Re: [SLUG] SuSE 9 and apt

From: Robin 'Roblimo' Miller (robin@roblimo.com)
Date: Sat Oct 25 2003 - 13:24:31 EDT


>I have /home as a separate partition. What I do is not tell the installer
>about that partition, then afterwards use usermod if my UID's different
>than what it was. I suppose your way might be neater, but I'm loath to
>poke around in other users' $HOMEs.
>

That's my normal method, but after over a year's worth of sloppy
filekeeping and cruft buildup, I found that less than 5% of the stuff in
/home was worth keeping. Why do I need copies and backups of stories
that are published and forgotten? :)

And since this computer is mine-and-mine-only, other users are not a
concern...

Stuff below... this sounds scary for someone like me who a friend once
called "too dangerous to be root without supervision." Mebbe....

Hmmm.....

- R

>
>
>
>>BTW, if anyone can think of a reason why my parallel port isn't
>>detecting or how to get it to detect, I'd love to hear it.
>>
>>
>
>You have to have
>
>[*] IEEE 1284 transfer modes
>
>selected in the kernel configuration. If you have a patched kernel, try
>a stock one. I also have
>
>alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
>options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 dma=0
>
>in /etc/modules.conf, but I don't know how vital they are. Make sure you
>have a bidirectional cable. Most today are, but if you're using an
>antique, it may not be. Check /var/log/messages for relevant lines.
>
>
>

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