Re: Setting up network interfaces?

2002-10-07 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 07/10/02 Marc Shapiro did speaketh: Where do I set up these items so that they will be initialized at bootup, instead of using dhcp? It looks like I need to change /etc/interfaces and possibly /etc/hosts, but I'm not sure just what I

Re: utempter.h ?

2002-06-07 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Ted Goodridge, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which package is utempter.h in? X needs it to build xterm... Thanks in advance, There is no such thing unless its new or only in the sources. Did you install the build-depends for X? %zgrep utempter.h Contents-i386.gz % (sorry, only have the

Re: Help needed : kernel panic unable to mount root fs

2002-05-30 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Shree Raman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi all!! I am experiencing a tough time as my system had a kernel panic. it happened while I was installing openoffice. The system hunged and there was no way left other than rebooting then a kernel panic prompt. I had installed debian testing

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-29 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Robert Funnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 28 May 2002, Adam C Powell IV wrote: edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to woody, and do apt-get dist-upgrade This usually works great, but for an upgrade of this magnitude (between releases), I'd strongly recommend dselect or

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-29 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Ted Goodridge, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The woody alpha install images have that nasty loop bug with the base pkg. Ted Still? Sid/unstable too? You can install till your in that loop and then replace the faulty deb with a newer one. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Some Crazy and Happier Ideas for 2002

2002-01-01 Thread Goswin Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [] A spanking new hardware platform without any compromise to aged standards is released and produced. Linux is the OS of choice together with BSD and other Open OS's. Plain boxes with just a couple connectors, stylish, vector, plain [] // Oh well, sick of that

Re: mkisofs

2001-01-02 Thread Goswin Brederlow
== Antonio Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can somebody indicate what excatly must the command line be to copy the contents of a cd to some file and store it as iso image? I tried different options to do it, but the md5sum didn't match afterwards. Something like

Re: [potato] blank windows

1999-11-23 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In some programs, xv, gnome-terminal, gnomicu, gv, to name a few, I get blank windows. The window itself comes up ok, but there is no text! In xv, it opens with a black background and doesn't display any pictures! Any ideas? What hardware/software? MfG

Re: Can't boot from floppies - HELP!

1999-10-24 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Jake Griesbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to boot from the Debian rescue disk to install linux for the first time. I have an adaptec AIC-7890 scsi card, so I was typing linux aix7xxx to boot. After the kernel loads, I get the following after the scsi driver loads: sda:

Re: slink problems

1999-08-06 Thread goswin . brederlow
From: Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stephane Bortzmeyer writes: Many other suggestions have been made to solve the problem. It is not easy. You have to find: - a good scheme (think of X11-only installers, without a tty), - implement it (i.e. modify 3000 packages'

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

1999-07-12 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Joop Stakenborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For instance, if the structure were: struct foo { char text[3]; int num; }; sizeof would return 6 and not 5. So it's obvious that the compiler is placing a pad byte between text and num to align num. I want it to stop! Actually

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

1999-07-12 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Carl Mummert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: #pragma pack(1) struct {}; #pragma pack() Which forces the layout to be as you specified. Using a command line option is a Bad Idea (tm) as it may corrupt glibc's structures To test a resonse to the original message, I made the follwing c file