Re: Unable to mount external USB devices -- Wheezy KDE

2012-03-31 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:22:59 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Can you post the error message you get when mounting a device with ext2 or reiserfs format? My external hard drives are elsewhere, but one of my thumb drives is formatted ext2. I get the same message trying to mount

Re: Unable to mount external USB devices -- Wheezy KDE

2012-03-31 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:22:59 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Can you post the error message you get when mounting a device with ext2 or reiserfs format? The error message is the same when trying to mount a reiserfs device. My recollection is that it's the same for ext2 as well,

Re: netinstall basically, well, F****D up.

2003-07-19 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 01:35:06 +0200 Wolfgang Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DHCLIENT doesn't work with 2.4 kernels. However, you can use udhcpc instead. It works fine with my 2.4.20 kernel, and it worked fine with my 2.4.18 kernel before that. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: apt-get; all messed up by update...

2003-07-20 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 11:19:17 -0500 Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Woody system that has been running for over a year now without much change, and I just tried to do an apt-update, and then apt-upgrade, and the whole thing seems to be totally messed up. (see below) I

Re: need help with compile of pcmcia card driver

2003-07-20 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 12:25:36 -0600 Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an old laptop on which I have recently installed Woody. I have a new pcmcia NIC which I would like to use on said laptop to connect it to my LAN. The CD which comes with the NIC contains two files of software

Re: Problem with apt-move

2003-07-20 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 17:22:03 -0500 Patrick Albuquerque [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I try to maintain a partial mirror of unstable but I have a problem with apt-move, mainly it's a bit too efficient. apt-move update (as root) will build a repository in /mnt/data/mirrors/debian but then

Re: old laptop I need ugly fast Xwindows please

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:03:35 -0500 Preston Boyington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What version of Xwindows is light and fast on older boxes. I dont care how ugly it is. I use fluxbox on all my Debian systems. It's light, fast, and not even ugly. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Partitioning for mail and web server

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
A friend of mine has just purchased his first real server -- until then he has, like most of us, used desktop machines in server roles. This machine has an 80Gb IDE hard drive; my friend would like to use it as a web and mail server, using Debian Woody (and he would like to apply security updates

Re: how NOT to work with debian

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 02:03:14 +0200 Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. I do 'startx' - it switches to tty7 and a big debian logo on crumpled paper appears. Looks like correct screen res. etc. The mouse is active. There is a square thing called 'main' with a paperclip icon and two

Re: Newbie Q: Where are my kernel sources?

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:22:17 +1000 Chris Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had a look in /usr/src and all I can see there is a directory called rpm which contains the following directories: BUILD RPMS SOURCES SPECS SRPMS Am I looking in the right place? I would think you should

Re: Automated security updates?

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:23:36 -0400 Johann Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apt-cache show cron-apt Thank you. I've downloaded it and I'll give it a try. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Automated security updates?

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
Is there a way to use cron to apply updates from security.debian.org? Is there any reason I shouldn't do this? Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian based rescue disc

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:38:00 +0200 Alexander Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The image is avaible at his homepage [1], or can be ordered at LinuxLand [2]. Links: 1: http://people.debian.org/~joerg/rettcd/ 2:

Re: Mirroring problem

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:52:56 +0200 Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the last two days our updates of the main debian archive failed (non-us and security.debian.org worked well) with the following error message: receiving file list ... done ./ dists/sarge/

Re: Newbie Q: Where are my kernel sources?

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:00:21 +1000 Chris Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried what you suggested and found plenty of files however apt-cache still didn't tell me where they were on my computer. How do I figure out the file path to the kernel-headers? Kernel headers are in subdirectories

Re: kernel-package system: install a boot block using the existing/etc/lilo.conf?

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:37:19 -0800 Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand WHY this excellent reference: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html advises one to do the following: Be sure you say no when the script asks if you want to install a boot block using

Re: how NOT to work with debian

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 09:35:00 +0200 Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We-ell. That looks horrible. 31 or 32 packages to remove by name (and the names of several are truncated by the display from dpkg -l so I don't even know them all). But dpkg --configure kdebase leads to dependency

Re: rcS directory

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:01:39 +0200 Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed that when my server gets rebooted the /etc/init.d/ntpdate script doesn't get run. Even though there is a symlink to it in the rcS.d directory. Where can I see that the rcS.d directory gets called? So I am

Re: net install with eepro100 / 845G

2003-08-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:45:53 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: The 2.4.18 bf24 kernel has the eepro100 driver build in. The modular kernels need eepro100 in /etc/modules. Or modprobe it manually and restart networking to avoid needing to reboot. Perhaps you're thinking of another

Re: kernel-package system: install a boot block using the existing/etc/lilo.conf?

2003-08-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:36:17 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: A longer answer is that writing a new boot block with the existing lilo.conf would simply re-write the current boot sector, which would boot the old kernel. Are we talking about the same question? At the point that

Re: Woody vs. Sarge vs. You've heard this before ;-)

2003-08-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On 13 Aug 2003 18:25:16 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4. Proceed with installing the rest of the packages I need. Of course, I have a list of such packages, since I make regular backups, including a COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l package.lis and scp it to another machine. I did

Re: kernel-package and grub

2003-08-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:42:07 +0200 Engosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Is there any way to update grub menu.lst when installing a kernel package made by kernel-package (I mean as it does whith lilo)? http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html#GRUB-KERNEL-PKG Kevin

Re: Inspiron laptop, framebuffer console

2003-08-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:42:56 -0400 Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey folks- I finally got a framebuffer console to actually WORK on my Inspiron 4100 with its GeForce2 GO under Sarge 2.4.21 by compiling with only VESA framebuffer and 16-color VGA framebuffer support in the kernel. Now,

Re: Building Ati Radeon 9000 module for Debian bf24 Kernel

2003-08-17 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 18:27:53 -0400 lameth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I installed Debian I selected the BF24 flavor of the pre built kernel but I've check and there are no source packages for it. Since I couldn't find the sources for Bf24 I downloaded kernel-source-2.4.18. I modified a

Re: OT: Re: rms on debian : background noise

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:03:02 + Jeff Gratton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: said that RMS is indeed a loser), I'm just saying that RMS shouldn't be taken at face value anymore, that is all :) I respectfully disagree -- RMS is one of the few people I'm aware of who *should* be taken at face

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 13:41:30 +0100 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html The disturbing thing, as one of my friends commented recently, is: while it seems ridiculous on the surface, every time I look at it (once a year or so) it seems less

Re: Building Ati Radeon 9000 module for Debian bf24 Kernel

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 17:55:23 -0400 lameth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I actually got the make file pointed to all the right directories, kernel-headers-2.4.18bf2.4 and the correct drm firectory in kernel-source-2.4.18. Ran the make.sh script and ended up with this error:

Re: Newbie Hardware Question

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 07:23:03 -0400 Hershel Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am about to purchase a new machine on which I hope to install Debian. I was told by someone that I should insure that the new hardware will be Linux compatible. I thought that one of Debian's claims to fame is that

Re: Printing help, please.

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:20:24 -0500 Wathen, Metherion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am having trouble getting my printer to function under Debian. First off, my printer is a Lexmark 1020 color inkjet. I installed Cupsys, cupsys-bsd, and a few other cupsys related packages. I installed

Re: cloning Debian?

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:12:17 -0500 Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a working system, and want to clone it to a bigger, newer, faster one, keeping the old one as a backup... I looked at a lot of options, (Dolly, G4u, ...) including Cloneit, and Partimage, but have trouble

Re: Inspiron laptop, framebuffer console

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 23:05:34 -0400 Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That sounds like a BIOS problem. I saw it on an Inspiron 8000, when the BIOS was upgraded past A17. Reverting to A17 fixed the problem. It stopped happening after I switched my BIOS not to do anything when I close the lid.

Re: Printing help, please.

2003-08-19 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 00:20:35 -0600 Dave Thayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using an ML-1210 with CUPS on a system tracking unstable for about a year and a half, so sometime in that period it must have been working with what now is the stable distro... The one thing I had to do that

Re: How to upgrade kernel and another question about nvidia driver

2003-08-19 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:20:25 -0400 (EDT) Hooman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I just made my X-server work with the help of some people in the list. Now I have other questions. I have installed woody on my machine and I think the kernel version is 2.2.20. Now here are the

Samsung ML-1210 with CUPS on Woody

2003-08-20 Thread Kevin McKinley
I'm going starkers trying to set up a CUPS server using only stable packages (and whatever extra printer-specific file(s) I need). I installed cupsys, cupsys-client, cupsys-bsd, gs and a2ps from stable. I went to www.linuxprinting.org and downloaded the Samsung-ML-1210-gdi.ppd and foomatic-rip

Re: Samsung ML-1210 with CUPS on Woody

2003-08-20 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:12:56 +0200 Ismael Valladolid Torres [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El miércoles, 20 de agosto de 2003, a las 10:44, Kevin McKinley escribe: I'm going starkers trying to set up a CUPS server using only stable packages(and whatever extra printer-specific file(s) I need

Re: Whick kernel ???

2003-08-22 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 20:40:08 +0200 Arnt Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ..Victory, at the commandline, run 'apt-get install newbiedoc', to install Debian's newbie-docs. You _need_ them. Read them. Except that the kernel-pkg document on sourceforge is newer and more complete than the one in

Re: Out of Office AutoReply: Approved

2003-08-22 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 11:55:14 -0700 Susan Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am out of the office until 08/24, I will read emails when I am back. If this is related to VXL issues, please contact Vissu Burela or my manager Wai Ho. Well then, I'll add one for you to read, since you rudely left

Re: Out of Office AutoReply: Approved

2003-08-23 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 01:00:50 -0400 Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMO someone with admin privs should have a script to immediately unsubcribe the account and send a nice, canned, notification message. The notification message would be sent from the bit-bucket so as to avoid

Re: kernel source (file name and location)

2003-08-23 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:00:13 -0700 M.Forbes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to know what the name and location would be as for the kernel-source in order to get my Ethernet card working. I was getting an error in line 27 that the kernel source was not able to be found. I was able to find

Re: Mozilla printer problems

2003-08-24 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 13:58:42 -0400 Mike Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 23 August 2003 09:37, Tom Allison wrote: this is my current printer configuration in Mozilla. lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME} Firebird would not print for me. I use cups. Changing lpr

Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-26 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:12:59 +0900 Nick Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim down the installation as much as possible, how do I view a list of what's installed by apt-get on the laptop? DSelect is useless as it marks some

Re: convert RedHat to Debian

2003-08-26 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 16:06:32 -0700 (PDT) Z F [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I have a RedHat box and I would like to convert it to Debian. Is it possible to do it without reformatting the hard drive? If yes, how. I am not on the list so please reply to me directly. If you'd

Re: What to expect after XP installation on the other disc

2003-08-26 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 00:56:00 -0700 (PDT) Joris Huizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, The computer I'm using has two hard discs: /dev/hda Windows ME /hev/hdb Linux Debian Because Windows ME is slow and buggy, my dad wants to replace it with XP; What are the risks - will XP

Re: how to adapt this iptables setup?

2003-08-26 Thread Kevin McKinley
On 25 Aug 2003 15:15:27 -0400 Bret Comstock Waldow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. There is no /etc/rc.d in my Debian system. /etc/rcX.d has some meaning beyond just being another place to gather files - it corresponds to runlevel X, and gets swept automatically as the system passes through

Re: automatic overwrite with cp

2003-08-26 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:20:49 +0200 alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to copy the contents of a partition (source) to another partition (destination) that has a large number of files that need to be overwritten. The command I've tried is: # cp -apRv source/*

Re: other debian installer tactic?

2003-08-30 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:02:23 +0200 Alfredo Valles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2003 5:58 am, Kent West wrote: Wonderful goal! But what you're asking for is a different distribution, which has been done already: Corel, Libranet, Knoppix, Xandros, etc. What bothers me

Re: make-kpkg compiled kernel is too big

2003-08-30 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:56:09 +0300 Alphonse Ogulla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fatal: Kernel /boot/vmlinux is too big compiled kernel as follows:- atlas:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg --initrd clean kernel_image and also tried atlas:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg clean binary Where could I be going

Re: open office spell checking

2003-09-01 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 10:39:50 -0600 Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have tips on how to avoid this? Is another aptish (quick from the command line) dpkging tool out there that points out suggested related packages on an upgrade? aptitude It can be configured to install

Re: open office spell checking

2003-09-01 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 11:50:41 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is interesting. Spelling works for me, but I don't have any myspell* installed : Does it really? With the same selection of spell* as you, I opened a new document and typed: Now is the tmie for all goood men to

Re: open office spell checking

2003-09-02 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 10:52:19 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With the same selection of spell* as you, I opened a new document and typed: Now is the tmie for all goood men to come to the aid of thier party. thier was automatically corrected to their, but tmie and goood

Re: Duplicating installs across the network

2003-09-02 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 23:07:43 +0200 (CEST) Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that there are a whole host of tools out there that for imagining/backup, but I have no experience with any of them. Can anyone out there provide some pointers and insight? What do you all use? Does it

Sudden increase in size of Debian?

2003-09-15 Thread Kevin McKinley
I've been mirroring binary packages for the x86 architecture for several months now (woody, sarge and sid). The mirror's size hovered around 15 Gb for a while, but in the last two weeks appears to have suddenly increased to almost 21.5 Gb. Is there really that much material, or do I need to

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian?

2003-09-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 00:46:41 +0100 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's possible that this is caused by the substantial divergence between testing and unstable due to glibc 2.3.2 over the last month or so. 6.5Gb kind of shocks me, but it's a possibility. The binary package archive for

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian (Mirror)?

2003-09-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:51:35 -0600 Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: du -hs debian 15G debian One of us does unless another 6.5 GB has been added in the last two days. I use to be closer to 10GB, and as of last Saturday morning I am up to 15GB. (I mirror once a week) I tried the

Re: rsync problem

2003-09-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 12:55:50 +0200 francois mounier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but when I run rsync 192.168.1.2::test/ /var/www it returns this error @ERROR: invalid gid nobody rsync: connection inexpectedly closed (39 bytes read so far) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream

Re: Kernel with initrd, remove unused modules

2003-09-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:45:48 +0200 Ismael Valladolid Torres [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 (I am running sid), which boots using initrd. Thus, after booting, lsmod shows a lot of unused modules. I'd like to know which is the clean way (even the

Re: cant find es1371 (audio) module

2003-09-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On 16 Sep 2003 21:21:46 +1200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How do I load the es1371 kernel module? I need it for my sound card. It is not in modconf, I can modprobe or modinfo it and it is not in /lib/modules/2.2.20-idepci directory[s]. I am running woody. I installed

Re: can't make debconf handle X-config

2003-09-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:26:34 -0700 (PDT) Lars Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I make debconf handle the X-configuration? dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common It's the first question. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian?

2003-09-24 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:21:55 -0600 Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now you have me interested. Do you already have a script to mirror only stable and unstable with rsync? I think I would try only mirroring stable with such a script, but I thought it would take having a program parse

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian (Mirror)?

2003-09-24 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:00:23 -0600 Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your list has the virtue of being much simpler; I wonder what 5 Gb I have that you don't? I'm not sure, what does this command return on your system? find pool/ -name *deb | egrep -v '_i386\.u?deb$' - | grep -v

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian (Mirror)?

2003-09-25 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:39:43 -0600 (MDT) Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :| I'm sorry, that was a typo on my part. The second grep also needs to be egrep. Or you could drop the u? and use grep on both if you don't have udeb's mirrored. The idea of the command is to return *deb files

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

2003-09-26 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 20:17:21 +1200 cr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Conclusions: 1. Back up the MBR and everything else, first! 2. Be very, very careful when using 'map' to swap drives around 3. It's probably safest to let DOS/Windows occupy Drive 1, where in its blinkered arrogance it

Re: Cups problem

2003-04-04 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 22:24:49 -0500 Andy Hurt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Egads--I'm not the only one! I have a HP 5L-Parallel, and run unstable. I can print like crazy from every program/console--it's only the test page that won't print. When I try to -- snip -- I've gone to so many ends

Re: OT: Fees for the mailing list

2003-04-04 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 20:20:01 -0800 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, we charge US$1,000 for ads. http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#ads I thought you were pulling my leg. Somehow I doubt SPI is seeing very many contributions. Too bad. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bogofilter configuration

2003-04-04 Thread Kevin McKinley
Until now I've been wearing out the delete key going through my inbox. I finally decided to do something about it, and installed bogofilter. When I looked at /etc/bogofilter.cf, I noticed that every line is commented out. Is this a workable configuration? If not, would someone be willing to

Re: Cups problem

2003-04-05 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 05 Apr 2003 01:04:08 -0500 Andy Hurt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: n-dimensional confuscation ;-/ If you use gs(-esp) [is either needed?], which came first: gs(-esp) or cupsys? I have these packages installed: cupsys 1.1.18-2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server

Re: what is the name of first time setup

2003-04-05 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 08:35:15 -0800 (PST) Joris Huizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The thing is, I stopped the tasksel too soon per accident - and I don't remember the program to call for the first time set up Can anybody tell me the location of the prog? base-config Kevin -- To

Re: Kernel compilation and modules and stuff

2003-04-05 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 05 Apr 2003 11:39:29 -0600 Jeff Tickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello... I have just finally gotten around to trying Debian out. Installation has been fun... it's not until one tries out Debian that they understand how bad user-friendliness elsewhere has been. But it's all

Re: Bogofilter configuration

2003-04-05 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 20:10:21 +0100 Brian Potkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you intend to take this off-list? If so you should note that having only had a few weeks experience with bogofilter I may not be the best person to answer all your queries. I hadn't intended to take it off-list; I

Re: issue with make-kpkg kernel_image

2003-04-05 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 12:13:53 -0900 Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using this for reference and can successfully do a custom kernel: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-kernel.en.html I must be doing something wrong because when I try to do it again with using Custom.2 I

Re: 2 Hardware Questions (LCD/Wireless Router)

2003-04-05 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 17:53:01 -0500 Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to buy a wireless router and a monitor, and have questions about both. First the router. Looking around, I gather all these routers run their own networking and encryption software. Having recently converted to

Re: issue with make-kpkg kernel_image

2003-04-05 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 16:53:42 -0600 Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 12:13:53PM -0900, Andy wrote: I am using this for reference and can successfully do a custom kernel: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-kernel.en.html I must be doing

Re: Dmesg Fdisk see only 30 out of 60 MB--SOLVED

2003-04-06 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 21:58:42 -0800 Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2.4.20-Kernel, and make sure the CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE kernel parameter is set to yes. Do you know the display title of this option in xconfig (meta-question: is there a doc that maps the xconfig sections display

Re: Security Questions

2003-04-06 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 06 Apr 2003 09:09:47 -0500 Thomas H. George,,, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read Security-Quickstart-HOWTO. I believe my home network has been compromised (my daughter received returned emails she neversent) and plan to take drastic action. The network consists of DSL modem, a

Re: GRUB question - book2

2003-04-06 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 06 Apr 2003 09:32:53 -0500 Hanasaki JiJi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the pros/cons of usin Grub vs Lilo? Lilo vs Grub? I have *one* floppy disk with grub on it; I can use it to boot any Windows machine, any Linux machine, BSD machines, or OS/2 machines. You can't do that with

Re: Resolving hostnames using DHCP

2003-04-06 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 6 Apr 2003 16:10:45 + Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got the nameservers in resolv.conf and so resolving public IP's is fine. It's the hosts on the local network that don't resolve. I tried including the DHCP server's IP address as a name server but that gave

Re: Debian installation from hard disk

2003-06-06 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 11:04:48 +0530 Sharninder Singh-662 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that's exactly where i'm stuck. there has to be some way to do this. i'm sure Nt is'nt *that* finicky about leaving memory to some process like loadlin.. basically just a small utility that would force NT to

Re: Cloning of Linux Kernal

2003-06-06 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 09:32:58 -0400 dhobner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have configured and built a new kernal under debian. I want to clone the kernal and install it on many identical machines. What exactly should I do? If you built it like this

Re: Debian x Redhat

2003-06-06 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 11:02:30 -0400 Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was using Debian on all my boxes up until a couple of weeks ago, when upgrading X in testing fried my X configuration and I had to start over. I guess it needed more testing. :) I'm going to play with a few

Re: unable to compile a kernel

2003-06-06 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 17:27:50 +0200 martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just tried to compile the kernel.org 2.4.20 kernel, but it bailed out, line 440 of ide-cd.h contains invalid syntax -- for gcc-3.3. the kernel README says that 2.95.3 has to be used, so I installed 2.95.4-17 from

Re: unable to compile a kernel

2003-06-06 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 12:29:27 -0400 Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/06/03 martin f krafft did speaketh: i just tried to compile the kernel.org 2.4.20 kernel, but it bailed out, line 440 of ide-cd.h contains invalid syntax -- for gcc-3.3. the kernel README says that 2.95.3

Re: Debian compatibility with Mac G4 computer, and will it runBlender 3-d modeling software, which runs under Linux?

2003-06-06 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 12:37:33 -0500 Daniel Fredrickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please respond to the questions in the subject line: Debian compatibility with Mac G4 computer, and will it run Blender3-d modeling software, which runs under Linux? (Blender is open source and free at

Re: dpkg-reconfigure ntp-simple not working?

2003-06-06 Thread Kevin McKinley
On 5 Jun 2003 08:57:32 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made a mistake and canceled out of the configuration screen when I apt-get installed ntp-simple. Now when I try running dpkg-reconfigure ntp-simple all it does is restart the ntpd. It doesn't bring up the config menu. I've tried

Re: dpkg-reconfigure ntp-simple not working?

2003-06-05 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 19:10:03 -0700 cfactor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try doing dpkg-reconfigure debconf and make sure the level of questions is either medium or low. Kevin Thanks for the input, but it didn't help. I tried it at both medium and low. I've tried enabling the option

Re: How to unsubscribe?

2003-06-06 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 20:34:37 -0700 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Show *all* the headers, then. AFAIK, mutt and mail are the only programs that doesn't still hide headers when you tell it to display everything. It's the *very* first header, above the received lines. Sylpheed also

Re: [OT] ergonomic setups

2003-06-06 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 12:27:37 -0400 Nori Heikkinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'd like your opinions/feedback about what kind of ergonomic setups you use at home and in the office. as i mentioned a couple of days ago, i've been issued a laptop at work, and i can barely use it for the wrist

Re: Where is the kernel config file?

2003-06-06 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 18:10:34 +0200 (CEST) David List [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see. I thank you and mr. Saunders for answering my question. Here's an answer for a question you didn't ask: :) http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Using make-kpkg

2003-06-06 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 08:24:09 -0400 Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. The kernel is built *and* then a .deb file containing the kernel is built, which you can then install using deb -i. Methinks that's dpkg -i kernel-image... Please read

Re: dpkg-reconfigure ntp-simple not working?

2003-06-06 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 09:10:55 -0700 cfactor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm at my wits end... Is there some other manual method I can use to run the configure utility besides dpkg-reconfigure? Yes. Use the attached ntp.conf. That qualifies as manual I think. :) Kevin ntp.conf Description:

Re: Galeon 1.3.4

2003-06-06 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 15:23:45 +0100 Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 03:59:42PM +, Jason Lunz wrote: I haven't found a solution for this one. For now I've been using google as my home page. What else would you possibly want as your home page? :-)

Re: depmod error when running make-kpkg

2003-06-07 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 13:26:20 +0200 (CEST) David List [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried running make-kpkg as a first attempt in making my own kernel on a newly installed Debian 3.0_r1 on a Sun Ultra 1. The last lines I see from make_kpkg are these: cd

Re: 2.4.20 kernel for woody

2003-05-27 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 27 May 2003 18:03:33 +0200 Steinar Bang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm attempting to have a very minimal installation of woody on the machine in question, and would prefer not to install any more packages than I have to (ie. no development tools). Other than this particular woody

Re: fried(?) computer hangs on boot

2003-05-27 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 27 May 2003 20:54:27 +0100 Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spatially, I guess. It's a tower case, with all expansion card slots occupied except the bottom one, and it's got nine drives on five buses, which makes for an entertaining tangle of ribbon cables and power splitters. There

Re: Opinions on Lindows Mobile PC

2003-05-27 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 27 May 2003 09:17:54 -0400 Jeremy Petzold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if your gonna pay for a distro buy libranet. their system does not die if you apt-get from the main tree...at least that is what they say on OSNewswhy anyone would pay 60 bucks for a distro when debian is free and

Re: Installing Debian from Red Hat (without a CD or floppy drive)

2003-05-27 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 27 May 2003 01:38:27 -0700 Steve Grabowsku [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure this will mean learning about GRUB and/or LILO. Good on ya. Go here: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4622 Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: initrd and lilo.conf

2003-05-27 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 27 May 2003 12:22:54 -0400 Brian W. Carver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just compiled a custom 2.4.18 kernel for my woody-running laptop. I'm new at this and am pretty sure I am about to shutdown and be unable to boot back up, because this initrd/lilo stuff has me baffled. Please

Re: man, oh man

2003-05-27 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 27 May 2003 16:00:23 -0400 Mike M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed some minimal stable configurations lately (answered no to tasksel and dselect during installation of bf24). When I run man on the minimal system, it's like the output is piped to more. In a workstation

Re: Problem Booting After Install

2003-05-29 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 28 May 2003 19:07:48 -0400 Scott MacMaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any other thoughts? I have two thoughts. First, you guys need to learn to trim posts. :) Second, unless there's some reason you enjoy getting beat up by lilo, use grub:

Re: Installing xserver

2003-05-29 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 28 May 2003 21:33:41 GMT Haines Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed a woody base system and then install the xserver-svga required by my nVidia GeForce3 card and a window manager. Then from a root command line I ran startx. However, all I got as a result was a black screen with

Re: mkinitrd

2003-05-30 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Thu, 29 May 2003 17:22:18 +0200 (MEST) Axel Gerster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I only have the source code for a module. How to patch it into the kernel? This question is not easy to answer without knowing more about what you have and what you're trying to do. Can you explain what kind of

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