Re: updating of CMOS clock

On Sat, 06 Nov, 1999 à 07:46:38PM -0500, Salman Ahmed wrote: LP == Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LP For your BIOS : simply set your CMOS clock to the GMT time : I am being a bit daft but do you mean that I should go into my BIOS and change the time to whatever

Re: [Debian: XFree86] Linux shut down the VGA-Output

. Could it be possible to see the screen section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config, it would *greatly* simplify diagnostics... Having the values of HorizSync and VertRefresh lying would be a real plus too. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Unidentified subject!

2.1 Yes : hit 1 and you'll get lilo (wich is installed in /dev/hda1). This is the prompt of mbr. BTW does *anybody* still use mbr ? I think it's time to remove the recommends dependency of lilo to mbr or at least to change it to suggest... -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: Who is using up my root partition?

in /, with a 100MB file. No, it defaults to the current directory. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne

Re: getting sysclock to match hwclock

On Mon, 25 Oct, 1999 à 09:52:51PM +0200, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: On Mon, 25 Oct, 1999 à 08:26:09PM +0200, Patrik Magnusson wrote: I was under the impression (I still am) that it's a bad thing to just set the system clock back. Instead you should get it to run slower (or faster - I

Re: getting sysclock to match hwclock

should have a coherent /etc/adjtime if you want that the two clock stay on sync. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur

Re: getting sysclock to match hwclock

) on this topic. You can found it on http://www.linux-france.org/article/sys/heure.html. The SGML source can be found in the same directory. Translators are welcomed. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: another question about my monitor

monitor, I have been shooting in the dark while trying to set up xf86config. I keep missing. Why not giving a try to one of the standard monitors suggested by xf86config ? Choices 2, 4 and 5 work on most of the low-end 14 SVGA monitors... -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: How to copy the Debian-CD (with short 8.3 FN's) to my Harddisk with LFN

SLINK for i386 and not more. I have only 2,8 GByte and the last Download had crashed my system. They had triet to download around 4,x GByte Why not a few wget : one for dist/slink/contrib/binary-i386, one for dist/slink/contrib/src, ... ? You get the point ? -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: dvips -d 2400 How??? default printer does not support 2400dpi

ghostscript for? It doesn't. All one needs ghostscript for is printing on non-postscript printers and as a backend for gv/ghostview. Sorry for the misinformation. So, what caused the error message in the first message of this thread ? -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: dvips -d 2400 How??? default printer does not support 2400dpi

-alladin) to do the conversion. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/

Re: Function Keys, MC and Telnet/SSH

can use ESC# to get F# (ESC0 for F10). -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du

Re: udma66 ...

Slv ide0 - hda, hdb ide1 - hdc, hdd ide2 - hde, hdf ide3 - hdg, hdh and why does the speed (hdparm -t ..) still the same than under udma33? (and I'm sure that udma66 is Ok on this drive, through the dos utility). Wich version of hdparm ? Have you activated udma66 ? -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: Problems with Linux partitions after installing FreeBSD

the BSD slice. As I don't use BSD, I'm not sure of the name of tis programm. HTH -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur

Re: need help for my mitsumi cdrom

and IRQ used by your interface (defaults are 0x300, irq 11), if you do not remember hve a look at the interface, these parameters are setted by jumpers and switch on it. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: please help if you can ...

questions once in a row, answering would be easier. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en

Re: mcedit?

how I can get it back? mc -e filename Doesn't seem to work without providing a filename alas. (It's not in manpages but mc -h does give this trick) -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Slow system clock?

problems with it. Thanks for all your help, You're welcome. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne

Re: Slow system clock?

approximately 4 hours in every 9. Could you post your /etc/adjtime and the result of adjtimex -p ? And verify if GMT= in /etc/default/rcS. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux

Re: [OT] cdrom speed adjustment

On Tue, 21 Sep, 1999 à 02:11:02PM +0200, E.L. Meijer Eric wrote: Hi all, I know someone who has a windows program that limits the speed of his cdrom drive. Is there a way to do this in linux? Although it is a There's a .deb for that : setcd . -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: mutt questions

guess depending on whether it's incoming or outgoing). I'm assuming you guys save email you've composed to a file too, right? I do it like that : set record=+sent in my .muttrc. Works fine for me. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL

Re: Another Dselect cockup 2

(upper case do matter. If you've already quitted this screen I'm not aware of simple solutions. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur

Re: Debian 2.1 boot disk with Tekrm DC390F

on debian-french ? It would have been simpler to me to reply in french than in english... -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur

Re: undelete for partition tables?

but I don't know the exact URL. If you can't find it, I have a copy of it -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux

Re: offtopic: WindowMaker questions

, and clicking on an icon showed more. You may want to look at the 9menu package, i've heard good things about it. Never tried it myself though. Or you can use the collapse options of the WMClip but you'll have only one such icon (well, one per desktop). -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: Zombie process using pppd

) ? I must admit it does, I never realized that long format meant PPID displays amongs other thing. thanks. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre

Re: Zombie process using pppd

to determine the neglecting parent of a zombi ? Such as to be able to kill the parent if it's not a necessary program and letting init inherits the zombi process. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Revisit Large Hard Drives

, fat, ext2. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/

Re: trouble with fdisk and activate the swap

the answer in two steps : -$ apropos swap would have listed you all the man pages dealing with swap, then -$ man mkswap would have explained to you all that you needed. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: mounting problems

on /dev/hdc, or too many mounted file systems Are you sure you've included iso9660 fs during your kernel compile ? -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans

Re: CDRW 8100i help

to probe all SCSI LUN. It's only useful for multi-cd readers. Your CD reader will appears only one time and you won't have the error : scsi0: channel 0 target 1 lun 1 request sense failed,. I hope that this solve your problem. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: Small faux pas with LILO

/boot.0301 of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1 lilo -u (or lilo -u /dev/hda1 if you've already modified your /etc/lilo.conf) will restore your previous boot sector. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Easy way to determine where files are installed?

these file to answer I think) If you don't find them here, tey're crated by the the install scripts : apache.preinst and apache.postinst in the same directory. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Debian: XFree86] Errors

an Xserver and not by X itself. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/

Re: New Gateway computer.. can I install Debian on it?

harddrive ?? -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/

Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting

but in slink this file no longer exists in slink. So, the method I'd use is to alter the link in rc.d as proposed before. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

at the plate. What about the solution used in debian : $ ls *mail -l lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root4 Nov 11 1998 rmail - exim lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root4 Nov 11 1998 sendmail - exim I suppose that qmail, postfix and other use a similar trick. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: Installing Bo Debian on a 386 2 meg RAM?

don't know -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/

Re: Non-X11 jpeg viewer desired

Hi, On Sun, 30 May, 1999 à 09:29:02AM -0400, David B.Teague wrote: On Sat, 29 May 1999, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: zgv but it uses svgalib someone writes: ::That's a problem? Two possible problems : - second : I think it has to be suid root to be useable by user other than root

Re: Non-X11 jpeg viewer desired

by user other than root but you should verify this point as I'm not sure. Sean Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: Hi, On Fri, 28 May, 1999 à 09:42:20PM -0700, Dan Smith wrote: Hi. Is there a package in Debian to view jpegs which zgv but it uses svgalib -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: Non-X11 jpeg viewer desired

Hi, On Fri, 28 May, 1999 à 09:42:20PM -0700, Dan Smith wrote: Hi. Is there a package in Debian to view jpegs which does NOT use X11, GNOME or any other stuff like that? Please send replies to me directly, rather than to the list. Thanx zgv but it uses svgalib -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: sticky bit (was: RE: Permissions for /tmp)

as each of this directory includes a link to its parent directory (.. is this link). BTW the missing link is the entry of the directory itself in its parent directory and not .. indeed. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: CDROM Installation problems

in the This is probably due to the fact that your CD-ROM driver is not an IDE device. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui

Re: Norton Commander for Linux?

probably installed gmc which provides mc. André Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there an equivalent tool for Linux which resembles Norton Commander's dual window interface? I'd like to be able to see an entire subdirectory's -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: Kernel 2.2.5 and make-kpkg

? Unless compilation gives errors, cd .. ; ls *.deb will show you the expected package... -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur

Re: HELP! All SCSI, no is09660 fs

On Wed, 14 Apr, 1999 à 04:34:09PM -0400, David B.Teague wrote: ii kernel-source-2 2.0.34-4 Linux kernel source. [...] Native language support (Unicode, codepages) (CONFIG_NLS) [N/y/m/?] (NEW) You must answer Y or M to this question to get the question about iso9660 -- ( - Laurent

Re: Solved: Re: HELP! All SCSI, no is09660 fs

by kernel 2.0.34. I think that they're used for Joliet CD Format which rely on unicode but I can be wrong on this topic... -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin

Re: mount partition or disk

of the MBR. You could test for this signature (with dd for example). If not present : definitely it's not a partitionned disk If present : probably a partitionned disk but you should watch for the correctness of the supposed partitions. Any suggestions? HTH -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: boot failed due to superblock error and FAT BREAD Failure

to boot /dev/hda7 (03:07 is major device 3=ide0, minor device 7=seventh partition of hda). Boot from a floppy and use rdev to correct that. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez

Re: modem setserial (auto dialup out there?)

began having one minor problem: after dialing up turning off the connection the modem would be 'hung' and I have to run the hylafax probemodem script. You should try pppconfig and use pon and poff after : they are easy to configure and work fine IMHO -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: /etc/lynx.cfg - ~/.lynxrc

Hi, On Wed, 31 Mar, 1999 à 05:14:57PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, how can I have lynx to use each home user's configuration file instead of /etc/lynx.cfg? I mean to default to: $ lynx -cfg=~/.lynxrc Why not do it with an alias ? -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: The newbie needs more help.

is probably /dev/eda instead of /dev/hda. HTH -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent

Re: Anybody have the time to help a newbie?

that is in a loadable module to solve this problem. Perhaps you have an MCA bus and/or ESDI harddrive -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur

Re: crc errors with LILO

still get the error. Anyone know how to fix this? I don't like to boot off of a floppy... How are we supposed to be able to help you without the necessary details ? At least your lilo.conf and having your partition tables too would be fine. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: use the Windowkeys

-. is already configured to be the Compose key, make a try. If you know the scancode of the winblows keys you should assign them something useful in the same way (only 102 keys here so I can't test) -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL

Re: LILO non-BIOS scsi card

) Something as boot=/dev/hda (or /dev/hda1 if you want to keep your MBR untouched) in /etc/lilo.conf should suffice... -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

! GO! Yeah ! Well, in fact I only miss some games but dual boot is made for that, isn'it ? -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur

Re: more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take

not correctable by software. Jeff -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Installing Debian Linux on a low-level mem 386.

have to compile your own kernel with make zImage. Kernel compiled with make bzImage test for the presence of 3 MB of extended RAM. The default install kernel is made with bzImage ! Install ash and make it the default kernel before rebooting the machine. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: strange log messages/behavior

/getty 38400 tty6 in /etc/inittab. Doublecheck them. Mar 14 17:29:49 server init: no more processes left in this runlevel For this problem I'm clueless. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

packages : not a big deal. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

On Mon, 15 Mar, 1999 à 08:20:25PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *- On 16 Mar, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote about Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows There was a point that I liked before : the possibility to not start xdm even if it was installed. Why ? Well sometimes I'm trying to advocates

Re: Using Procmail

-- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/

Re: Hardware woes/make-kpkg

when loading the 3c509.o module. All of the symbols start with 'mca_' which sounds like a micro channel problem! I guess that this is due to the lack of make dep Where can I find make-kpkg? kernel-package -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL

Re: which package provides ldd

:-? -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/

Re: Minimal requirements for xwindows and slave hard disk installation

problems were due to a messed lib, I'm wondering if they're related to what you say. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur

Re: Re-partitioning extended partition

either tmp or swap in hda9 this would give you a larger /usr. And if you're not using the space in /tmp you could suppress it as your / fs is rather large (see with df if it makes sense) -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: The usual reboot problems

it. Uhm, the floppy is a standard msdos disk: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt -t msdos Then copy the kernel: cp /vmlinuz /mnt/vmlinuz I think that the kernel on the boot floppy has to be named linux not vmlinuz unless if slink differs from hamm on this point. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

Hi, On Sun, 21 Feb, 1999 à 11:02:32PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: My ideas of debian/linux (without any significance in the order) are : freedom, power, cooperation. Sounds like elephants to me. Why not ? What animals symbolize these ? (and don't forget

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

be merged in the i of Debian. Andreas, I hope that my mail won't appear to you as too critical, my aim was to signal some weakness of some of your points and to try to give an example of a non animal possibility. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL

Re: Archiving Old Messages and Misc Mail Features

on the duration of your communication (even locale ones) ! -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en

Re: XF86 Setup

monitor Section just as for HorizSync and VertRefresh. Humm, I don't see it in the man pages, is it deprecated ? -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre

Re: can backgrounded processes outlive a login?

on. It seems that there should be some way to accomplish this. Is there? I haven't seen anything. Please cc: to jlothian as this is his question and he's not on the list. nohup command -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: boot problem?

:03 iso_blknum 16 block 32 kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:03 You're trying to mount /dev/hda3 as root wich does not exist to partition check. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Hard disk problem on istallation of Debian

only have one IDE drive. It should be hda. Verify that your disk is configured as single or master (not slave) -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre

Re: Could not find kernel image and other install problems

warnings to activate paritions via the installer GUI)? Yes if you keep either / or /boot partition in the first 1024 cylinders in order to uses lilo Bye -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Lilo corrupted double-spaced Win95 drive

a floppy and try sys c: but please try this as a last resort because it could wrac havoc your win1895 partition Thanks. HTH -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin

Re: Debian and SuSE with Win98/FAT32 and NTFS

it won't make any difference but M$-DO$ and Win1895 rely on the correct type to boot. So, it Nintendo can boot from this partition, it's not a FAT16 one. the id is only for users ;-) -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

modem in about 3 minutes. or give a more concrete reason, instead of just telling us 'I like it better'. All I'm asking is for the majority to show a little more understanding of the minority's position. -- Ed C. -- -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: News reading

found any HOWTO or things like that about it There are various documents (in French) on http://www.linux-france.com or you can read ISP-Hooking-HOWTO. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Lowmemory Installation Help

-- ( )- Laurent PICOULEAU -( ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/

Re: Debian Hamm used for a Linux Cluster and nobody noticed?

that this was a reference to Der Maus. Hmm, does anybody out there in Germany know Art Spiegelman at all? :) Actually I only know MAUS (published with this title in France) and I rank it among the ten top cartoons. -- ( )- Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: 512MB RAM, 860MB swap and out of memory ?

of memory, it tries to double the size of its allocated memory (in my case it couldn't make better than 48MB RAM + about 30MB swap out of 96). For me, adding a swapfile made the trick but in your case the swap file would be over 500MB. -- Laurent Picouleau | Linux : Mettez un pingouin dans votre

Re: recognition ide (was :ide)

indicate the right parameters during the boot or in lilo.conf. In your case you'll have to type hdb=16383,16,63 (well, give the same numbers than what your BIOS says) -- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How big is my H/D ?

organize the remainder of your disk as you wish. -- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Repost: Which Xserver pkg for old Diamond Viper (VLB)

I'm supposed to see, but I can't. The system hangs at that point. What can I try next? What you describe appends with XF86Setup isn't it ? Have you tried to make your way with xf86config ? -- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!

your computers you'll can tried this or you can try grep Memory | /var/log/syslog as root but it probably won't work either. P.S. could you avoid including the whole mail to wich you reply, quoting the relevant passage is far more small and more practical with some MUA -- Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: ide

I do ? Be more precise. -- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!

On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 06:41:11PM +, Rich Harran. wrote: I supposedly have 32Mb ram, but free says 30236. Am I misinterpreting something, or do I have a memory problem. (I only tried 'free' after following this thread!) dmesg | grep Memory should enlighten you. -- Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: dselect (or apt) wish list

to search descriptions as well. Searching on description is appealing to me too. -- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

that rpm is the only Linux package manager. But how could they think of dselect or YaST (SuSE management tool) as package manager : none of them are point and click ? ;-) -- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lilo (linux only hd - dos only hd), no solution possible?

in /etc/lilo.conf 2) let dos stay on the first drive and install lilo in the MBR of the first drive. All the details needed are in lilo's doc. -- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

think, so : it should work. -- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lowmem installation trouble

On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 12:08:14AM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 11:01:14PM +0200, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: I've installed Debian 1.3.1r6 on a 386 with 3Megs, EGA display and two 160MB ESDI HD with no difficulties. Just had to compile a kernel with make zImage [snip

Re: lowmem installation trouble

as zImage for those of us crazy enough to try to install debian on computers with less than 4MB ;-) Thanks, You're welcome Larry -- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Linux via un terminal (OOPS)

Hi, my previous message was supposed to go in debian-french and not debian-user. Sorry for any inconveniences -- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

RE: Linux via un terminal

Salut, Olivier Tharan[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 08:48:54AM +0400, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: - Y-a-t'il un miraculeux moyen pour avoir plusieurs consoles virtuelles à partir d'un terminal ? J'y crois pas trop mais bon... Si, tu peux utiliser screen qui est

RE: older debian release?

Hi, hi, i've got what may seem a strange request.. i'm looking for an older release of debian. i have a laptop w/ only 2MB RAM and i've been told that one of the older releases of debian will run under 2MB. Bo can run in 2 MB RAM. You'll have to use the lmemboot floppy and to compile a

RE: Installing debian (fwd)

will be hdc (or hde) -- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Problems with CD-ROM by installing Debian.Linux

WALTER HOLUBARZ[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : I want to install Debian.Linux from my MITSUMI FX001D CD-ROM with an own controller-card on the isa bus. From the DRIVER-DISK, i created, i have used the -mcdx MITSUMI-driver. Use mcd instead, I've never successed with mcdx but mcd works as a

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