Re: Net Install Requirements..

2002-06-18 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002, Matthew Tedder wrote: I'd like to install Debian on an old 8MB i386 with ~500MB of disk space. Is this possible? I did it on a 386sx/20 with 8Mb RAM and 300MB HD with Debian Potato. A fair amount of swapping during the install was involved, but it did work fine after I

Re: Where is a Debian Tech. Overview?

2002-06-18 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002, Matthew Tedder wrote: Where can I find a Debian technical overview? I am interested so I can figure out how to build my desktop server OS. That is, something that describes: a. The installation process Easiest thing, if possible, is to just try to find a spare

Re: Difficulty mounting ext3 partitions with labels...

2002-05-31 Thread Daniel Freedman
is not mounted on /dev, then mount(8) will fail to find devices. The solution is to make sure that devfs is mounted on /dev. See above for how to do that. Take care, Daniel On Wed, May 29, 2002, Daniel Freedman wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble mounting my ext3 partitions by referencing their labels

Default existence of 'ld.so.conf' in Debian base install...

2002-05-31 Thread Daniel Freedman
[I sent the following on Monday to debian-devel, but didn't receive any replies, so I thought I'd try debian-user. Thanks for any help.] Hi, I'm not a developer, just a Debian user trying to track down a 'postinst' error in a package on a brand-new Woody install (very sparse, only base + ~10

Re: Clear HDD of old OS, etc?

2002-05-31 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Fri, May 31, 2002, Dave Price wrote: Hi, I am looking for a quick way to clear an HDD of old data, partitions, etc. I found this on /. thru a google search: dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hdX When i do this from a console shell after booting from a woody install disk, It does not

Difficulty mounting ext3 partitions with labels...

2002-05-29 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi, I'm having trouble mounting my ext3 partitions by referencing their labels. The transcript below details the situation. Also, please note, I've tried the same procedure mounting these partitions as ext2, and also naming them with labels that don't have the leading slash (in case the label

Re: base files for woody?

2002-01-14 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002, Paul E Condon wrote: I requested help at the time on this list. I got a number of private responses that indicated to me that other people had failed and given up. I think there is a problem here. Some people are lucky. Some people are unlucky. This is not the

Re: RAID repartitioning

2002-01-11 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002, George Karaolides wrote: Trying to do this, I got the following error: # mkraid /dev/md11 handling MD device /dev/md11 analyzing super-block couldn't open device /dev/sda11 -- Device not configured mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.

Re: Is anyone using woody in a production environment?

2002-01-11 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002, Roderick Cummings wrote: Is there a safe and stable way to build/install woody packages onto a potato system other than to dist-upgrade to woody? what's from with dist-upgrade? Only that the new 2.4 kernel-image wont mount my root partition:

Re: kickstart HOWTO?

2002-01-08 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002, Robert L. Harris wrote: Here at the office I'm trying to get the redhat boxes replaced with debian. Tired of all the boxes being out of date and having to manually update. I'm working on a Debian vs Redhat comparison right now. One thing we need is a kickstart

Re: passwordless ssh on woody failed

2002-01-07 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002, Patrick Hsieh wrote: In Debian A, I ssh-keygen the public key, scp and append to Debian B ~/.ssh/authorized_keys It seems that Debian now uses protocol version 2, so maybe you need to add v2 key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2. Thanks. I end up with ssh-keygen

Re: starting point for kernel compile

2002-01-07 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002, Hans Ekbrand wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:15:12AM -0800, David Wright wrote: I'm going to have to compile a custom kernel (need built-in nfs in order to etherboot) for the first time, so I am looking for advice. I would like to start with all the options set

Re: starting point for kernel compile

2002-01-07 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002, Daniel Freedman wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2002, Hans Ekbrand wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:15:12AM -0800, David Wright wrote: I'm going to have to compile a custom kernel (need built-in nfs in order to etherboot) for the first time, so I am looking for advice

Re: Booting a (network) machine that has no kbd and no monitor attached.

2002-01-06 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002, Shaul Karl wrote: I am setting up a machine that will be connected to the local network and will not have a monitor nor a keyboard attached to it. What changes, if any, should be made to the Debian software in order for such machine to be able to boot without

Re: Supported video cards

2002-01-06 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002, Penguin wrote: In general, is it okay to buy an AGP video card for Debian Potato 2.2r4? I really don't want the hassle of trying to upgrade to XFree 4+ (I've tried and failed many times) and I'm not sure if I want woody or sid just yet. AGP in general is fine. Where

Re: OT: Language War (Re: C Manual)

2002-01-03 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002, Phil Beder wrote: Thank you!! The diversity of point of view and depth of knowledge of the participants of this group is truly phenomenal. A simple question (in essence where should I start) yielded me not only an interesting variety of response to that question, but

Re: kernel complaint

2002-01-02 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002, dman wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 04:01:43PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I've tried recompiling the kernel, This error has nothing to do with SMP. You have probably done one (or more) of the following : o not included your disk driver in the kernel (you

Re: 2.2 kernel vs. 2.4 kernel, please help!

2001-12-31 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002, Penguin wrote: Debian website says 2.4 is not really mature enough yet, does this mean mature enough security wise also? I am trying to figure out what kernel I should use, for the next 6 months at least anyway. Security is my main objective, most other things can go

Re: C Manual

2001-12-28 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001, dman wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 09:31:36AM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: | Gary Turner muttered: | On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:11:33 -0500, Phil Beder wrote: | | Where can I find a good, complete manual for C and C++ programming | languages for the gcc compiler. |

Re: Kernel compilation

2001-12-27 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001, Jens Müller wrote: I have tried to compile my own kernel 2.4.16. I took the config file k7 from the Debian kernel source, and just activated acpi additionally. Hi Jens! When I installed it, that kernel complained about not being able to mount the root device. Maybe

Re: jumpstart for debian?

2001-12-26 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001, Lev Lvovsky wrote: is there any linux/debian equivalent of jumpstart as there is on Solaris? You might want to look into FAI: the Fully Automated Installer (packaged for, and, I believe, developed on, Debian). HTH, Daniel thanks, -lev -- personal site ::

Re: Swap Partition/File

2001-12-26 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001, Paul A. Thomas wrote: I've two questions tonight which seem simple but not... straight forward. Hi Paul, I downloaded three ISO images and burned them to CD's. 1: I've booted from disk (CD) 1 and 2: both state they are recovery disk/boots... but then allow you to

Re: Basic Debian size

2001-12-23 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001, Dan Robinson wrote: I'm a Linux pre-newbie, as I'm sure you'll notice. Someone gave me a TI TravelMate 5000 laptop computer (for parts for a different model, but this one works better). It has no CD drive. A friend spent about 4 hours installing Debian, (w/o GUI, which

Re: /dev/cdrom problem...

2001-12-22 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001, JP Glutting wrote: Hi All, I have a problem with my device configuration. I have a CD player and a CD writer (/dev/hdc and /dev/hdd, respectively), and whenever I boot up it links up the writer on /dev/cdrom1, and the reader on /dev/cdrom2 (/dev/cdrom is, correctly

Re: Dual Processor machine

2001-12-12 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001, Jérôme-Georges-Michel BENOIT wrote: Thanks you very much for your advice. do you have a real smp kernel installed? Good question ;-) I guess that I have installed Debian in the basic way: 1] how can I check this point ? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep SMP

Re: Installation scripts - a request

2001-12-11 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001, Johann Spies wrote: I am not sure whether this is the correct list for such a request but I put it anyway. I have had the privilege to help more than 20 people from a windows background to install Debian Linux in the past two weeks. We found the debian installation

Re: Serial Terminals

2001-12-10 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001, Titty Jacob wrote: Hi All, Has anyone configured linux serial terminals. I have a specialix ISA card and some terminals. How do I configure them. Tt Hi Tt, Please see: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.html HTH, Daniel -- Daniel A. Freedman

Re: using mkinitrd

2001-12-10 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001, Richard Weil wrote: I've compiled a custom kernel using kpkg, but I'm unsure how to make an initrd like the official kernels. I configured a 2.4.16 kernel with support for cramfs and initrd. I tried using mkinitrd by invoking: mkinitrd /lib/modules/2.4.16 and it

Problems with less,emacs,etc. on VT420 on ttyS0...

2001-12-06 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi, I have an actual VT420 terminal connected to ttyS0 of my Linux box, running Debian woody/testing, and am having trouble using certain programs (e.g. less, jed, emacs, etc.) on the terminal, though others (e.g. lynx, vim, more, etc.) run fine. I've tried configuring the VT420 through its

Re: UPS software

2001-12-06 Thread Daniel Freedman
Mark, I have a APC SmartUPS 1000Net and 1250 and both have served me very well. While APC used to not release any drivers (actually more like software than kernel drivers) for linux, they now not only release software, they do so (for much of it at least) under the GPL. Please see:

Re: About kernel configuration

2001-12-03 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001, Bambang Purnomosidi D. P. wrote: Hi, Is there any way to know that, for examples, my kernel-images have quota support enabled? In this case, consider I am using kernel-images from .deb, not compile it myself. Of course many configuration I need to know beside

Re: make-kpkg and 2.4.16

2001-11-27 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001, Adam Shand wrote: Likely you didn't include support for your root fs or the hardware controlling the disk. I once left out support for my IDE controller. It didn't work out too well :-). snip Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM RAMDISK: Couldn't find

XF86Config or hardware issue on Thinkpad 560?

2001-06-01 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi, I'm hoping for some suggestions in narrowing down the search space of the problem I'm encountering running Debian Potato with my IBM Thinkpad 560. I recently exchanged the laptop's motherboard (including DC/DC) as the old mb had faulty cpu/cache memory (unit nominally ran potato fine except

Re: Newbie needs help

2001-04-30 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001, Rahul Agarwal wrote: Hello, I am new to Unix/Linux. I installed debian linux according to the installation instruction at debian.org. But my ethernet card(SMC EZ Card 10/100 PCI (SMC1211 Series)) was not recognized. Also I dont have a gui installed. I found a driver

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

2001-04-30 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001, Abner Gershon wrote: Just to clarify I tried again to use DOS fdisk as found on Windows ME StartUp floppy. I may be overlooking something but it does not appear possible to make more than one primary partition on a single physical hard drive with this application. I

Re: Exhausted by P3V4X+Maxtor harddisk.... looking for ata100 stuff... suggestion?

2001-04-30 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: newer VIA ide chipsets seem flaky with linux. i have a Epox MVP3G5(Super7) and it runs perfect. but once i upgraded to a p3 ...ide started getting whacked bad. now the hd could be going too, but if i were you i'd go out and get a promise ide

Re: closeing open ports

2001-04-29 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001, Michael Earls wrote: that was great info, but i do not need to masq any ips, i just need to limit the ports being open, i have edited inetd.conf, but there were some ports not listed in there. here is a port scan on my box, Mike, Hi. I just joined thread so I can't

Re: simple gcc question

2001-04-28 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001, Mike G wrote: Hi! How do I disablw warnings in gcc, for a piece of code? I compile with -Wall but there are 3 lines I'd like to skip something like #warn off line 1 line 2 line 3 #warn on I've been searching info and google, and found nothing,

Re: least memory xterm look-alike

2001-04-27 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001, Renai LeMay wrote: Can someone pass me their recommendation as to the xterm -lookalike program which is the fastest/uses the least memory - similarly with window managers? regards, Renai Hi Renai, Don't have anything to add to xterm issue. But I really love

Re: sigh... and now what .. !\*#!!

2001-04-27 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001, Adriano Peluso wrote: Hello all, Ok, I run the rsync process and it took half a day. When at 99% I got a file corrupted. Moved while tranferring? message. I looked at the server and the dir 2.2_rev2 I was downloading from had been removed ands substituted with

Re: Debian on 386SX/3MB

2001-04-27 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Indraneel Majumdar wrote: Hello, Can anyone please tell me whether it is possible to install Debian on a 386SX with 3MB RAM. I tried to install using the potato floppies but it starts to load the compressed

Re: Implications of using kernel 2.4

2001-04-26 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001, Cheng wrote: I am a relatively new Linux user. I've used RedHat and Slackware before and now I'm switching to Debian. My questions is about the possible problems I may face if I install kernel 2.4 as well as the advantages it'd might have. First, I'm used to

Re: OT: palms vs hp49

2001-04-25 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001, Sergio E. Schvezov wrote: * Daniel Freedman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2001, Sergio E. Schvezov wrote: first of all hello and sorry bout the off-topic but i have nowhere to ask, sometime earlier in this month i asked about what came to be octave

Re: release info

2001-04-25 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001, Artem Litvinovich wrote: Anyone have ideas on when a stable release incorporating the 2.4 kernel will be available? (woody i think) ...pardon the newbieness, just decided on potato over RH7.1 //Artem Artem, Welcome aboard! You can run the 2.4 kernel on potato, though

Re: Info...

2001-04-24 Thread Daniel Freedman
At 988120542s since epoch (04/24/01 08:55:42 -0400 UTC), Jenner Alm?nzar wrote: Hello!!! I just bought a new computer and i decided to install linux debian gnu, first i tested the hardware installing windows 2000 and it worked perfectly but when i start to install linux in the

Re: converting programms to windows (gcc for win ? )

2001-04-24 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001, Daniel Marquez-Klaka wrote: Hiya, maybe off topic i'm writing some progie's under linux, in C using gcc, of cause. Now i need to convert them to run under windows. My question is if there is a gcc port to windows or does anyone know about a free windows

Re: Elm 2.4

2001-04-24 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001, Roger Price wrote: I have just taken responsibility for a server running GNU/Linux. Previously I was a systems administrator for Altos Unix and can see distinct similarities. My predecessor has gone without leaving me any documentation. In particular I need

Re: abiword

2001-04-24 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi Christopher thanks for your answer On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:03:05PM -0500, Christopher Cyll wrote: Hi Marcelo, The Abiword in Unstable reads Word97 just fine (though complicated MS Word features will not show up). What version of

Re: OT: palms vs hp49

2001-04-24 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001, Sergio E. Schvezov wrote: first of all hello and sorry bout the off-topic but i have nowhere to ask, sometime earlier in this month i asked about what came to be octave, it was really cool. Well right now i'm going to have the oportunity to buy a palm or sci calc i

Re: networking 2 pcs

2001-04-23 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 05:24:09PM -0500, john connolly wrote: I have two pcs connected by a crossover cable. Both have their nics appropriately configured, (to 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2, resp). I cannot get them to ping each other. I

Re: OT: Converting from pine to mutt

2001-04-23 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: I've beening using pine for quite a while now have several folders in ~/Mail. My main inbox is ~/Mail/mbox, but my spam filters and other procmail recipes have created several other mail folders. Because the filters work so well (no credit to

Re: Mathematica on Linux

2001-04-22 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001, M G wrote: Have any of you used mathematica for linux? i use the windows version and find it very helpful... but i don't want to pay all that money for a linux version if i should just continue using it in windows.. Thanks, Michael Michael, You may want to look

Re: Problem installing Potato

2001-04-21 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install Debian Potato 2.2r2 on a new system. All goes fine until it gets to installing the base system. Then I get: File error! There was a problem extracting the Base System from

Re: Drive images

2001-04-19 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001, Bill Fowler wrote: I want to replicate my Debian system onto a number of other PCs, not all of which have the same size hard drive. Is there a good way to make an image of a partition(s) and replicate to other PCs. Thanks, Bill Fowler Bill, Hi. While it won't

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-18 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001, Rick Commo wrote: Thanks, Did the three steps - now running r3 I guess. Interestingly creating the boot floppy seems to have awry. It asked me if I wanted to format the floppy. I answered yes. At some point it threw up an error message saying mformat not found

Re: sigh...big problems if anyone has time to help me out...

2001-04-17 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya GP... what kind of problems did you encounter ??? - use the debian boot floppy to boot debian.. ( trick is to get it online ... get a (default) supported ethernet card... - than get it online and apt-get update, upgrade... - ebay

Re: How to partition hard drive?

2001-04-17 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001, will trillich wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:57:44PM +0200, Allan Andersen wrote: If it's for personal use I would use something like similar to this: /boot - 16 MB bootable swap - 2 x amount of RAM in the PC / - the rest that's a great first-install

Re: Harddisk sugguestion?

2001-04-15 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: Hi everyone, I am planning to buy a new harddisk about 10 - 20 GB. Is there any recommandations? I am using P3V4X motherboard from ASUS with VIA chipset (I heard there were some problems with this chipset) Anyway, an ATA66 harddisk is

Re: how to avoid the X windiws login?

2001-04-14 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001, Duser wrote: Well everytime i make X windows work on my pc on a debian installation the next login i'm forced to have a graphic login (on tty7)wich leads me directly to a working windows system (even if at installation time i told the system not to set xdm to give me the

Re: I now have X, still no mouse

2001-04-14 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001, Rob VanFleet wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 02:30:17PM -0700, Lorens Kulla wrote: I've tried to make the links, my mouse is on com1 (ttyS0). When I issue the command ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse I get file alreaddy Exists. My mouse is a Logitech Moouseman Model:M-CV46.

Re: Major problems booting Debian 2.2 - Nothing works

2001-04-13 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001, Len Cheatham wrote: unreadable html Hi Len, I couldn't really follow your question, as I couldn't easily read your html-formatted email (for the future, you're certain to get more responses with text-only email, with line breaks at ~70 chars). But I'm going to give it a

Re: corel photopaint

2001-04-13 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote: Does anyone know of a vector based drawin program for linux ? I've been using flash at work but want to do similar things at home ... What about xfig? Quite widely used in the academic fields for drawing vector figures. Doesn't use either popular

Re: How to partition hard drive?

2001-04-13 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001, George M. Butler wrote: Hi all, I know this is a real newbie question. I am in the process of installing Debian Potato r2 on a brand new machine I just built. It has a factory clean 30G IDE hard drive and AMD K6-2/500. I put the Debian CD in the CDRom and booted. I

Re: help

2001-04-12 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001, Patel Snehal-QA9876 wrote: I am trying to install linux on an old HP755 which does not have any OS installed on it now. what is the best and easy way to install it in the server. I have read all kinds og different way to do this and non are working for me so far.

Re: my network device

2001-04-11 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001, Govaere Jan wrote: Hello I've got an compaq 10/100 TX UTP Controller fon a Compaq Proliant 800. I want to install it and I don't know how ? The dmesg | grep eth0 doesnt't print nothing. Thanks for your help Hi, Google is your friend... It brings up for me an

Re: Linux fpr HP Apollo 715/50

2001-04-11 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001, Andreas Bartsch wrote: where can I get Linux for this hardware on a bootable cd? Thanks in advance Andreas Hi Andreas, I don't think you can get Linux support for HP PA Risc at the same level of maturity as that for most other platforms that Linux runs on. But check

Re: Debian install on RAID hardware

2001-04-11 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001, Rafael Hinojosa wrote: Hello everyone, I'm not exactly sure if this question should be posted to this list, or to another more specific list. If so, do let me know. The organization I belong to just received a new Dell PowerEdge 1400 with the PercRAID 2/DC dual

Re: problem with the CD images web pages

2001-04-10 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001, D-Man wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 08:26:25AM +0200, Peter Fosseus wrote: ... | traceroute cdimage.debian.org Where did 'traceroute' come from? I can't find it on my (potato) system. I do have 'tracepath' 'tracepath6' and 'traceroute6', but I Hi, [EMAIL

Re: New to Debian....compilation problems

2001-04-10 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001, omicron wrote: hi.. On 8 Apr 2001, Moritz Schulte wrote: gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 4 mea culpa. it _was_ 11. Hi, If it was signal 11, you probably want to run memtest86 as it is quite possibly a memory error. 'apt-get install

Re: Installing network card driver / packages

2001-04-10 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001, Nate Amsden wrote: Adam Bender wrote: I just installed potato on my system. I can't find a driver for my network card in modconf (it's a 3Com 3C905C-TX), and therefore I can't download any use the 3c59x module it should work.. Hi, I may be wrong, but I believe

Re: Need a way to install driver / packages

2001-04-10 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001, Adam Bender wrote: OK, I just installed the base Debian system, and now I need a way to install packages. My big problem is that there is no driver module for my ethernet card in the kernel. Therefore, I can't use a network to get packages. I have a driver for the

Re: Need a way to install driver / packages

2001-04-10 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001, Gavin Hamill wrote: Hi. I responded to your message above about the 3c905c. You seem to be taking my word that you can't get the driver for this card. That's daft :) We use nothing but 3c905c's at work The module you need is '3c59x' and is part of the standard

Re: sources.list and locally generated debs

2001-04-09 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001, Chris Gray wrote: On Mon, 09 Apr 2001, Colin Watson wrote: Mario Vukelic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My locally generated debs, e.g. from kernel compiles, show up as obsolete in dselect. Is there an easy way to tell their locations to the package manager or do I have to

Re: Linux you say????

2001-04-09 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001, Brendan King wrote: unreadable html Hi Brendan, See cdimage.debian.org for information on making a bootable CD. Otherwise, you can buy one for a buck or two (plus s/h) from linuxmall.com, cheapbytes, and many other places. In the future, you might want to consider not

Re: Installing

2001-04-08 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001, edu wrote: I've got 2 HD, one with Windows and a new one (empty). I want to install Debia in the new one and leave the old one for Windows. Is this a good way of installing Debian? I'm not sure how can it boot if I install Debian in the second hard drive cause I don't

Re: Default Window Manager

2001-04-08 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001, Aaron wrote: This may sound dumb, but how do I remove xdm? I am new to debian and don't know how to do this. And once xdm is removed will the system then use .xinitrc and start gnome? Aaron, You want 'update-rc.d -f xdm remove' (run as root). Use 'update-rc.d -n -f xdm

Re: Default Window Manager

2001-04-08 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001, Aaron wrote: Why shouldn't I be starting X from root? I'll go and add .xinitrc to my users home directory and see what happens. Aaron, Anything that runs as root has root level permissions, with the associated ability to do essentially anything to your system. Most

Re: Help! Accidentally started deleting /usr

2001-04-08 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001, Mark Phillips wrote: Well it sounds like this might get to the stage where we should just agree to disagree, but for now I'll throw in a few more thoughts... snip Indeed, this is basically the approach other people have recently suggested for implementing my own

Re: Help! Accidentally started deleting /usr

2001-04-07 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001, Mark Phillips wrote: Thanks Gavin for your help! I managed to restore my system!! What I did, was use dpkg --get-selections to find out what packages were installed on my system. I redirected this to a file and then edited it. I turned it into a script which ran

Re: Installing Debian

2001-04-06 Thread Daniel Freedman
Aaron, Hi. I think this might have to do with the LBA setting (maybe in your bios) of your hard drive. See the following article for common symptoms such as LI (then lockup, rather than LILO then boot). I know you get 'LIL' rather than 'LI', but it's probably worth looking into:

Re: Give me my econ-gnome-ical text mode back!

2001-04-05 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi, On Thu, Apr 05, 2001, Kevin Stokes wrote: I've actually gotten far enough with Debian that I have Gnome up and running, and have gotten to play the squash-bill-gates game, thanks to ya'll. However, when I booted Linux this morning, my nice text login was gone, and instead a

Re: getting /bin files for debian unstable x86

2001-04-05 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001, Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm wrote: = Original Message From Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com = on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 04:28:45PM -0400, Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: snip I wish I could say that. I'm a student I don't have extra cash.

(OT) Donating old hardware...

2001-04-05 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi, I'm looking for suggestions (maybe things you've done in the same situation) on what to do with some old hardware that I'd like to donate or find a good linux home for. Worst case scenario, I'd probably just have to throw it out, but I'd rather reuse/recycle it (ahhh, the good old days of

Re: Give me my econ-gnome-ical text mode back!

2001-04-05 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001, Kevin Stokes wrote: Thanks for the guidance on getting rid of the automatic gnome-login. I'm not exactly sure what you want this program for, but you seem to want to use telnet as a client in which case you'd want 'telnet' package, rather than 'telnetd'; the 'd' at

Re: making gcc work

2001-04-05 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001, Ben Collins wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:46:13AM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: ok i get: hello.c:1: stdio.h: No such file or directory hello.c attached to check i didn't get it wrong Install the libc6-dev package. Hi, Might want to also check out

Re: (OT) Donating old hardware...

2001-04-05 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 08:23:03PM -0400, Daniel Freedman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: snip Original CGA monitor by IBM (Model 8513: near fine condition) Original Compaq Deskpro 8088 (built like a tank; if I can

Re: recompiling the kernel

2001-04-04 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001, Ted Gervais wrote: I want to make some changes to my kernel in my newly installed debian system and am used to going to the directory where the kernel source is located and typing 'make menuconfig'. It seems that Debian does things differently. How is this done in

Re: Newbie Question

2001-04-03 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi, It's possible that your setup (LAN, cable access, etc.) assumes that you'll get your IP address via DHCP (dynamic host configuration protocol) and your Win95 is setup (default,??) to accomodate this fact. On installation of Debian, you can tell it to make use of DHCP or you can modify

Re: kickstart on Debian

2001-04-03 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi, I'm sure developers could answer this with much greater authority than I could, but I'll try anyway :) Two ideas: 1. Ask on debian-boot, since this is more their field of specialty. 2. As to your question: I don't think so, but I'm relatively certain that a number of boot-disk developers

Re: Simple Install Question

2001-04-03 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001, Kevin Stokes wrote: I assume you mean your second hard drive? It's only a D: drive under DOS or Windows. :) How about if I call it 'the little shiny box that makes whirring and clicking noises which is under the other one which is sort of like it?' :) Thanks

Re: Mail News Reader

2001-04-02 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001, Axel Schlicht wrote: Hi everyone. Sorry for using high priority, but for me the matter is very urgent. I hope this question has not been asked ad nauseam before, if yes, please except my apology and direct me to the place this list's storage area. So far I have

Re: up to date kernel programming

2001-04-01 Thread Daniel Freedman
I never have looked at it, but O'Reilly publishes a book on device driver programming in linux (ISBN: 1565922921). Hopefully it would meet O'Reilly's usually high standards. HTH, Daniel On Sun, Apr 01, 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: Hi, can someone point me to a more upt to date document about

Re: Updating from Storm 2000 to Debian 2.2r2

2001-03-31 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi, Welcome to Debian! On Sun, Apr 01, 2001, K. Matthew Victor wrote: Greetings, I need some guidance in the task of upgrading my system. I currently have installed Storm 2000 which is really Debian 2.2r1 (Potato) with a few graphical tools to make it easier to install and administer for

Re: Cheap video cards

2001-03-31 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001, jennyw wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation for cheap PCI video cards that work well with X? Thanks! Jen I personally put Matrox Millenium (either 4 or 8 megs RAM, IIRC) in most of my machines and they prove quite capable of supportable 85-100Hz refresh rates at

Re: Compiling question

2001-03-31 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001, Dave Linsalata wrote: Hey all! I recently installed Debian on my computer, and I'm trying to set up my ethernet card. It's a 3com 3c905B card. After some searching, I found a linux driver on 3com's website. Unfortunately, it was compiled for an older kernel, so I

Re: Compiling question

2001-03-31 Thread Daniel Freedman
- From: Daniel Freedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 7:44 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Compiling question On Sat, Mar 31, 2001, Dave Linsalata wrote: Hey all! I recently installed Debian on my computer, and I'm trying to set up my

Re: HP Laserjet 1200 compatibility?

2001-03-31 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi, Look for CUPS or magic-filter; you shouldn't need a driver from HP specifically. The Linux community provides its own for almost all printers. HTH, Daniel On Sat, Mar 31, 2001, Abner Gershon wrote: I am currently running windows but am planning to install Debian potatoe soon and I am

Re: backing up and rebuilding the kernel

2001-03-30 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi! On Fri, Mar 30, 2001, JACKSON, DEAN wrote: Right I have just spent the last 3 evenings building a debian server (much to my fiancés disgust) it has 2 hard drives a 2gb and a 18gb all the system files are mounted on the 2 gb(sda1) /home is mounted on the 18gb(sdb2) (swap is sda1)

Re: Daemon mgmt was Re: turning off /sbin/portmap

2001-03-29 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi, On Thu, Mar 29, 2001, Alan Chen wrote: Just as an excercise to my own sys admin knowledge, I'll summarize my general knowledge and just ask if anyone has suggestions or differences in my understanding. Daemons (or services) can be manually manipulated in debian using /etc/init.d/daemon

Re: SVGATextMode

2001-03-27 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:36:50PM -0600, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: i finally did apt-get install SVGATextMode and love it. (so far no smoke, no meltdown...) Hi, Sorry to interrupt this thread, but I've been

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