Large .deb packages..

asily installed and maintained through the standard Debian package installation program. Of course, this raises some other issues as far as security, etc. What do people think about this? Richard.. - Richard Dans

PPP connection dying with Debian 2.0

this? Richard.. --------- Richard DansereauICQ: 1604133 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://pobox.com/~rdanse Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Manitoba - Canada -

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Core with pthread, libc6, and g++ in child processes..

ue on with my software development. Cheers! Richard.. --------- Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://pobox.com/~rdanse Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Manitoba - Canada -

core when running C++ programs..

bg++27-dev and libg++27 and reinstalling it but this didn't fix anything. Any ideas of what the problem would be or how I would better trace down what the problem is? Cheers! Richard.. --------- Richard Dansereau Email: [

PCMCIA Ethernet/Modem cards..

ories or any other pointers to where I can find out this information.. it would be great appreciated since those cards are a pretty penny! Cheers! Richard.. - Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page:

Re: XFree86 and Threads...

(other then the pain of properly designing it). Cheers! Richard.. --------- Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://pobox.com/~rdanse Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Manitoba - Canada -

Shrinking e2fs partition?

on. Would the newer version of Partition Magic do it? Or is there some other program. I'd like to avoid a reinstall if I could. Richard.. --------- Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://po

Re: screenshot in xfree86

under xfree86 in linux. This does bitmap dumps and postscript captures I believe. Cheers! Richard.. --------- Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://pobox.com/~rdanse Electrical and Computer Engineerin

Re: Moving and Repartitioning

use cpio but instead backup the root directory by naming each of the directories instead of using "/". Also, for my setup I'm using loadlin so I had to change the root partition device. After all this, everything works great with no problems! Good luck! Richard..

Re: thread support?

o do my other number crunching. I've had no problems with this and everything seems to work find. It is a bit difficult though to design the code just right. Cheers! Richard.. - Richar

RARP on MAC address?

rsion where I could enter a MAC address and get it to do the RARP and return an IP to me? Cheers! Richard.. - Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://pobox.com/~rdanse Electrical and Computer Engine

Re: RARP on MAC address?

re I could enter a MAC address > >and get it to do the RARP and return an IP to me? > > > >Cheers! > >Richard.. > > > >- > >Richard Danse

SunOS and Solaris filesystems..

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Mounting iso9660 image?

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Mounting Solaris 2.5.1 partitions..

e ufs filesystem for doing this. I tried the following: mount -t ufs /dev/sda1 /disk1 But with no success. Any ideas or reasons why? Richard.. - Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://pobo

Ping won't work..

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Encrypting ISO9660 images?

D-ROM? Or if not ISO9660 some other filesystem that would be good for burning to a CD-ROM? Cheers! Richard.. - Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://pobox.com/~rdanse Electrical and Computer Engine

Re: PCMCIA problems with Debian 1.3

;t let me load up the modules. I had to go and get the kernel-source package and the pcmcia source packages and recompile everything myself to get it working. Hopefully the maintainers will figure out what went wrong in the Debian 1.3 release and fix it in the future. Richard.. ----

gzipped fonts..

hoosing between gzipped and non-gzipped fonts? Richard.. --------- Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://pobox.com/~rdanse Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Ma

Re: Can't Install! Kernel Hangs!

settings you may want to try changing them one at a time, try booting, and then changing them back. Unfortunately, without me knowing what is going on in the internals of the boot process at that point.. I can't help you out further. Good luck! Richard.. -----

Re: Can't delete a file

sions of rm include the "--" option) of doing it is: rm ./-test Richard.. --------- Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://pobox.com/~rdanse Electrical and Computer Engineering

telnet and ftp..

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Motif for Linux..

ich has Motif 2.0 Linux ELF for $99 (US). > Any help would be appreciated! Cheers! Richard.. - Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page:

Logging users off..

properly in the utmp file and not always getting xdm to pop the login screen back on the console. Cheers! Richard.. - Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://pobox.com/~rdanse Electrical and Computer

xv requires libtiff3

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Re: restarting X w/o reboot

t; TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Just log in as root and run: /etc/init.d/xdm stop to stop xdm and /etc/init.d/xdm start to start it up again. Cheers! Ri

Mach64 card and XFree86..

hy won't it sync the video card correctly into the right mode? Richard.. --------- Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://pobox.com/~rdanse Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Manitoba - Canada -

ZIP drive under Linux..

Hi all! Does the iomega ZIP drives work under Linux? I believe there are two different models.. a SCSI model and a parallel port model. Do they both work? If so, is it easy to get them working under Linux? Richard.. - Richard

minicom..

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which..

Is the command "which" available in any of the debian releases? I haven't seen it yet in 0.93R6 though I don't have everything installed so I may have missed it. Cheers! Richard.. --------- Richard Dansereau Ema

Compiling the kernel..

dable modules, etc.? Also, if I want to get newer kernel releases is there a way to integrate it in with the additional Debian changes for /usr/src/linux? Cheers! Richard.. - Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compiling the kernel..

e -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -DNFS_ROOT="\"/tftpboot/%s\"" -c -o init/main.o init/main.c cc1: Invalid option `align-loops=2' cc1: Invalid option `alig

Re: Compiling the kernel..

installation of 1.1? I actually tried doing a complete wipe of my hard disk and installing 1.1 from scratch. Unfortunately, the packages at that time for lib5-dev, cpp, and gcc kept conflicting with each other and dselect would not allow me to install them (even though dselect suggested that

Re: loss of routing info with 2.0.0

should be fine. Since I haven't yet installed 2.0.0 myself, I can't test out what the problem might be. But, perhaps this may help. Cheers! Richard.. ----- Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: h

crc error<5> on root disk..

h 1.44 floppies.. but, I get the same problem. Just for further information, I did pick up the boot1440.bin and root.bin files from the Debian1.1/disks-i386 directory and I'm using rawrite 2.0 for creating the disks. Richard.. -----

des encryption..

x. Cheers! Richard.. ----- Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://pobox.com/~rdanse Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Manitoba - Canada -

Re: Supported fast graphics cards?

hich I don't believe is currently available in the Debian release. Cheers! Richard.. - Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://pobox.com/~rdanse Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Manitoba - Canada -

Re: DOSEMU

but not used the proper Debian kernel source package and hence didn't update these two directories. You may want to try making symbolic links for these directories to the include directories for the kernel you compiled and do a clean recompile of dosemu. Cheers! Richard.. ---

/etc/X11/Xsession changed?

should source /etc/environment but it doesn't seem to be. Cheers! Richard.. - Richard DansereauICQ: 1604133 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://pobox.com/~rdanse Electrical and Com

Re: wheel mouse

Left, Left, 5 > Shift_L|Control_L,Right, Right, 5 > Alt_L, Left, Left, 10 > Alt_L, Right, Right, 10 > Shift_L| Alt_L, Left,

poweroff

differently? (I am using potato right now.) Cheers! Richard.. - Richard DansereauICQ: 1604133 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://pobox.com/~rdanse Electrical and Computer Engineering

Re: poweroff

> > Richard Dansereau said: > > Does the kernel > > have to be compiled differently? > > Yep. You need to compile your kernel with APM support. > Any reason why the kernel does not have APM support automatically compiled in? You would think it could be made smart