Woody/Unstable on a Dell Dimension 4600
Hi All, Hope all is well. FYI, I've just managed to get woody and unstable up and running on these new Dell Dimension 4600 boxes. They have new Intel PRO/100 network cards on them which I couldn't get to work with the e100 driver in any kernel less than 2.4.21. To get to unstable, I installed an extremely small woody system with the basesystem and gcc onboard so that I could build 2.4.21 to get networking going. Once that was up, I modified /etc/apt/sources.list to point to unstable and dist-upgraded. If anyone wants to install woody/unstable on these machines, I've got some pre-built kernel image/header packages available at http://people.debian.org/~crafterm/dell/dimension4600/ to make life easier :) (Note, I had to do the same to get unstable running on my Inspiron 8500 as well, due to the broadcom network card driver). Hope that helps anyone that attempts to install Debian on these machines. Cheers, Marcus -- . ,,$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : ManageSoft GmbH $ o_)$$$: 82-84 Mainzer Landstrasse ;$,_/\ :' 60327 Frankfurt Germany ' /( \_' . : -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NNTP proxy ?
Hi All, Does anyone know if Debian currently has a NNTP proxy ? or some application that provides such functionality ? (or, alternatively is it possible to set up a local news server that simply relay's reads posts via a news server on another machine ?) Any info would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Marcus -- . ,,$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : Open Software Associates GmbH $ o_)$$$: 82-84 Mainzer Landstrasse ;$,_/\ :' 60327 Frankfurt Germany ' /( \_' Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] .Business Hours : +49 69 9757 200 :
Re: Java JSP Tomcat
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote: At 11:59 AM 10/19/2000 +0200, Marcus Crafter wrote: The package is already availabe at http://master.debian.org/~sgybas/tomcat/. Please read README.Debian and the Debian-Java mailing list archive for reasons why it's not yet in the official Debian archive. I'm still stuck on installing this; tomcat depends on libxerces-java libxerces-java does not appear to be available tomcat depends on libservlet2.2-java libservlet2.2-java does not appear to be available What's your /etc/apt/sources.list look like. xerces and servlet2.2 are potato/woody packages. Are you still running slink ? Stefan, what's your thoughts ? Cheers, M. -- . ,,$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : Open Software Associates GmbH $ o_)$$$: 82-84 Mainzer Landstrasse ;$,_/\ :' 60327 Frankfurt Germany ' /( \_' Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] .Business Hours : +49 69 9757 200 : After Hours: +49 69 49086750
Re: Java JSP Tomcat
Hi Aaron, On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Aaron Brashears wrote: I just pulled down tomcat 4.0, which requires jdk1.3 (or 1.2.2 with jndi), jsse, and jmx packages from sun which are all non-free. Won't this relegate tomcat to the contrib section? Blackdown provides non-free debs for jdk1.3 but jsse and jmx are only available in zip form with a fairly restrictive license. How do you plan to help distribute those packages? Well, this was going to be an open question for everyone. My thoughts were using installer packages, like your idea below. FYI: I've decided to experiment making debs using tomcat, so I'm wrestling with this issue right now. I've decided to make 'installer' debs which install the zip file from /tmp. *nod*... nice. :-) I sent an ITP mail to debian-devel yesterday. Unfortunately someone else had already claimed Tomcat several months back :-( I'm finding out which version of Tomcat they intend to package (3.x, 4.x or both). From Stefan's email: The package is already availabe at http://master.debian.org/~sgybas/tomcat/. Please read README.Debian and the Debian-Java mailing list archive for reasons why it's not yet in the official Debian archive. Cheers, Marcus -- . ,,$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : Open Software Associates GmbH $ o_)$$$: 82-84 Mainzer Landstrasse ;$,_/\ :' 60327 Frankfurt Germany ' /( \_' Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] .Business Hours : +49 69 9757 200 : After Hours: +49 69 49086750
Re: Java JSP Tomcat
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote: Why does Debian provide (only) GnuJsp, Tomcat is the standard reference implementation now. Correct. Is it easy to change to use Tomcat? Should I just do it, or wait, is anything coming? It's not too difficult to change to Tomcat, after reading the servlet 2.2 / JSP 1.1 spec. One of the biggest differences is the support for 'web applications' which are grouped together resources (html, jsp, xml, etc files) which are managed together by a 'web application' specific config file. This is a great step forward from having single files all strung together by URL links. I want the standard JSP directory structures, and a guaranteed standard implementation. Tomcat is a great implementation to work with. I've been using it on a Debian system for the past 7-8 months. I'm currently in the Debian 'new maintainer' queue. When I come out the other end I intend to package Tomcat and a couple other pieces of Apache software up (unless someone else has already sent out an ITP mail). Cheers, Marcus -- . ,,$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : Open Software Associates GmbH $ o_)$$$: 82-84 Mainzer Landstrasse ;$,_/\ :' 60327 Frankfurt Germany ' /( \_' Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] .Business Hours : +49 69 9757 200 : After Hours: +49 69 49086750
Re: this beeping makes me sick
Hi, if you're using bash (or any tool that uses readline), you can put the following in your ~/.inputrc set bell-style none That will turn it off. Check out the readline man page for more options. Cheers, Marcus On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Julio Merino wrote: You can just modify the linux kernel to disable the beep support. I did this some time ago and then you won't listed that beep in any part of the system. Another way is to unplug it :) HTH On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 06:00:30PM +0200, QBA wrote: Hi, I just want to turn off beeping in linux. It comes from the inner speaker (not from my sound card and portable speakers) when I press arrow keys in vi (it's just an example) and the cursor can't go any further. How am I to do it? Thanks for help, QBA -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- . ,,$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : Open Software Associates GmbH $ o_)$$$: 82-84 Mainzer Landstrasse ;$,_/\ :' 60327 Frankfurt Germany ' /( \_' Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] .Business Hours : +49 69 9757 200 : After Hours: +49 69 49086750
Re: Linux hates rodents
Hi! On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, racuti1 wrote: I have sucessfully installed Debian Linux, and Xwindows. My mouse however does not work. I have tried to configure it in the xf86config program, I have tried several types of mice/trackballs from the Logitech 3-button/scroll-wheel trackmarble to a plain two-button mouse. I have tried every choice for mice offered by xf86config but my mice won't work in Xwindows. Mouses can be troublesome, but they *do* work. Trust me! :-) Make sure you have mouse support compiled into your kernel. My logitech mouse is a psaux mouse - you'll need ps auxillary support compiled into your kernel for this to work. If you have GPM (console mouse manager software) installed things will be a bit trickier depending on your mouse, however gpm mirrors mouse signals on /dev/gpmdata so you can read you mouse signals from there if you have (and want to leave) gpm installed. XF86 also has an 'auto' feature where it will automatically detect your mouse type (I haven't used this feature as I specify it directly) - or you could use XF86Setup to check and change your mouse configuration at runtime in X. Otherwise, we'll need a little bit more info about your situation like a specific mouse, your /etc/gpm.conf if you have one, and your /etc/X11/XF86Config file. Cheers, Marcus -- . ,,$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : Open Software Associates GmbH $ o_)$$$: 82-84 Mainzer Landstrasse ;$,_/\ :' 60327 Frankfurt Germany ' /( \_' Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] .Business Hours : +49 69 9757 200 : After Hours: +49 69 49086750
Re: Potato CD's...
Hi All, On 25 Aug 2000, David Z Maze wrote: Robert L Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RLH Actually, for what I'm doing, I do need the whole image. I need RLH to install about 20 machines, no network avaialbe to them yet, but RLH I have a T1 at my office and can burn there. This is the same challenge I'm facing at the moment too. shrug Then you should use the pseudo-image kit, which downloads stuff and generates official CD images, but without trying to grab the entire disk image in one burst and putting a lot of load on the CD image mirrors. Look at http://cdimage.debian.org/. It's an excellent process and I really like the idea, but unfortunately the rsync at the end of the process doesn't work under all conditions where proxies are involved.. At the moment, I'm relished to make a psuedo image (which uses wget over a proxy), but it looks like I'm going to have to burn it, take it home and do the rsync from there... and then reburn it to use it.. :-( Anyone with a better idea ? Cheers, Marcus -- . ,,$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : Open Software Associates GmbH $ o_)$$$: 82-84 Mainzer Landstrasse ;$,_/\ :' 60327 Frankfurt Germany ' /( \_' Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] .Business Hours : +49 69 9757 200 : After Hours: +49 69 49086750
[OT] Helixcode Gnome CD images ?
Hi All, Sorry for posting an email that is slightly off topic, but unfortunately I couldn't find an appropriate Helixcode mailing list to search. Does anyone know if there are ISO CD images of Helixcode Gnome available for download somewhere that contain the Debian packages ? I want to install HC Gnome on a notebook, but unfortunately it doesn't have a net connection. :-( Thanks for any help. Cheers, Marcus -- . ,,$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : Open Software Associates GmbH $ o_)$$$: 82-84 Mainzer Landstrasse ;$,_/\ :' 60327 Frankfurt Germany ' /( \_' Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] .Business Hours : +49 69 9757 200 : After Hours: +49 69 49086750
Re: ** Emegancy Request **
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Bill wrote: Hi All, Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact Well, this depends on what you *really* want to do. From above it sounds like you want to mirror the files, etc (ie. without regard for partitions, etc, on the disk). If so, have a look at GNU tar. The man page documents options for preserving file attributes. I've done lots of backups with GNU tar and had no problems restoring files with the correct attributes. If you're looking at mirroring the hard disk *itself*.. hmm... I'd have a look at GNU dd, but perhaps some one else on the list might have a (better?) suggestion if that's the case. Cheers, Marcus -- . ,,$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : Open Software Associates GmbH $ o_)$$$: 82-84 Mainzer Landstrasse ;$,_/\ :' 60327 Frankfurt Germany ' /( \_' Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] .Business Hours : +49 69 9757 200 : After Hours: +49 69 49086750
