Re: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

2001-01-31 Thread ktb
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:03:15AM -0200, hzi wrote: Good people of the community- Why on God' s green earth didn't developers ever think of end users when they made dselect? I simply can't understand why it doesn't accept a simple path (e.g., /cdrom/debian/potato) to some files I

hd failure (maybe), please adivse

2001-01-31 Thread D-Man
Hi all! I have 2 hard drives in my computer: o an 8GB Quantum Bigfoot that came with the computer, Win98 preinstalled (/dev/hda) o a 10GB Maxtor that I bought ~1 year later and installed myself (/dev/hdc) I also have a DVD-ROM (/dev/hdb) and a Zip drive (/dev/hdd) On /dev/hdc I have

RE: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

2001-01-31 Thread Alec Clews
Maybe you should use 'dpkg path_to_debfile' in this situation. Yes deselect is awkward And I'm using Windows 2K and MS Outlook :-((( -Original Message-From: hzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, 1 February 2001 15:03To: debian-user@lists.debian.orgSubject: Dselect

Re: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

2001-01-31 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:14:00PM -0600, ktb wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:03:15AM -0200, hzi wrote: Good people of the community- Why on God' s green earth didn't developers ever think of end users when they made dselect? I simply can't understand why it doesn't accept a

Re: hd failure (maybe), please adivse

2001-01-31 Thread Mircea Luca
D-Man wrote: Hi all! I have 2 hard drives in my computer: o an 8GB Quantum Bigfoot that came with the computer, Win98 preinstalled (/dev/hda) o a 10GB Maxtor that I bought ~1 year later and installed myself (/dev/hdc) I also have a DVD-ROM (/dev/hdb) and a Zip drive

Re: are apt/sources.list http: and ftp: same?

2001-01-31 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:08:56AM -0600, Gregory Guthrie wrote: At 03:05 PM 01/30/2001 -0600, will trillich wrote: from what i recall of an identical thread frmo a coupla months ago, the main difference is that ftp has a bit of overhead when starting up any particular transfer. where http is

Re: apache/php + apxs?

2001-01-31 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:06:50PM -0600, Andrei Ivanov wrote: To get apxs you need to install apache-dev so if i've done apt-get install apache-dev then i've got an apxs-enabled apache server? if so, how can i confirm that? if not, what else is needed? -- See, if you were allowed to

No acceleratin in new X!

2001-01-31 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I can't figure out my 3d here, I've had it workingbefore, but after I formatted I've been having confusing problems with it. I have no configuration, but I'm using the tdfx module with the 2.4 kernel (which I assume is working correctly). When I start x with 'startx', it reports that

Re: hd failure (maybe), please adivse

2001-01-31 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:14:35PM -0500, D-Man wrote: Hi all! I have 2 hard drives in my computer: o an 8GB Quantum Bigfoot that came with the computer, Win98 preinstalled (/dev/hda) o a 10GB Maxtor that I bought ~1 year later and installed myself (/dev/hdc) I also have

staroffice problems

2001-01-31 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I've installed staroffice, and it tries to start (little initialization window pops up). But then it quits, and says "Aborted." That isn't real descriptive, so I can't figure out what's wrong. Any one else with these troubles? Cameron Matheson

Re: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

2001-01-31 Thread Casey Webster
if they are .deb's, you can dpkg -i package.deb as for yur browser, apt-get install communicator-smotif-476 apt-get install mozilla apt-get install lynx pick the one you like best. -Casey On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:03:15AM -0200, hzi wrote: Good people of the community- Why on God'

email server

2001-01-31 Thread Mike Egglestone
HI.. Can someone point me to where I can find out how to setup my linux box as an email server? Thanks Mike

Re: email server

2001-01-31 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Mike Egglestone (on Wed, 31 Jan 2001 08:51:25PM -0800): Can someone point me to where I can find out how to setup my linux box as an email server? i assume you mean as a POP3 server, i.e. where people can download their mail from. i'd suggest qpopper and you can find a little bit

Re: how to stop gdm?

2001-01-31 Thread sachinsah
Hello, I solved this same problem using linuxconf. it has option in booting whether to use text mode / graphical mode. I don't know what it exactly does but must be restricting the runlevel to text. Sachin On Tue, 30 January 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I recently installed

apt source.list

2001-01-31 Thread Sean Bybee
Well after about a year or so of fooling around with Mandrake, I decided to get my feet wet with Debian. Anyway, I downloaded the binary-1 and binary-2 iso’s and I have a few questions about apt and source.list. Two of the lines on the list are: Deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r2 _Potato_

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