Re: dselect first impressions

2002-06-09 Thread Andrew Suffield
fluff should be ignored. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -- | London, UK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: exploring debian's users and groups

2001-08-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
an init.d script that runs it as a suitable user, which then need not be static. -- Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK pgpWtM03TC5um.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: hard disk - smart failure predicted??

2001-06-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
, do I run get a new H.D?? Good idea. -- Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK pgpPOOZ8MyK5c.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: csh [was: Using tar saving Disk-space]

2001-05-30 Thread Andrew Suffield
been obsolete for years, and may it's fetid corpse never surface again. I suggest you try bash script or perl or something... -- Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK pgp31JtWvPyKX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-27 Thread Andrew Suffield
to stable. -- Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK pgpHXWlantrW6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Re-installing everything.

2001-05-17 Thread Andrew Suffield
, grab a boot floppy, and redo it from scratch. Failing that, try piping the output of dpkg --get-selections through grep, possibly something like this: dpkg --get-selections | grep \\S*\\s*deinstall | cut -f 1 Then feed that list to apt-get --reinstall install. -- Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: woody release date

2001-05-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
is high quality like Debian IMO. Debian put a stable update (2.2r3) out in the last couple of months. It's not that uncommon for this to happen more often than rh/friends... (I know, it's not a full update. The reasons are somewhat obvious, and discussed elsewhere in this thread) -- Andrew

Re: I'm so lost

2001-05-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
;) ) -- Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpvR4A87dhHs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Creating an initrd

2001-05-09 Thread Andrew Suffield
to include the offending drivers in the kernel itself. A more sensible use of an initrd is to preconfigure things that are needed to load the root filesystem, like the lvm... -- Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpRtp5rHDZcw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How the average guy gets mail...

2001-05-09 Thread Andrew Suffield
, while in mutt? ! fetchmail Mutt has pop3 capabilities, but fetchmail is much more powerful, imho. If you're so bothered by typing all those letters, make an alias or write a script. -- Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0AUvFsdCLQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Filtering mail w/ procmail

2001-05-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
: * ^X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail/sdl /procmailrc At a rough guess, the second two lists don't add X-Mailing-List: ... to the mail headers. Open a mail from one of them in your mail client and look for a suitable header added by the list. (*not* To:, it's unreliable). -- Andrew Suffield

Re: two apt sources

2001-05-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:12:16PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: It is possible to have two sources in /etc/apt/sources.list? Yes, most people have several lines. apt will pull packages from everywhere in sources.list to get the latest versions it can find. -- Andrew Suffield [EMAIL

Re: downgrading

2001-05-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
of a pain. Yeah. Oh well... -- Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp4iYw3uf1kB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: removal catch-22

2001-05-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
for the help. --Hans dpkg --force-reinstreq --purge irda-common See dpkg(8) and dpkg --force-help for details. Be warned that this has the potentiol to break your system. Realistically, it's probably ok for this package, especially since you've never actually installed it properly. -- Andrew Suffield

Re: removal catch-22

2001-05-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
anything that it looks like you can do without (or take a risk and stick exit 0 at the top). Then try again. (Need I remind you to back the file up first, just in case?) -- Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp18BLSWS5oY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: diald trouble

2001-04-30 Thread Andrew Suffield
. -- Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgphStCTYjdsF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Send You A Message

2001-04-30 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 03:11:42PM -0600, John Galt wrote: 1) they're not ... Yes they are, read the list rules. Flat fee of $1000 is charged per message, posting a message signifies acceptance of this. :) -- Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpZyve02QQjz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Downloading of Debian

2001-04-30 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:27:00PM +0800, Quek Choon Huat wrote: Hi, I am very new to Linux. Is there anyone who can tell me which exactly to download for installation. Thnks and Rgds Look at http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/ , in particular the Installation Manuals -- Andrew

Re: Partitioning prior to dual boot installation of Debian and Windows ME

2001-04-29 Thread Andrew Suffield
) to finish partitioning. -- Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpRdHeoKzB8S.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ via-rhine.o module

2001-03-19 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 12:15:29AM -0800, David Carlile wrote: Hi, I am extremely new to Linux and I hope I am not wasting bandwidth here, but here goes. I have a D-Link DFE-530TX+ nic card that wasn't in the list when I installed. A source file was included on the floppy that came with

Re: Transferring Debian

2001-03-19 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:36:42AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've set up and tailored a terrific potato 2.2r2 + KDE2 on my laptop and now I'd like to replicate this same installation on my desktop via NFS. My question is: How can I copy a Debian installation from one partition of my

Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 05:40:29PM +, Martin WHEELER wrote: He upgraded from a Potato 2.2r2 system to current testing and most things broke in serious ways, such that he swears he will never again move from stable releases. And *how*. NEVER again. (Certainly not for

Re: Installing kernel sources on alternative partition problem

2000-11-09 Thread Andrew Suffield
On 8 Nov 2000, Hubert Chan wrote: Kieren Diment [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi there, I have a slightly obscure problem recompiling my potato kernel-source-2.2.17 on a P100 laptop. I have a disk space problem and therefore tried to unpack the kernel sources on my other partition, which is a

Re: Soundblaster PCI 128

2000-11-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
The last days I've read some messages that I should use the es1370 or es1371 driver for that card. lsmod identified my card as es1371 so I've loaded lsmod shows you what drivers you have got loaded - it doesn't identify hardware. I have succesfully used es1371 with an SB PCI 128. this

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: make bzImage helped to create arch/i386/boot/bzImage as you stated. I used before make zImage which in fact had put the file in arch/i386/boot/compressed/. So the size of about 0.6MB is valid. I was just wondering because the 2.0.38 kernel I recently