Re: Updating kickstart installation

2001-03-27 Thread Thornton Prime
On 27 Mar 2001, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > Me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > TP> I find building one machine by hand, then using mkkickstart to build a > TP> new kickstart file works best for me. > > I was hoping there is an easier way. It's too easy to miss something. > Surely Red Hat must

Re: Updating kickstart installation

2001-03-27 Thread Thornton Prime
On 27 Mar 2001, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > I have a standard setup where I just stick a kickstart floppy in a machine > and boot it to get a complete installation. Now I want to update my ks.cfg > file for the 7.1 beta. I find building one machine by hand, then using mkkickstart to build a

Re: building a 'safer' box

2001-03-19 Thread Thornton Prime
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, vergel wrote: > I'm going to use PPPoE to connect to the net. And even on my win box > using Zone Alarm I get people randomly scanning ports and stuff Is > there something I can build on the Linux box that will keep me alerted about > stuff like that? What would be

Re: RAD tool from Borland

2001-02-20 Thread Thornton Prime
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, John Summerfield wrote: > > Instead of speculating how good Kylix is, sit down and use it for a week. Then > you will have a sound basis for commenting. I haven't used Kylix, but having used C++ Builder and JBuilder for years year, I don't doubt that it is an outstanding pro

Re: RAD tool from Borland

2001-02-15 Thread Thornton Prime
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Ed Hill wrote: > > They need to remember that the majority of their potential customers are > > using Emacs, vi, or other free development environments and they need to > > offer both a compelling and competitive feature set as well as a > > competitve price. They also need

Re: RAD tool from Borland

2001-02-15 Thread Thornton Prime
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Thomas Dodd wrote: > Have you checked the price if Windows tools? > Look at Delphi, C++ Builder, or any MS Visual * > product. Klyix is on par with the Professional versions > of those tools, and priced better. True ... but just as Windows products are priced competively ag

Re: kernel RPM building procedure

2001-01-23 Thread Thornton Prime
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the kernel RPM building procedure? RPMs are self documenting. Download the src.rpm for the kernel and install it. It will install the kernel source, all the additional packages (like pcmcia) and patches that were used to build the kernel r

Re: rawhide to ISO?

2001-01-17 Thread Thornton Prime
On 17 Jan 2001, Anand Palaniswamy wrote: > > > which RPMs must go into disc1 and which should go into disc2? > > > > It only matters for how often it will ask you to swap CDs. Other than > > that, which RPM goes where isn't particularly relevant. > > Thanks. Your answer, however, begs a followu

Re: The comment in latest Kernel Traffic

2001-01-04 Thread Thornton Prime
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Mario Torre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > But RedHat doesn't want from anyone to contribute to its distro. > > We don't? > > That's the first I've heard of it. What is the current status of the contrib program. I haven't heard anything from the maili

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 servers

2000-09-30 Thread Thornton Prime
On 30 Sep 2000, Alan Shutko wrote: > Evandro Fernandes Giovanini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > my question is: where are the servers for XFree86 4.0.1 (what package)? > > XFree86-4.0.1-something.rpm The old XFree had one server binary for each chipset. The new XFree loads driver libraries

Rsync Mirror?

1999-10-22 Thread Thornton Prime
Is there any way to get rsync access to rawhide? thornton -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Patching RPMs

1999-09-21 Thread Thornton Prime
Mike Chinander wrote: > > What about rhmask? I seem to remember using it when I was upgrading a > commercial software product to the latest version. I don't remember how > it works, I just typed in the commands in the instructions that came with > the upgrade. rhamsk does an XOR mask against

Re: Patching RPMs

1999-09-21 Thread Thornton Prime
Matt Fahrner wrote: > > We're wondering if there is a way to patch up RPMs? No, not source RPMs > but rather the binary installable format. Here's the problem: > > We cookie cutter build our Linux boxes for our stores (eventually 5 each > multiplied by 300+ stores). We're trying to do all the ins