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Hamma Scott wrote:
Hello,
Due to circumstances beyond my control, I needed
to
reinstall my system. I'm starting with a 2.2r3
version
of potato on installation CD's. I tried to setup
wvdial. I was able to get a connection it found
the
login line
Hello,
Due to circumstances beyond my control, I needed to
reinstall my system. I'm starting with a 2.2r3 version
of potato on installation CD's. I tried to setup
wvdial. I was able to get a connection it found the
login line, password line and was able to call a ppp
connection. The problem is no
--- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
This is among the reason few seasoned Debian users
install from CD -- base tarball plus boot floppies
is generally sufficient, packages are snared over
the 'Net.
Well, I came here to learn, so where would I find
documentation outlining this
--- William De Cat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personnaly, I install the base system from an old
CD, then edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the
distribution I want and then do an apt-get dist-
upgrade.
I have done that, and have finally upgraded to Woody.
Right now I'm having a bit of a
--- Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
After the process finished, I figured to redo:
apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade
and be okay again. Not! It results in:
libsdl1.2debian: Depends: libsdl1.2debian-all (=
1.2.2-3.2) but it is
not going to be installed or
I was trying to upgrade to Woody. I've downloaded the
packages and did the following through instructions
(thank you by the way for all the help so far)
# dpkg -i perl*
I only had one package for perl (seemed a little odd).
I then tried to run:
# dpkg -i *
After a bunch of output, I got a
I've recently had some problems upgrading to Woody
after downloading all the packages for a dist-upgrade.
I'm wondering if I didn't shoot myself in the foot
with the sources I was pulling from.
I install from a CD, and first was updating my potato
installation, so I had all those options in the
I'm trying to upgrade from 2.2r17 to woody.
I want to thank the responses for the proper areas to
apt-get from. I did an apt-get update and then
dist-upgrade -d to just download the files last night.
I then ran apt-get with --nodownload option for
dist-upgrade. It was scanning and at 83% I got
I put the loop in for apt-get just to download
files(thank you very much Karsten). However one of the
areas I was pulling gave me an 404 not found error.
Could I get the URL's to download Woody from its
official site (or a site that works). Thank you in
advance.
Scott Hamma
I'll get duplicates of some messages and I'm using
Yahoo through a browser. So it's not just you.
Scott
--- Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've just swapped from using Procmail to carve up my
post to using Gnus
own mail-splitting facility. I find that I am
getting up to four
--- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
on Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:52:53AM -0700, Hamma
Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to upgrade from v2.2r17 to woody and
have
been able to apt-get update. When I do an apt-get
dist-upgrade, my ISP drops carrier
--- Royce Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't particularly want to go back to
the command line, but I do
appreciate the minimalist approach of Unix,
especially from a security
standpoint.
Any suggestions to ease the mind and grease the
process?
I'm using Red-Hat at work (working on
Hi,
I'm trying to upgrade from v2.2r17 to woody and have
been able to apt-get update. When I do an apt-get
dist-upgrade, my ISP drops carrier.
Is it possible to apt-get dselect-upgrade after my
update to install Woody in pieces? And if that's
possible, is there a set order that should be
Debian makes me want to dive in and learn all
it's internal
workings. Keep up the good work!!
mike
Here are some tips I've harvested from this group
straight from Will Trillich's Tips. Hope they come in
handy:
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #1 from Will Trillich
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
:
Looking to
Linux Journal has a monthly column called the Paranoid
Penguin. This month: GPG: The Best Free Crypto You
Aren't Using Part 2 of 2.
--- Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can any one point me to the best books, how-to's,
articles, scripts, etc. on
hardening debian and making it really
I want to thank everyone that adds more information.
It helps us who are clueless when we see more to the
picture than we expected. For people who didn't ask
the question, it helps even more. We didn't know
enough to ask.
Scott Hamma
--- Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Sep 13,
--- Brooks R. Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Excuse me ,I am of topic with linux but
all my thoughts are with the americains,
specially the innocent victims.
--
Gerard
Thanks. We will be in mourning for some time.
Had a sister working near the World Trade Center. She
is okay
--- Jan Ulrich Hasecke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Thanks for the quick answer!
But ... :-(
Danie Roux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wild shot in the dark. Do you have a jdk
installed? If not, put a line
like this in your sources.list
# Blackdown Java
deb
--- andrej hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i) how do i (re)direct an output to a file and at
the same time see it as usual on screen?
Check the tee function out.
ii) how do i pass a simple argument from a file or
an output to a script
Are you talking about sending arguments via the
command
I need some more information. If you could please
provide the following information:
Does this happen at kernel load?
What CPU Type/Speed are you using?
Hard Drive Manufacturer?
Did this happen with 2.2r3?
unfortunately, I had to relalize that my potato box
is making some
trouble:
Aug 31
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've ran liveice before as a tarball, and now I'm
glad that debian had included it. I'm just wondering
where does this version reads its default config
because it says it reads one in /etc/liveice.cfg, so
I copied one there, but it doesn't read it still...
I believe the problem is that Evolution is compiled
with a later C lib. Most questions I needed answered
for apt-get can be found here.
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/apt-get-intro.html
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net
Is a good reference too.
--- Avdi B. Grimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sounds like someone already asked for that and it was
demoted to wishlist status
http://bugs.kde.org/db/16/16757.html
--- will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
this may be a bit off topic --
aren't session cookies (i.e. those without an
expiration date)
supposed to go away when the client
I read the article. It doesn't sound like bashing. I
have been bashed for using Linux and to paraphrase my
favorite debate line that, senator is not bashing.
The upshot of the article is:
- We decided that RPM's are the defacto standard
- DEB's are more reliable, easier to update and
conform to
I got a Dell machine, but I was just getting into
Linux and went Red-Hat for a while. The Red-Hat
hardware support page only gave 4 Dells and 1 IBM.
I would consider http://www.penguincomputing.com
they specialize in Linux-compatible machines.
If you are inclined to hear my tale of woe with Dell,
I wanted you to know that I looked around and I could
only find a bug written against the find help
replicating
http://bugs.kde.org/db/26/26220.html
Don't know konqueror so I can't help you with setting
up a different help app.
Scott Hamma
--- will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
when using
--- James A. Hilsenteger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I made the plunge and completely turned my Dell
Inspiron 3000 into a Debian
box.
Welcome aboard, remember Google is your freind and
this site is great for harvesting answers from.
After a few false starts I have a working Debian
computer
--- Timothy Bedding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am getting this link error
/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so: undefined reference to
`getpwnam_r@@GLIBC_2.0'
Does this mean I need an extra library? If so, which
one?
Sounds like a symbolic reference that's not resolved.
Goto /usr/X11R6/lib and type
--- fouad HENNI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My video card is a
'Trident Blade 3d PCI/AGP (ICP)'
When I installed X under Debian 2.2 r0 I choose in
the
database the card number '688', that is:
'Trident Blade3D (generic)' and the 'svga' server.
But when I start X with
server 'svga'
driver
Someone suggested I check that my path includes .
but I thought that's what the ./ was for?
Yes, you are correct and DO NOT put . in your path.
There was a rap-on-the-fingers thread about . in
your path. The Skinny:If a malicious person gets into
your account and puts a function named ls in
--- Robin Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi. I have a hard drive with ext2 (primary), swap
(logical), and NTFS
(primary) partitions. It's a large drive with a lot
of unused space. I want
to carve up the remaining space into several
partititions, but cfdisk only
offers to make one last
--- Sam Varghese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 02:38:07AM +0530, Jocky
wrote:
hello sir,
i m a user of linux in india.i have a problem and
i will be greatfull if u plz. help me solve it.
i switched my desktop from gnome to Twm.now i
again want to switch to gnome.so
--- Gurusami Annamalai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello All,
I am currently using Debian GNU Linux version 2.2.
I am planning to buy a
CD Writer that is already supported.
Try
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/cdr.html
for a list of supported CD-Writers.
Mike's Question:
I want to delete a directory that will have files in
it...I don't know the name of the files there for
wildcards might be needed
I understand that rmdir will wipe out an empty
directoryand unlink will wipe out files (only if
I know the names of the files)
What
--
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #61 from Hamma Scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
:
Ever have troubles with EITHER X OR CONSOLE LOCKUP?
If your session is hung you can type CTRLALTF2-
F6 to get to another login session. This way, you
can shut your machine down properly, or kill
whichever process
--- Mike Egglestone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
thanks for all the inputs !!!
Just condensing all the answers given
(more for myself)
I'm really new to Perl and I'm guessing that
I can't run shell commands within a perl script...
Check out system() and exec()...
--- Joost Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you know that on the console, you can also use
leftalt+cursor{left,right}
to change vt's? Going back to X from vc1 is as
simple as leftalt-cursorleft.
So, to go through all virtual consoles would be
Left Alt-F1 throught Left Alt-F6 and Left Alt
--- will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 10:46:58AM -0700, Hamma
Scott wrote:
--
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #25 from Will Trillich
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
:
Did you know you have MORE THAN ONE CONSOLE to
use? There's
six, by default: try Control-Alt-F6 to see
console
--
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #25 from Will Trillich
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
:
Did you know you have MORE THAN ONE CONSOLE to use?
There's six,
by default: try Control-Alt-F6 to see console six,
Ctl-Alt-F3 for
console 3, and so forth. (If you don't use the X
window display
system, you don't need to include the
Whereas I was working with different flavours of
Unix as far back as
1986. But I've never had to configure X before.
I have configured apache, SSL, written shell
scripts, PHP, C, C++, and
Java. I'm still finding this much more difficult
than I think it should
be. Maybe I've just got
At work I installed a Window 2K/Debian dual boot.
The steps I took were:
0. Read the Debian Installation Instructions
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.en.txt
If you're new to Debian you might have been
like me thinking that installation instructions
aren't
If you have Windows, use it to get the information
needed. once installed, go to the properties option of
the desktop menu under Settings Tab, go to the Display
type to get the video card.
Check the monitor make/model, you should be able to
find documentation online esp. if it's a Dell monitor.
I'm pretty new to the Linux environment myself and I
can understand you're growing pains.
useful stuff
One thing I did learn is if your session is hung you
can type ALTF2-F6 to get to another login session.
This way, you can shut your machine down properly.
/useful stuff
So, having drawn a
I'm pretty much where you are. It's those quick starts
and stops that kill ya.Those books are good
http://www.perl.org
http://www.perlmonks.com
are 2 sites that have some pretty good stuff.
--- Jay Latham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I hope I don't get flamed for asking this on this
list but here
--- Tim Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
We baught the debian potato linux CD package, and
installted it on a new IDE
hard drive. There is error message came up during
installing selected
packages. The message is as below:
Processing was halted because there were two many
errors.
E:
I'd verify to see if you put the paths to these
external programs into the PATH variable it would
work.
you can type
$export PATH = path to progs1:path to progs2:$PATH
path to progs = the absolute path of the external
programs you are calling. If there are more than one,
like the above example,
Hello,
I was installing 2.2r0 bought from Cheap Bytes last
week. I hit a problem with the installation (I'll
submit that seperate) and went to re-install and
decided to use verbose installation. From the
beginning I received the following error
modprobe: could not find module
I was installing 2.2r0 and my PCI video card was not
found. I'm staying away from X for right now, but
wonder if the Nvidia Riva TNT2 Model 64 is supported
in r3 of Debian.
If not xviddetect came back with the following line
10de002d|i386|Nvidia Coirporation|Riva TNT2 Model 64
If you could add
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