X Problem with Etch

I've just installed Etch and I can't get X up. Under Sarge I used VESA for my driver and that worked fine. The Etch installer doesn't seem to give me a choice.I changed /etc/X11/xorg.conf by hand to vesa but X will not recognize this.Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Re: X Problem with Etch - Closed

Thanks Raju, I did dpkg-reconfigure xserver.org and everything works fine now. Thanks for the reply! --- kamaraju kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clyde Wilson wrote: I've just installed Etch and I can't get X up. Under Sarge I used VESA for my driver and that worked fine. The Etch

Re: X Problem with Etch

Thanks Adam, I'll try it right now!ClydeAdam Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg -p lowthis will tell it to ask you any possible questions, which have alwaysincluded picking a video driver moduel when i ran that commandgood luckadam

Re: Re: Messages from my firewall

Thanks Adam, that's good advice. I'll check on my firewall options.

Re: Messages from my firewall

Thanks Florian, that was a huge help. The messages have disappeared and I can get some work done. Super help!! --- Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clyde Wilson wrote: I have Debian Sarge 3.1 r1 with Firestarter as my firewall and I am on DSL. The firewall works great but I am

Messages from my firewall

I have Debian Sarge 3.1 r1 with Firestarter as my firewall and I am on DSL. The firewall works great but I am receiving messages every minute or two with the following format: Inbound IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0f:b5:46:4f:5a:00:0b:23:ca:68:ec:08:00 SRC=4.79.142.206 DST=71.129.207.113 LEN=28 TOS=0x00

Re: Recommended Firewalls

reason. At work we have a mail server so port 25 is open and it fails us for it because it assumes that there isn't a mail server installed, but in this case there is.On Tuesday 28 February 2006 10:45 pm, Clyde Wilson wrote: When I run "shieldsup" at grc.com it says my firewall sucks. I

Re: Recommended Firewalls

Thanks for the help Neil. You have given me some things to look into.Neil Dugan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clyde Wilson wrote: When I run "shieldsup" at grc.com it says my firewall sucks. I would like to plug obvious leaks in my home system... If you are using a broadband connection

Re: Recommended Firewalls

Thanks for your time John. I'm away from my Linux system right now, but I'll try to gen up some messages when I get back to it...John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clyde Wilson writes: When I run "shieldsup" at grc.com it says my firewall sucks.What does it actually say?

Re: Recommended Firewalls

Thank you for your help! --- Katipo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: darwin wrote: http://www.shorewall.net/ Clyde Wilson wrote: I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly good firewall? Thanks for your time! For an enduser box, Firestarter is good

Re: Recommended Firewalls

Thanks for the tip, John --- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clyde Wilson wrote: I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly good firewall? darwin writes: http://www.shorewall.net/ Which he can install it with 'apt-get install shorewall'. -- John

Re: Recommended Firewalls

--- darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.shorewall.net/ Clyde Wilson wrote: I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly good firewall? Thanks for your time! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Recommended Firewalls

Thanks for the tip Darwin --- darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.shorewall.net/ Clyde Wilson wrote: I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly good firewall? Thanks for your time! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Recommended Firewalls

When I run shieldsup at grc.com it says my firewall sucks. I would like to plug obvious leaks in my home system... --- Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to Chris Lale, Clyde Wilson wrote: I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly good

Re: Recommended Firewalls

Thanks Chris, great tip! I'll give it a try. --- Chris Lale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clyde Wilson wrote: I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly good firewall? Thanks for your time! If you are talking about a personal firewall for your PC, have alook

Re: new install; no printing

You might want to run printconf first. Do this: apt-get install printconf Then go back to run your CUPS installation. --- Derek M Wickersham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, Brand new convert from Redhat to Debian 3.1. Just about have everything set up except for the printer. So

Re: Recommended Firewalls

Thanks David, I appreciate the tip. --- David Koski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 27 February 2006 06:37 pm, Clyde Wilson wrote: I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly good firewall? Thanks for your time! Do you mean a dedicated firewall? IPcop has

Re: Recommended Firewalls

08:37 pm, Clyde Wilson wrote: I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly good firewall? Thanks for your time! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Recommended Firewalls

I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly good firewall? Thanks for your time!

Re: Recommended Firewalls

Thanks Hal, I did mean on a single computer!Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 27 February 2006 21:37, Clyde Wilson wrote: I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly good firewall? Thanks for your time!I guess you mean a firewall on the system itself

Re: Re: Printer problems from a newbie

Thanks. That was a great lead!

Re: Printer problems from a newbie

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:57:47PM -0800, Clyde Wilson had the following words of wisdom... I have installed Debian 3.1 r1 and I am not able to print anything. I've used CUPS, Kprinter, and others, read the howto's and the mailing list, but nothing

Re: Printer problems from a newbie

no driver is needed. Also, I usually add my user account into the lpadmin group. How are you connecting to your printer? USB, ethernet, parallel port? Hope any of this helps On 2/21/06, Clyde Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Debian 3.1 r1 and I am not able to print

Re: Printer problems from a newbie

Thanks Mark, that did the trick. I appreciate it! --- Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - On 2/21/06, Clyde Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I have installed Debian 3.1 r1 and I am not able to print anything. I've used CUPS, Kprinter, and others, read

Printer problems from a newbie

I have installed Debian 3.1 r1 and I am not able to print anything. I've used CUPS, Kprinter, and others, read the howto's and the mailing list, but nothing seems to work. My printer, Epson Stylus C68, seems to install, but when I print something it just disappears. It prints just fine under

Newbie Needs Printer Advice

I have a printer that hooks up to my USB port. If I do a 'echo OK /dev/usb/lp0' I don't get any output. Is there something I need to do to get the right device? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie Needs Printer Advice

welly hartanto wrote: --- Clyde Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a printer that hooks up to my USB port. If I do a 'echo "OK" /dev/usb/lp0' I don't get any output. Is there something I need to do to get the right device? Are you using udev ? wh

Re: Newbie Needs Printer Advice

Joris Huizer wrote: Clyde Wilson wrote: I have a printer that hooks up to my USB port. If I do a 'echo OK /dev/usb/lp0' I don't get any output. Is there something I need to do to get the right device? You can find information about all sorts of printers at http://linuxprinting.org/ Also

Re: Newbie Needs Printer Advice

Joris Huizer wrote: Clyde Wilson wrote: Joris Huizer wrote: Clyde Wilson wrote: I have a printer that hooks up to my USB port. If I do a 'echo OK /dev/usb/lp0' I don't get any output. Is there something I need to do to get the right device? You can find information about all sorts

Massive Printer Problems

I have installed Woody rev 1 and have not been able to setup my Epson C42UX. I've read the Debian reference manual and How-to's until I think I'm going blind. Do you have any suggestions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: KDE Mouse Failure

- Original Message - From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 3:35 PM Subject: Re: KDE Mouse Failure Clyde Wilson wrote: [KDE dies when starting; Gnome works fine]. Yep, I've tried as other users. I've reinstalled the entire system

Re: KDE Mouse Failure

PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 12:38 PM Subject: Re: KDE Mouse Failure Pigeon wrote: On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 03:47:10PM -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: Pigeon wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 10:19:53PM -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: Yes, when I tried to start

Re: KDE Mouse Failure

Thanks for the help, Pigeon. I just reloaded KDE from the Debian ftp site. Still get the same error in the same place...I'll keep trying. On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 10:19:53PM -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: Yes, when I tried to start it wouldn't come up. Plenty of messages but no error messages. I

Re: KDE Mouse Failure

Yes, when I tried to start it wouldn't come up. Plenty of messages but no error messages. I commented out the extra mice one at a time with the same results. It bothers me that XF86Config works fine with gnome but not with kde... Pigeon wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:46:28AM -0800, Clyde

KDE Mouse Failure

I have just installed Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 rev 1 "woody". I can bring up gnome just fine but when I try to bring up kde I get the following message: (**) Generic Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2"(**) Generic Mouse: always reports core events(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No

Re: KDE Mouse Failure

I made the changes and kdm came down with no error messages... Pigeon wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:46:28AM -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: I have just installed Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 rev 1 woody. I can bring up gnome just fine but when I try to bring up kde I get the following message

Disfunctional Mouse in the Non-X Environment

After installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 rev 1 "woody" I have not been able to get my mouse to function in the non-X environment (alt-F1). Is there something I did wrong on the install? Thanks for your time.

Debian and module i810

I just installed Debian 3.0 r 1 "woody". When I do a startx it produces the following error: modprobe: Can't lacate module "i810" My computer works fine withKnoppix. Did I miss loading this module? If so, could you please tell me what I should have done? Thanks!

Re: Whirring hard drive fails to boot up fully

Check to see if all your cables are plugged in... not just for the drive, but for everything. Check both ends of the cable, sometimes they pull free of the motherboard. On Fri, 5 May 2000, Stephenson, Paul wrote: Hello, Apologies for the long message; I'm trying to give as much information

Re: Newbie's experience Installing Debian

John, Your disk is bad. All disks are bad that came with the first edition of the book! New Riders feels badly about this... Go to www.newriders.com. The home page tells you how to get your free upgrade. Next time go to www.Cheapbytes.com. On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Darrington, John wrote:

Re: Install problem

I think your tgz files need to be on a linux partition. On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Owens, Jerry wrote: I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux version 2.1 on a Compaq Deskpro PII 233. I have downloaded all of the required files from the ftp site and I am using a boot disk to install

Re: cron not using new entry after crontab -e?

I have seen that my new cron does not seem to work... Thanks for the tip. I'll try bringing it down and up. I think a bug report would be an excellent idea. On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Keith G. Murphy wrote: I just updated my cron to the one from frozen: 3.0pl1-55 I've noticed that when I do a

Re: cron not using new entry after crontab -e?

I can't get mine to work even if I bring it down, update it, then start it... I think it's broke. On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Keith G. Murphy wrote: I just updated my cron to the one from frozen: 3.0pl1-55 I've noticed that when I do a crontab -e, even though cron says in the logs that it sees the

Re: problems after upgrading

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 08:28:54PM -0200, Carlos H. S. Laviola wrote: Hello, I have been having some problems here and would like to hear of your thoughts. The latest pppd gives me the following message after a first pon provider:

Bad 3c59x Module in Jan 27 Potato

Looks like the module for 3c59x in the last Potato release (Jan 27) is flaky. Also the generation of /etc/init.d/network seems to be messed up.

Re: help with dselect

I just take the default by hitting enter numerous times. The path depends on who made the CD, I would guess. On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, dkphoto wrote: how did you mount the cd-rom? (what commands did you use?) here's how i do it: # mount /dev/hdc /bt (where /bt is a directory i created.)

Re: help with dselect

... On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Clyde Wilson wrote: I just take the default by hitting enter numerous times. The path depends on who made the CD, I would guess. On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, dkphoto wrote: how did you mount the cd-rom? (what commands did you use?) here's how i do it: # mount /dev

Re: can someone please provide list of uri's for apt (potato)

I use the following: deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free I haven't tried this one: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato non-US On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, john smith wrote: hello can someone please provide me a list of uri's for potato for apt to work

Re: Gnome complain it cannot find internet address for hostname

How about changing your address to 127.0.0.1 too? On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Phillip Deackes wrote: I recently installed Gnome (1.0.5x) on my Debian (Potato) system and am managing to get everything configured as I like it. Each time I log on using GDM or KDM I get a Gnome message telling me

Re: help with dselect

On 26 Jan 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote: dkphoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've managed to install the base system and have gotten to dselect which first asks me to help locate the cd drive, with the prompt to enter: /dev/cdrom ...which I do. Then it asks me to help find the the

Re: internet-connection

The CD that came with the book seemed to be alright. It is only one disk instead of the normal two, and dselect is an old version but everything seems to work! On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, mek wrote: dear debbies since a few days (since i installed debian on my laptop) i have problems to connect

Re: canucmee?

Came through just fine! On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Adrian [iso-8859-2] ¯urek wrote: Hi all! Excuse me, but I don't know whether my postings arriving on this list - could you reply this mail? I want to know that, sorry again. Greetings every1, aDEk _ ___.

Re: apt changes mount status of /usr ?!?!!

Check out /etc/apt/apt.conf. If you remove the lines that remount /usr ( 2 I think ) everything should work fine. On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Alexander List wrote: Obviously, apt seems to fiddle around with mount during the upgrade procedure, /usr is mounted ro after the upgrade!!! On another

Re: hwclock --adjust in slink

Edit /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh and comment out the line with adjust on it. This is called when coming up and going down... On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: I did not fully understand you. Does or doesn't the BIOS get the right time after the system is shutdown? The

Re: Is My copy bad?

Yes, your copy is probably bad. The CD's shipped with the first edition were all bad. Go to their website, www.newriders.com. They will send you a new CD. Heck of a turnoff for new Debian folks... On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Charles Gretton wrote: Hi I just purchased a CD release of Debian

Re: Computer won't start

Go into your cpu and check all the ribbon cable connections. Push each one in to insure it is tight. Just one loose connection can keep your system from taking its first breath. On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Bart Szyszka wrote: Hi, I've been having problems in both Debian and Windows, so I'm not

Re: More on my problems with debconf and perl

You might try installing perl-base... On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, John Gay wrote: I mentioned in a previous mail about the slight problem I had with debconf when I tried to install timidity. I've been following the thread about debconf, but my problem is much different. When I first updated

Re: Potato Install from Floppies

It seems that the two Perl versions add some confusion. Without correcting this, apt-get and dselect using apt don't work On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Onno wrote: At 08:54 AM 12/29/99 -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: Has anyone installed the Potato base from floppies and then used apt-get or dselect

Potato Install from Floppies

Has anyone installed the Potato base from floppies and then used apt-get or dselect using apt to install other packages? I have so far found this to be an impossible task! Guess CD installation has spoiled me...

Re: Potato Install from Floppies

Thanks Carl, it was the Perl 5 problem. Now it works as advertised. On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Carl Fink wrote: Clyde Wilson wrote: Has anyone installed the Potato base from floppies and then used apt-get or dselect using apt to install other packages? Yes. This week, on a ThinkPad. Once I

pon problems with Potato

I've just converted to potato. When I try to bring up ppp with pon I get: Dec 23 11:16:13 Spock chat[146]: CONNECT Dec 23 11:16:13 Spock chat[146]: -- got it Dec 23 11:16:13 Spock chat[146]: send (\d) Dec 23 11:16:14 Spock pppd[145]: Serial connection established. Dec 23 11:16:14 Spock

Re: pon problems with Potato

Thanks John, Here they are: /etc/ppp/peers/provider # This optionfile was generated by pppconfig 1.9.3beta2.0. # # hide-password noauth connect /usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider debug /dev/ttyS0 115200 defaultroute noipdefault user Pxx remotename provider ipparam provider

Debian GNU/Linux wins Favorite Distribution

Linux Journal for January 2000 lists the 1999 Readers' Choice Awards. Debian GNU/Linux won the Favorite Distribution award! Way to go!

Installing Potato with dselect apt

I reformated my disks and loaded the base potato floppies. When I run apt under dselect I end up with so many missing programs that deselect refuses to continue... I have selected nothing during dselect, I just want to install the default 50 or so. Has anyone done this lately? This is not an

Re: Allowing weak passwords

Or, logon as root. Enter passwd username (where username is the name of your user). Enter anything as a password (including nothing), ignore the warnings. On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote: Ben Collins said: Edit /etc/login.defs and

Re: Auto blanking of xscreensaver

Many, many thanks to Nate, Paul, Kevin and Raghavendra! I ended up using xset s 0 0. Works just great. Thanks again all. On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Clyde Wilson wrote: Hi all, I have xscreensaver and xlock installed on Slink. When I lock my screen, everything works fine for about 10 minutes

Re: Trouble with xf86setup

The installation docs say to not install X until you have installed the base system. Could that be the problem? On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Steve George wrote: Hi Teofil, As someone has already said it looks like you don't have the right packages installed in order to get the X Windows System

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 09:31:54AM +0200, Urban Gabor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no disrespect, but M$ makes you forget thinking. (Cf the subscription! :-) ) It is not Wintendo that makes people forget how to think, it is something We

Re: Is this List down?

Yep, you are still on. On 11 Jun 1999, Peter Weiss wrote: Hello, I receive no messages for days, am I not on the list anymore? Peter -- -- Peter Weiss, Riemenschneiderstraße 4, 82008 Unterhaching

Re: PCI modem

Thanks a lot Oleg. You have helped a lot of us!! On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 Oleg Krivosheev wrote: On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Robert Rati wrote: Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 10:12:27 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Rati [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: PCI modem Resent-Date:

Re: Removing a pid

Try ps auxw | grep gtt On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Johann Spies at Johann wrote: On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Ralph Winslow wrote: When Johann Spies at Johann wrote, I replied: Try ps ax | grep gtt | grep -v grep I have tried that. It shows nothing. I have also removed gnome-utils and

RE: how to make modem silent?

And you can do atw to save it so atz won't reset it! On Mon, 24 May 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: Usually ATM0 ie M Zero will bo it. The Linux default is ATZ which turns sound back on with a lot of modems bu doing a soft reset. Hope this helps. Patrick -Original Message-

Re: making linux look bad

You might want to get a copy of Red Hat from www.cheapbytes.com. Less than $10 and almost everything works without a lot of configuration. On Sat, 15 May 1999, tf wrote: Hey everybody I make linux look bad. I've been messing with it for almost 2 years and have never had it running well

Bad author when using pine

When I send a message (or reply to one) using pine and then receive the message, the author field looks like: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of Clyde Wilson Any ideas?

Lilo F4A

If I install a new system and don't run lilo I sometimes get F4A or something close. Is this prompt usable?

Re: Lilo F4A

Thanks, Nathan On Tue, 4 May 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Tue, 4 May 1999, Clyde Wilson wrote: : If I install a new system and don't run lilo I sometimes get : F4A or something close. Is this prompt usable? It's the prompt from mbr. Docs in /usr/doc/mbr . -- Nathan Norman

Re: Installation on an i386 with *only* 40 Mb HDD

You might want to check out the Linux Router Project at www.linuxrouter.org/ and www.psychosis.com/linux-router/ He runs Debian from a 1.44M disk. Maybe you could adapt it? On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote: Hi! I'm trying to install debian on an ancient 386, with 8 Mb RAM,

Re: Netscape bookmark management

At the end of each Netscape session I copy bookmarks.html to bookmark.htm which is located on a dos mounted disk. mkdir /mnt/dos mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/dos At the start of each session I copy bookmark.htm to bookmarks.html. I keep the disk with me...it works on Linux and

/etc/hosts on one machine

Is it possible to have /etc/hosts on only one machine on the lan and have the other machines use it?

Re: Slink boot with SCSI

An Adaptek AHA-2940 On 9 Feb 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: Clyde Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | When I try to boot to install Slink I get frozen up just before my | SCSI stuff loads. The same disk works fine on my non-SCSI machines. | I have tried all the special rescue disks

Slink boot with SCSI

When I try to boot to install Slink I get frozen up just before my SCSI stuff loads. The same disk works fine on my non-SCSI machines. I have tried all the special rescue disks and they do the same. Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Re: Goodbye, people!

Cristiano, Try RedHat before giving up. It does almost everything for you. Debian is great, also very hard!! On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Cristiano Viana wrote: Well, I have tryied... Everybody was tolding me that Debian was the best Linux... But I will keep working with my Windows 98. It recognizes

Re: A couple of simple questions... I think

On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Brant Wells wrote: Howdy All... 1) I got Netscape 4.5 installed on my system... If I login as ROOT, I am not able to run Netscape... What do I do?? It's for security reasons. Log on as someone else!

Re: cdrom

You need to mkdir /mnt/cdrom first. On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, ktb wrote: Hi, I've been hard at work getting nothing done as usual. I have three things I'm trying to accomplish but lets start with #1 and see if I can't get this to work. I've been trying to figure out how to use my cdrom.

Re: xbase problem (2.0_

On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Stan Brown wrote: Is there a known problem with the xbase package from the 2.0release? It failed to install some required config files, and dpkg even sugested I file a bug report against it. I haven't used dpkg, but dselect seems to do the same thing.

Re: i am a first timer at linux and i have a few questions

On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Mark Phillips wrote: what is an image file? In what context? An image file is a file with a photo or picture in it. Actually I believe it is a binary file that is to be written to a floppy. You need them to create boot disks, rescue disks, etc.

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

, 17 Dec 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 08:46:01AM -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: I agree with you Kent. Debian is much too difficult to start out with. Huh? Is this person talking about 2.0??? I installed a system last night

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 08:46:01AM -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: I agree with you Kent. Debian is much too difficult to start out with. Say what? I started on Slackware; Debian's installation is 1% better than that. Sorry, I thought his

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

I agree with you Kent. Debian is much too difficult to start out with. Redhat removes a lot of options to give you a working system without much configuration on your part. Later, when you are shooting for guru-ship you can go to Debian and really get into it. Both systems are a tremendous