Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-03 Thread D. Michael McFarland
for me to administer for them. But the overall Ubuntu experience is a little too sweet for my taste. I'll crawl back under my rock now. Best regards, Michael -- D. Michael McFarland, Research Associate Professor Department of Aerospace Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign http://ww

Re: Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-20 Thread D. Michael McFarland
Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 11:27:12AM -0600, D. Michael McFarland wrote: >> I've found no bugs on this topic newer than the July 2005 bug I cited >> in my original post, although it's certainly possible I overlooked >>

Re: Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-19 Thread D. Michael McFarland
Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 01:08:34AM -0600, D. Michael McFarland wrote: > > Redhat puts the configs used in the srpm under ./configs ; perhaps > putting the debian config file in a seperate package (kernel-config-*) > would be a

Re: Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-18 Thread D. Michael McFarland
Robert Kopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- "D. Michael McFarland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've installed the package linux-source-2.6.14 with the intention >> of building a kernel with the stock Debian configuration. However, &

Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-18 Thread D. Michael McFarland
nded. Could someone suggest where I might find this .config file, and perhaps comment on the apparent duplication of the kernel source in the various linux-image-* source packages? Thanks. Best regards, Michael -- D. Michael McFarland Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois ht

Re: which debian version to host VMWare?

2005-11-06 Thread D. Michael McFarland
o make my newish sound card happy). > Thanks! You're welcome! Best regards, Michael -- D. Michael McFarland, Research Associate Professor Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois 306 Talbot Lab MC-236, 104 S. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801 http://www.ae.uiuc.edu/~dmm

Re: Installing X on woody

2002-05-09 Thread D. Michael McFarland
"Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, it may be helpful to install the "base-config" from unstable and > then run it manually to finish the installation. This can be done rather > easily by configuring a "sources.list" file listing both the testing and > unstable sources, then

Re: Installing X on woody

2002-05-08 Thread D. Michael McFarland
Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another frontend to try is 'aptitude'. It's quite nice and (to me) a > lot friendlier than dselect. > Of course, you probably just want to get your system working first;) The easy way, it now seems to me, should be to start from scratch with boot floppies f

Re: Installing X on woody

2002-05-07 Thread D. Michael McFarland
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One of the ways I have used in the past is to simply use dselect and add > something like kde, blackbox, or gnome. I've added blackbox in this way, but I'm still missing something. > That will cause a bunch of > dependencies, and xfree86 will b

Re: Installing X on woody

2002-05-06 Thread D. Michael McFarland
craigw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did a net install of woody a couple days ago, using a CD I burned That's what I probably should have done. > I have decided that I will never again touch dselect. Not with a ten > foot pole. You couldn't pay me enough to suffer the agony and > frustration o

Re: Installing X on woody

2002-05-06 Thread D. Michael McFarland
Andrew Agno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've never used tasksel, but my install of X went fine using dselect > to select xfree86-common, xserver-common and xserver-xfree86; I expect > that most everything else got pulled in automatically. > > Andrew. Yes, that's the sort of hint I needed. I'm

Installing X on woody

2002-05-06 Thread D. Michael McFarland
documentation I might have overlooked, would be most appreciated. Best regards, Michael -- D. Michael McFarland Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]