system: etch
I installed a new lan card(Linksys model LNE100TX). The system detected
it and installed the tulip module but the network was not working. I
executed "ifconfig -a" and it showed the new lan card as eth2 ( the mac
address was the new lan card) . It should have been eth0.
/etc/udev/
Silvan wrote:
I just did a net install of Sid using the latest available Sarge installer
ISO.
I was working with a new HD, doing a partition table from scratch. The new
partitioning tool worked, but I found it rather tedious to use. I got
impatient, switched to tty2 and just cfdisked the thin
Greetings to all:
I'm planning to install debian and planning to use XFS instead of Ext3,
does anybody know how to do ti, or know of any advantage of one file
system over the other, any recomendation will be appretiated.
There maybe better ways to do it but here is how I did it!
I used the debia
J Y wrote:
Hi,
I've been messing with grub without accomplishing much, accept an
occasional kernel panic, error fs not found
and an hour or more rescuing my system. I let grub do most of the work
on the configuration that follows
and it actually boots debian, with the SuSE kernel!!! Damn
David Palmer. wrote:
O.K., I'm trying to get on top of a few things here, and am struggling
to find directions that make sense.
It's got to the point where I have actually got to the point of starting
off a series of posts at an open source forum to help out other newbies
like myself.
But even thou
David Creed wrote:
jjluza wrote:
Hi,
I try to make kppp work with a normal user (so, not root).
I had this user to group dip and dialup.
Now it tells me that I can't use the ppp option "noauth" without root
privilege ... Is there a way to use kppp with my normal user account,
and without making
cr wrote:
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 22:32, J Y wrote:
Hi I am very grateful for the community here and I appreciate the help I
received. I will be trying to get my internet connection going when I
reboot into debian. Which brings me to my issue of the moment :(
I really have tried so many things to be a
J Y wrote:
Hi I am very grateful for the community here and I appreciate the help I
received. I will be trying to get my internet connection going when I
reboot into debian. Which brings me to my issue of the moment :(
I really have tried so many things to be able to boot from the grub SuSE
install
Kirk Strauser wrote:
I have Woody installed on an IBM 340CSE laptop with a 486/50, 12MB of RAM,
and a 10GB drive. It currently boots, but hits swap the instant I start the
PCMCIA card services to bring up wireless networking; even a "ps axw" starts
grinding in single-user mode.
Now, I don't expect
Marcelo Macchi wrote:
Hi there, I'm Marcelo from Argentina and I have download the last
version of wine for my debian linux, but I have the problem that the
wine libraries and all the packages of new versions use other packages
that are unstable.
I want to know if there is a way to setup my apt
Marvin Aguero wrote:
OK Guys,
My mouse is finally working thanks to Hurbert Chan who gave me trick that
made the difference.
All I had to do was to include the SWCursor option in the XFConfig86-4 in
the section for the video card.
My thanks are extensive to all of you who replied to my message.
Valter G. Nogueira Jr. wrote:
You might want to go the Knoppix route and modify Debian... there is even
a Brazilian effort, Kurumin. You might want, for example, to create a
GNUrumin, running localised Gnome instead of KDE...
I alredy know Knoppix/Kurumin but this isn't what I am pursuing.
Original Message
Subject: Re: How to set printer in debian?
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:20:18 -0400
From: Charles-Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
James Ng Yuen Sum wrote:
Hi,
I have downloaded and installed CUPS,
After installing woody and getting it to work fine, for some insane
reason I wanted to install a kernel image from sarge! I put the
following into /etc/apt/sources.
A pointer to the testing deb files.
Then I put the following into apt's preference file:
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Pri
David Goodenough wrote:
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 18:59, Charles Roberts wrote:
Hello all:
I am trying to get Debian running. The sequence of events:
1. installed 'woody' from floppy disks with the bf2.4 (what ever that
stands for) images (I wanted to use reiserfs). The install when
Hello all:
I am trying to get Debian running. The sequence of events:
1. installed 'woody' from floppy disks with the bf2.4 (what ever that
stands for) images (I wanted to use reiserfs). The install when OK. Got
a basic 'cli' Debian system.
2. Did an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to 'sarge'. All when OK
Robert Storey wrote:
Dear All,
When I start X, the whole screen image is displayed slightly too far to
the right. Although I could use the buttons on the monitor to adjust the
image further left, that would create problems because I have other
distros installed on this computer, and these distros
Geordie Birch wrote:
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 12:06:39PM -0600, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote:
Hugh Saunders wrote:
On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 05:53:22PM -0400, Charles Roberts wrote:
Hi;
I am installing Debian from another linux system (this one) on the same
machine. To set some thing up the
Hi;
I am installing Debian from another linux system (this one) on the same
machine. To set some thing up the instructions ask me to do a 'chroot
/dev/debinst'. All works ok. But how do I exit 'chroot' gracefully? I
can always 'kill -9 pid-of vc-terminal'. Is there a better way?
Thanks for the
Steve Kennedy wrote:
Hi,
I'm having no success getting my PCI hardware modem working. Hope
someone here can help.
I've been following Jason McCarty's Linux PCI-Modem Micro-HOW-TO, and
here's what I've done so far.
As root, ran:
cd /dev && ./MAKEDEV ttyS4
ls -l /dev/ttyS4 shows:
crw-rw
Floris Bruynooghe wrote:
Why can't I find the boot-floppies package anymore? Or is there an other way to make
custom Debian boot-floppies.
In the installation manual for Woody however they are still mentoined under the
section `Chapter 10 - Technical Information on the Boot Floppies'.
(I could f
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