Re: XFree86

2000-08-15 Thread Svante Signell
XFree86-3.3.6-20 took 70 minutes on a 300MHz PII with 192 Meg RAM and SCSI disks at 40MHz. XFree86-4.0.1-0.36 took 144 minutes on the same computer. John Summerfield writes: > > About how long do you think it would take to build XFree86 3.3.6 on a > > PIII 500 with 256 megs of ram? I'm talking

Re: Alpha Install errors

2000-08-15 Thread Matt Wilson
We've installed on pws500a boxes with no problems -- but try going to srm and using aboot. Matt On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 05:37:46PM -0400, Christopher Medalis wrote: > Greetings. > I have been wroking with a DEC Alpha personal workstation (pws500a) > trying to install Red Hat 6.2, and we are usin

Alpha Install errors

2000-08-15 Thread Christopher Medalis
Greetings. I have been wroking with a DEC Alpha personal workstation (pws500a) trying to install Red Hat 6.2, and we are using Miata Milo. However, the installer dies with and error to this effect: "error opening corrupt shared library" but it doesnt say anything else. and we are stuck. any help/p

Embedded Red Hat Linux

2000-08-15 Thread Copeland, Matthew
I currently have mutilated Red Hat 6.2 to get it down to a smaller size for an embedded system. Since I have managed to get this running on this system, does that mean Red Hat EDK would also work on it, even though it isn't certified for it? Second question, does anyone know how big the EDK ins

Re: XFree86

2000-08-15 Thread John Summerfield
> About how long do you think it would take to build XFree86 3.3.6 on a > PIII 500 with 256 megs of ram? I'm talking about the src.rpm's? > > I'm just trying to get a good rough estimate of the time it will take so > I can plan my work accordingly. > I don't ee ANY replay yet, so... As I recal

binary packages to include specs

2000-08-15 Thread Viorel Anghel
I think it would be a good idea that binary packages (built with rpm) to automagically include the spec file (and to place it under /usr/doc/package.../). This is helpfull in 2 situations: - as an inspiration for new package builders - usually, packages doesn't have a README.redhat, they have th

Re: New useful 'logrotate' feature/addon.

2000-08-15 Thread identity
Thank you very muc, for your code. I'm searching for month now to find something like that because I couldn't figure out how to do it myself. Thanks a lot - Original Message - From: "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, Augus

New useful 'logrotate' feature/addon.

2000-08-15 Thread Mike A. Harris
For quite some time I have wanted logrotate to offer something other than the existing filenaming scheme of renaming logs to: log.1 log.2 etc... I am interested in having rotated logs named instead with the date and time in the filename such as: messages messages-2000-05-01-0401.gz messages-20

Re: RH6.2 / rpm-3.0.5-9.6x / NVIDIA_kernel 0.9-4 / XF4.0 fails towork

2000-08-15 Thread Thomas Dodd
Mark Cooke wrote: > > Nick - maybe this could get rolled into the next release of your linux > modules and noted on your FAQ page ? I don't know Nick, but I asked Terence on the linux-nvidia list and it's supposed to be in the 0.9-5 release. Hopefully it'll be out soon :) -Thomas ___

RE: X server problem

2000-08-15 Thread Talal Al-Saady
Title: RE: X server problem -- >Murugan Krishnan Wrote: >I don't know is this the right list to ask this question   >I am running >Linux Mandrake release 7.0 (Air) >Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk on an i686   >When I try to start the X server ( startx) I am getting the error   >_FontTransSo