Re: small computer ?

2002-09-02 Thread a.c.labij
Robert R Stephens wrote: > How small of a computer does one need to run a GUI with a Desktop > environment on a linux system? Recently i was looking for a small distro to install at my old 486SX-4Mb-100Mb. At www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions are a couple of small distro's, and i tried Bas

Re: small computer ?

2002-09-02 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 03:12 PM 9/2/02 -0400, Robert R Stephens wrote: >How small of a computer does one need to run a GUI with a Desktop >environment on a linux system? Do you mean how *big*? It depends on what you mean by "Desktop environment" and what else the system is running. I've used a 486/40 with 16 MB R

small computer ?

2002-09-02 Thread Sean Rima
Originally to: Robert R Stephens Robert > How small of a computer does one need to run a GUI with a Desktop > environment on a linux system? I have used a basic 486 with a 2gb hd, but with a small windowmanager (IceWM) with no problems. Sean ... The truth is out there...Anyone knows the URL?

Re: driver via97

2002-09-02 Thread pa3gcu
On Monday 02 September 2002 12:52, Ramzez wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi... > I have installed a sound card VIA97 and the driver for this is into > OpenSound package; but the driver turn off each 20 min because it's > shareware > > where do I find a driver like

small computer ?

2002-09-02 Thread Robert R Stephens
How small of a computer does one need to run a GUI with a Desktop environment on a linux system? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read t

Re: tar confined to partitions

2002-09-02 Thread Haines Brown
Ray, > -l, --one-file-systemstay in local file system when > creating archive No, I'm not using that option. Someone suggested that perhaps tar only handles one partition at a time, but you seem to say that is not the case. > ... but it should not be the default ("file system

Re: tar confined to partitions

2002-09-02 Thread Haines Brown
> At 11:17 02/09/2002 -0400, you wrote: > >I have a tar script to back up all directories on my HD (/*) to a > >mirror disk. > > > >But a puzzler. The script sees all directories mounted on / and backs > >up their content, but fails to back up the contents of directories > >that are presumably mo

Re: tar confined to partitions

2002-09-02 Thread Carl Lawton
At 11:17 02/09/2002 -0400, you wrote: >I have a tar script to back up all directories on my HD (/*) to a >mirror disk. > >But a puzzler. The script sees all directories mounted on / and backs >up their content, but fails to back up the contents of directories >that are presumably mounted under /,

tar confined to partitions

2002-09-02 Thread Haines Brown
I have a tar script to back up all directories on my HD (/*) to a mirror disk. But a puzzler. The script sees all directories mounted on / and backs up their content, but fails to back up the contents of directories that are presumably mounted under /, but are not in the same partition as /. Fo

driver via97

2002-09-02 Thread Ramzez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi... I have installed a sound card VIA97 and the driver for this is into OpenSound package; but the driver turn off each 20 min because it's shareware where do I find a driver like this?? thanks - -- Linux User Registered #232544 my GnuPG-k