Re: Linux (Debian) and large files?

2001-02-06 Thread Josep Llauradó Selvas
The 2.2.x kernels don't support by default files larger than 2Gb, but you can apply a patch called 'LFS' or you can download the lattest kernel from the 2.4.x series, that includes the patch into the kernel. The Debian 2.4.x kernels can be found at www.valinux.com... At:

Re: Linux (Debian) and large files?

2001-02-06 Thread Paul Lussier
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:30:36PM +0100, Christoph Scheeder wrote: Hi, sorry to interupt,but debian does not use rpm packageformat. it has it own format called dpkg, so www.rpmfind.com is a bad idea... No, it's not necessarilly a bad idea. You can still use RPMs with Debian. Either by

Re: Linux (Debian) and large files?

2001-02-06 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, i know it is possible, i'm doing it for some packages, but you need to know very good what you are doing. For example i have seen alien messing up all permisions for the files in an rpm-package completly, making the resulting .dpkg completly unusable. And with rpm you loose all

Re: Linux (Debian) and large files?

2001-02-05 Thread Renato R. Santana
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Stan Brown wrote: I am fixing to move a fair sized Amanda site from HP-UX to Linux (Debian Potato) for it;s tapehost. I have files 2G, what special things do I need to do to make the Linux machine handle these largefiles? You may use a

Re: Linux (Debian) and large files?

2001-02-05 Thread Stan Brown
On Mon Feb 5 06:26:41 2001 Renato R. Santana wrote... On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Stan Brown wrote: I am fixing to move a fair sized Amanda site from HP-UX to Linux (Debian Potato) for it;s tapehost. I have files 2G, what special things do I need to do to make the Linux

Re: Linux (Debian) and large files?

2001-02-05 Thread Renato R. Santana
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Stan Brown wrote: On Mon Feb 5 06:26:41 2001 Renato R. Santana wrote... On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Stan Brown wrote: I am fixing to move a fair sized Amanda site from HP-UX to Linux (Debian Potato) for it;s tapehost. I have files 2G, what special things do

Re: Linux (Debian) and large files?

2001-02-05 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, sorry to interupt,but debian does not use rpm packageformat. it has it own format called dpkg, so www.rpmfind.com is a bad idea... all he has to do, is setting chunksize to something like 2000 MB (NOT 2GB, that won't work) have a nice day Christoph "Renato R. Santana" schrieb: On

Linux (Debian) and large files?

2001-02-04 Thread Stan Brown
I am fixing to move a fair sized Amanda site from HP-UX to Linux (Debian Potato) for it;s tapehost. I have files 2G, what special things do I need to do to make the Linux machine handle these largefiles? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]