Re: viewing gzipped files 'inline' with less (was Re: FW: kernel source patching)

2002-09-05 Thread Alex Malinovich
Vineet Kumar said: > * Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020831 20:30]: >> Do you use midnight commander? You can read compressed .gz >> text files without having to first unzip them. > > less can do this as well from the commandline, given that the > environment is properly primed with "eval $(lesspip

viewing gzipped files "inline" with less (was Re: FW: kernel source patching)

2002-09-04 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020831 20:30]: > Do you use midnight commander? You can read compressed .gz > text files without having to first unzip them. less can do this as well from the commandline, given that the environment is properly primed with "eval $(lesspipe)". It can view many diffe

Re: FW: kernel source patching

2002-09-04 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 05 Sep 2002 10:58:51 +1000 Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote: > > > I tried this and it fails... > > > > Im trying to build 2.4.19 with the command: > > make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image > > This is what i did that works: > > 1. download source from mir

Re: FW: kernel source patching

2002-09-04 Thread Russell
Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote: > ... > I tried this and it fails... > > Im trying to build 2.4.19 with the command: > make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image > > It fails after running through the whole process with error message that > follows. > what i do: > > 1. download source from mirror and e

Re: FW: kernel source patching

2002-09-04 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Russell wrote: >"Chris A. Morgan" wrote: > > >>Hi List >> >>I'm struggling through the sea of documentation as a linux and Debian newbie. Got >Debian 3.0 installed (2.4.18-bf.2) on my Thinkpad 770 with only a few minor >annoyances like no sound and some other strange functionalities. >> >>I

Re: FW: kernel source patching

2002-09-02 Thread Herbert Xu
Chris A. Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to upgrade to 2.4.19 kernel and compile it myself to perhaps get more things >working. I installed the source code from Debian CD's for 2.4.18 and downloaded a >2.4.19 patch from kernel.org. When I applied the patch, I got a zillion FAILED >

Re: FW: kernel source patching

2002-08-31 Thread Scott Henson
On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 22:39, Chris A. Morgan wrote: > Hi List > > I'm struggling through the sea of documentation as a linux and Debian newbie. Got >Debian 3.0 installed (2.4.18-bf.2) on my Thinkpad 770 with only a few minor >annoyances like no sound and some other strange functionalities. >

Re: FW: kernel source patching

2002-08-31 Thread Russell
"Chris A. Morgan" wrote: > > Hi List > > I'm struggling through the sea of documentation as a linux and Debian newbie. Got >Debian 3.0 installed (2.4.18-bf.2) on my Thinkpad 770 with only a few minor >annoyances like no sound and some other strange functionalities. > > I want to upgrade to 2

FW: kernel source patching

2002-08-31 Thread Chris A. Morgan
Hi List I'm struggling through the sea of documentation as a linux and Debian newbie. Got Debian 3.0 installed (2.4.18-bf.2) on my Thinkpad 770 with only a few minor annoyances like no sound and some other strange functionalities. I want to upgrade to 2.4.19 kernel and compile it myself to pe