On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 04:49, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:49:48AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
Alexey Buistov wrote:
Hello Debian fans!
The sixth iso image of binary woody is being downloaded to my machine
right now, but I'm still having plenty of questions
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:31:05PM +1300, cr wrote:
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 04:49, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:49:48AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
Alexey Buistov wrote:
Hello Debian fans!
The sixth iso image of binary woody is being downloaded to my machine
Hello Debian fans!
The sixth iso image of binary woody is being downloaded to my machine right now,
but I'm still having plenty of questions concerning Debian installation and even
pre-installation.
Please point me to some doco or answer directly in mailing list:
1) Is it true that Debian
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 12:18:53 +0200
Alexey Buistov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Debian fans!
The sixth iso image of binary woody is being downloaded to my
machine right now, but I'm still having plenty of questions concerning
Debian installation and even pre-installation. Please point me
Alexey Buistov wrote:
Hello Debian fans!
The sixth iso image of binary woody is being downloaded to my machine right now,
but I'm still having plenty of questions concerning Debian installation and even pre-installation.
Please point me to some doco or answer directly in mailing list:
First,
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:49:48AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
Alexey Buistov wrote:
Hello Debian fans!
The sixth iso image of binary woody is being downloaded to my machine
right now, but I'm still having plenty of questions concerning Debian
installation and even pre-installation.
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:18:53PM +0200, Alexey Buistov wrote:
1) Is it true that Debian has limitation on partition size - 6 gigs?
Or any other size limit?
No.
Maybe terabytes or something :)
2) Can I do all partitioning stuff from M$ Window$ (using Partition
Magick) before
On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 at 11:15 GMT, David Palmer. penned:
Partition Magick is a piece of junk. It works, but you will have
trouble later if you want to do things like resize partitions.
Partitioning is a subject that is adequately catered for in the
references I have already given you.
just to clarify: he must have meant /etc/inetd.conf here and not
/etc/inittab.
yes, quite :) don't look after your security late at night ;o)
cheers
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Just to fill you in on my situation.
The other day, I had a friend set up one of my computers with Debian. He
set it up as my firewall/router, since its main function is just that. I'm
mostly a Hardware person, I could probably build a computer blind folded and
I'm only familiar with the many
1. I'm not going to beg for all the newbie commands I should know, so I'm
just going to ask for a URL that will set me in the right direction. Could
someone please point me to one?
i started on the dos2linux howto about 5 years ago. it's a good place to
start.
2. I've read about 200
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 08:28:06PM +1100, Damien wrote:
it's not imperitive. debian is half locked down by default. until you become
competent in linux, chances are you won't stand to lose much.
simplest thing to do is make sure this line exists in
/etc/apt/sources.list:
deb
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 12:27:16AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, here are my Questions:
1. I'm not going to beg for all the newbie commands I should know, so I'm
just going to ask for a URL that will set me in the right direction. Could
someone please point me to one?
Check out
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 08:28:06PM +1100, Damien wrote:
as root, edit /etc/inittab, and put a # at the start of every line that
doesn't already have one. you can then uncomment the services you want as you
go. this file controls stuff like telnet, ftp etc.
just to clarify: he must have meant
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 12:27:16AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just to fill you in on my situation.
The other day, I had a friend set up one of my computers with Debian. He
set it up as my firewall/router, since its main function is just that. I'm
mostly a Hardware person, I could
Hallo I am new on Debian,
now I want to know which services (inetd,nfs and so on) have
to run on my machine.
The machine is a stand alone workstation and connected with
a modem using ppp to the internet.
I also need a stable easy to configure and using mailprogram
for X.
Sorry my english is
I am a Windows 95 user who has recently been introduced to the world of
Linux (Debian (2.0, I think ??)). I have partitioned off about 1 GB of my
hard drive to Linux, and the rest is DOS/W95.
I am trying to work out ... is it possible to share files between the two
operating systems (i.e. Linux
Andrew J Fortune wrote:
I am a Windows 95 user who has recently been introduced to the world of
Linux (Debian (2.0, I think ??)). I have partitioned off about 1 GB of my
hard drive to Linux, and the rest is DOS/W95.
You really need another partition thats 32Mb or 64Mb for a 'swap'
On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 09:25:57AM +1000, Andrew J Fortune wrote:
I am a Windows 95 user who has recently been introduced to the world of
Linux (Debian (2.0, I think ??)). I have partitioned off about 1 GB of my
hard drive to Linux, and the rest is DOS/W95.
I am trying to work out ... is
Andrew J Fortune wrote:
I am a Windows 95 user who has recently been introduced to the world of
Linux (Debian (2.0, I think ??)). I have partitioned off about 1 GB of my
hard drive to Linux, and the rest is DOS/W95.
As someone else mentioned, you'll need to use part of that as a swap
On Tue, 01 Jun 1999, Andrew J Fortune wrote:
...and talking about EMails, can anyone give me any leads on the best way I
ccan connect to the Net in Linux, surf the Net, send/receive EMails,
participate in Chat programs etc. ?
I'm experienced in W95, but I am only starting out in the world
Hi!
Barry Kauler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 01 Jun 1999, Andrew J Fortune wrote:
...and talking about EMails, can anyone give me
any leads on the best way I ccan connect to the
Net in Linux, surf the Net, send/receive EMails,
participate in Chat programs etc. ?
I'm
Hi!
Barry Kauler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This was my way of installing (as a relative
newbie):
[snip]
Finally
# apt-get install kdm
Modify /etc/X11/window-managers
so that /usr/bin/kde is first in the list.
Reboot.
I have modify /etc/X11/window-managers
and it worked the first
Hi.
Andrew J Fortune [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Daniel,
Thanks for replying !
You are welcome :-)
Is GNOME some sort of alternative to Debian ?
Nope. It's an alternative to KDE. I've never used
it. Now I'm installing KDE.
KDE and GNOME are desktop environments for the X
Window system.
Hi!
Robert V. MacQuarrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have modify /etc/X11/window-managers and it
worked the first time I do startx. I didn't
need to reboot. But perhaps you enter in X
everytime you turn on your computer. Then exit
from X (CONTROL-ALT-DEL) and restart X with
startx. You'll
PJMaP == Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
PJMaP 4 - How do I configure my PCBIT ISDN card. I installed the
PJMaP module but it says when it is loading it that there are still 3
PJMaP files to be configured at /etc/isdn... How do I configure them
PJMaP ?
Just edit the
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy wrote:
1 - My X server since installation starts automaticly... I don't want it to
auto - start. How do I take that option out?
remove the S90xdm file from your /etc/rc2.d (maybe all rcx.d, but 2 for
sure, as it's the default runlevel)
2 - Is
He doesn't want it as a startup thing. There ain't no extreme about it,
just a preference. Linux is not confined to X, so why artificially
confine it? BTW why stop at 7 VTs when you can make up to 255 relatively
easily (I have 9+syslog [X gets VT10] and would have more, but I don't
like the
1 - My X server since installation starts automaticly... I don't want it to
auto - start. How do I take that option out?
2 - Is there any kind of autoexec.bat at Debian? Where?
3 - How do I mount my Windows file system at hda1? Then so it'll mount every
time I log, I'll have to add the mount
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On Sun, 9 May 1999 15:25:11 +0100, Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy wrote:
2 - Is there any kind of autoexec.bat at Debian? Where?
System wide - /etc/init.d, /etc/cron.*
3 - How do I mount my Windows file system at hda1?
man mount
1 - My X server since installation starts automaticly... I don't want it to
auto - start. How do I take that option out?
I'm guessing you mean xdm. If your system is like mine, you'll have a file
/etc/X11/config. In their will be a line 'start-xdm' which you should
replace with 'no-start-xdm'.
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 12:47:04AM +1000, Robert Norris wrote:
1 - My X server since installation starts automaticly... I don't want it to
auto - start. How do I take that option out?
I'm guessing you mean xdm. If your system is like mine, you'll have a file
/etc/X11/config. In their will
Luis M. Garcia wrote:
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 12:47:04AM +1000, Robert Norris wrote:
1 - My X server since installation starts automaticly... I don't want it
to
auto - start. How do I take that option out?
I'm guessing you mean xdm. If your system is like mine, you'll have a file
to remove xdm :
try :
Ctrl+R in the xlogin
or as root, in shell :
switchdm
Hi,
I just bought an official Debian CD. But my computer does not
boot from CDs.
-What do I do?
I read the installation guide and it says: In the case that your
computer does not support bootable CDs, you should boot into DOS, and
execute boot.bat file which is located in
Hi Tam,
binary CD is correct.
the file you want is in /install
Any more questions - just ask !
Ivan.
At 09:41 AM 12/28/98 -0500, you wrote:
Hi,
I just bought an official Debian CD. But my computer does not
boot from CDs.
-What do I do?
I read the installation guide and it
On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, CJ wrote:
-But there isn't any boot.bat file under the \boot directory on my CD,
Aha!
Welcome to the wonderful world of Debian.
You have successfully smashed head-on into the first obstacle placed in
your path.
Cunning newbie test #1 -- see if the poor unfortunate
Hi
I've just set up debian hamm and i have few problems with it.
It seems that i'm not able to create working accounts.
I've tried to create them with adduser whatever -command,
but when i try to logon, it says could not cd to /home/whatever.
Then it throws me back to the login prompt. Any ideas
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