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Today's Topics:
1. Early reports from linux.conf.au anyone? (Mark Purcell)
2. Re: linux digest, Vol 1 #1091 - Subject: linux on USB drive (Steve
Cooper)
3. apt-get on non-Debian Linicies (Michael James)
4. Re: Early reports from linux.conf.au anyone? (Robert Edwards)
5. Inspired TransACT plans. (Karl Schaffarczyk)
6. Re: apt-get on non-Debian Linicies (Geoff Smith)
7. Re: Early reports from linux.conf.au anyone? (Robert Edwards)
8. Re: Early reports from linux.conf.au anyone? (Mark Purcell)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 07:07:22 +1100
To: linux at lists.samba.org
Subject: Early reports from linux.conf.au anyone?
From: Mark Purcell <mark at purcell.homeip.net>
Does anyone have any early/ in progress reports on linux.conf.au??
Curious minds want to know.
Mark
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Message: 2
From: Steve Cooper <aausttax at bigpond.net.au>
Organization: ATO SB E-Commerce
To: linux at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: linux digest, Vol 1 #1091 - Subject: linux on USB drive
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 21:18:54 +1100
Cc: Kim Holburn <kim.holburn at anu.edu.au>
i've seen it don't from a flash card...
maybe it maybe worth wile to check out the knoppix project
its a bootable distro that runs off a cdrom completely
www.knoppix.net
but if you want to boot from a usb drive the bios has to support it!
Regards
Steve
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:02:55 +1100
> To: clug <linux at lists.samba.org>
> From: Kim Holburn <kim.holburn at anu.edu.au>
> Subject: linux on USB drive
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to set up a linux system that boots off a USB drive. I want to
> cut down on writes as much as possible. I assume /proc is really in
memory
> and not on the disk? I have a system without a swap partition and I'd
like
> to get rid of as much of /var as possible.
>
> Anyone got any pointers on how to do this? I'm looking at RUNT but it
> needs a boot floppy and I don't have a floppy drive, just the USB.
>
> Kim
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Note to the masses:
Folks.... Rule of thumb. If it says beta, the chances are good that unless
you are a developer of some kind with good skills, you *are* going to break
your system. When the docs say might, read might as *WILL*. Beta is for
testing... and tests fail.
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Message: 3
From: Michael James <michael.james at csiro.au>
To: linux at lists.samba.org
Subject: apt-get on non-Debian Linicies
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:12:12 +1100
Can the "apt" package system be run over rpm?
I have some suggestions that I can duplicate one systems rpm list
onto another machine using a 3 line script calling apt-get.
To generate the list:
rpm -qa --queryformat '%{name}\n' > pkglist
Then do the following:
for pkg in `cat pkglist`; do
apt-get install $pkg
done
Is this a not-so-subtle hint to get Debian, or can I run apt-get on Suse?
Otherwise, given that I have all the RPMs in various directories,
it wouldn't be that hard to generate a list of desired RPMs,
search them out and add path info to the actual directory,
then rpm them in.
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Message: 4
From: Robert Edwards <Robert.Edwards at anu.edu.au>
Organization: Australian National University
To: Mark Purcell <mark at purcell.homeip.net>, linux at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: Early reports from linux.conf.au anyone?
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:15:33 +1100
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 07:07 am, Mark Purcell wrote:
> Does anyone have any early/ in progress reports on linux.conf.au??
>
> Curious minds want to know.
>
> Mark
It is happening at U.W.A. in Perth, W.A.
There are about 400 attendees here.
Tridge gave his keynote this morning on discovering network protocols.
Linus Torvalds is here with his family.
Perth is beautiful, U.W.A. is very pretty and the weather here is most
agreeable (it is even going to rain a bit later today).
What else would you like to know about it?
Cheers,
Bob Edwards (who drove across with his family and so missed out on all the
fires etc. in Canberra).
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:33:28 +1100
To: linux at lists.samba.org
From: Karl Schaffarczyk <karl at karl.net.au>
Subject: Inspired TransACT plans.
Apologies for the slightly commercial nature of this post.
Inspired is looking to offer access via transACT - plans running
something like a $88/month plan offering 3Gb peak, and up to 10Gb off
peak, all connections using a fixed IP. Free access would be granted
to a mirror server and customer-customer within the network. We are
looking to go live during mid to late Feb this year.
other plans smaller/greater than this will also be on offer...
a) any takers for the plan?
b) anybody want some contract work programming a solution to deal
with traffic accounting and billing, working in a mixed PERL, PHP,
MySQL environment? rates negotiable.
Regards
Karl
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:48:44 +1100
From: Geoff Smith <gsmith at geoffco.net>
To: Michael James <michael.james at csiro.au>
Cc: linux at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: apt-get on non-Debian Linicies
Hello,
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1890&page=all
Works for me :-)
Geoff
Michael James wrote:
> Can the "apt" package system be run over rpm?
>
> I have some suggestions that I can duplicate one systems rpm list
> onto another machine using a 3 line script calling apt-get.
>
> To generate the list:
>
> rpm -qa --queryformat '%{name}\n' > pkglist
>
> Then do the following:
>
> for pkg in `cat pkglist`; do
> apt-get install $pkg
> done
>
> Is this a not-so-subtle hint to get Debian, or can I run apt-get on Suse?
>
> Otherwise, given that I have all the RPMs in various directories,
> it wouldn't be that hard to generate a list of desired RPMs,
> search them out and add path info to the actual directory,
> then rpm them in.
>
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Message: 7
From: Robert Edwards <Robert.Edwards at anu.edu.au>
Organization: Australian National University
To: Mark Purcell <mark at purcell.homeip.net>, linux at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: Early reports from linux.conf.au anyone?
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 22:55:33 +1100
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 04:15 pm, Robert Edwards wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 07:07 am, Mark Purcell wrote:
> > Does anyone have any early/ in progress reports on linux.conf.au??
> >
> > Curious minds want to know.
> >
> > Mark
>
> It is happening at U.W.A. in Perth, W.A.
>
> There are about 400 attendees here.
>
> Tridge gave his keynote this morning on discovering network protocols.
>
> Linus Torvalds is here with his family.
>
> Perth is beautiful, U.W.A. is very pretty and the weather here is most
> agreeable (it is even going to rain a bit later today).
>
> What else would you like to know about it?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bob Edwards (who drove across with his family and so missed out on all the
> fires etc. in Canberra).
OK, another quick report. We had a well attended Q&A (Questions and Answers)
session this afternoon with Bdale Garbee (Mr. Debian), Andrew "tridge"
Tridgell and Sir Linus Torvalds himself on the panel. Turns out that there
was someone else who couldn't help but join in answering some of the
questions - so they gave him a seat on stage as well:
http://tux.anu.edu.au/LCA/dcp02258.jpg (the guy standing up with the large
container of Chupa-Chups under his arm is James Bromberger, the LCA2003
organising guru).
Cheers,
Bob Edwards (we haven't had that rain yet - but it might still happen)
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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 23:54:22 +1100
To: linux at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: Early reports from linux.conf.au anyone?
From: Mark Purcell <mark at purcell.homeip.net>
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 04:15:33PM +1100, Robert Edwards wrote:
>
> What else would you like to know about it?
Thanks Bob,
Just wanted to keep the details flowing so I could feel bad that I didn't
make it over :-)
Mark
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