Re: Questions from a future user

1997-07-13 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Sun, 13 July 1997, Shaleh wrote: What are Debian's pro's and con's? How hard is its PPP setup and how stable are its PPP connections. I will be using my box to dial an ISP and do school work. Well, here is my 2 cents : Pros: Large, competent volunteer development staff

Re: Questions from a future user

1997-07-13 Thread Karlheinz Nolte
Shaleh wrote: What are Debian's pro's and con's? How hard is its PPP setup and how stable are its PPP connections. I will be using my box to dial an ISP and do school work. Hi, I think Debian biggest advantage is the intelligent package handling. PPP is very good pre-configured. I use

Re: questions about new releases

1997-07-05 Thread Lalo Martins
On Jul 4, Jaakko Niemi wrote [...] It would be though nice to have debianized packages of pentium-optimize pieces in (let's say) unstable-pentium Wouldn't that be binary-pentium? (As well as there are binary-i386, etc) []s, |alo

Re: questions about new releases

1997-07-05 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Lalo Martins wrote: On Jul 4, Jaakko Niemi wrote [...] It would be though nice to have debianized packages of pentium-optimize pieces in (let's say) unstable-pentium Wouldn't that be binary-pentium? (As well as there are binary-i386, etc) Or binary-i586, but the real

Re: questions about new releases

1997-07-05 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Jul 4, Jaakko Niemi wrote [...] It would be though nice to have debianized packages of pentium-optimize pieces in (let's say) unstable-pentium Wouldn't that be binary-pentium? (As well as there are binary-i386, etc) Ahh! Yes! That's the kind of error that can only happen at 4 AM.

Re: questions about new releases

1997-07-05 Thread Jason Westervelt
Lalo Martins wrote: On Jul 4, Jaakko Niemi wrote [...] It would be though nice to have debianized packages of pentium-optimize pieces in (let's say) unstable-pentium Wouldn't that be binary-pentium? (As well as there are binary-i386, etc) nah, 'unstable-pentium' is about as true as you

Re: questions about new releases

1997-07-04 Thread Jaakko Niemi
How much faster? If it's a lot faster, it might be worth trying. It´s a bit faster (5-xx%). And I mean the binaries compiled. I tried it (almost two years ago ?? :-)), and it didn´t quite work then. It would be though nice to have debianized packages of pentium-optimize pieces in (let´s

Re: questions about new releases

1997-07-02 Thread Bruce Perens
How much faster? If it's a lot faster, it might be worth trying. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: questions about new releases

1997-07-02 Thread Seth Vidal
How much faster? If it's a lot faster, it might be worth trying. this is from the PGCC faq 4.2 How much improvement? Speed improvements range from 2% to 30% (rare), but the current compiler does not enable all opts by default since many of them are unstable. However, the hand-compiled

Re: questions about new releases

1997-07-02 Thread Clint Adams
I was curious if, after pgcc (pentium optimized gcc) comes out there will be Hasn't pgcc been out for years? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Questions regarding dynamic IPs and dhcpcd

1997-06-12 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote: So what I want to do is write a script that waits until /var/run/dhcpcd.cache-eth0 is created and then mails me /etc/dhcpc/hostinfo-eth0. The waiting part is the part I do not know how to do unless I just use an infinite loop (with perhaps a 10

Re: Questions regarding dynamic IPs and dhcpcd

1997-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
Colin R. Telmer: The dynamic-hacks mini-HOWTO really only deals with ppp. pppd outputs the new ip address in $4. Is there anything similar to this for dhcpcd? I can't find anything in the man page and I assume that I will need to extract this from /etc/dhcpc/hostinfo-eth0. Given this, after

Re: Questions for some nice zsh examples

1997-04-02 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Wed, 2 Apr 1997 00:27:54 +0200, Alexander Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Could someone please mail me some [zsh] examples to start with? See /usr/doc/examples/zsh. -- Roderick Schertler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions problems

1996-10-26 Thread David Frey
How to avoid messages: modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4 modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5 which appear at boot process. Supposed, you know what these modules do, you could alias them out in /etc/conf.modules. You have to know what their non-aliased

Re: Questions

1996-08-06 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Fri, 2 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am installing debian linux from CDROM. My CDROM is panasonic CR-562 CDROM. I select the sbpcd module. Is that correct? When the system boots, the busy light in CDROM flashes. But when I use dselect, it ask me the block device name. How do I

RE: Questions

1996-08-04 Thread wb2oyc
Hung, Hi, My CDROM is panasonic CR-562 CDROM. I select the sbpcd module. Is that correct? I believe sbpcd is specifically for Sound Blaster and its clones. There may be several different vendors supplying the CD drive and Panasonic is only one of those. Do you have a SB or not? boots, the

RE: Questions

1996-08-04 Thread renald loignon
And when I use mount command, it doesn't show CDROM is mounted. ??? 'df' will show you what filesystems are mounted, not mount. Just type mount{Enter} without any parameters, and see what output you get. Live and learn, eh?

RE: Questions

1996-08-04 Thread wb2oyc
On 05:47:14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And when I use mount command, it doesn't show CDROM is mounted. ??? 'df' will show you what filesystems are mounted, not mount. Just type mount{Enter} without any parameters, and see what output you get. Live and learn, eh? Sure! Typical of

re: Questions

1996-08-04 Thread wb2oyc
On 05:47:14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ??? 'df' will show you what filesystems are mounted, not mount. Just type mount{Enter} without any parameters, and see what output you get. Live and learn, eh? Sure! Typical of Linux there is always more to learn, and very often more than one

Re: Questions

1996-08-03 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi Hung-Ta -- You asked: I am installing debian linux from CDROM. My CDROM is panasonic CR-562 CDROM. I select the sbpcd module. Is that correct? The sbpcd driver does support the CR-562 CDROM. You may want to read more about it thought in the file Documentation/cdrom/sbpcd which comes

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