Maybe this is a possibility. Matth On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, Benjamin F. Zhou wrote: > you can conveniently install from a mounted NFS file system (your mounted CD) > exported from y

Re: Installing potato on a laptop

2000-07-07 Thread Benjamin F. Zhou
you can conveniently install from a mounted NFS file system (your mounted CD) exported from your existing Linux box. Redhat has a disk image bootnet.img you can download, and boot from, it will prompt you for the NFS file system after boot. It should work the same over slip or plip. Use pcmcia.im

Re: Installing potato on a laptop

2000-07-07 Thread matthschulz
I think on debian-cd's is a from dos bootable linuxkernel. It's named when i right remember loadlin.com or loadlin.exe. Maybe this is a possibility. Matth On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, Benjamin F. Zhou wrote: > you can conveniently install from a mounted NFS file system (your mounted CD) > exported from

Re: Installing potato on a laptop

2000-07-07 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard voy1d say > I have a mate who wants me to install linux on his system. Unfortunatly for > some reason the floppy and cdrom can't be used at the same time. > The url for his system is at the following, > http://www.olecomp.com/ihdesk/portab_u/EchosP/EchoP100DEndUser.htm >

Re: Installing potato on a laptop

2000-07-07 Thread Benjamin F. Zhou
you can conveniently install from a mounted NFS file system (your mounted CD) exported from your existing Linux box. Redhat has a disk image bootnet.img you can download, and boot from, it will prompt you for the NFS file system after boot. It should work the same over slip or plip. Use pcmcia.img

Re: Installing potato on a laptop

2000-07-07 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard voy1d say > I have a mate who wants me to install linux on his system. Unfortunatly for > some reason the floppy and cdrom can't be used at the same time. > The url for his system is at the following, > http://www.olecomp.com/ihdesk/portab_u/EchosP/EchoP100DEndUser.htm

Installing potato on a laptop

2000-07-07 Thread voy1d
I have a mate who wants me to install linux on his system. Unfortunatly for some reason the floppy and cdrom can't be used at the same time. The url for his system is at the following, http://www.olecomp.com/ihdesk/portab_u/EchosP/EchoP100DEndUser.htm I guess I would have to boot into DOS and run

Installing potato on a laptop

2000-07-07 Thread voy1d
I have a mate who wants me to install linux on his system. Unfortunatly for some reason the floppy and cdrom can't be used at the same time. The url for his system is at the following, http://www.olecomp.com/ihdesk/portab_u/EchosP/EchoP100DEndUser.htm I guess I would have to boot into DOS and run

Re: apt-cache (was as86 ...)

2000-07-07 Thread Matthew Guenther
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 08:36:23AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I think it can. Try it on a package that you haven't got installed. > > > Brendan Simon. > > > > No -- the reason it works in this particular case is because as86 is > > mentioned in the description of bin86. If a file isn'