Re: Two questions as I prepare for a new install

On Wed 09 Dec 2020 at 19:10:53 (+), Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 06:06:43PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 00:00:54 + Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > > 1. Does anyone have any advice (or a link to offcial advice) > > > regarding whether a new bullseye

Re: Two questions as I prepare for a new install

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 19:10:53 + Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 06:06:43PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 00:00:54 + > > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > > 1. Does anyone have any advice (or a link to offcial advice) > > > regarding whether a new

Re: Two questions as I prepare for a new install

On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 06:06:43PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 00:00:54 + > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > 1. Does anyone have any advice (or a link to offcial advice) > > regarding whether a new bullseye install is better done with the > > testing installer at this time,

Re: Two questions as I prepare for a new install

On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 11:48 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 07 dec 20, 18:06:43, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 00:00:54 + > > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > > 1. Does anyone have any advice (or a link to offcial advice) > > > regarding whether a new bullseye install is

Re: Two questions as I prepare for a new install

On Lu, 07 dec 20, 18:06:43, Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 00:00:54 + > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > 1. Does anyone have any advice (or a link to offcial advice) > > regarding whether a new bullseye install is better done with the > > testing installer at this time, or by first

Re: Two questions as I prepare for a new install

On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 00:00:54 + Mark Fletcher wrote: > 1. Does anyone have any advice (or a link to offcial advice) > regarding whether a new bullseye install is better done with the > testing installer at this time, or by first installing buster and > then upgrading? In general, you are

Two questions as I prepare for a new install

Hello list I am currently amassing the hardware for a new PC build as a Christmas present to myself, and plan to install Bullseye on it when the hardware is all here. My current system runs Buster and I thought it would be interesting to see what's coming. I have two questions: 1. Does

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

On Sat 19 Sep 2020 at 14:09:07 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-09-19 07:57, David Wright wrote: > > The fuse documentation is so fragmentary, scattered and sparse that > > I haven't really got a good feel for what is is or how it works. > > I'm always thinking that I've missed some

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

On Sb, 19 sep 20, 09:57:37, David Wright wrote: > > Do you know if fuse exFAT is a stopgap, and support in the kernel is > eventually coming, or was a fuse implementation necessarily chosen > to support exFAT on account of some particular problem. It seems odd > that pmount, for example, doesn't

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

On 2020-09-19 07:57, David Wright wrote: On Thu 17 Sep 2020 at 13:32:16 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-16 14:38, David Wright wrote: On Wed 16 Sep 2020 at 12:56:36 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-16 01:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote: If I change the mode of the mount

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

On Thu 17 Sep 2020 at 13:32:16 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-09-16 14:38, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 16 Sep 2020 at 12:56:36 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > > > On 2020-09-16 01:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > If I change the mode of the mount point to : > > > > Is

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

On 2020-09-16 14:38, David Wright wrote: On Wed 16 Sep 2020 at 12:56:36 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-16 01:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote: If I change the mode of the mount point to : Is there some advantage other than making a long listing visually distinctive when the

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

On Wed 16 Sep 2020 at 12:56:36 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-09-16 01:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Sb, 12 sep 20, 15:00:57, Bob Weber wrote: > > > > > > Warning: If you forget to open and mount the file encrypted.img to > > > $HOME/Private/ and you copy files to $HOME/Private/

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

On 2020-09-16 01:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 12 sep 20, 15:00:57, Bob Weber wrote: Warning: If you forget to open and mount the file encrypted.img to $HOME/Private/ and you copy files to $HOME/Private/ it will appear to work correctly but they will not be encrypted!  If you don't move the

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

On Sb, 12 sep 20, 15:00:57, Bob Weber wrote: > > Warning: If you forget to open and mount the file encrypted.img to > $HOME/Private/ and you copy files to $HOME/Private/ it will appear to work > correctly but they will not be encrypted!  If you don't move the files out > of $HOME/Private/ before

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 01:10, David Wright wrote: > Create a permanent mount point with the permissions set to ugo= > ie nothing. I do this for all my permanent mountpoints and then set the immutable bit on them. This prevents accidental writes and the bonus is that ls -l /mnt shows clearly

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 12:10:48 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem > within > a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a few reasons). > > I have two questions about that: > >* if I

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

Thank you! (Nothing new below this line.) On Saturday, September 12, 2020 06:14:33 PM David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-09-12 09:10, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem > > within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

On 2020-09-12 12:14, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 12:10:48 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a few reasons). Why do you want a file system inside a

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

On 2020-09-12 09:10, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a few reasons). I have two questions about that: * if I don't have that LUKS filesystem "mounted" and

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

of to do that is to emulate the file system of another computer, e.g. a virtual machine. But in that case, I wonder why you want to feed your backups to a VM. > > I have two questions about that: > >* if I don't have that LUKS filesystem "mounted" and open and I &

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

On 9/12/20 12:10 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a few reasons). I have two questions about that: * if I don't have that LUKS filesystem "mounted" and

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

Am Samstag, 12. September 2020, 18:10:48 CEST schrieb rhkra...@gmail.com: Hi, > I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem > within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a few reasons). > > I have two questions about that: > >

Two questions about LUKS in a file container

I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a few reasons). I have two questions about that: * if I don't have that LUKS filesystem "mounted" and open and I write to it, I assume (or hope) th

Re: mdadm - two questions

On Nov 30, 2016, at 3:40 AM, Kamil Jońca wrote: > Rick Thomas writes: > >> Hi Kamil, >> >> You’d get a bit more space by configuring your 4 drives as a RAID5 >> array (3TB usable for RAID5, vs 2TB usable for RAID10). The downside >> of RAID5 is

Re: mdadm - two questions

Rick Thomas writes: > Hi Kamil, > > You’d get a bit more space by configuring your 4 drives as a RAID5 > array (3TB usable for RAID5, vs 2TB usable for RAID10). The downside > of RAID5 is that the RAID10 (or the one LV with two RAID1 PVs — they > amount to the same thing for

Re: mdadm - two questions

Andy Smith writes: > Hi Kamil, > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 01:26:55AM +0100, Kamil Jońca wrote: >> My first plan was somehow migrate to RAID10. I thought that is simply >> "raid0 over some raid1 arrays" so it should be legal to use 2*1TB + >> 2*1GB devices and then extend

Re: mdadm - two questions

Hi Kamil, You’d get a bit more space by configuring your 4 drives as a RAID5 array (3TB usable for RAID5, vs 2TB usable for RAID10). The downside of RAID5 is that the RAID10 (or the one LV with two RAID1 PVs — they amount to the same thing for this discussion) can survive loosing two drives

Re: mdadm - two questions

Hi Kamil, On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 01:26:55AM +0100, Kamil Jońca wrote: > My first plan was somehow migrate to RAID10. I thought that is simply > "raid0 over some raid1 arrays" so it should be legal to use 2*1TB + > 2*1GB devices and then extend 2*1G => 2*1TB. But it not work that > way. All

Re: mdadm - two questions

kjo...@poczta.onet.pl (Kamil Jońca) writes: [...]> 2. there is md0 (raid1) with two disk in it. It is PV for lvm. > I want to extend space by adding another two disks. Is it possible somehow > extent md0? Or the only way is to create second md device, and assign it > to volume group? My first

Re: mdadm - two questions

On Tuesday 22 November 2016 18:10:53 Kamil Jońca wrote: > 2. there is md0 (raid1) with two disk in it. It is PV for lvm. > I want to extend space by adding another two disks. Is it possible somehow > extent md0? Or the only way is to create second md device, and assign it > to volume group? I

Re: mdadm - two questions

Dan Ritter writes: > http://serverfault.com/questions/43677/best-way-to-grow-linux-software-raid-1-to-raid-10 Yes. And it was my idea (except rsync I plan to do pvmove to new aray) Thanks for confirmation. KJ -- http://stopstopnop.pl/stop_stopnop.pl_o_nas.html The

Re: mdadm - two questions

> Unfortunately I cannot see how from raid1 of 2*1TB disks migrate to > raid1(raid10?) of 4*1TB disks I don't think you can reshape a RAID 1 to a RAID 10. mdadm can reshape RAID 1/5/6. You can move from RAID 5 to 6 or the other way around. *Maybe* you can even reshape from 1 to RAID 5/6. I see

Re: mdadm - two questions

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 09:10:50PM +0100, Kamil Jońca wrote: > Dan Ritter writes: > > >> I want to extend space by adding another two disks. Is it possible somehow > >> extent md0? Or the only way is to create second md device, and assign it > >> to volume group? > > > >

Re: mdadm - two questions

Dan Ritter writes: >> I want to extend space by adding another two disks. Is it possible somehow >> extent md0? Or the only way is to create second md device, and assign it >> to volume group? > Unfortunately I cannot see how from raid1 of 2*1TB disks migrate to

Re: mdadm - two questions

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 06:10:53PM +0100, Kamil Jońca wrote: > (I do not know it is proper place to ask these questions.) > 1. > man mdadm has some info about CONTAINER-s. > > I think, that I understand how to use it, but I cannot imagine use case > of containers. > Can someone explain whent it

mdadm - two questions

(I do not know it is proper place to ask these questions.) 1. man mdadm has some info about CONTAINER-s. I think, that I understand how to use it, but I cannot imagine use case of containers. Can someone explain whent it is desirable to use containers, especially DDF instead of free mdX devices?

Re: Two questions

On Tue 12 Apr 2016 at 20:16:05 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > First, about my .iso downloads. I have debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-2.iso, > containing > 4560861184 bytes, and debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-3.iso, containing 4649361408 > bytes. > Are the byte counts correct? [ Yes, I know I should use

Re: Two questions

On Tuesday 12 April 2016 20:16:05 Alan McConnell wrote: > First, about my .iso downloads. I have debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-2.iso, > containing 4560861184 bytes, and debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-3.iso, > containing 4649361408 bytes. Are the byte counts correct? [ Yes, I > know I should use checksums or

Re: Two questions

Alan McConnell composed on 2016-04-12 20:16 (UTC-0400): First, about my .iso downloads. I have debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-2.iso, containing 4560861184 bytes, and debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-3.iso, containing 4649361408 bytes. Are the byte counts correct? [ Yes, I know I should use checksums or

Two questions

First, about my .iso downloads. I have debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-2.iso, containing 4560861184 bytes, and debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-3.iso, containing 4649361408 bytes. Are the byte counts correct? [ Yes, I know I should use checksums or something like that, but I don't know anything about that ]

Re: Two questions about kfreebsd

On 22/02/13 05:49, Bret Busby wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Steven Chamberlain wrote: [...] vm.swappiness controls the balance of RAM/swap used, on some 0 to 100 scale. I am not sure how or where I set it, but, from memory, I had set it to 80. It's a sysctl, so you adjust it like this (as

Re: Two questions about kfreebsd

On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, Steven Chamberlain wrote: On 22/02/13 05:49, Bret Busby wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Steven Chamberlain wrote: [...] vm.swappiness controls the balance of RAM/swap used, on some 0 to 100 scale. I am not sure how or where I set it, but, from memory, I had set it to 80.

Re: two questions about ssh tunneling

On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 14:13:11 -0800 Tyler MacDonald ty...@macdonald.name wrote: ... I believe when you use SOCKS, your browser stops doing DNS resolution and just hands the hostnames directly to the SOCKS server. So all they would be able to sniff is your encrypted SSH session, which they

Re: two questions about ssh tunneling

On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 14:13:11 -0800 Tyler MacDonald ty...@macdonald.name wrote: Tudod Ki tudodk...@yahoo.com wrote: ... - Can anyone sniff the traffic of computer B? e.g.: B computer is at a - server farm [others in the farm can see the traffic?] - I think yes, but - I'm not sure :O

two questions about ssh tunneling

if I: ssh -fND localhost:6000 someb...@192.168.56.5 -p PORTNUMBER from computer A to computer B [B = 192.168.56.5] then I can set the SOCKS proxy for e.g.: Firefox to use localhost:6000 on computer A. Ok. I can surf the web through B. But: - Can anyone sniff the traffic of A? [e.g.: computers

Re: two questions about ssh tunneling

Tudod Ki tudodk...@yahoo.com wrote: if I: ssh -fND localhost:6000 someb...@192.168.56.5 -p PORTNUMBER from computer A to computer B [B = 192.168.56.5] then I can set the SOCKS proxy for e.g.: Firefox to use localhost:6000 on computer A. Ok. I can surf the web through B. But: - Can

Re: two questions about ssh tunneling

...@macdonald.name Subject: Re: two questions about ssh tunneling To: Tudod Ki tudodk...@yahoo.com Cc: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, December 4, 2009, 10:13 PM Tudod Ki tudodk...@yahoo.com wrote: if I: ssh -fND localhost:6000 someb...@192.168.56.5 -p PORTNUMBER from computer

Re: two questions about ssh tunneling

Tudod Ki tudodk...@yahoo.com wrote: but what's with cam attack? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAM_Table#Attacks they could attack a switch, and it will act as a hub? and then they can set promiscuous mode on their cards and sniff Hmm. I didn't know about that one! I suppose it's

Re: Two Questions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de writes: Merciadri Luca: I am a fervent user of your `F.lux' program. I am running Debian Lenny with kernel 2.6.26-2-686 on various computers, and here are two questions whose answers could enhance the next

Two Questions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am a fervent user of your `F.lux' program. I am running Debian Lenny with kernel 2.6.26-2-686 on various computers, and here are two questions whose answers could enhance the next version of F.lux: 1. When the screen is progressively blanking

Re: Two Questions

Merciadri Luca: I am a fervent user of your `F.lux' program. I am running Debian Lenny with kernel 2.6.26-2-686 on various computers, and here are two questions whose answers could enhance the next version of F.lux: Since F.lux isn't distributed by Debian, you are probably better off asking

Re: Upgrade to 3.1 and next to 4.0.Two questions: security checks and disk space.

On Sat February 16 2008 09:44:12 am alexandre suzuki wrote: I want to upgrade to the latest Sarge r7 and then upgrade to Debian 4.0r2 and I am not sure about two things: 1) I installed apt_0.5.28.6 and aptitude_0.2.15.9-2 (from Sarge r7) and I don´t know if they do the security

Upgrade to 3.1 and next to 4.0.Two questions: security checks and disk space.

I want to upgrade to the latest Sarge r7 and then upgrade to Debian 4.0r2 and I am not sure about two things: 1) I installed apt_0.5.28.6 and aptitude_0.2.15.9-2 (from Sarge r7) and I don´t know if they do the security checks.Check Release.gpg and then the md5 automatically.I have the idea

Re: Upgrade to 3.1 and next to 4.0.Two questions: security checks and disk space.

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:44:12AM -0800, alexandre suzuki wrote: I want to upgrade to the latest Sarge r7 and then upgrade to Debian 4.0r2 and I am not sure about two things: 1) I installed apt_0.5.28.6 and aptitude_0.2.15.9-2 (from Sarge r7) and I don?t know if they do the security

Two Questions: SID

Need suggestions for question (1), and just a brief response to question (2). (1): Preparing to install Matrox QID Pro video card in Tyan ThunderK7 2468UGN (scsi) / 2@ Athlon MP 2400+ / 3g ecc reg. sdram / 5 scsi hard drives / Matrox G450-32m video /etc. Debian SID - 2.6.18-5k7-smp (when

Re: Two Questions: SID

On Saturday 03 February 2007 12:33, Figaro wrote: (2): I notice that the SID kernel -image packages do not seem to be getting the frequent updates that I remember was the norm a year ago or so ago. Any ideas? Or do I need a special apt repository? Thank you, matthew It is probably due to

Two questions about boot scripts

I don't particularly like gdm and so I made the script in init.d nonexecutable. I feel, though, this was likely the wrong way. What is the right way to do it? The whole Debian bootscript system is somewhat intimidating to a Slackware user, and so I am hesitant to go in there willy-nilly. Also,

Re: Two questions about boot scripts

Hellocreate the script in /etc/init.d/lets say its named myscriptmake it executablethen do /usr/sbin/update-rc.d myscript defaultsthat will create a sym link in all the run levelsDerek On 10/13/06, cothrige [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't particularly like gdm and so I made the script in

Re: Two questions about boot scripts

GDM is disabled by running: # update-rc.d -f gdm remove On 10/13/06, cothrige [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't particularly like gdm and so I made the script in init.d nonexecutable. I feel, though, this was likely the wrong way. What is the right way to do it? The whole Debian bootscript

Re: Two questions about boot scripts

* derek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello create the script in /etc/init.d/ lets say its named myscript make it executable then do /usr/sbin/update-rc.d myscript defaults that will create a sym link in all the run levels Derek That sounds straightforward enough. Many thanks. Patrick --

Re: Two questions about boot scripts

* Dekxter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: GDM is disabled by running: # update-rc.d -f gdm remove Thanks a lot. I can't believe how much trouble I was having just trying to figure that little item out. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Two questions about boot scripts

On 10/13/2006 10:57 AM, cothrige wrote: I don't particularly like gdm and so I made the script in init.d nonexecutable. I feel, though, this was likely the wrong way. What is the right way to do it? The whole Debian bootscript system is somewhat intimidating to a Slackware user, and so I am

Re: Two questions about boot scripts

* Mumia W.. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Install the Debian Reference (debian-reference-en) and read §§ 2.4.2 and 2.4.3 and 8.1.4 from /usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/reference.en.txt.gz . I am hoping to sit down this weekend and read through the reference. It looks to be a rather complete

Re: Two questions about boot scripts

On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:57:25AM -0500, cothrige wrote: I don't particularly like gdm and so I made the script in init.d nonexecutable. I feel, though, this was likely the wrong way. What is the right way to do it? The whole Debian bootscript system is somewhat intimidating to a Slackware

Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions

On Monday 14 August 2006 04:55 pm, Joe Indigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My second question is about the dealer I am leaning towards: SW Technology at http://www.swt.com Can anyone provide feedback about them? I have purchased a tower and a laptop from them, both with sarge installed.

Pre-installed Debian: two questions

I can't afford it now, but in a couple months maybe, probably after 4.0 comes out, I may buy a system with Debian pre-installed. But I have a nice soundcard I want to keep from my old system, the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz. There is a very helpful page about my card at http://tinyurl.com/znro7

Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions

On Monday 14 August 2006 20:19, David J Bush wrote: I can't afford it now, but in a couple months maybe, probably after 4.0 comes out, I may buy a system with Debian pre-installed. Assuming you have a network connection, then it doesn't matter what version of Debian is installed, it almost

Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions

My first question is, will Debian 4.0 come with soundcore compiled, or will I need to recompile? I run Debian Etch. Although it is the testing distribution now, it will be the next stable, version 4.0. $ /sbin/modinfo soundcore filename:

Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions

On Monday 14 August 2006 20:19, David J Bush wrote: [snip] My first question is, will Debian 4.0 come with soundcore compiled, or will I need to recompile? It would seem so. I'm presently running testing Etch which will become 4.0 when when the next stable release comes out. Modinfo on a stock

Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions

David J Bush wrote: I can't afford it now, but in a couple months maybe, probably after 4.0 comes out, I may buy a system with Debian pre-installed. But I have a nice soundcard I want to keep from my old system, the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz. There is a very helpful page about my card at

Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 04:47:35PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: It's already been mentioned, but putting your own system together is by far cheaper and more satisfactory. That makes the value judgement that one's time is valueless and that one likes farting around with hardware. I used to

Version numbers? (WAS Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions)

Leonid Grinberg told me: | Stable gets old very quickly, but is, like its name implies, | very stable. This led me to wonder, just how far out of date are the Debian packages? For example, I would like to work using KDE. On the KDE website at http://kde.org/ it says that KDE 3.5.4 is the latest

Re: Version numbers? (WAS Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions)

How can I find out what version number KDE would call this Debian kde package? OR, how could I find out what version number Debian would call KDE 3.5.4? I suspect the same situation exists with other packages, so I'm hoping for a general procedure I can follow, not simply the answer for

Re: Two questions about building kernels

On 8/29/05, David A. Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm building 2.6.12 kernels for my own machine.Two things are ratherproblematical:The content of .config looks like a Makefile snippet.If it is one, canI add to it the values I want for CC CFLAGS so they are tied to a particular build

Two questions about building kernels

I'm building 2.6.12 kernels for my own machine. Two things are rather problematical: The content of .config looks like a Makefile snippet. If it is one, can I add to it the values I want for CC CFLAGS so they are tied to a particular build configuration when I need to re-do it? and The

two questions about USB keyboard/mouse

Hi, I have a Touchstream keyboard that also functions as a mouse. It uses a USB port. I also have a regular keyboard and mouse plugged into my computer. 1) After I reboot my computer, my Touchstream keyboard is not recognized until I hit a key on my regular keyboard. How do I get my

Re: KDE Two questions

1. Is kdebase the main symbol for starting an apt-get install of kde, or if not what is it? kdebase gives you only the libraries needed to run KDE applications, plus the panel and the window manager (and perhaps a few other very basic things) so you can start a desktop. If you want

Re: KDE Two questions

Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: 2. Is there a painless place to get ahold of this jdk-118 thingy? I try the internet address given, and it puts me somewhere which is bewildering, and I haven't found the download page yet. Do you mean a java development kit (jdk) or a java runtime

Re: Re: KDE Two questions

xeno wrote: Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: 2. Is there a painless place to get ahold of this jdk-118 thingy? I try the internet address given, and it puts me somewhere which is bewildering, and I haven't found the download page yet. Do you mean a java development kit (jdk) or a java

KDE Two questions

1. Is kdebase the main symbol for starting an apt-get install of kde, or if not what is it? 2. Is there a painless place to get ahold of this jdk-118 thingy? I try the internet address given, and it puts me somewhere which is bewildering, and I haven't found the download page yet. --

Two questions (Archive search + Dpkg frontend for X)

Hello everyone, Question one: when I'm using the archive search form on http://lists.debian.org/search.html, if I select all quarters on the Date Filter, does it search in all quarters or just the first quarter of the selection? I searched for dpkg frontend for X and it returned No matches

Re: Two questions (Archive search + Dpkg frontend for X)

Vitor Silva Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello everyone, Question one: when I'm using the archive search form on http://lists.debian.org/search.html, if I select all quarters on the Date Filter, does it search in all quarters or just the first quarter of the selection? I searched

Re: Two questions (Archive search + Dpkg frontend for X)

At 14:49 27/11/2001 -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: It probably didn't show any matches because the string dpkg frontend for X didn't appear in the archives. Try separating the words with ;. Thanks. I'll try that. Question two: I'm looking for a good graphical frontend for dpkg,

Re: Two questions (Archive search + Dpkg frontend for X)

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:57:46PM -0200, Vitor Silva Souza wrote: | At 14:49 27/11/2001 -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: | Question two: I'm looking for a good graphical frontend for | dpkg, sort of like a dselect for X. Any suggestions? I'm using potato | and don't want to upgrade to

Re: Two questions (Archive search + Dpkg frontend for X)

At 20:28 27/11/2001 -0500, dman wrote: A GUI can do the things the designer thought of quite easily, but they can't do anything else easily. Pipes and filters allow fairly simple programs to be combined to perform complex and unique operations quite easily, once the learning curve of the

Re: Two questions (Archive search + Dpkg frontend for X)

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 12:10:08AM -0200, Vitor Silva Souza wrote: | At 20:28 27/11/2001 -0500, dman wrote: | A GUI can do the things the designer thought of quite easily, but they | can't do anything else easily. Pipes and filters allow fairly simple | programs to be combined to perform complex

Two questions

1. Without going into details of how I did it, I fouled up lpd or lpr. When I try to print something, I get: Connection refused jobs queued, but cannot start daemon How do I correct whatever is wrong? I tried magicfilterconfig and it did not help. 2. Is there a linux equivalent to presizer,

Re: Two questions

* sheine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011015 12:09]: 2. Is there a linux equivalent to presizer, a way change a partition size non-destructively? check out GNU ext2resize and parted. Both are packaged for all of {{un,}stable,testing}. for future reference, also try

Re: Two questions

-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Two questions We are using dpkg on Solaris to manage packages. I am having a couple of difficulties. 1. I've built a package, but when I install it I get this error. dpkg: warning, architecture `sun4u-sunos-5.8' not in remapping table

Re: Two questions

On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:07:34PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: Here's another quetion. The system I'm compiling on is missing. /usr/include/floatingpoint.h What's it? Anything like float.h in standard C? /usr/include/math.h libc

Re: two questions on emacs under Mutt

On (08/06/01 17:29), Vittorio wrote: I've installed Mutt and am using as my pet e-mail composer emacs. Me too! I use mutt-alias.el and post.el which are both available from http://www.davep.org/mutt/ post.el is a mail mode for Emacs that contains various functions including automatic line

Re: two questions on emacs under Mutt

On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 05:29:26PM +, Vittorio wrote: 2) Is that possible to configure emacs to wrap lines at, say, 72 char? For accents put (set-language-environment Latin-1) in .emacs. To wrap text mode lines at 72, try (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill) in

two questions

Hi, this is my first message to the list. I had installed debian potato 2.2 and I'm new to debian. The questions are: - when the installer ask me where to put the boot loader, I choose floppy, because the computer is shared with other OS. It works ok, but is very very slow the boot process until

Re: two questions

GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: Hi, this is my first message to the list. I had installed debian potato 2.2 and I'm new to debian. The questions are: - when the installer ask me where to put the boot loader, I choose floppy, because the computer is shared with other OS. I've never tried

Re: two questions

GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: Hi, this is my first message to the list. I had installed debian potato 2.2 and I'm new to debian. The questions are: - the kernel version is 2.2.17, but I want to compile 2.4.5. I have the tar.bz2 kernel file, but I don't know which packages I need to

Re: two questions

GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: - the kernel version is 2.2.17, but I want to compile 2.4.5. I have the tar.bz2 kernel file, but I don't know which packages I need to compile the kernel. Where can I find the list of packages needed to do it? see /path/to/kernelversion/Documentation/Changes

Re: two questions

Make a boot floppy: As root, issue mkboot /vmlinuz (see also man page for mkboot). this will make a faster booting floppy. Lars On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: Hi, this is my first message to the list. I had installed debian potato 2.2 and I'm new to debian.

two questions on emacs under Mutt

I've installed Mutt and am using as my pet e-mail composer emacs. 1) I'm experiencing problems with the accented characters so frequent in Italian. When I save an e-mail to be sent (C-x C-s) emacs invariably says that there are the accented characters and compells me to give a charset.

Re: two questions on emacs under Mutt

Vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've installed Mutt and am using as my pet e-mail composer emacs. Why don't you use one of the emacs mail tools? :) 2) Is that possible to configure emacs to wrap lines at, say, 72 char? Add to your .emacs: ;; for mail modes and text modes, turn on

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