Re: Slink release - what's left?

1999-02-12 Thread Eric Delaunay
Steve Dunham wrote: > Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Where are we up to on non-i386 boot/installation? If we're going to > > release together, which I assume is still the plan, then we need to get > > this sorted _soon_. I know someone (Eric? Stephane?) is working on the > > spar

Gnome 0.99.4 packages

1999-02-12 Thread Steve Dunham
I've built some Gnome 0.99.4 packages from the stuff in potato. There a few minor problems with it - the gnome-terminal doesn't work (it can't get a pty for some reason - this will also break gnome-apt) and the "gnomecc" program dies whenever you exit from a capplet (but the changes do take effec

another minor bug in slink

1999-02-12 Thread Paco Moya
silo seems to require all of the stages and the kernel to be in the first 100MB of the HD and not the 1st GB as docs say... I am not currently subscribed to this list, please, cc me... Thanks, Paco

slink bug (sunmouse major)

1999-02-12 Thread Paco Moya
slink base_2_1.tgz has wrong major number for /dev/sunmouse was: (11,6) should be: (10, 6) anyway, congratulations! great work! thanks, Paco

Re: ipx-cgsix and X

1999-02-12 Thread Kevin Doherty
And thus spake Daniel Urbach, on Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 07:36:46AM -0900: > Wow, > that was painful. I just finished installing SLINK onto my ipx via ftp. > ( I had to gateway through anothe linux machine with a 14.4 modem, I > wouldn't recomend it ) Things seem to be going well so far but I ne

Re: SPARC Server 630MP

1999-02-12 Thread Anton Blanchard
> Would like to inquire as to whether or not your distribution will support > the SUN SPARCsystem Server 630MP. This system uses the CY605c processors > and has the dreaded VME architecture. The SparcLinux kernel supports the 6XXMP series and will do SMP as of recent 2.1/2.2 kernels. VME is not

Re: Please test: impoved sparc and alpha X patches.

1999-02-12 Thread Anders Hammarquist
> Were you going to add that XF86Config file to the xserver-mach64 > package? Err, I thought I had. Small typo on my part made it not make it in there. I'm making another one (I won't bother building the other packages this time though, since it's only the packaging of the xserver that has chang

Re: Please test: impoved sparc and alpha X patches.

1999-02-12 Thread Steve Dunham
Anders Hammarquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi again. > > New versions of the merged X pacakges for sparc and alpha are now available. > This time with a working xfs. > http://master.debian.org/~iko/ Works fine here. (Ultra-5 using mach64 server and Sparc20 using XSun24.) I've also succe

Re: How to begin? (And pointer to new UltraSparc install images)

1999-02-12 Thread Steve Dunham
Jake Griesbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry for the ignorance here. I'm interested in installing Debian on a > SparcStation 1+, but I'm not sure how to begin. It doesn't have a floppy > drive, so I will need to boot over the network or from a CD. I am very > familiar with x86 linux, and

SPARC Server 630MP

1999-02-12 Thread Lance
Greetings, Would like to inquire as to whether or not your distribution will support the SUN SPARCsystem Server 630MP. This system uses the CY605c processors and has the dreaded VME architecture. If indeed you do I would like to gather information on how to obtain the distribution. Thank you

Re: Slink release - what's left?

1999-02-12 Thread Steve Dunham
Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where are we up to on non-i386 boot/installation? If we're going to > release together, which I assume is still the plan, then we need to get > this sorted _soon_. I know someone (Eric? Stephane?) is working on the > sparc disks and I have some support

Re: libc6 vulnerability

1999-02-12 Thread Steve Dunham
Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 19:42 -0800 1999-02-07, Paul Vojta wrote: > >Folks: > > > >When checking the security of my system, I found that it is vulnerable > >to the following standard attack (in tcsh syntax): > > > > env RESOLV_HOST_CONF=/etc/shadow /usr/sbin/traceroute fo