Re: Working ia32-linux chroot image

2004-10-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Peter Nelson wrote: I've been playing around with the /emul/ia32-linux area a bit lately and I finally got tired of pulling down library packages debs and extracting them into that area manually. Agreed. That does sound tedious. The kind of work that robots will be doing in the future. Oh

Re: Working ia32-linux chroot image

2004-10-24 Thread Peter Nelson
Bob Proulx wrote: Peter Nelson wrote: After a bit of tweaking I've gotten what I think is the smallest chroot that will still allow you to use apt-get and dpkg. You did not say but what was the final amount of disk space that you were able to reduce your minimum system down to? My

Re: Working ia32-linux chroot image

2004-10-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Peter Nelson wrote: I've decided to share it. You can download a tar.bz with instructions on how to use it from my site here: http://rufus.hackish.org/wiki/I386Chroot One thing that you don't mention in your wiki that I think would be very useful is dchroot. I love it. It really makes

Simplified example in debian amd64 howto

2004-10-24 Thread Bob Proulx
https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id204230 In the Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 HOW-TO there is an example that I needed to study for way too long before I realized it was really quite simple. #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/dchroot -c ia32 -d `echo $0 | sed

Re: Howto install Openoffice.org on Debian amd64 pure64

2004-10-24 Thread Narciso Cerro
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 15:42:39 -0700, David Liontooth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Summarizing past instructions -- this works as of today: 1. apt-get install ia32-libs-openoffice.org 2. apt-get install libstlport4.6 3. echo deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/openoffice.org ./

Re: Working ia32-linux chroot image

2004-10-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2004-10-23 16:30:37, schrieb Peter Nelson: I've been playing around with the /emul/ia32-linux area a bit lately and I finally got tired of pulling down library packages debs and extracting them into that area manually. I first used debootstrap to install a full system into a chroot

Re: AMD64 mainboard with X-PCI ?

2004-10-24 Thread Rthoreau
On Saturday 23 October 2004 20:44, Andreas Bittner wrote: jftr: pci, pci-x and pcie Here is my two pence, to this thread. since its a lttle off topic anyway Here is a good article that describes pci-express in good detail. http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/hardware/pcie.ars Well we all

Re: Howto install Openoffice.org on Debian amd64 pure64

2004-10-24 Thread Manuele Rampazzo
Narciso Cerro wrote: On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 15:42:39 -0700, David Liontooth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5. download zlib1g_1.2.2-1_i386.deb from a Debian mirror 6. dpkg -X zlib1g_1.2.2-1_i386.deb /emul/ia32-linux 7. ldconfig I got installed that library on /usr/lib/libz.so.1 No, you need the library in

Re: K8S Pro (S2882UG3NR) + Sil 3114 (Raid 1) + Sarge

2004-10-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 12:04:48AM +0900, Nils Valentin wrote: just read your reply once more. Just for the records: Iam looking for hardware raid. I already ahev Suse Linux up and running and actually just want debian to be able to access the drives the same way (after the reboot). That is

Re: Howto install Openoffice.org on Debian amd64 pure64

2004-10-24 Thread Narciso Cerro
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:52:10 +0200, Manuele Rampazzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Narciso Cerro wrote: On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 15:42:39 -0700, David Liontooth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5. download zlib1g_1.2.2-1_i386.deb from a Debian mirror 6. dpkg -X zlib1g_1.2.2-1_i386.deb /emul/ia32-linux 7.

AMD64 CDs/DVDs

2004-10-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
Guys, I'm looking at putting together full CD/DVD copies of AMD64 to sell alongside other Debian arches. I have a full local mirror from alioth to start with, and I'm looking at support in debian-cd. I've not seen anything checked into CVS yet for AMD64 support, but the fact that netinst images

alioth pure64 depot breakage

2004-10-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Today the following files are missing from the Alioth pure64 archive. pool/unstable/main/amd64/i/ion3/ion3-dev_20040703-1_amd64.deb pool/unstable/main/amd64/i/ion3/ion3_20040703-1_amd64.deb pool/unstable/main/source/m/mozilla-thunderbird/mozilla-thunderbird_0.8.orig.tar.gz Is anyone else

Re: AMD64 CDs/DVDs

2004-10-24 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 11:21:39PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Guys, I'm looking at putting together full CD/DVD copies of AMD64 to sell alongside other Debian arches. I have a full local mirror from alioth to start with, and I'm looking at support in debian-cd. I've not seen anything