Directorios en Potato.

Saludos Debianitas... mi consulta es la siguiente,en que directorio de potato me conviene instalar los programas que bajo de la red, en este caso seria el programa spylheed en formato tar.gz. Saludos... Juan Ortiz

Compilacion del nucleo 2.4.6

Hola a todos... Estoy tratando de compilar el nucleo version 2.4.6, pero obtengo un mensaje de error, relativo a la generacion de codigo en net/core/dev.c, que no entiendo porque sucede. He visto que durante la compilacion, se establece la opcion -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2. ¿Puede ser por

Re: Directorios en Potato.

¿en que directorio de potato me conviene instalar los programas que bajo de la red?, en este caso seria el programa spylheed en formato tar.gz. Si ese tar.gz contiene los ejecutables y ya tiene cada cosa en su sitio, lo que yo haría sería convertirlo con alien e instalarlo con dpkg -i.

Re: INFORMIX

¡¡gracias tios!! al final pille una versionde 30 dias de la web de IBM. thx byeZ --- Linux User Num# 98528 http://counter.li.org - Original Message - From: Oscar González [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: HellonEarth00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Re: Directorios en Potato.

El Sun, 29 de Jul de 2001, Debian User escribió... Saludos Debianitas... mi consulta es la siguiente,en que directorio de potato me conviene instalar los programas que bajo de la red, en este caso seria el programa spylheed en formato tar.gz. Hola, /usr/local está para eso mismo.

Problemas con wine

Hola, estoy intentando probar el wine, que me han dicho que va bastante bien, pero al intentar ejecutar un programa me dice que no encuentra mi distribucion de teclado, y que lea documentation/keyboard (leido) y lo configure en el archivo que hay en 'windows/x11drv/keyboard.c'; lo que pasa es que

Re: ipnatctl

Según creo ipnatctl se usaba con el kernel 2.3, para el 2.4 ha sido sustituido por el iptables. Sin embargo, el paquete iptables solo viene con la distribución woody (testing). Tendrías que usar ipchains e ipmasq o actualizar a woody. Que alguien confirme lo que estoy diciendo. Saludos.

Postfix no recibe correo

Hola!!! Tengo un problema con postfix en una potato. Hago pruebas de correo del tipo enviar mensaje a [EMAIL PROTECTED] El problema es que esto sólo va bien si el envío lo hago desde mi propia máquina. Si envio el correo desde la página de yahoo por ejemplo, recibo un mail de rechazo. En

Re: Postfix no recibe correo

El dom, 29 de jul de 2001, Juanmi escribió... Hola!!! Tengo un problema con postfix en una potato. Hago pruebas de correo del tipo enviar mensaje a [EMAIL PROTECTED] El problema es que esto sólo va bien si el envío lo hago desde mi propia máquina. Si envio el correo desde la página de

Re: consulta-mount-nfs

Fabian: ¿hay otro método mejor que se utilice comúnmente para compartir recursos? Bueno, también está el samba, que puedes usar tanto si tienes máquinas con Windows como si no. Si es mejor o peor no sé.

Re: Ups! reinstalar el /dev/ttyS0

Manuel García wrote: Fermín Manzanedo escribió... pues nada, que como soy un enreda he borrado el /dev/ttyS0 y ahora no se como ponerlo de nuevo. He usado la instrucción mknod /dev/ttyS0 c 62 78 , pero mucho me temo que los valores 62 78 no tienen nada que ver con /dev/ttyS0. [...]

Re: Ups! reinstalar el /dev/ttyS0

El dom, día 29 de jul de 2001, a las 08:53:18 +0200, Santiago Vila decía: Mucho más fácil: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV ttyS0 La gracia de MAKEDEV es que no hay que saberse los números principal y secundario del dispositivo, ni por supuesto hace falta descender a las profundidades de la

Re: Ups! reinstalar el /dev/ttyS0

El dom, 29 de jul de 2001, Santiago Vila escribió... Claro, así dicen que Linux es difícil :-) Mucho más fácil: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV ttyS0 La gracia de MAKEDEV es que no hay que saberse los números principal y secundario del dispositivo, ni por supuesto hace falta descender a las

Re: ipnatctl

Bátaje el deb-src de woody y recompilalo para potato, no tendrás ningún problema. -- Usuario de Linux # 134651 $foo=q;\\;.q;W+|\d+;;;$_=q:q*du+dq24nE n/S;r-`Us:; y-}#-~;s;$foo;;g;$_=join q; ;,unpack q,a7 x0 a5,,$_; print q...reverse;

Re: Problema con dselect

Hola Pues sí que hago el update y tengo la lista de los nuevos paquetes que vienen al cambiar al nuevo sources.list, pero no hay forma de vover para atrás, si cambio al antiguo sources.list me siguen quedando los paquetes de versión más reciente !?!?!? Gracias. - Original Message -

Re: Postfix no recibe correo

En Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 07:35:38PM +, Juanmi escribió: Hola!!! Tengo un problema con postfix en una potato. Hago pruebas de correo del tipo enviar mensaje a [EMAIL PROTECTED] El problema es que esto sólo va bien si el envío lo hago desde mi propia máquina. Si envio el correo desde

consulta-mount-nfs(solucionado)

Muchas Gracias a Todos Hace unos días consulte por un error al montar nfs con el mount, ya solucione el problema, el error fue mio al no fijarme que el kernel estaba compilado sin soporte, nfs-server. Saludos a todos y nuevamente gracias por sus respuestas Fabian. -- Ad Augusta per angusta

apt-get - upgrade abortou!!!

Olá pessoal- Fui atualizar meu software, e o apt-get abortou! Abaixo, transcrevo o que aconteceu. O que fazer? Por favor, prestem atenção às mensagens do tetex-bin, que está cronicamente quebrado no meu sistema (isso talvez seja outro assunto, talvez não: talvez seja um bug tipo critical - já

Script postrm tetex-bin estranho [era:Re: apt-get - upgrade abortou!!!]

Em dom, 29 jul 2001 03:32:07Gustavo Noronha Silva escrito: Em Sun, 29 Jul 2001 12:06:29 -0300 hzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Unpacking replacement tetex-bin ... open /var/lib/xaw-wrappers/update-wrappers-history: Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado dpkg: warning - old post-removal

Re: Script postrm tetex-bin estranho [era:Re: apt-get - upgrade abortou!!!]

Em Sun, 29 Jul 2001 14:39:33 -0300 hzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: #unregister xdvi for mime if [ -x /usr/bin/update-mime ]; then update-mime fi não acho que esse seja o erro principal... pode ser um erro, mas não o principal... if [ -x /usr/bin/update-xaw-wrappers ]; then

Iniciante...

Estou para tentar instalar o Debian novamente. Já tentei uma vez mas tive vários problemas, conforme abaixo: 1 - Onde encontrar um manual completo, em português, de instalação do Debian. 2 - Tive muita dificuldade para entender o funcionamento do dselect, fiz uma instalação ruim e não

Re: Iniciante...

debian-br.sourceforge.net debian-br.sourceforge.net apt-get ja faz isso... At 17:55 29/07/01 -0400, Lúcio Pimenta de Moraes wrote: Estou para tentar instalar o Debian novamente. Já tentei uma vez mas tive vários problemas, conforme abaixo: 1 - Onde encontrar um manual completo, em português,

Re: Iniciante...

Em Sun, 29 Jul 2001 17:55:01 -0400 Lúcio Pimenta de Moraes [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: 1 - Onde encontrar um manual completo, em português, de instalação do Debian. no site do Debian-BR =) 2 - Tive muita dificuldade para entender o funcionamento do dselect, fiz uma instalação ruim e não

Instalar impressora

Olá Pessoal. Estou tentando instalar uma empressora sem sucesso. No rwindows ela esta na lpt1, onde ela ficaria no linux? A impressora é uma EPSON stylus COLOR 440. Alguém pode me ajudar? Fabiano. -- //|||\\///|||//|||\\ || /\

XFree4.0.3(woody) com trident TGUI9680 (1 mega)

oi, estou tendo um problema ao utilizar o server XFree86 com a trident tgui9680 (1 mega). A imagem fica dividida, ex: com o '/usr/bin/X11/XSERVER_SVGA' 3.3.6 fica normal: [] com o '/usr/bin/X11/XFree86', fica assim: | **] | [** |

Re: Instalar impressora

On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 18:34:53 + Fabiano Manoel de Andrade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Olá Pessoal. Estou tentando instalar uma empressora sem sucesso. No rwindows ela esta na lpt1, onde ela ficaria no linux? A impressora é uma EPSON stylus COLOR 440. Alguém pode me ajudar?

Re: XFree4.0.3(woody) com trident TGUI9680 (1 mega)

Use o pacote XFree86-vesa que funciona... On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Daniel Longhi wrote: oi, estou tendo um problema ao utilizar o server XFree86 com a trident tgui9680 (1 mega). A imagem fica dividida, ex: com o '/usr/bin/X11/XSERVER_SVGA' 3.3.6 fica normal: []

Re: Instalar impressora

On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 20:42:25 + Fabiano Manoel de Andrade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 18:34:53 + Fabiano Manoel de Andrade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok consegui. Mas qual filtro de impressão usar? Fabiano. Olá Pessoal. Estou tentando instalar uma

Re: Instalar impressora

On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 20:50:24 -0300 Lucianno A.Ramalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 20:42:25 + Fabiano Manoel de Andrade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 18:34:53 + Fabiano Manoel de Andrade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok consegui. Mas qual

Specifiing Drivers at installation

I need to load a raid driver at installation time but am unsure of the exact syntax and commands. Do anyone know of a good place to find the exact syntax and examples for the boot: prompt. Thanks in advance, Michael Blood

kernel 2.4.7 doesn't work

I upgraded my potato to sid today, and I installed the packageKernel-image-2.4.7-686 When I reboot, my computer shows: ... Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 302 or 03:02 Please append a correct root= boot

Re: Specifiing Drivers at installation

On 28-Jul 10:29, Michael Blood wrote: I need to load a raid driver at installation time but am unsure of the exact syntax and commands. Do anyone know of a good place to find the exact syntax and examples for the boot: prompt. Thanks in advance, Michael Blood I have always

Re: kernel 2.4.7 doesn't work

have you got the line initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-686 after the vmlinuz stanza in lilo.conf? that fixed my trouble with that one add the run lilo and boot At 12:36 PM 7/29/01 +0800, Tao Liu wrote: I upgraded my potato to sid today, and I installed the packageKernel-image-2.4.7-686 When I

How to stop some system services?

How can I stop the system services I dont want them to run? Forexample, I don't want zope to run, but is starts when I turn on my cumputer. In redhat, I use ntsysv . How can I do in debian? -- Regards, Tao Liu _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your

Re: kernel 2.4.7 doesn't work

Hi, Do you use lilo? If so could you please post that file? And also the output of ls -l /boot/vm* Thanks, Jimmy Richards On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 12:36:03PM +0800, Tao Liu wrote: I upgraded my potato to sid today, and I installed the

Re: why procmail?

On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Jeff Maxson wrote: relative newbie question: If I use pine (or any other filter-capable mail reader) why use procmail to filter the messages? Pine does that on its own, if you tell it too...just wondering the benefits None now. Filtering in pine is a recent addition,

Re: How to stop some system services?

On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 12:52:46PM +0800, Tao Liu wrote: How can I stop the system services I dont want them to run? Forexample, I don't want zope to run, but is starts when I turn on my cumputer. In redhat, I use ntsysv . How can I do in debian? Some possibilities: 1. Remove the service

Re: How to stop some system services?

Hi Tao, You can shut it down with '/etc/init.d/zope stop' and to keep it from starting again during bootup you can use the update-rc.d command like so 'update-rc.d -f zope remove'. You might want to check out the man page for that command. Hope that helps, Jim

Re: kernel 2.4.7 doesn't work

Yes! The problem is resolved! I am using 2.4.7 now. Thank you! But what does initrd mean? Is it new for 2.4? On Sunday 29 July 2001 22:50, you wrote: have you got the line initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-686 after the vmlinuz stanza in lilo.conf? that fixed my trouble with that one add the run

Re: How to stop some system services?

on Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 12:52:46PM +0800, Tao Liu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: How can I stop the system services I dont want them to run? Forexample, I don't want zope to run, but is starts when I turn on my cumputer. In redhat, I use ntsysv . How can I do in debian? To stop a service:

Re: kernel 2.4.7 doesn't work

Bigger brains than mine will have to answer that I experienced this trauma myself ast week and someone suggested it and it works. shame the kernel packagers haven't automated that one. At 01:13 PM 7/29/01 +0800, Tao Liu wrote: Yes! The problem is resolved! I am using 2.4.7 now. Thank you! But

Setting up your hostname and your ISP domain as two different thins in sendmailconf

Hi- I believe everyone will face this problem, one day ;-) Everybody's got a hostname. This hostname is not necessarily the same as your e-mail domain. It won't be, if you use dial-up to log to an ISP. But when you send mail via the console, how to you set the MTA (sendmal, in my case) to send

OT-Pronunciation of Gnome

Gnome: Is it nome or guh-nome? GNU: Is it new or guh-new? Thanks! Kent

Re: OT-Pronunciation of Gnome

On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 12:51:24AM -0500, Kent West wrote: Gnome: Is it nome or guh-nome? The latter (http://www.gnome.org/faqs/users-faq/index.html#AEN38) GNU: Is it new or guh-new? The latter (says so on the opening blurb at http://www.gnu.org) -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good

[OT] Pinging and traceroute

Any ideas why I'm unable to run a traceroute to an IP address without first pinging it ?? If I try and trace a site, it does little to nothing. Here's what a trace to www.debian.org shows after 15 seconds: traceroute www.debian.org traceroute to www.debian.org (198.186.203.20), 30 hops max, 38

Re: ext2 - reiserfs

how to convert / or /usr to reiserfs? On Sunday 29 July 2001 09:51, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:58:24PM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, does anyone know an easy way of converting a ext2 partition to resierfs and is it worth it ? - Back

Freeing up lost memory

Hi gang, I foolishly left Opera 5 overnight last night. It seems that it leaks memory like a sieve, as when I woke up this morning, I had only about 50M of my 512M of RAM free. This is after a reboot last night (installed 2.4.7-ac2), which pretty much nothing else running. Anyway, I'm wondering

Re: ext2 - reiserfs

On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 02:27:04PM +0800, Tao Liu wrote: On Sunday 29 July 2001 09:51, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:58:24PM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, does anyone know an easy way of converting a ext2 partition to resierfs and is

Only binaries?

Hello All, I am very new to the debian distribution. I have bought the Debian 2.2 distribution which contains three CDs. When I read the README.html file of all the three CDs it says that each of them is labeled as Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 Potato - Official i386 Binary-1 Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0

Re: kernel 2.4.7 doesn't work

On Sunday 29 July 2001 06:13, Tao Liu wrote: Yes! The problem is resolved! I am using 2.4.7 now. Thank you! But what does initrd mean? Is it new for 2.4? Initial Ram Disk. It's been there for sometime as I needed it to get ide-scsi emulation going for my cdburner back on Mandrake 6.0

Hardware OpenGL not working in full screen

Hi folks, It's seems that ever since I did my last dist-upgrade on testing, I've got something weird happening with my hardware graphics rendering. I'm running a 32M Matrox G450 (with X 4.03, I think - whatever's in testing at the moment), and usually the gl screensavers (the only programs I

Re: Setting up your hostname and your ISP domain as two different thins in sendmailconf

On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 12:46:25PM -0300, hzi wrote: But when you send mail via the console, how to you set the MTA (sendmal, in my case) to send the mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED] What do you have to do in sendmailconf? Buy Bat book from O'reiley for semdmail :-) (I did and never read it)

Re: Freeing up lost memory

On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 04:48:05PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: Hi gang, I foolishly left Opera 5 overnight last night. It seems that it leaks memory like a sieve, as when I woke up this morning, I had only about 50M of my 512M of RAM free. This is after a reboot last night (installed

Re: mp3 players?

On 28 Jul, Michael Perry wrote: You can now get a 20g (!) version or get one you bought earlier upgraded. All it has in it is a laptop hard drive and a usb connection. Why limit yourself to a measly 20G? ;-) There are 48G laptop drives available now... There's a guy with 2x48G in his empeg

Re: Only binaries?

On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 12:25:01PM +0530, Gurusami Annamalai wrote: I am very new to the debian distribution. I have bought the Debian 2.2 distribution which contains three CDs. You bougt from distributor who only sells binary one with the price you paid. Debian is available in source and

Re: Only binaries?

On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 12:25:01PM +0530, Gurusami Annamalai wrote: BTW, what does this Potato signify? Is it like each distribution release will have such a name and that saying Potato release will mean 2.2 r0? Or is there any other significance for this? All releases of Debian are named

Re: keyboard death

On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 07:55:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just tried to install debian ver2.2r3 on comp. with asus a7v133 w/1.2ghz athlon, usb opt. mouse, ps/2 keyboard, agp graphics. keyboard works fine during install, but when debian reboots and prompts for root password, keyboard

Information

To whom it may concern I am looking for a software that I can use inside our site for making a searching engine that allow all the visitors to find any word inside the page. Could you be so kind to recomend us what could be the appropiate software for this target, and how can we installe

what does cramfs mean?

Hi, I use kernel 2.4.7 , when I turn on my computer, I can see ... VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) Waiting for 5 seconds, press Enter to obtain a shell if I press Enter, it says 9: Terminated sh: can't access tty; job control turned off # exit cramfs: wrong magic Kernel panic: VFS: Unable

How to setup network?

How to change an interface's ip, and the default gateway, etc, and save them, do not need to type ifconfig everytime ? Thanks. Tao Liu _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: How to setup network?

Just edit /etc/network/interfaces For more ifo see `man 5 interfaces` Hope that helps. On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 03:54:35PM +0800, Tao Liu wrote: How to change an interface's ip, and the default gateway, etc, and save them, do not need to type ifconfig everytime ? Thanks. Tao Liu

Re: How to setup network?

On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 03:54:35PM +0800, Tao Liu wrote: How to change an interface's ip, and the default gateway, etc, and save them, do not need to type ifconfig everytime ? For desktop PC, set: /etc/network/interfaces For note PC (PCMCIA), set: /etc/pcmcia/network.opts Good luck :-) --

Re: Freeing up lost memory

Quoth Osamu Aoki, On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 04:48:05PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: Hi gang, I foolishly left Opera 5 overnight last night. It seems that it leaks memory like a sieve, as when I woke up this morning, I had only about 50M of my 512M of RAM free. This is after a reboot last

about packages

When I type dselect, and select, it shows some Obsolete/local packages. Does that mean all these packages can be removed, if I have no local packages? Thanks. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

fixed frequency monitors

i managed to get two 20 monitors today - but both are fixed frequency. does anyone have any experience in getting a monitor of this kind to work with linux? am -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

data recovery startup service

hi there how u guys doin'? well I hope. i've just recently acquired a copy of debian 2.2 r3 and was wondering whether or not i can use it to start an inedxpensive data recovery business. i live in south africa , and being one of the previously disadvantaged it's still hard to find work.

Re: fixed frequency monitors

If you're referring to XFree86, you can configure a precise scanrate in xf86config. However, I do not know about the console .. I don't have any experience with fixed freq. monitors, but if you can manage to get the console and X to use that frequency you should be golden. Maybe you can find a

Re: Free WP9 editor

Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aidan Christian O'Reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Other than getting WordPerfect, are there any options available (preferably free as in speech)? There's Corel's WPO2K/Linux, although it's unstable and buggy. There's Corel's WP8 free download,

Quake II GL

To run Quake 2 or 3 in OpenGL mode, do you really NEED a VooDoo card? Or can it just be any mesa-compliant card? I'm hoping it's the latter, because I have an S3 Savage card .. -- Deven

RE: fixed frequency monitors

On 29-Jul-01 Sam Varghese wrote: i managed to get two 20 monitors today - but both are fixed frequency. does anyone have any experience in getting a monitor of this kind to work with linux? I've done this with Hewlett Packard A1079C monitors. These have a 3-line input with separate cables

Re: Problems loading the hisax isdn driver on Debian 2.2r3

On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Helen McCall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I then rebooted 2.2.19pre17 on the machine with the ISA card properly configured under 2.2.17, and got a kernel crash: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 81009f8c And other such paging errors bringing the

Re: freenet port conflict with wwwoffle... what to do

On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Freenet's default port for fwproxy is 8081 but I already have wwwoffle on that port (it's primary proxy is on 8080 and its control connection at 8081). wwwoffle will use pretty much any port you tell it to use. Take a look at

Re: KDE2 X display security

On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: emacs also runs in a non-X mode, though damned if I can remember the arguments. It's emacs -nw... -- Philipp Lehman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fixed frequency monitors

On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 11:02:48AM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: On 29-Jul-01 Sam Varghese wrote: i managed to get two 20 monitors today - but both are fixed frequency. does anyone have any experience in getting a monitor of this kind to work with linux? I've done this with Hewlett Packard

Re: Information

Abraham Gustin wrote: To whom it may concern I am looking for a software that I can use inside our site for making a searching engine that allow all the visitors to find any word inside the page. Could you be so kind to recomend us what could be the appropiate software for this target,

Re: How to setup network?

On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 03:54:35PM +0800, Tao Liu wrote: How to change an interface's ip, and the default gateway, etc, and save them, do not need to type ifconfig everytime ? As mentioned edit /etc/network/interfaces then # /etc/init.d/networking restart to make the changes take effect. hth,

Re: Freeing up lost memory

On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 06:42:54PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: Quoth Osamu Aoki, On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 04:48:05PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: Hi gang, I foolishly left Opera 5 overnight last night. It seems that it leaks memory like a sieve, as when I woke up this morning, I had

Re: ext2 - reiserfs

#include hallo.h Shriram Shrikumar wrote on Sat Jul 28, 2001 um 03:58:24PM: does anyone know an easy way of converting a ext2 partition to resierfs and is it worth it ? Are you looking for an fast journaling file system? Try ext3 - the only thing you have to change is - patch the kernel:

Re: debian 2.2 rel 3 and wvdial

Rajesh Fowkar saw fit to inform me that: Hi, Since I installed debian 2.2 r.3 I am facing this problem. Earlier on 2.2 it was working fine. Problem is. I am using wvdial to connect to the net. When I first time connect to the net using wvdial DNS is not working. However if I disconnect and

Re: Freeing up lost memory

Lo, on Sunday, July 29, Damon Muller did write: Quoth Osamu Aoki, On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 04:48:05PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: Hi gang, I foolishly left Opera 5 overnight last night. It seems that it leaks memory like a sieve, as when I woke up this morning, I had only about

Re: why procmail?

John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Jeff Maxson wrote: relative newbie question: If I use pine (or any other filter-capable mail reader) why use procmail to filter the messages? Pine does that on its own, if you tell it too...just wondering the benefits None now.

Re: Only binaries?

On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 17:24:37 +1000 Sam Varghese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 12:25:01PM +0530, Gurusami Annamalai wrote: BTW, what does this Potato signify? Is it like each distribution release will have such a name and that saying Potato release will mean 2.2 r0?

Re: Only binaries?

On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 11:14:29AM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 17:24:37 +1000 Sam Varghese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 12:25:01PM +0530, Gurusami Annamalai wrote: BTW, what does this Potato signify? Is it like each distribution release

Re: ext2 - reiserfs

Sven Hoexter writes: how to convert / or /usr to reiserfs? 1. Build a knew kernel with reiserfs Support build-in 2. Boot with a rescue system and mount a NFS share. 3. mkreiserfs the partion and restore the data 4. edit your /etc/fstab 5. reboot and hope that this was the right order

Re: Only binaries?

On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 10:57:57 -0500 ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 11:14:29AM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 17:24:37 +1000 I understood that Sid was never meant to be a release name, but always the codename for the current unstable distribution?

RE:Quake II GL

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To run Quake 2 or 3 in OpenGL mode, do you really NEED a VooDoo card? Or can it just be any mesa-compliant card? I'm hoping it's the latter, because I have an S3 Savage card .. Check out http://dri.sourceforge.net/status.phtml for a list of supported chipsets.

Re: Detecting Ethernet on Compaq Presario 5280

yes, when you run redhat type lspci as root and it will give you a list of your pci hardware and hoefulle that will tell you what kind of card you have G On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Speakeasy wrote: Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 20:12:40 -0700 From: Speakeasy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: Only binaries?

YOu need to look at the debian FAQ at debian.org It will answer all your questions very well, if it doesnt you can ask me too On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Gurusami Annamalai wrote: Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 12:25:01 +0530 From: Gurusami Annamalai [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: GNU Debian User

Re: about packages

On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 04:25:46PM +0800, Tao Liu wrote: When I type dselect, and select, it shows some Obsolete/local packages. Does that mean all these packages can be removed, if I have no local packages? It means that these packages are listed in the dpkg status database, but not in the

Re: Maestro3 Won't Work

Deven, I've compiled a new kernel with support for the Maestro3 .. I turned that on, turned off all other sound cards, and turned ON Sound card support, but my system doesn't find anything at boot related to sound. I can't run ESD (it tells me there's no /dev/dsp.) I know I have a Maestro

fail updating kernel to 2.4.5

Hello all, I attempted to use deselect to update kernel from 2.2.19 to 2.4.5,but failed. As rebooting,the last four rows of error messages are: request_module[block-major-3]:Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device hda16 or 03:10 Please append a correct root= boot

Re: about packages

On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 06:32:53PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 04:25:46PM +0800, Tao Liu wrote: When I type dselect, and select, it shows some Obsolete/local packages. Does that mean all these packages can be removed, if I have no local packages? It means that

Kernel compile error?

Debian users -- Last night I tried to recompile a 2.4.1 kernel with make-kpkg, and got the following errors: gcc -E -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -D__BIG_KERNEL__ -traditional -DSVGA_MODE=NORMAL_VGA bootsect.S -o bbootsect.s as -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.s

Re: Backup strategey? (Was: Preventing windows from scr...)

On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:49:47PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya cormac two synchronized copies??? am assuming that mean that if you erased foo.txt on the master... it erases it on the other disk too??? Eh - no - the erasure on my laptop occured when I booted into windows, so there was

Re: data recovery startup service

JNF Stoffels wrote: i've just recently acquired a copy of debian 2.2 r3 and was wondering whether or not i can use it to start an inedxpensive data recovery business. i live in south africa , and being one of the previously disadvantaged it's still hard to find work. that i swhy i would

Re: ext2 - reiserfs

* Eduard Bloch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010729 10:35]: does anyone know an easy way of converting a ext2 partition to resierfs and is it worth it ? Are you looking for an fast journaling file system? Try ext3 - the only thing you have to change is - patch the kernel:

Re: ext2 - reiserfs

hi all well, if ur not keen of the COOL debian .. the latest versions of mandrake already have reiserfs... i did switch to resiserfs some time back but then i am having some problems with some features the existing applications have thats only for ext2.. like midnight commander (mc) now

rpc.statd puzzle

Hello, I found this in my syslog: Jul 29 13:50:39 daBox rpc.statd[25571]: my_svc_run() - select: Bad file descriptor I don't have any NFS services running, nor do I mount any NFS filesystems. Any ideas and/or suggestions? I have nfs-common version 0.3.2-2 and 2.2.19 kernel with the reiserfs

Re: Maestro3 Won't Work

Well, I doubt the dmesg would be terribly helpful. There's no mention of Allegro/Maestro hardware at all. -- Deven In a message dated 7/29/01 6:31:50 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: can you post your dmesg to us? additionally, are you making sure that you have sound

Re: Maestro3 Won't Work

Kernel version 2.4.7. I compiled it in. In a message dated 7/29/01 11:34:58 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which kernel version? And did you compile the Maestro3 driver as a module or build it into the kernel? Chris

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