Re: what's NMI recieved.

1997-01-15 Thread Christopher George Rhodes
NMI is intel nomenclature for non maskable interrupt, and it might mean the same under linux. If so, then the kernel is receiving an interrupt that it doesn't know how to process. I haven't hacked kernel code for linux, so I don't know the terms in use. Am I right? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-14 Thread Christopher George Rhodes
On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > The installation should be as complex as it needs be, to be able to take > care of all possible needs of the system, with the systems cababilities in > mind. But CONTEXT RELATIVE... which is not the same as EASY. This means if > you are new to the sy

Re: 1.2.0 installation problems

1997-01-08 Thread Christopher George Rhodes
On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I just moved to debian from another distribution (DLD). I got it from the > December 1996 Developers Ressource of InfoMagic (it's Debian 1.2.0, I think). > I really liked the way it installs (though it could work without

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-08 Thread Christopher George Rhodes
Problems I have seen with dselect: causes serial port overruns, don't know if dpkg does too. any options from the main menu that causes the cdrom to be read must be selected twice in order for it to work. it scans each possible package and determines its state when installing new packages, resu

Re: Good buy or not?

1997-01-07 Thread Christopher George Rhodes
I say build your own system. I sat down the other day to see just how much of a difference there was between one I could put together and one of the standard systems that come with the office suites and stuff at school. The system I put together (not for real this time, but I checked all the pric