Re: [Leaf-devel] Minix V1 file system verses V2.

2001-07-20 Thread jdnewmil
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Andrew Hoying wrote: Hello, While going though the busybox options, I saw that you could turn on Minix version 2 file system support. I checked and Oxygen currently is using version one, and I'd guess the other distributions are as well. Is there any advantages to

Re: [Leaf-devel] FAQ update: Why does the DocManager...

2001-07-18 Thread jdnewmil
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Mike Noyes wrote: Everyone, Please take a look at the new proposed format for our DocManager documents. I don't want to start modifying the rest of our FAQs until I get some feedback on this format. Thanks. Why does the DocManager...

Re: [Leaf-devel] New User Interface Tool: Breakthrough!

2001-07-13 Thread jdnewmil
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, David Douthitt wrote: Hilton Travis wrote: Are those the 8 floppy disks? I think the 8 floppy disks never held more than 250KB at most, anyway. Now where are these floppys with 800M free? And is that 800MB or 800Mb?

Re: [Leaf-devel] New User Interface Tool: Breakthrough!

2001-07-13 Thread jdnewmil
On 13 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I bought a disk notcher so I could double side my 5-1/4 floppy disks. I saved SO much money. ROFL I saved more than you... I used an exacto knife I already had lying around. I thought the 3.5 floppy format was a conspiracy by the disk

[Leaf-devel] NetLinOS?

2001-06-29 Thread jdnewmil
Anyone have any thoughts on http://www.netlinos.org? It seems ... thin. Build a website and they will come. Full-page ad in LJ, but the online press release is dated 6/12/2001, so it is kind of behind the curve. I could see it becoming a useful site, if it can get rid of its strong Cyclades

RE: [Leaf-devel] Hard-Hat

2001-06-26 Thread jdnewmil
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Luis.F.Correia wrote: I've also downloaded the CD's, but it seems that something is wrong with CD1... It should boot, but I get nothing. Hmm...I just tried booting mine and I get a lilo prompt... I have a 1.2 and 2.0(2disks), and the former will boot

Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: [Leaf-user] 3c90X and Oxygen

2001-06-26 Thread jdnewmil
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Greg Morgan wrote: [...] I just came across some Redhat documentation. It's Appendix A in the Red Hat Linux 7.1: The Official Red Hat Linux Reference Guide. There's a reference for almost everything. It starts here:

RE: [Leaf-devel] Hard-Hat

2001-06-21 Thread jdnewmil
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Luis.F.Correia wrote: One extra thought! MD5 checksums ARE OK!!! Bye! p.s. Charles, if you managed to boot it, can you privately send me the boot floppy? -Original Message- From: Luis.F.Correia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 21,

Re: [Leaf-devel] Suggestion for improvement

2001-06-14 Thread jdnewmil
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Mike Noyes wrote: Scott C. Best, 2001-06-13 23:25 -0700 Heyaz. So, I went to the LEAF site today trying to imagine myself as a new LRP user who's going there for the first time. And it strikes me...where's the distro? IMO, frontcenter links to both

Re: [Leaf-devel] Suggestion for improvement

2001-06-14 Thread jdnewmil
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, David Douthitt wrote: [...] What most people want - a blackbox that you plug in and turn on and forget - it just isn't going to happen: 1. Too many variables: do you want a VPN? Shell access? Proxy? DMZ? Web Cache? Web server? SNMP? Web statistics? Name

Re: OT Re: [Leaf-devel] linuxrouter.org

2001-06-12 Thread jdnewmil
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, David Douthitt wrote: Ray Olszewski wrote: We need to be careful here. Silence does not equal assent, and many of the important participants in LEAF have been most notable for their silence on this thread. I'd like to speak up myself. I would also like to echo

Re: [Leaf-devel] Ewald's Updated ES2B

2001-06-03 Thread jdnewmil
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, KP [iso-8859-1] Kirchdörfer wrote: Am Samstag, 2. Juni 2001 23:09 schrieb Charles Steinkuehler: - Use the ramlog package instead of the log package...this puts the logs on a seperate ramdisk, avoiding the full ramdisk issues, which are the most likely thing to kill

Re: [Leaf-devel] Talk of names....

2001-05-22 Thread jdnewmil
On Tue, 22 May 2001, David Douthitt wrote: George Metz wrote: That's a lot of wordplay in there. I think that Oxygen/2 should actually be Oxygen System/2, but that's just me. =) I thought /2 was copyrighted by IBM :-( I personally like Oxygen: Ozone Edition for the next release.

Re: [Leaf-devel] Makefile and Directory to create LRP packages fromsource

2001-05-08 Thread jdnewmil
On Tue, 8 May 2001, David Douthitt wrote: I've managed to get the lrp/ directory and Makefile near completion. It relies on some shell scripts contained in the same directory. My goal is (after compiling source): I have visions of a cloud saying *and a miracle occurs* and then we proceed

Re: [Leaf-devel] SVLDG meeting (was: SVLUG meeting and Midori presentation)

2001-05-03 Thread jdnewmil
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Mike Noyes wrote: Charles Steinkuehler, 2001-05-03 13:22 -0500 It might be a good idea to gather together on a weekend sometime. We could call it a Silicon Valley LEAF Developers Group (SVLDG) meeting. We need a place that is accessible by public transportation to

Re: [Leaf-devel] Proposed CVS Structure

2001-05-02 Thread jdnewmil
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Ewald Wasscher wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] What I had in mind was to do the same thing, but with patched sources - and thus then create a package at the same time. I would like to keep the lrp-specific things as seperate as possible from the original

Re: [Leaf-devel] SF Site Status

2001-04-24 Thread jdnewmil
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote: Ray added/updated the ping FAQs in DocManager sec07. Please review them if you have time. https://sourceforge.net/docman/?group_id=13751 I seem to recall something like: Ping type 4: Ping returns immediately with Destination (host|net) is unreachable.

Re: [Leaf-devel] File Systems (was: CVS structure)

2001-04-21 Thread jdnewmil
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-04-20 18:03 -0700 On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote: This still doesn't explain why Debian is trying to do the following for their boot floppies. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0102/msg00435.html ~ Build in

Re: [Leaf-devel] File Systems (was: CVS structure)

2001-04-21 Thread jdnewmil
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, George Metz wrote: On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote: Jack Coates, 2001-04-21 16:08 -0700 I just hunted through my module archives and I've never built it as a module... I also did a google search, but the only ones I turned up in reasonable timeframe

Re: [Leaf-devel] CVS structure (was: Patched kernel 2.4.3(about tobe) available.)

2001-04-20 Thread jdnewmil
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, George Metz wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, David Douthitt wrote: Not a bad idea; however, there are a few things that come to mind: * How do you create a VFAT diskette under Windows? Some may laugh; I for one am not sure how Beats me. I think it's a simple

Re: [Leaf-devel] CVS structure (was: Patched kernel 2.4.3(abouttobe) available.)

2001-04-20 Thread jdnewmil
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote: David Douthitt, 2001-04-20 16:25 -0500 I like the long name idea, using VFAT. The only thing is, VFAT adds FAT to the kernel (pun intended :-) Just how big is this thing? Would someone explain to me why we shouldn't use cramfs? I believe it works

Re: [Leaf-devel] CVS structure (was: Patched kernel 2.4.3(abouttobe) available.)

2001-04-20 Thread jdnewmil
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-04-20 16:30 -0700 On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote: David Douthitt, 2001-04-20 16:25 -0500 I like the long name idea, using VFAT. The only thing is, VFAT adds FAT to the kernel (pun intended :-) Just how big is

Re: [Leaf-devel] CVS structure (was: Patched kernel 2.4.3(abouttobe) available.)

2001-04-20 Thread jdnewmil
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-04-20 17:26 -0700 On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote: I thought this might be a good way to write protect hard drives and flash disks. Perhaps... or it may actually be _too_ restrictive, since you simply don't have

Re: [Leaf-devel] sed bug or my stupidity?

2001-04-19 Thread jdnewmil
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Eric Wolzak wrote: Hello all Unix guru's I got myself a problem I need for a weblet a function that first check if teststring is already inserted in a file, if not it will be inserted. This to prevent that reloading will cause repeated insertions. due to

Re: [Leaf-devel] Netscape download problems FAQ

2001-04-11 Thread jdnewmil
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-04-10 21:28 -0700 Having the mime-type in place, apparently Netscape now recognizes that an lrp file is binary even without specifying the type in the URL. Jeff, That's what I got too. I added the following helper application

Re: [Leaf-devel] Netscape download problems FAQ

2001-04-10 Thread jdnewmil
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote: Ray Olszewski, 2001-04-10 20:57 -0700 sigh This really should be a FAQ answer. Netscape exhibits this problem because Netscape is polite and follows the html standards. So if a Web server says a file is text, trusting old Netscape believes it and

Re: [Leaf-devel] Netscape download problems FAQ

2001-04-10 Thread jdnewmil
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-04-10 16:26 -0700 On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote: I'm working on the second part of this FAQ. Netscape has similar problems with ftp downloads. I was unable to get the ;i switch to work on .lrp files in our

Long Package Names (was Re: [Leaf-devel] Kernel 2.4.x)

2001-04-09 Thread jdnewmil
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, David Douthitt wrote: [...] What do you all think about NOT getting package names from the name of the package file? For example: foo.lrp ...could have its real name being... fooBecomesALongNameBeforeYouKnowItanditsUNSTOPPABLE :-) Seriously though, then

Re: [Leaf-devel] Packaging

2001-04-07 Thread jdnewmil
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, David Douthitt wrote: I'm surprised no one is understanding this complaint; I think I understand it perfectly. It has occurred to me also. Some good points are made below, but the temporary copy still seems unnecessary. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 5 Apr 2001,

Re: [Leaf-devel] Packaging

2001-04-05 Thread jdnewmil
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Scott C. Best wrote: Actually I like .lrp as well, though my complaint with it is different. I find it difficult to extract files from a .lrp without potentially overwriting important system binaries on the development box. I don't grok this. I have never had

Re: [Leaf-devel] Packaging

2001-04-05 Thread jdnewmil
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, S.C.Best wrote: Jeff: Sorry you don't agree. Well, I am too. I feel like one of us is operating under some misconceptions about how lrpkg or tar works. By continuing this thread, I hope to grok your concern, or perhaps you will find your concerns were not

Re: [Leaf-devel] New release of Oxygen (March 2001)

2001-03-27 Thread jdnewmil
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Matthew Schalit wrote: George Metz wrote: (Lets face it gang, ain't no UNIX browser out there that matches up to IE5, no matter how much I want Mozilla to succeed) IE5 is p@@p. Hmm. A few too many proprietary features, but remarkably stable for me. I

Re: [Leaf-devel] deep thoughts

2001-03-24 Thread jdnewmil
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Jack Coates wrote: Just thinking here, generally a bad idea... I've been reading the Postfix list lately, on which Linux is dissed for a couple of reasons: a) asynchronous flushing in ext2fs causes lost mail This is a good reason to diss, and I've been avoiding

RE: [Leaf-devel] New Disk images name

2001-03-22 Thread jdnewmil
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Steven Peck wrote: I think the new image should remain hard to spell. :) Kilamanjaro? Kilimanjaro was the predecessor to Materhorn. Maybe change the series name completly Sea - because install is such a breeze Plastic - because it can recycle old hardware Aluminum

Re: [Leaf-devel] does the lrp project have any response to this

2001-03-21 Thread jdnewmil
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: "Plagiarize... don't let it evade your eyes..." :) Is this a slight misquote of Tom Lehrer's "Lobachevsky" (Don't let other's work evade your eyes...), or some other reference? My old boss, R.G. Spears, used this phrase. I don't know where

Re: [Leaf-devel] does the lrp project have any response to this

2001-03-20 Thread jdnewmil
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Paul Batozech wrote: Steven Peck wrote: [...] Worse than slaughtering HTML, different. With HTML you say BOLD or ITALICS or CENTER, etc. With Docbook you don't. You say emphasiswords/emphasis and the DTD when fed through Openjade with determine HOW the emphasis