From frugalware.low at gmail.com Sat Sep 16 05:38:21 2006 From: frugalware.low at gmail.com (Low Kian Seong) Date: Sat Sep 16 05:38:41 2006 Subject: [Frugalware-users] tllts fame Message-ID: Dear all, For those of you on this list that do listen to the linux linc tech show (tllts.info) you guys are big on the forum. Thanks a bit to me :) Warm regards, Low Kian Seong From vmiklos at frugalware.org Sat Sep 16 12:27:21 2006 From: vmiklos at frugalware.org (VMiklos) Date: Sat Sep 16 12:27:25 2006 Subject: [Frugalware-users] tllts fame In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20060916102721.GF27473@genesis.frugalware.org> On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 03:38:21AM +0000, Low Kian Seong wrote: > For those of you on this list that do listen to the linux linc tech > show (tllts.info) you guys are big on the forum. Thanks a bit to me :) thanks for the info & all your work :) udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org From frugalware.low at gmail.com Mon Sep 18 08:26:12 2006 From: frugalware.low at gmail.com (Low Kian Seong) Date: Mon Sep 18 08:26:45 2006 Subject: [Frugalware-users] frugalware on vmware ? Message-ID: Dear all, Has anybody tried frugalware on vmware ? I am trying to install frugalware on vmware server (5.0) and it's spewing out all sorts of errors. Anyone has similar experiences or even better a solution ? Thanks. Warm regards, Low Kian Seong From vmiklos at frugalware.org Tue Sep 19 01:07:34 2006 From: vmiklos at frugalware.org (VMiklos) Date: Tue Sep 19 01:07:35 2006 Subject: [Frugalware-users] frugalware on vmware ? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20060918230733.GM27473@genesis.frugalware.org> On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:26:12PM +0800, Low Kian Seong wrote: > Has anybody tried frugalware on vmware ? I am trying to install > frugalware on vmware server (5.0) and it's spewing out all sorts of > errors. > > Anyone has similar experiences or even better a solution ? the developers usually use qemu for emulated installations by the way, some users reported that on vmware you should select the type "ide" for the virtual hdds instead of "scsi" to boot the system successfully hope this helps :) udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org From frugalware.low at gmail.com Sat Sep 23 03:27:52 2006 From: frugalware.low at gmail.com (Low Kian Seong) Date: Sat Sep 23 03:28:06 2006 Subject: [Frugalware-users] Convert arch packages to fpm ? Message-ID: Dear all, Since frugalware inherits it's package manager from arch, I was wondering if there is a way to convert arch packages to frugalware's fpm ? Thanks. From snarkout at linuxfortherestofus.com Sat Sep 23 04:45:45 2006 From: snarkout at linuxfortherestofus.com (Snarkout) Date: Sat Sep 23 04:46:12 2006 Subject: [Frugalware-users] Convert arch packages to fpm ? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <200609222045.45942.snarkout@linuxfortherestofus.com> It's fairly easy to take PKGBUILDS from the AUR or ABS and convert them into FrugalBuilds IME. On Friday 22 September 2006 19:27, Low Kian Seong wrote: > Dear all, > > Since frugalware inherits it's package manager from arch, I was > wondering if there is a way to convert arch packages to frugalware's > fpm ? > > Thanks. > > > _______________________________________________ > Frugalware-users mailing list > Frugalware-users@frugalware.org > http://frugalware.org/mailman/listinfo/frugalware-users -- Shared pain is lessened, shared joy is increased; thus do we refute entropy. --Spider Robinson From vmiklos at frugalware.org Sat Sep 23 07:50:23 2006 From: vmiklos at frugalware.org (VMiklos) Date: Sat Sep 23 07:50:26 2006 Subject: [Frugalware-users] Convert arch packages to fpm ? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20060923055023.GN230@genesis.frugalware.org> On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 09:27:52AM +0800, Low Kian Seong wrote: > Since frugalware inherits it's package manager from arch, I was > wondering if there is a way to convert arch packages to frugalware's > fpm ? depends on what package. if the package has no init script or anything special then adding the archs() directive and renaming the buildscript to FrugalBuild should be enough. of course the package names may differ, so that you may have to correct the dependencies, too (ie. gtk2 -> gtk+2 and so on) udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org From frugalware.low at gmail.com Mon Sep 25 05:55:33 2006 From: frugalware.low at gmail.com (Low Kian Seong) Date: Mon Sep 25 06:03:01 2006 Subject: [Frugalware-users] frugalware on vmware ? In-Reply-To: <20060918230733.GM27473@genesis.frugalware.org> References: <20060918230733.GM27473@genesis.frugalware.org> Message-ID: On 9/19/06, VMiklos wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:26:12PM +0800, Low Kian Seong wrote: > > Has anybody tried frugalware on vmware ? I am trying to install > > frugalware on vmware server (5.0) and it's spewing out all sorts of > > errors. > > > > Anyone has similar experiences or even better a solution ? > > the developers usually use qemu for emulated installations > > by the way, some users reported that on vmware you should select the > type "ide" for the virtual hdds instead of "scsi" to boot the system > successfully Yes ! That works guys !! Thanks ! > > hope this helps :) > > udv / greetings, > VMiklos > > -- > Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org > _______________________________________________ > Frugalware-users mailing list > Frugalware-users@frugalware.org > http://frugalware.org/mailman/listinfo/frugalware-users >