Re: Debian Mini CD bootable?
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 07:06 am, ROBERT JACOBSEN wrote: > Hello! > > I have downloaded the Debian minimal install iso image and > written it to CD. The file on the CD is still in iso format (@185MB) > This is your problem. An ISO is a filesystem image, meant to be burnt directly to the CD. You've put the file inside a /new/ CD image, and burnt /that/. The correct option varies from app to app, but you generally want to find a "burn image" or something similar in your menus. Good luck, Ian
Re: Bug#205927: ITP: eggdrop -- Advanced IRC Robot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday August 17 2003 09:35 am, Peter Makholm wrote: > "Guilherme de S. Pastore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > * Package name: eggdrop > > Version : 1.6.15 > > Upstream Author : EggHeads <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * URL : > > ftp://ftp.eggheads.org/pub/eggdrop/source/1.6/eggdrop1.6.15.tar.gz * > > License : GPL > > Description : Advanced IRC Robot > > > > Eggdrop is an IRC bot written in C. Eggdrop, being a bot, sits on a > > channel > > Seems to be packaged allready. > He's taking it over from me. Guilherme, I believe that all you need to do is upload your package with your name in the Maintainer field of debian/control. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/RAiYHJcvLJR6wWoRAk3mAKCOEnerAsFWI2SD065pI1bb7gInwACgoxuP dPNJhspnj9j05ek0UsRoTYw= =ICeZ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Convenient way to enable IDE DMA
On Monday 26 August 2002 12:45 pm, Nate Eldredge wrote: > As for hdparm, this is complicated with ide-scsi. For ide-scsi to work > you have to make the ide-cd module ignore the scsi-ified drive. In which > case /dev/hdc or whatever it is won't work until you have loaded the > ide-scsi module, perhaps by touching /dev/scd0. So at least in my setup, > further complications are needed. > Be warned, ide-scsi resets the using_dma flag when it's loaded. This is an even bigger problem with devfs, because after ide-cd is unloaded there is no /dev/hd? node to feed hdparm. The only workaround I've found so far is to create a temporary device node, /tmp/hdd, load ide-scsi, and `hdparm -d 1 /tmp/hdd'. Oh, you can get some pretty decent improvements with `hdparm -c 1' as well. It toggles 12/32-bit IDE transfer modes, and isn't reset by ide-scsi. Found all this out trying to get my new PlexWriter 40/12/40a 40x CD-RW drive to burn discs full speed. -- "das ist liebe, das ist hass / mit eifersucht vermahlen"
Re: tenative ITP linux-wlan-ng; soliciting advice
On Monday 19 August 2002 05:33 pm, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > Ian Eure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Monday 19 August 2002 02:39 pm, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Hedderly) writes: > > > > No. the hostap dirver is excellent. Written by Jean Tour... > > > > something. He works for SSH Corp. google for "linux prism2 driver". > > > > It does pcmcia and pci brilliantly but doesnt support usb yet. works > > > > with prism2/2.5/3 cards - and most orinoco cards too. supports > > > > kysmet. > > > > > > Nope, you're confusing authors with the in-kernel orinoco driver, > > > which Jean Tourrilhes (who works for HP) has maintained at various > > > points, though the current "real" maintainer is David Gibson, IIRC. > > > > > > Apparently the 2.4.19 orinoco includes prism2/PCI (aka prism2.5, I > > > believe) support. Don't know about the prism3---is that 802.11a? > > > > Prism2 and Prism2.5 are not the same thing. > > My understanding, perhaps flawed, is that Prism2.5 is basically a > Prism2 with a direct PCI interface---no pcmcia baggage, etc. The > Linksys WPM11, for instance. > My only experience with Prism2.5 is with a newer Linksys WPC11 PCMCIA card, which didn't work with my stock 2.4.x non-kernel pcmcia setup. > Regardless, the orinoco driver in the 2.4.19 kernel supports them. > From Configure.help: > > Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b adaptor support > CONFIG_PCI_HERMES > Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI 802.11b wireless NICs based on > the Prism 2.5 chipset. These are true PCI cards, not the 802.11b > PCMCIA cards bundled with PCI<->PCMCIA adaptors which are also > common. Some of the built-in wireless adaptors in laptops are of > this variety. > Doesn't this require kernel PCMCIA support? > > I haven't used the driver in the kernel, but the Orinoco driver > > shipped with pcmcia-source (pcmcia-cs 3.1.33) only supports Prism2 > > cards. > > > > I strongly recommend anyone with a Prism chipset use linux-wlan-ng, > > since pcmcia-cs's Orinoco driver sucks pretty hard. > > To each their own---I have used the orinoco driver that comes with the > kernel from day one with no particular problems---and it supports the > standard (at least in-kernel-standard) interfaces for configuration, > etc., whereas wlan-ng does its own thing. > Well, I've used the default Orinoco driver in pcmcia-cs, but the linux-wlan-ng driver just performs better for me. Also, the pcmcia-cs driver constantly complains about "Error -110 writing BAP" for me. -- Komm auf meine Sonnenbarke!
Re: tenative ITP linux-wlan-ng; soliciting advice
On Monday 19 August 2002 02:39 pm, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Hedderly) writes: > > No. the hostap dirver is excellent. Written by Jean Tour... something. > > He works for SSH Corp. google for "linux prism2 driver". It does pcmcia > > and pci brilliantly but doesnt support usb yet. works with prism2/2.5/3 > > cards - and most orinoco cards too. supports kysmet. > > Nope, you're confusing authors with the in-kernel orinoco driver, > which Jean Tourrilhes (who works for HP) has maintained at various > points, though the current "real" maintainer is David Gibson, IIRC. > > Apparently the 2.4.19 orinoco includes prism2/PCI (aka prism2.5, I > believe) support. Don't know about the prism3---is that 802.11a? > Prism2 and Prism2.5 are not the same thing. I haven't used the driver in the kernel, but the Orinoco driver shipped with pcmcia-source (pcmcia-cs 3.1.33) only supports Prism2 cards. I strongly recommend anyone with a Prism chipset use linux-wlan-ng, since pcmcia-cs's Orinoco driver sucks pretty hard. -- Komm auf meine Sonnenbarke!
Re: Please don't do this (code fragment)
On Sunday 13 January 2002 10:01 pm, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> On 13/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> | int i;
> | for (i = 0; i > -1; i += 1) {
> | // ...
> | if (terminal_condition)
> | break;
> | // ...
> | }
>
> [...]
>
> | Moreover, i is never used. The loop could be reduced to
> |
> | while ((file = fts_read (dir)) != NULL) {
> | // ...
> | }
>
> Those are not equivalent: the first loop, while ugly, has a guard against
> endless looping if fts_read always returns non-NULL for any reason (not
> knowing what fts_read contains, it is hard to tell whether there is a
> reason for this or not).
>
but it can still be reduced to a single while loop while retaining the same
behavior as the original code:
while(file = fts_read(dir)) {
// ...
}
Re: Debian non-free mirror? Where are they?
On Thursday 10 January 2002 01:42 pm, Otto Wyss wrote: > I considered to include Debian non-free into my synchronisation scripts > (see "http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/";) but I couldn't find any > mirror nor any information about. Where is non-free located? > mm, all (or nearly all) debian mirrors have non-free; at least * mirrors.kernel.org * ike.egr.msu.edu * bigfoot.eecs.umich.edu which are the three that i use on a semi-regular basis all carry non-free; look in debian/dists//non-free of course, the _actual_ packages are in debian/pool... did you mean non-us?
NMU sclient
hi there. i've prepared a NMU for sclient, which fixes it's two outstanding bugs. upstream seems to be dead, the last release was in 1999. maintainer seems to be mia. any objections?
Re: support for older distributions
i have libssl & openssh 2.5.2p2 for potato at http://people.debian.org/~ieure/potato_ssh On Mon, 7 May 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > > Currently there are two usable repositories of Potato packages. There's a > repository of kernel-related packages to run 2.4.x kernels on Potato, and > there's a repository of LDAP related packages and other things that Wichert > is maintaining. > > Both of these are good work, but even combined they don't provide what I > consider to be adequate support for Potato. > > I would like a version of Potato that is not entirely frozen. It should have > updates not only for security reasons but also for addition of new programs, > and for adding new programs which add significant functionality and don't > break things (such as Wichert's LDAP packages). > > To manage this fully through the Debian system we will need support in the > BTS for reporting bugs to different people depending on the package version. > Is this possible? > > Also we need space to maintain the packages (they shouldn't be THAT big). > The aim should be that the maintainer of the woody version should not need to > be involved in the backports (unless they want to be involved). > > I am willing to be involved in back-porting packages (there's many things > that I back-port for my own use and should share). > > Also we have to consider the long-term view of this. I would like to see > back-ports to woody being done in a year's time... > >
Re: Strange problems...
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > I have a resonably new motherboard with 128 meg of memory. My swap space > is 100 meg. I just got a slew of messages at the console like: > > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for WindowMaker... > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for WindowMaker... > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for WindowMaker... > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for acroread... > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for acroread... > > and even gpm complained when I tried to highlight the above text. > > Anyone have any ideas? > ok it's been said before, but: it's a problem with linux 2.2.17. upgrade to 2.2.19. btw, though the messages are irritating, they are non-fatal. i had a 2.2.17 box with ~4 months of uptime that got that crap in the logs several times a day.
Re: dueling banjos
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Kim Richards wrote: > > could you please mail me sheet music for dueling banjos > me too. hmm... what next, messages about natalie portman's naked & petrified hot grits?
