VMware work on Debian

2001-03-12 Thread Jim Nutt
Randolph S. Kahle writes: > I am assessing Debian as a replacement for RedHat > on all of my machines. One critical requirement is > support for VMware. > > Can someone tell me if they have had success > running VMware on Debian 2.2(r2)? Works just fine. I installed it from the tar files in

debian on laptops

2001-03-02 Thread Jim Nutt
joe willson writes: > i have my laptop finally running fine but there are still a few things > that's > annoying me. first off everyday i start up, debian keeps on reading my > harddrive, i do a top and see that the program find is using like 16% of my > cpu! i think this is cause by cro

Re: reiserfs annoyances

2001-02-04 Thread Jim Nutt
Matthew Sackman writes: > Just to say that I've just switched most of my partitions over to reiserfs > and am having exactely the same problems: the boot procedure halts on each > boot-up because of the request for a file-system check on the root partition. I converted both my partitions to rei

ssh 2

2001-02-04 Thread Jim Nutt
MaD dUCK writes: > is anyone out there using OpenSSH 2.0.13 from the testing archive? or > does anyone know when we can use ssh2 as a debian package. sure, i > could tarball install, but i'd much rather stick to packages to > minimize my time commitment. I'm using ssh 2 from unstable. I've not

Toshiba Satellite Pro XCDT490

2001-02-02 Thread Jim Nutt
Well, after a couple of weeks of fiddling and experimenting on the trains going to and from work, I now have my laptop working with a 2.4.0 kernel (with reiserfs patches), reiserfs root, devfs, usb and Debian/Unstable. I've finally gotten the kernel sound drivers to work and now I'm ready for my ne