Re: Grub and /dev/hdg: Need help please

2002-05-27 Thread Simon Law
On Mon, 27 May 2002, Jeremy wrote: I'm new to using grub for booting my OS's. I recently bought a new HD, and I've dedicated that one to Linux and left Windows 2000 on the old one. The new HD is /dev/hda. I have a Zip100 on hdb, my dvd-rom on hdc, and my cd burner on hdd. I have a ATA

Re: Multiple files

2002-05-31 Thread Simon Law
On 31 May 2002, Daniel D Jones wrote: How does one handle multiple files via most command line utilities? For example, suppose you have a handful of perl scripts (*.pl) and you want to save them in the same directory with a different extension. The command cp *.pl *.bak complains that

Re: adding 'pool' to apt sources

2002-06-01 Thread Simon Law
On 1 Jun 2002, Ted M Goodridge, Jr wrote: How do I add pool to sources.list for debian so I can use apt and get things in the pool directory? You don't have to. All packages are in the pool directory, and the dists you list in your /etc/apt/sources.list just reference them. Simon

Re: kernel compile in woody

2002-06-07 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 01:31:08PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi! are the steps to compile a new kernel in woody the same as in potato? TIA Yes, you still apt-get install kernel-source-xxx. You still untar it and make *config. You still use kernel-package to make a package

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-11 Thread Simon Law
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 02:16:48PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm not positive how to reproduce it, but i did figure out that mozilla was blocking while trying to talk to esd. killing esd freed it up and let it run. i've had trouble with esd blocking things up before, especially gqmpeg,

Re: Unix-only analog to WinPopup?

2002-06-13 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 06:16:54PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Using apt-cache search doesn't show much. (Unless I'm using the wrong keyword to search by!) If you want instant messaging capabilities, you could try Jabber. There are plenty of Jabber clients out there, and setting up a

Re: How to get the ALSA driver to start at boot?

2002-06-14 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 04:00:04PM +0200, Ivo Wever wrote: I managed to get my sound setup to the point where I can get sound by running 'modprobe snd-via8233' and some commands for unmuting the appropriate channels. However, I would prefer the driver being loaded by the ALSA entry in

Re: man or info?

2002-06-17 Thread Simon Law
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 05:49:28PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: I much prefer 'man' to 'info' (and I guess at least some Debian developers do too as there are so many Debian-edited man pages). Anyone know why GNU uses info now instead? And is there any way to influence the decision, or am I

Re: DHCP client stopped getting responses from ATTBI server

2002-06-25 Thread Simon Law
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 05:02:27PM -0500, Alex Roitman wrote: Hello, I had my home system on a cable modem with ATT Broadband as a provider for about a year. Everything worked perfectly well, until about a week ago they must have switched the DHCP server. Now my dhclient gets no

Clueless Newbie needs Networking Help

1999-09-04 Thread Tor- Simon Law
Hello. I'm pretty new to Debian and have been unable to get my network configured properly. You see, in a couple days, I will be heading off to University of Waterloo (Canada) and will want to hook up to their residence's network. The only problem is, they've given me settings

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