Re: Another Poor Documentation Rant

2000-08-03 Thread Kent West
"C.M. Connelly" wrote: > One rant that's still on my to-do list is for people who send HTML > to mailing lists. I hate that. ;-P > >CMC > > P.S. Good thing I haven't gotten around to adding a filter rule to > class HTML mail as spam (most of it is), or I would have > missed you

Re: Another Poor Documentation Rant

2000-08-03 Thread C.M. Connelly
Kent, What I sometimes do is write the rant, then save it somewhere and get away from the computer for a while. If I still feel the same way a day or two later, I'll reconsider sending the rant as-is to the person or group who inspired it. That rarely happens. Sometimes I rework it into a more

Re: Another Poor Documentation Rant

2000-08-03 Thread Kent West
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: OK, let's try this again. !!!RANTS DO NO GOOD!!! Not for the goal of getting a solution, or for the benefit of the list members. But rants can, in some cases, do a world of good, psychologically, for the ranter. I'm not suggesting that we consider them socially acceptable

Re: powerpc build daemon vs apt-get -b source

2000-08-03 Thread Matt Brubeck
To automatically see the package tree differences by architecture, go to: http://buildd.debian.org/quinn-diff/ Note that there is no autobuilder running for woody/ppc. The powerpc build daemon will switch to woody once potato is done.

Re: Another Poor Documentation Rant

2000-08-03 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > OK, let's try this again. > > > > !!!RANTS DO NO GOOD!!! Nor does yelling out loud :-) > > Patches are fine. Suggestions are welcome, although it's more than a > > little bit late for them. Rants do no one any good, and get > > short-tempered replies like this one is shaping up to be. >

Re: powerpc build daemon vs apt-get -b source

2000-08-03 Thread Hadess
Quoting Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi List, > > Can someone here explain to me how the build daemon is supposed > to work? Last week I was whining to our debian packager about > the ppc guys being so slow to build new packages. He enlightened > me saying that (in this case lilypon

Re: "Kernel Panic: No init found" After Install

2000-08-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
Aaron Davies wrote: > > I've finished the basic install off the ramdisk, so I rebooted, turned off > the ramdisk in the BootX dialog, and hit linux. Then I got "Kernerl Panic: > no init found. Try passing init= to the kernel". What option do I need to > use here? Have you specified the (correct)

Re: Which RS/6000 servers work well with the Debian dist?

2000-08-03 Thread Alberto Varesio
> Joe Emenaker wrote: [..snipped..] > > IBM is going to be giving our college a few RS/6000 servers. > > My question is: Are there particular flavors of IBM's 7024, 7025, and 7026 > that people have had particularly good or bad experience with when trying to > run Debian on them? Have a look at

"Kernel Panic: No init found" After Install

2000-08-03 Thread Aaron Davies
I've finished the basic install off the ramdisk, so I rebooted, turned off the ramdisk in the BootX dialog, and hit linux. Then I got "Kernerl Panic: no init found. Try passing init= to the kernel". What option do I need to use here? -- ____ / )

Re: Another Poor Documentation Rant

2000-08-03 Thread Aaron Davies
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > OK, let's try this again. > > !!!RANTS DO NO GOOD!!! > > Patches are fine. Suggestions are welcome, although it's more than a > little bit late for them. Rants do no one any good, and get > short-tempered replies like this one is shaping up to be. The problem is t