Re: Re: I blew it bigtime!

2004-04-05 Thread Mike Chandler
OK, I got into my system using knoppix, then I did mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 chroot /mnt/hdb1 This got me where I needed to be, to reinstall my kernel. However, it would not install, there was an error saying usr/sbin/mkinitrd; can't find /dev/fd and cannot make initrd. (something like that...)

Does mozilla hang on some sites for you?

2004-04-05 Thread Bill Moseley
This is on sid, but this has been an ongoing problem for quite some time. Mozilla hangs on some sites, and I'm wondering if anyone else has this same problem. It seems to always hang at http://abcnews.go.com and strace shows: stat64(/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo//font0709.spd,

Re: Sid and Root on Compact Flash ?

2004-04-05 Thread Joey Hess
Iain Young wrote: I've seen a number of 'HOWTO' documents on installing Debian on Compact Flash, but most of the ones I've seen deal with installing it once, and using stable. Has anyone had any experience with using Sid, -and- keeping it up to date with apt-get update and apt-get upgrade

Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver

2004-04-05 Thread Paul William
I think you cannot use the nvidia drivers since 2.6.3. Sridhar M.A. wrote: I am facing a problem in installing the nvidia binary driver with the latest kernel 2.6.5. With the earlier kernel versions, I could install the driver without any hassles. I get the following error message when I try to

Re: Can't use GUI as root

2004-04-05 Thread Paul Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) writes: Jaap Haitsma wrote: [] this is the same reason as you shouldn't work as root. In GUI is much easier to mess up the system (oh, ie dragdrop /etc into trash comes to mind). And you can get used to work as root in GUI. So better is su or sudo things you

Re: canon_camera: problem downloading pictures to de hd

2004-04-05 Thread steef
Michael Biebl wrote: steef wrote: hi out there, please help me with the following [possible] problem: after some googling and apt-cache search etc. etc. i could not find debian software that allows me to download pictures to my harddisk from my canon eos 300D digital camera . well..., i

Re: Frontpage ext

2004-04-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Mozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone please point me @ docs to install frontpage 2002 server extentions on woody. What is your final goal? I see three distinct possible courses of action. 1) The more-work route: Cut your losses and scrap the Frontpage idea, post what your final

Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver

2004-04-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Sridhar M.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am facing a problem in installing the nvidia binary driver with the latest kernel 2.6.5. You and everybody else with a 2.6 kernel and an nVidiot card. I can't wait until I have money again so I can see just how far an nVidia card will sail when

2 questions

2004-04-05 Thread j smith
1st question i have 2 PCs, one with cable modem connection. I want to connect them using a serial line. the serial line actually is a serial mouse extention line. what software configuration do I have to make? 2nd question is it possible to use kernel 2.4 in Debian 1.2? the compiled kernel 2.4

sarge install problems

2004-04-05 Thread wex
I am installing sarge onto my dell 8600 laptop with problems. I have one 60 gig harddrive and my partition table looks as follows in the installer: #1 primary 41mb (some dell utilities) #2 primary 31gb (to be ntfs windows xp partition) #3 primary 20gb ext3 / #5 logical 123.3mb ext3 /boot (boot

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a Province of China?

2004-04-05 Thread Miles Bader
Anthony Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: certainly it is NOT a bug. Anyone with half a brain can see that. So how do you justify the brokenness of the Taiwan entry -- which unlike every other entry, doesn't properly yield the name of the country? Can you? [BTW, you included my entire message,

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a Province of China?

2004-04-05 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 07:28:49PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: Given what I understand of the politics and history of Taiwan/China, I think it is unlikely that the two use the same language *in every detail*. Particularly, I doubt that their usage of technical language jargon is the same.

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a Province of China?

2004-04-05 Thread Miles Bader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Claus Färber) writes: BTW, there are a lot of other names from ISO 3166 that IMO should be changed for everyday use: Short name contains unnecessary parts from the full official name (probably for political hyper-correctness): IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF;IR

Re: [ilug-cal] Changing window managers (Gnome 2.4)

2004-04-05 Thread Soumyadip Modak
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 15:41, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Try editing the /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/default gconf setting. Use gconf-editor to do it. Tried it just now, and restarted the x server. Still doesn't work. ps ax still shows sawfish running, even though gconf show

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