No partition media

2006-04-05 Thread Aaron Stromas
Greetings,This is something new for me. I got this Dell GX520 as my new development box and tried to install Debian 3.1 (sarge) on it. The installed does not fine the disks: No partition media. This box has 80G SATA as disk 0 and 80G PATA as disk 1. I saw a suggestion to usie linux26 as installer

Re: No partition media

2006-04-05 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 4/5/06, Aaron Stromas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings,This is something new for me. I got this Dell GX520 as my new development box and tried to install Debian 3.1 (sarge) on it. The installed does not fine the disks: No partition media. This box has 80G SATA as disk 0 and 80G PATA as disk 1

Re: No partition media

2006-04-05 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 4/5/06, Matt Zagrabelny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 08:27 -0400, Aaron Stromas wrote: Greetings, This is something new for me. I got this Dell GX520 as my new development box and tried to install Debian 3.1 (sarge) on it. The installed does not fine the disks: No partition

Re: OT: windoze equivalent of /etc/hosts

2006-01-20 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 1/20/06, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi folks,I've set up a little internal web server on our home network.On mydebian boxes I just added a line like: 192.168.2.111 ourhometo /etc/hosts to facilitate browsing.But my wife has a windows xplaptop I have no idea how to do the same thing

dpkg blows up on etch amd64

2006-01-07 Thread Aaron Stromas
Greetings,When I run apt-get upgrade it fails, apparently, kernel(!) - Unable to handle paging request!Any suggestions how to get back to normal? TIA,sella:/home/ams# apt-get upgradeE: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. sella:/home/ams# dpkg

SOLVED: dpkg blows up on etch amd64

2006-01-07 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 1/7/06, Ernest jw ter Kuile [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 07 January 2006 20:55, Aaron Stromas wrote: Greetings, Pid: 17468, comm: dpkg Not tainted 2.6.12-1-amd64-genericEtch has these other two kernel :linux-image-2.6.12-10-em64t-p4 linux-image-2.6.12-10-amd64-k8the first one runs best

Re: X configuration (amd64)

2006-01-03 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 1/2/06, David L. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 17:57:53 -0500Aaron Stromas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed amd64 etch and moved on to setting up X. I got iver the nVidia card hurdle and runapt-get install x-window-system apt-get install gnome apt-get

Re: X configuration (amd64)

2006-01-03 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 1/3/06, Jim Seymour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 06:06:42PM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote: On 1/2/06, Jim Seymour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 12:49:35PM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote: Greetings, I've installed amd64 etch and moved on to setting up X. I

X configuration (amd64)

2006-01-02 Thread Aaron Stromas
Greetings, I've installed amd64 etch and moved on to setting up X. I got iver the nVidia card hurdle and run apt-get install x-window-system apt-get install gnome apt-get install kde (trying to avoid restarting the gnome vs. kde flames :)) X starts fine using both GNOME and KDE, the login

Re: X configuration (amd64)

2006-01-02 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 1/2/06, kamaraju kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron Stromas wrote: Greetings, I've installed amd64 etch and moved on to setting up X. I got iver the nVidia card hurdle and run apt-get install x-window-system apt-get install gnome apt-get install kde (trying to avoid

Re: X configuration (amd64)

2006-01-02 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 1/2/06, Jim Seymour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 12:49:35PM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote: Greetings, I've installed amd64 etch and moved on to setting up X. I got iver the nVidia card hurdle and run apt-get install x-window-system apt-get install gnome apt-get

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-22 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 12/21/05, Wackojacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron Stromas wrote: Greetings, I received a number of advices on installation of my AMD Athlon 64 machine. This far I only was successful with (K)ubuntu. At one time I thought I got the Debian daily installer to detect my built-in nVidia Ethernet

installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Aaron Stromas
Greetings, I received a number of advices on installation of my AMD Athlon 64 machine. This far I only was successful with (K)ubuntu. At one time I thought I got the Debian daily installer to detect my built-in nVidia Ethernet, but I was wrong. I've burned too many CDs and I was actually booting

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Aaron Stromas
Hi Sven, On 12/21/05, Sven Krahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Aaron, On 12/21/05, Aaron Stromas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are a couple of question I have for the list. I initially did Kubuntu server install and ended up with no root (sudo passwd!) and one root The 'no root' is one

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 12/21/05, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron Stromas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Finally, assuming I succeed in setting up the system the way I like, can I simply edit the sources file to return back to the Debian fold?You are assuming wrong.You will run into several problems

Re: How do I make xhost changes stick?

2005-12-20 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 12/19/05, Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I'm using Etch with x.org, xdm, and fluxbox. I've discovered that I can't open an X windows after I log into root using su, as when I try toopen emacs to edit a config file. I have to use 'xhost local:' first.Not a big deal, but I have to do

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-20 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 12/20/05, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:27:27PM -0300, Gabriel wrote: Mike McCarty wrote:Never take the advice of people who use spellings likekewel, n33t, and abbreviate you to u, etc. Could you please explain me why? Just to knowAnd what

Re: Athlon AMD 64 3000+

2005-12-16 Thread Aaron Stromas
pretty good howto you would appreciate to read: https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.htm The system fails to boot from netinst image. Late last night I found a README mentioning that some systems don't understand isolinux, so I'm going to try booting from a

Athlon AMD 64 3000+

2005-12-14 Thread Aaron Stromas
Greetings, Which Debian image should I install for AMD Athlon 64 system? TIA, -a

No install directory in jigdo image

2005-12-12 Thread Aaron Stromas
Greetings, I got a jigdo image for stable and burned a CD. After a couple of attempts of booting a RedHat box with that CD and not getting the Debian installer to run (before you ask, the boot sequence has CD first), I looked at the CD. It has no tools nor install directories. That explains why

broken /var/lib/dpkg/status

2005-11-08 Thread Aaron Stromas
Greetings, apt-get complains: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 18124 package `ksysguard': `Depends' field, reference to `xlibs': version contains ` ' Indeed, the status file at that line looks like this Replaces: kdebase ( 4:3.0.0), kdebase-doc ( 4:3.0.0), kpm (

Re: broken /var/lib/dpkg/status

2005-11-08 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 11/8/05, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a graceful way to fix it? TIA,Edit the file and change it to libsm6 | xlibs ( 4.1.0) just plain editor? no fancy tools? worked, though. thanks! -a

Re: How to restore IMAP mailboxes

2005-11-07 Thread Aaron Stromas
as to which to choose? TIA, -a On 11/6/05, Daniel Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:46:28PM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote: Greetings, Somehow during my Debian upgrade I managed to trash my Cyrus 2.1 IMAP server, it no longer boots. I ended up rebuilding the system on the second

Re: kernell panic

2005-11-05 Thread Aaron Stromas
Luigi, non so come aiutarti con questo problema, a parte di traduire in inglese. Here's the enlish translationo of the original post Ho all, I just installed Linux on my machine leaving a small windows partition, but I have a small problem: when I turn the computer on, after the GNU GRUB

How to restore IMAP mailboxes

2005-11-04 Thread Aaron Stromas
Greetings, Somehow during my Debian upgrade I managed to trash my Cyrus 2.1 IMAP server, it no longer boots. I ended up rebuilding the system on the second drive and, luckily, I can mount the old /var filesystem which contains all the IMAP data. How can I migrate user mailboxes from the old

sa-exim configuration

2005-11-02 Thread Aaron Stromas
Hi, My SA-exim seem to run but does let spam through. From the headers it seem sa-exim simply does not scan mail: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 80.108.137.150X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on localhost.localdomain); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Any suggestions why it

Re: sa-exim configuration

2005-11-02 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 11/2/05, Aaron Stromas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My SA-exim seem to run but does let spam through. From the headers it seem sa-exim simply does not scan mail: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 80.108.137.150X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on localhost.localdomain

Re: What blocks access to my host?

2005-10-31 Thread Aaron Stromas
That is true, my router ony allow port 22 (ssh) for remote access, but I'm testing from the same subnet within the firewall. I did this massive upgrade/update using aptitude (I guess, something went funny during initial install). Still can't telnet to port 25, though I noticed that iptables was

Re: What blocks access to my host?

2005-10-31 Thread Aaron Stromas
I got a bit further now. I'm not sure how I did it but I can connect locally (inside the firewall) to all ports that my machine listens to EXCEPT the port 25. Can it be something about exim configuration? -a On 10/31/05, Aaron Stromas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is true, my router ony allow

What blocks access to my host?

2005-10-30 Thread Aaron Stromas
Hi, I had to re-install my machine using stable distribution. This is my server running Exim, Cyrus, Apache etc. It seems that when I selected a bundle of packages at the installation, it had installed some kind of the firewall, or did some configuration I can't figure out. Namely, I can telnet

sound on compaq deskpro

2000-12-28 Thread Aaron Stromas
to be installed. TIA. P.S. Please cc me on your response, I'm not on the list. -- Aaron Stromas| Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg... Oracle Corp | BRTN commentator +1 703.708.68.21 | L'Alpe d'Huez

Re: Xf86 xonfig for Compaq Deskpro TFT5000

2000-07-31 Thread Aaron Stromas
all output from the server. ive run many g400s and havent had a problem. nate On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Aaron Stromas wrote: aaron. hi, aaron. aaron. i'm having very little success configuring X (v 3.3.6-10) on this compaq aaron. machine. it has matrox millenium g400 agp video card which

Xf86 xonfig for Compaq Deskpro TFT5000

2000-07-28 Thread Aaron Stromas
can understand. could someone who has this system and got x running send me their XF86Config? please cc me in your reply as i'm currently off the list. tia, -- Aaron Stromas| Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg... Oracle Corp | BRTN commentator +1

scsi-ide module

2000-01-19 Thread Aaron Stromas
hi, could someone tell me where the scsi-ide module may be found? either in binary for i386, kernel 2.0.36 or source. tia, -- Aaron Stromas Oracle Corp. Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg (BRTN commentator, L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France) begin:vcard n:Stromas

Re: scsi-ide module

2000-01-19 Thread Aaron Stromas
i did. also ran modprobe -l, it's not there. -a Peter Ross wrote: On 19-Jan-2000, Aaron Stromas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, could someone tell me where the scsi-ide module may be found? either in binary for i386, kernel 2.0.36 or source. tia, have a look in /lib/modules/2.0.36/scsi

Re: scsi-ide module - FOUND

2000-01-19 Thread Aaron Stromas
i found the source in the kernel source package. thanks, Peter Ross wrote: On 19-Jan-2000, Aaron Stromas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, could someone tell me where the scsi-ide module may be found? either in binary for i386, kernel 2.0.36 or source. tia, have a look in /lib/modules

Re: terminfo for solaris

1999-10-20 Thread Aaron Stromas
Greg Wooledge wrote: Aaron Stromas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > while logging to a solaris box and setting back the display to my debian > linux box vi misbehaves. some time ago i stumbled upon a fix - there is > a terminfo entry that needs to be compiled and the TERMINFO environment &

terminfo for solaris

1999-10-19 Thread Aaron Stromas
the reference. can someone that have it send it to me? tia, -a -- Aaron Stromas | "Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg" Oracle Corp. | BRTN commentator, +1 703 708 6821 | L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France begin:vcard n:Stromas;Aaron tel;fax:+1 703-708 7922 tel;home:+1 301 493 4933 t

Re: true type fonts and xfstt (again)

1999-09-23 Thread Aaron Stromas
it? Add unix/:7101 to the fontpath in your X11 configuration file. Start xfstt a few seconds before starting X11. Once you do these things, it will probably work nicer. :) On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 08:54:19AM -0400, Aaron Stromas wrote: hi, in an attempt to use the true type fonts i

Re: true type fonts and xfstt (again)

1999-09-23 Thread Aaron Stromas
such a silly thing wouldn't prevent xfstt from working, but one never knows. that's what they are! at first, i removed them, then when i got errors i put them back. hth :) so do i. thanks. -a On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 06:39:38AM -0400, Aaron Stromas wrote: seth, i've read

Re: true type fonts and xfstt - solved

1999-09-23 Thread Aaron Stromas
when i typed 'fairly sure" before i hesitated a second. the problem was xfstt runs on port 7101 but in XFConfig i managed to put 7100. one looks but does not see... thanks again to all respondents, -a Aaron Stromas wrote: Seth R Arnold wrote: > Hmm. My next thought -- and I must a

true type fonts and xfstt (again)

1999-09-22 Thread Aaron Stromas
re capitalised, does it matter? please, cc me, as for a variety of reasons, i'm not currently on the list. tia, -a -- Aaron Stromas | "Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg" Oracle Corp. | BRTN commentator, +1 703 708 6821 | L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France begin:vcard n:Stromas;Aaron tel;f

true type fonts and xfstt (yet again)

1999-09-22 Thread Aaron Stromas
s it matter? please, cc me, as for a variety of reasons, i'm not currently on the list. tia, -a -- Aaron Stromas | "Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg" Oracle Corp. | BRTN commentator, +1 703 708 6821 | L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France

Re: removing old kernel packages

1999-04-23 Thread Aaron Stromas
-s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Aaron Stromas | Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg Oracle Corp.| BRTN commentator, +1 703 708 6821 | L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France begin:vcard n:Stromas;Aaron tel;fax:+1 703-708 7922 tel

what is cc1plus?

1999-04-05 Thread Aaron Stromas
hi, i'm trying to build swig on debian 2.0.34 with gcc 2.7.2.3. the configure script fails not being able to find 'cc1plus' while compiling a c++ test file. what is cc1plus and in which package does it live? tia -- Aaron Stromas | Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg Oracle Corp

Re: what is cc1plus?

1999-04-05 Thread Aaron Stromas
never mind, i found it in g++. sorry for the wasted bandwidth. -a Aaron Stromas wrote: hi, i'm trying to build swig on debian 2.0.34 with gcc 2.7.2.3. the configure script fails not being able to find 'cc1plus' while compiling a c++ test file. what is cc1plus and in which package does

xmcd/cda and iso-9660/high-sierra fs

1999-03-02 Thread Aaron Stromas
. i checked /lib/modules/2.0.34 and i see all kinds of nls_iso8859_?.o modules but no 9660. is there an os module for 2.0.34 i could compile? where would i find it? tia, -- Aaron Stromas | Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg Oracle Corp.| BRTN commentator, L'Alpe d'Huez

Re: xmcd/cda and iso-9660/high-sierra fs

1999-03-02 Thread Aaron Stromas
but make xconfig showed it grayed out. it looks i'm still missing something. a package? -- Aaron Stromas | "Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg" Oracle Corp. | BRTN commentator, L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France +1 703 917 48 72 |

Re: xmcd/cda and iso-9660/high-sierra fs

1999-03-02 Thread Aaron Stromas
perhaps i'm on the wrong trail. it dawned on me to look in /proc/filesystems and i see there nodev proc iso9660 does it mean i have iso9660 support built in? if so, why when i try to dd from /dev/scd0 i get dd: /dev/scd0: Operation not supported by device -a Aaron Stromas wrote: hi Aaron

Resolved: xmcd/cda and iso-9660/high-sierra fs

1999-03-02 Thread Aaron Stromas
/xmcd/hdc and i got music. thanks to all who tried to help and apologies for leading you astray. Aaron Stromas wrote: perhaps i'm on the wrong trail. it dawned on me to look in /proc/filesystems and i see there nodev proc iso9660 does it mean i have iso9660 support built in? if so, why when i try

Re: root doesn't have permission?

1999-03-01 Thread Aaron Stromas
What would cause root not to have permission to delete a file, directory or symlinks. Is there anyway to correct this problem. I've tried chown and chmod and everthing I can think of. perhaps what you trying to delete is in a nfs mounted system? -- Aaron Stromas | "Tick-tick-tick!!!.

any tools to convert to pdf format?

1999-02-18 Thread Aaron Stromas
, and if there a tool to convert postscript to pdf i'd be all set. tia, -a -- Aaron Stromas | Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg Oracle Corp.| BRTN commentator, L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France +1 703 917 48 72 |

thanks Was: any tools to convert to pdf format?

1999-02-18 Thread Aaron Stromas
thanks for the pointers, i'll get busy -- Aaron Stromas | Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg Oracle Corp.| BRTN commentator, L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France +1 703 917 48 72 |

Re: Come cambiare l'owner di uno script lanciato da pppd ?

1999-02-09 Thread Aaron Stromas
own root kill9 chmod 4555 kill9 allora, puoi usarlo passando i numeri di processi che vuoi uccidere, per esempio kill9 101 1024 -- Aaron Stromas | "Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg" Oracle Corp. | BRTN commentator, L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France +1 703 708 68 21 |

driver for intel etherexpress won't install

1998-12-14 Thread Aaron Stromas
using the debian 2.0 hamm with drivers floppy image from http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/5.1.5/ -- Aaron Stromas | Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg Oracle Corp.| BRTN commentator, L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France +1 703 917 48 72 |

rawrite[23] problem on nt 4.0

1998-12-10 Thread Aaron Stromas
high density 1.4m diskette i tried, maxell, fuji etc. any clues? tia, -- Aaron Stromas | Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg Oracle Corp.| BRTN commentator, L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France +1 703 917 48 72 |

install can't find hard disk

1998-11-25 Thread Aaron Stromas
hi, i have this dual-processor dell 2300 with adaptec aic-7890 scsi bios seagate st34573lc on scsi id 0. i'm trying to install debian 2.0 but when it attmpts to partition the hard disk it informs me that no hard disk drives could be found found. what do i do now? thanks in advance, -a -- Aaron