Hurd-related Slashdot article

2000-02-02 Thread Mark Lundeberg
Here it is: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/02/01/1642229mode=thread It's about some people who preinstalls Hurd on systems, but it should be a good discussion base nevertheless. Mark Lundeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pgfn.bc.ca/~aa026/

Re: Random idea:

1999-12-30 Thread Mark Lundeberg
for it ('/bin/vi'). Unknown file types have the default action of 'Open with...'. Mark Lundeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pgfn.bc.ca/~aa026/

Re: Random idea:

1999-12-29 Thread Mark Lundeberg
to replace directory listings (sometimes index.html), and it could be a problem to make a directory act like a file at the same time, so that a program could access the default page. Mark Lundeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pgfn.bc.ca/~aa026/

Re: GRUB 0.5.92 problem

1999-08-08 Thread Mark Lundeberg
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: Perhaps RedHat has an old and buggy version of binutils. You can examine what version you use by ld -v. See the requirement in the file README. Ah. I thought my old version (2.9.1.0.4) was fine, as no compiler errors occured. It works nicely now

GRUB 0.5.92 problem

1999-08-06 Thread Mark Lundeberg
I compiled the new grub and installed it onto my hurd partition with root= (hd0,1) install= /.../stage1 (hd0,1) /.../stage2 0x8000 p this was done from the grub program. Everything went OK, until I tried to boot grub, at which point it froze. C-A-Del failed to reboot, so I

argp

1999-05-25 Thread Mark Lundeberg
Excuse my ignorance, but what is argp as mentioned by the GNU Hurd Reference Manual? It sounds related to argc or argv but I can't figure out what it is.

Re: dpkg-source -x *****s system

1999-02-11 Thread Mark Lundeberg
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: When running debian-source -x on ud (a small package), it gets as far as unpacking ud-fooo in ud-0.7.1/, and then hangs. If I ^c or ^z it, then I get bash back again, but cd .. or ls, or anything like that will hang.. I once got the same

Newbie hurdsman problems

1999-02-06 Thread Mark Lundeberg
I untarred gnu-19990104.tar.gz off of alpha.gnu.org, booted it up, and in the messages it complained about /dev/console not being a tty, and said it would create and use /tmp/console instead. I ls'd both files and the /tmp file was a device (0,0), but the /dev file was a blank regular file. All

Re: Newbie hurdsman problems

1999-02-06 Thread Mark Lundeberg
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: shorter: export TERM=mach, or even TERM=mach. Wouldn't just TERM=mach not be inherited by the subprocesses? (Or is it only bash that does so)

Re: Newbie hurdsman problems

1999-02-06 Thread Mark Lundeberg
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Hu? Exit is done by pressing q, isn't it? Not even q would work. And Control-C would just make it beep.