Archive for October, 2002
Wednesday, October 16th, 2002 0 views
I've got two working Linux distros at home this morning. Actually, the Suse install went very well overall, completing just after 7:30 last night. The only real hitch in the install came after the base system was completed. Suse reboots at that point. It's a bit jarring to have a ...
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Tuesday, October 15th, 2002 0 views
Some quick personal notes.
I started back to work at the telescope company today. Everyone welcomed me back warmly and I jumped in with both feet. I also received more than 30 emails from Penguin Shell readers congratulating me on the change. I only thought I'd realized how much I missed ...
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Tuesday, October 15th, 2002 0 views
A couple of quick initial impressions on the install routine for Suse.
As always, it looks nice. You have the option of several resolutions for the install. The screens are pretty clear, though I wasn't immediately sure of how to deviate from the default installation, nor did it really give any ...
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Tuesday, October 15th, 2002 0 views
I ended up having several more little weirdnesses in Gentoo. As I was trying to figure out how I was going to find the time to resolve them and get a good install by the beginning of the distribution review tomorrow, UPS showed up at my door with a brand-spanking ...
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Monday, October 14th, 2002 0 views
Another night without a Gentoo install. When I came to Grub configuration, a file was missing. In the disappointment over the Cardinal's loss to the Giants, I've forgotten which one. Anyway, I decided to emerge lilo. No problem. Configured lilo as I've done for years and rebooted. For the past ...
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Monday, October 14th, 2002 0 views
The moderator in the Gentoo newbies support forum gave me exactly the right workarounds for some apparent minor problems with Perl. I've moved into stage 3 and am ready to compile a custom Gentoo kernel.
Is it possible to do this between innings? You bet. A good baseball freak/Linux geek always ...
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Monday, October 14th, 2002 0 views
As soon as I got home from work today, I dove back into the Gentoo install. Rather than using my bent-instrument brain to try to solve a problem I had no clue about, I registered and posted a description of the problem on the Gentoo forums. Within ten minutes, ...
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Sunday, October 13th, 2002 0 views
It looks like some further research is necessary - I'm 0 for 2 for the day. Gentoo would not complete a stage 3 build and my day is running out. I'll continue through the week to work on this install.
New rule. Linux installs will only be considered satisfactory if they ...
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Sunday, October 13th, 2002 0 views
It looks like none of the perl *.pm files are where they're supposed to be in this build. The compiler hasn't found any of the files in the aforementioned @INC. I've found them in the temporary files, though I couldn't do a cp *.pm command to move all to the ...
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Sunday, October 13th, 2002 0 views
The stage 3 install just failed. It couldn't find the lib.pm file in the include path. I've checked the path and the directories aren't there. Given that this is perl, I'm running emerge perl to see if I can correctly install perl and, accordingly, all the associated directories. That would ...
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