Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-03 Thread D. Michael McFarland
is a little too sweet for my taste. I'll crawl back under my rock now. Best regards, Michael -- D. Michael McFarland, Research Associate Professor Department of Aerospace Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign http://www.ae.uiuc.edu/~dmmcf/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-20 Thread D. Michael McFarland
Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 11:27:12AM -0600, D. Michael McFarland wrote: I've found no bugs on this topic newer than the July 2005 bug I cited in my original post, although it's certainly possible I overlooked something. I'll be happy to file one if you

Re: Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-19 Thread D. Michael McFarland
Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 01:08:34AM -0600, D. Michael McFarland wrote: Redhat puts the configs used in the srpm under ./configs ; perhaps putting the debian config file in a seperate package (kernel-config-*) would be a good idea. Is there a wishlist bug

Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-18 Thread D. Michael McFarland
suggest where I might find this .config file, and perhaps comment on the apparent duplication of the kernel source in the various linux-image-* source packages? Thanks. Best regards, Michael -- D. Michael McFarland Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois http://www.ae.uiuc.edu

Re: Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-18 Thread D. Michael McFarland
Robert Kopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- D. Michael McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed the package linux-source-2.6.14 with the intention of building a kernel with the stock Debian configuration. However, I've been unable to locate the .config file corresponding to linux

Re: which debian version to host VMWare?

2005-11-06 Thread D. Michael McFarland
). Thanks! You're welcome! Best regards, Michael -- D. Michael McFarland, Research Associate Professor Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois 306 Talbot Lab MC-236, 104 S. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801 http://www.ae.uiuc.edu/~dmmcf/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Installing X on woody

2002-05-09 Thread D. Michael McFarland
Jamin W. Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, it may be helpful to install the base-config from unstable and then run it manually to finish the installation. This can be done rather easily by configuring a sources.list file listing both the testing and unstable sources, then

Re: Installing X on woody

2002-05-08 Thread D. Michael McFarland
Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another frontend to try is 'aptitude'. It's quite nice and (to me) a lot friendlier than dselect. Of course, you probably just want to get your system working first;) The easy way, it now seems to me, should be to start from scratch with boot floppies from

Re: Installing X on woody

2002-05-07 Thread D. Michael McFarland
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One of the ways I have used in the past is to simply use dselect and add something like kde, blackbox, or gnome. I've added blackbox in this way, but I'm still missing something. That will cause a bunch of dependencies, and xfree86 will be one

Installing X on woody

2002-05-06 Thread D. Michael McFarland
regards, Michael -- D. Michael McFarland Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing X on woody

2002-05-06 Thread D. Michael McFarland
Andrew Agno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've never used tasksel, but my install of X went fine using dselect to select xfree86-common, xserver-common and xserver-xfree86; I expect that most everything else got pulled in automatically. Andrew. Yes, that's the sort of hint I needed. I'm going

Re: Installing X on woody

2002-05-06 Thread D. Michael McFarland
craigw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did a net install of woody a couple days ago, using a CD I burned That's what I probably should have done. I have decided that I will never again touch dselect. Not with a ten foot pole. You couldn't pay me enough to suffer the agony and frustration of