Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*
Subject: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/* Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 21:25:25 -0700 From: S. Champ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org snip, snip what is the command to read these README documents, without having to first use a command to un-gzip the same? My preference is Midnight Commander (mc), you can F3 these, .deb packages, etc. bill
Re: Wine Windows Emulator
I am a newbie to the Linux OS and I am using Corel Linux. I was trying to install the Wine emulator and can't figure out how to do this, if anyone can help please do so? I started Corel Update, selected the Available Software tab and under otherofs found the Wine packages. Bill Keegan
Re: installing debian linux from cdrom
Subject: installing debian linux from cdrom Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 19:54:14 PST From: Nam-Anh Pham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org I recently got a debian linux cd (Slink release, version 2.1). I tried to install it on my old 486, but it would not recognize the cdrom. Do you have any advice? My pc is an old 486 clone built in 93. It has a Mitsumi 2x cdrom. I thought it was ATAPI compliant, but am not sure. The cdrom works fine under DOS, so at least I know it is not a defective cdrom. If you have any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it. I saw and tried the following command line posted on the debian site's faqomatic, but it did not work either. loadlin linux -n 5 boot=/dev/ram hdc=cdrom cdrom=debug,none scsi=debug,none initrd=boot.bin Thanks in advance! :) :) Nam-Anh I currently have a GW2K-486 running RH 5.0 with an older Mitsumi 2x cd. This drive uses a proprietary bus and to load this driver I type mcd=0x340,10 with the 0x340 (just like this) being the port and the 10 for the IRQ. At lilo try mount mcd=0x340,10 or add it to your /etc/conf.modules options mcd=... then mount with /dev/mcd to your mount point. Bill
Pathetic Performance
I'm running Corel/Debian v1.0 on a AMD 486-100. 24mb ram, 1G hd, networked with three other PCs. This workstation is 5X slower then a 486-33 running RH 5.0 acting as a gateway, Samba server, mail, etc. I welcome any suggestions towards finding what must be a gross misconfiguration. On the 486-100 every service not needed has been pulled from bootup, Apache, Qmail, etc. Using windowmanager with Netscape 4.7 is painful and literally 5 times slower in creating a new browser window or displaying a new page the the 486-33. I will begin by rebuilding the kernel with i486 optimization but I find it hard to believe that Pentium optimization could slow it down this much. Again any other ideas? Bill
