LILO disaster: L 01 01 01 ...

Hi! I have two HD's. Although hdb (40GB) is not recognised by the BIOS, booting Debian 2.2 on hdb worked fine with LILO on the MBR of hda. But yesterday I installed RedHat 7.2 on a spare partition of hdb and now LILO stopps with L 01 01 01 ...! However, I can reach my Debian system with a boot

Cross-Platform Development?

Hi Everybody! I plan to develop a little GUI application (GPLed of course ;-) using Debian/GNU-Linux as primary development environment. Unfortunately the app also has to run on Windoze... :-(( Does anybody have experience developing such cross-platform apps? Can you recommend a language or a

broken woddy Packages file on mirror

Hi! I wanted to install the woody package bluefish_0.6 (which I found on an australian mirror _only_) on my potato system, but apt-get mysteriously didn't see the package. It took me quite a while to find out that the file Packages from this mirror still contains a description of bluefish_0.3, so

Re: Burning CDs in Linux

Rob Rati wrote: I just got the new Yamaha 6x4x16x CD-RW and can't seem to burn a CD. It always error out with what looks like a buffer problem. My machine is all SCSI, and it doesn't seem to matter whether I do a CD to CD burn or make an image and burn that from the HD. It always errors

Re: RIVA128 (nVidia) card works, but loses cursor in emacs ...

Jingsong Zhao wrote: I mail-ordered a XFree86-supported video card, yet I received a Jaton Video-68AGP card that uses RIVA128ZX chip. To my chagrin, I spent several hours figuring out that I have to download from nVidia a special XF86_SVGA and do some setups. I have an ELSA VICTORY ERAZOR