Lenny stable, here is the respective part of my menu.lst:
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686
root(hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686
I'm getting an error on boot that's related to
Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet
you have the root already
root(hd1,0) is used for setup, I think.
The only reason I posed the question is because all my Dell PCs have
this problem, and every time Debian
I changed the font settings in IceDove. I'm not sure specifically which
modification
fixed it, but it's displaying properly now, and using TTF, which makes
it much easier
on the eyes.
Glen
glen...@life-in-christ.holiness.ch wrote:
When I receive text mail, or try to compose mail in text
After a rather lengthy break from compiling my own programs, I'm trying
to build fvwm,
but am getting an error message: X11 libraries or header files could
not be found...
Now that Debian is using Xorg, I'm at a loss as to how to fix this.
Comments?
Glen
On Friday 21 June 2002 04:12 am, Paul Johnson wrote:
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On Thursday 20 June 2002 10:02 am, W. Paul Mills wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes:
To summarize somewhat, perhaps unfairly, the GNU Project seems to
believe that providing a complete detailed manual is always
preferable to providing a reference card; the Debian Project
I posted this question to the xemacs list. No one has responded, so I
thought I'd try here:
I recently bought a new PC and installed Debian 3, XFree86 Version
4.1.0.1 from a Debian package. On my Red Hat box, I was able to
display a pixmap, grey.xpm, as the background in xemacs. For a
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 01:07 am, Glyn Millington wrote:
Glen Lee Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://members.fcwm.org/glen/fvwm/fvwm2.jpg
Nice - but do you LIKE those icons?!
It's a matter of priorities. I have to work on functionality first. I
worry about looks when I have
Glen: Don't get your panties in a wad. It's easy to get offended on
email lists if you have a thin skin. Alex's posting was generally
accurate, if a bit harsh (although it didn't apply in this case
because you asked for a howto, not for direct help) . Ya gotta learn
to spot those smilies and
On Monday 17 June 2002 06:54 pm, you wrote:
On Jun 17, Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
Alex,
I would like to thank you for your arrogant, obnoxious reply to my
letter.
no problem
It's people like you that keep Windows users using Windows.
The reason I asked for a step by step howto
The mainboard has a built-in AC'97 4Ch Codec, provides an AMR
slot...
Ah... now THIS is meaningful. I had a bear of a time getting this
identical piece of dung working on my otherwise cherry computer.
This next bit assumes that you're running sid. I don't know how it
is on potato.
in effigy. They won't blame Red Hat. After all, it was my
decision to upgrade to 7.3. Not Red Hat's.
Glen, could I interest you in apt-rpm ?? It's a rather sweet
package for your RH boxes.
No. Downloading the rpms isn't the problem. The constant upgrades are.
I need a stable
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 12:25 am, you wrote:
As far as what's next, what happens when you try and play an mp3
file? Whether via xmms or mpg123, you should get some meaningful
output.
Failed to open sound device.
libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file
or
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 12:41 am, you wrote:
The 'K7' builds are only for us who run AMD Athlons. I thought I
made this point in my previous message, but obviously not.
Not sure what you mean. Last I heard the Duron, Thunderbird, and XP are
all part of the Athlon product line. I have a 950
On Sunday 16 June 2002 06:03 pm, you wrote:
On Jun 16, Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
I can't get audio to work. I have the following sound card that is
built into the motherboard:
Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
SiS PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 02)
I have
On Thursday 06 June 2002 11:35 am, Ivo Wever wrote:
[snippety] But as a distribution, it's head and shoulders above the
competition.
If the other dists are so terrible that they can't even support the
internet connection of a small group of people for three hours a day,
then why is anyone
On Wednesday 12 June 2002 11:00 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 18:17, FreeportWeb Debian Support Account wrote:
Which leads to my question. Once you have that up and
running, whats the best way to install KDE?
As a former KDE 2.2.1 user (in my Mandrake days) who thinks
that
On Sunday 16 June 2002 10:15 am, uzoma nwosu wrote:
I really hope this is a simple question that I'm just missing the
answer somewhere. I'm running Debian Woody on an AMD K6-2 350 box.
Everything works fine for the most part. It's just that when I try
to run a xclient as root from a term in
I can't get audio to work. I have the following sound card that is
built into the motherboard:
Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS
PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 02)
I have the driver for it compiled into the kernel (2.4.18).
I have added myself to the
On Thu 06 Jun 02 15:45, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 12:48:15PM -0600, user list wrote:
[snip]
| The reasons I like [debian] are:
| 1. apt-get
[snip]
| I'll note in passing that the first reason has lost some edge now
| that RH 7.3 comes with apt-get and that
If the people in effective control of Debian's
direction no longer have this ability, then
perhaps Debian is no longer useful to most
of us.
Debian is no longer useful to us when they no longer put out a product
that we can use. That is hardly the case.
To save the Debian Attack Team
Ivo Wever writes:
Sam wrote:
And here's a third - http://www.vicnet.net.au/~rpds/
There are 50 elderly/disabled people in the state of Victoria in Australia who
get their Internet access through a Debian box. All are members of the Rural
I'm sorry, but this argument isn't valid as a defense for
Matthew Sackman wrote:
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 12:57:50AM -0700, AE Roy wrote:
I know that this is kind of off-topic, but I'm asking you folks anyway
because I'm sure you've experienced the same as me.
I keep getting mail, spam-mail about 40 each day, and I don't know how to
get procmail to
I have Woody installed with the 2.2-20 kernel. I apt-get installed the
2.4.18 kernel for both k7 and i686. Both installed ok, but both hung on
boot, stating that the root file system couldn't be mounted. As an
experiment, I downloaded the latest stable kernel from kernel.org and
compiled
George Karaolides wrote:
Hi,
I have a really strange DNS resolution problem.
I have set up and configured a Debian woody box as a gateway and firewall
for an internal network connected to the Internet via ADSL. I use the
Debian ipmasq package for this.
The ISP assigns an IP address to the
Ivo Wever wrote:
Manoj wrote:
What the non free world does, or does not do, does not
affect release decisions for Debian. We release when we are ready. We
are not yet ready. Period.
I think what some people fear is that this implementation of the
Debian philosophy
might prove
Peter Whysall wrote:
on Wed, Jun 05, 2002, Glen Lee Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I have Woody installed with the 2.2-20 kernel. I apt-get installed the
2.4.18 kernel for both k7 and i686. Both installed ok, but both hung on
boot, stating that the root file system couldn't be mounted
Joris wrote:
I have Woody installed with the 2.2-20 kernel. I apt-get installed the
2.4.18 kernel for both k7 and i686. Both installed ok, but both hung on
boot, stating that the root file system couldn't be mounted.
this is because those kernel images use initial ramdisks (initrd) as root
.
Regards,
Glen
Adam Majer writes:
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 06:20:55PM -0500, Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
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On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 07:51:45PM +0800, Paolo Falcone wrote:
Thus spake Lisa C. Boyd last Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:20:37PM -0400:
Use modconf and install the appropriate loadable kernel module for your
sound card.
Also, to make the sounds come out, you'll need to add your account to
the
I installed xemacs 21 from Woody. I run fvwm as my window manager. I'm using
the same configuration files as I did with Red Hat for both. Xemacs is ignoring
the font information I have in my configuration files, and when it loads in
fvwm, instead of staying on desktop 0,0, it spreads out well
Before I begin, I want to state that I'm very
impressed with Debian.It's obvious thatsome very talented people put
in a lot of quality time on it.I now have it installed on all 3 of my
servers, which formerly ran Red Hat. The base system install went great on
all of them. I'm now having a
HELP!
My Red Hat server crashed when I attempted to upgrade it to 7.3.
Unfortunately this is the box I use to host a couple hundred web sites.
I'm going to install a second hard drive and put Woody on it. I'd like to
then be able to access the existing files on the original hard drive from
I'd like to begin the process of moving my Red Hat server over to Debian.
I'm not sure how to procede. Right now RH is installed on hda. I just
picked up another hard drive that I'm going to install on hdb, on which
I'll put woody.
The Red Hat installation is currently running kernel
I need to install a POP3 server. What package is it in?
Is there a way that I can search packages for a file using apt and a regexp?
Glen
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The upcoming stable distribution - Woody - features fairly recent
software. It still uses 2.2 by default though installing 2.4 can be done
also (there's an explanation for this in the Debian docs).
For the most recent software, there's also the unstable distribution
(codenamed Sid) - unstable in
May 9, at 09:45, dman sent through the Star Gate:
Whenever a library goes through a major incompatible revision, debian
keeps both around as separately named packages designed to co-exist.
That by itself is a good enough reason for me to try Debian. I tried as a
newbie to upgrade some packages
May 9, at 18:26, tony mollica sent through the Star Gate:
Hello. I have a mixed network of Linux (Debian) and windows
machines in the arrangement below.
___ __ __
| || || |
---|router || Linux||switch|---(192.168.x.x network)
T1
dman writes:
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:09:13PM -0500, Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
I don't know about *install*, but it certainly *runs* (and sometimes
crawls :-)) on 8MB.
Linux and low RAM boxes don't get along well. I found that I can run FVWM on a
remote box using X-forwarding to a better box
Ron writes:
That by itself is good enough for me to try it. I absolutely dread Red Hat
upgrades. I don't know why they can't do it so you can just upgrade
individual
packages without having to re-install the whole system. Most of the time
when I
upgrade I can guarantee that the box
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson writes:
On Wed, 8 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
Linux and low RAM boxes don't get along well.
Not sure what paralell universe that's from. Linux runs on PDAs, for
I mis-stated myself; Low RAM boxes and Linux GUIs (X and gimp, desktop
applications (Gnome, KDE), etc
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson writes:
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
I don't have a problem as much with downloading dependencies as I do with
needing programs that require conflicting libraries. I'm fortunate in that I
have an ADSL line that will allow 66+ kB/s downloads, assuming
Hi,
I've been a loyal Red Hat user for the last 4 or 5 years. Their recent
distributions will no longer install on all my computers because they now
require more than 16 Meg RAM. I have a few questions:
The Debian web site says that Debian will install on 12 Meg RAM. Is that
information
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