Linux Tough guy

2000-10-25 Thread Cavaiani, Don
You seem to be much smarter by far than 98% of the people on this list. I have been trying for a couple of days - via the Debian list yesterday - to find out how to make my linux part. bigger w/o losing everything. I'm sure the many e-mails must 'bout drive you batty some days! I tried to find

Dual O/S

2000-10-24 Thread Cavaiani, Don
When I split up my hard drive between WIN98 and Debian, I made the Debian partitions too small. Is there any way to go back in there now and steal back some of the empty space that WIN98 now owns - without re-loading anything ??

DB2

2000-10-23 Thread Cavaiani, Don
I have downloaded DB2 for Linux from IBM. I am on version 2.0.38. Has anyone tried to install this trial DB2 on Debian yet?? Will it work with 2.0.38 or do I need to upgrade?? If upgrading is necessary, can someone point me to a simple set of instructions. If I upgrade, will I likely lose

GREP

2000-10-20 Thread Cavaiani, Don
I read where the grep command (along with ? command) can be used to search your whole hard drive for any file that has a record containing the particular character string that you are looking for.

pppconfig

2000-10-18 Thread Cavaiani, Don
Greetings, I had no problem using pppconfig to set up Linux to my ISP. Also, I have installed the Netscape package and all works well. Now, I have a 2nd need - to also be able to connect to my company's RAS server from my home and then be able to Telnet into our mainframe. I do this now with

Printing from browser

2000-10-18 Thread Cavaiani, Don
I have netscape working fine. I can print fine for a command line. When I hit the print button from the Netscape browser, I just get pages and pages of garbage. What should I be looking at ??

Xvidtune

2000-10-11 Thread Cavaiani, Don
Someone told me yesterday that I have lousy modelines and that I should run Xvidtune. My problem is that I navigated through many directories to get to that, but then it doesn't execute when I type in that name? Says command not found.

RE: X-window

2000-10-11 Thread Cavaiani, Don
:46 PM To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: X-window Please us postfix followup. On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 02:41:10PM -0400, A R ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:45:49PM -0500, Cavaiani, Don ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote

PS/2 mouse

2000-10-09 Thread Cavaiani, Don
Greetings, I had Debian Linux up an running just fine - until I removed the serial mouse and replaced it with a PS/2 mouse. Actually, I was playing with the modem COM and IRQ settings too. Now, the PS/2 mouse works fine when I boot into WIN98, but freezes when I boot into the Linux x-window

X-window

2000-10-09 Thread Cavaiani, Don
Can anyone tell me why my X-window appears in a letterbox format - i.e., it only uses about 2/3 of the 15 monitor? I can't figure out how to get it to the full screen format?