Re: cfdisk doesn't work with Windows 98 Long Disk Support?!

1999-09-01 Thread Gerald . Preissler
Duggan Dieterly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > at this point, i'm considering installing red hat. i have to buddies who > have very similar machines, and they installed red hat with no problem. You could try to use Redhat's fdisk to partition your disk, then install debian. I had similar probl

Re: KDE doesn't start after crash

1999-08-29 Thread Gerald . Preissler
I'm not sure about this, but you might get around your problem by deleting or renameing your ~/.kde and ~/.kderc. You will lose the settings for your kde progs, though. bye Jerry -- Just being paranoid does not mean they´re *not* out to get you...

Re: Installing slink with a 2.3 kernel

1999-08-28 Thread Gerald . Preissler
With kernel-package you can create a *.deb from your compiled kernel. Can you install this? bye Jerry -- Just being paranoid does not mean they´re *not* out to get you...

Re: removing kdm

1999-08-28 Thread Gerald . Preissler
Seems there are some files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/kdm and /etc/X11/kdm that dpkg does not know about. Maybe kdm put them there. Try removing those by hand. bye Jerry -- Just being paranoid does not mean they´re *not* out to get you...

Re: KDE question about panel icons

1999-08-26 Thread Gerald . Preissler
Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I figured out a way to get it to work, but it's kind of a PITA. I > have to log in as root, fire up KDE, then use the menu editor to > assign icons for each application that isn't a KDE app, or just > doesn't have an icon associated with it. > Mark, I'm

Re: KDE question about panel icons

1999-08-25 Thread Gerald . Preissler
Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone managed to get programs added to their panel > sucessfully (with their specified icons)? If so, please share, > and I'll pass it along to the other two unfortunate souls and the > KDE list. How did you install KDE? I grabed the sources from a m

Re: Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail?

1999-08-25 Thread Gerald . Preissler
Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How can I ensure that mail for another user on my system gets into the > correct mailbox? You could try to fetch it via fetchmail like you already do and then sort it according the To:-header in the recipient´s mailbox via procmail (try ´man procma

Re: SSound card

1999-08-13 Thread Gerald . Preissler
GaryG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have trouble making kernel for sound card > any suggestions > Yes. Please be more specific in your message: Which soundcard are you using, which kernel, which selection did you make when you configured your kernel, is there a problem with the compile, what err

Re: Installing X

1999-08-01 Thread Gerald . Preissler
Robert Rati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I do not have a Matrox Millenium, but I believe that card uses the SVGA > xserver. I believe the XFree web page has a list of cards that work with > SVGA. I'm pretty sure the G200 is one of them, as my friend had one and > that's what we used to get i

Re: [Kernel 2.2.10] Mount complains about msdos-drive

1999-08-01 Thread Gerald . Preissler
Jonas Steverud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've just upgraded to the 2.2.10-kernel (using the > kernel-image-package), I used 2.0.33 before and it worked without any > problem. > > root% mount -t msdos /dev/hda2 /msdos -o noexec,ro,nosuid,blocksize=1024,auto > mount: wrong fs type, bad option,

Re: Thanks

1999-07-07 Thread Gerald . Preissler
Max, IMO your problem with the installation CD´s can have one of two causes : 1. There is something in your already installed linux that prevents the install from running again. This should easily be solved by formating the partitions you are installing to during setup ( = create new filesystem