Hi all, anonymous coward (though pretty constant reader):
After much elbow grease and humbling experiences, I've managed a Debian 2.2 kernel re-compile (very scary for a newbie like me) so to get sound support without soundcard selection (needed by ALSA drivers) and to enable loadable modules. Now though, everything I read with a long filename (from a CD burnt in windoze, 'course) such as alsa-driver0.5a.bz2 comes up alsa-d~1.bz2, so killing the file when I try to untar. I know there is an easy way to do this (please?), but do I have to recompile the kernel again to support long filenames?
Feeling closer than ever to getting a stable system running PD (see www.pure-data.org), proud I'm finally running Debian (a.savory's advice)
cheers,
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On Mon, 26 Mar, 2001 at 13:46 +0100, d.casal wrote:
I know there is an easy way to do this (please?), but do I have to recompile the kernel again to support long filenames?
It sounds like you're missing vfat support (the Win95/98... filesystem hack for long filenames). To check if it's compiled in or not, do:
savs@oxygen:/usr/src/linux$ grep VFAT .config CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
If you see y, or m, then it's there and you can convince your machine to work properly. Check /etc/fstab to see if the device you are using is being mounted as type "vfat" or possibly "auto".
IF you see n or the line begins with '#', you'll need to recompile -- sorry!
proud I'm finally running Debian (a.savory's advice)
Another happy convert :-)
Andrew.
All,
Speaking to people at the last ALUG meeting I was amazed at how few people knew where the linux penguin came from. So I thought I would share with you the following link
http://tuxaqfh.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html
Which gives a good history of where the penguin comes from.
Thanks
D
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On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 01:21:24PM -0800, David Freeman wrote:
All,
Speaking to people at the last ALUG meeting I was amazed at how few people knew where the linux penguin came from. So I thought I would share with you the following link
http://tuxaqfh.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html
Which gives a good history of where the penguin comes from.
Thanks
D
I thought it was common knowledge, someone adopted a penguin for linus.
Cheers,
Brett
Bah. The real story is that Linus got bit by a penguin (a 15 foot mutant one, as he tells it) at Sydney Zoo, when he was visiting Andrew Tridgell (the guy that started the samba project). See Rebel Code for the full story, or the emails are achived on various lkml archives[0]
Cheers, -Thom [0] lkml == linux kernel mailing list * Brett Parker (brettp@stu.uea.ac.uk) wrote :
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 01:21:24PM -0800, David Freeman wrote:
All,
Speaking to people at the last ALUG meeting I was amazed at how few people knew where the linux penguin came from. So I thought I would share with you the following link
http://tuxaqfh.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html
Which gives a good history of where the penguin comes from.
Thanks
D
I thought it was common knowledge, someone adopted a penguin for linus.
Cheers,
Brett
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