VMware work on Debian

2001-03-12 Thread Jim Nutt
Randolph S. Kahle writes: I am assessing Debian as a replacement for RedHat on all of my machines. One critical requirement is support for VMware. Can someone tell me if they have had success running VMware on Debian 2.2(r2)? Works just fine. I installed it from the tar files into

debian on laptops

2001-03-02 Thread Jim Nutt
joe willson writes: i have my laptop finally running fine but there are still a few things that's annoying me. first off everyday i start up, debian keeps on reading my harddrive, i do a top and see that the program find is using like 16% of my cpu! i think this is cause by cron

ssh 2

2001-02-04 Thread Jim Nutt
MaD dUCK writes: is anyone out there using OpenSSH 2.0.13 from the testing archive? or does anyone know when we can use ssh2 as a debian package. sure, i could tarball install, but i'd much rather stick to packages to minimize my time commitment. I'm using ssh 2 from unstable. I've not

Re: reiserfs annoyances

2001-02-04 Thread Jim Nutt
Matthew Sackman writes: Just to say that I've just switched most of my partitions over to reiserfs and am having exactely the same problems: the boot procedure halts on each boot-up because of the request for a file-system check on the root partition. I converted both my partitions to

Toshiba Satellite Pro XCDT490

2001-02-02 Thread Jim Nutt
Well, after a couple of weeks of fiddling and experimenting on the trains going to and from work, I now have my laptop working with a 2.4.0 kernel (with reiserfs patches), reiserfs root, devfs, usb and Debian/Unstable. I've finally gotten the kernel sound drivers to work and now I'm ready for my