Managed to get a fresh install of woody running but have no mouse in
console mode. Mouse works in X.
I remember being asked where the mouse was and choosing psaux. It was
just a guess.
How can I debug this? The gpm man page isn't particularly helpfull.
I do see /var/run/gpm.pid. But have no
My installation is a dual boot setup with Solaris 8 (intel) on first
master and Debian on second master. Solaris is very particular about
its boot sector I think. So I'm booting from the floppy I made during
install. Each boot takes 4-5 minutes, which is very slow. Seems it
might mean some
On a recent install of woody 3.X, if I say startx I get kde, not a
choice window or something but just straight to kde. On boot up I get
a kind of selection window That allows a gnome choice or two.
I don't want anything to do with kde but its been so long since I had
to choose between, I've
dpkg -l '*desk*' shows a series of hits, all are preceded by
`un'
dpkg -l 'gnome*' shows a number of things some are proceeded by
ii and some by un.
Where does on look to find out what these letters mean. I went thru
man dpkg several times looking for some referrence. A grep with `ii'
gets
Mark Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
dpkg -l | head
The first 3 lines of the dpkg output list what the letters mean.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/courier/smtpaccess$ dpkg -l | head
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
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Well, I got X working in my fresh woody install, but there are a few
rinkles.
1) I want to boot to console mode and call x with startx.
Currently, I get popped right into X.
I thought this could be contolled by setting the defalult run level
/etc/inittab But I see nothing in there that looks
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, I got X working in my fresh woody install, but there are a few
rinkles.
1) I want to boot to console mode and call x with startx.
Whee, got lots of help on that one. And a couple easy fixes.
Thank you all.
Now I can startx but now I get put
dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 07:48:59AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
| Mark Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
|
| dpkg -l | head
|
| The first 3 lines of the dpkg output list what the letters mean.
|
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/courier/smtpaccess$ dpkg -l | head
dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
| A couple of posters have mentioned a network install. Where are the
| details spelled out?
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install
I read that over a bit before asking the above question. I'll admit I
didn't read all of it word for word
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Considering you are asking about pre-release, unstable, wildly
unusable software on a users list, rather than the developers one, it
should come as no surprise no one would be able to offer any help.
Horse pucky.
Manoj, you do a disservice
I had hoped the install routine would find my nic and know what to
load but as I went thru the initial install, it wasn't found. Any
attempt to select something from the module list for net, failed.
I'm not real sure what card is in there but its one of the commaon
3com cards. I had hoped some
After initial install of woody 3.0, at the beginning of basic
configuration with nothing but the basic system installed. Upon
aswering yes that I am ready to configure this message is printed to
screen:
Neighbor overflow table
Sounds rather ominous.
Dmesg shows this output:
[...]
During the second phase of woody install, I see a screen that asks me
to configure locales. Seems to be no help on this screen and it isn't
mentioned in the install instructions.
How can I know what to do here? Will basic stuff be setup if I skip
this?
I am somewhat experienced in linux and
Anyone who wants the official 6 CD set of woody 3.0
Can send me an address privately. First one I get in my inbox with
snailmail address will get the cds mailed to them.
I've burned up 2 full days, gotten no help whatever from the list.
Found the install routines to be unusable.
All I hear from
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have no special foreign language requirements and am a native
enlglish speaker. Do I need to select the english ones?
Everything will work fine for English speakers. If you want to add a locale
later look at /etc/locale.gen and related
] writes:
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
Harry, woody hasn't been released yet, so there are no official CDs
yet. Since those CDs were pressed, a bunch of packages have been
updated and fixed, and there's more fixes that will need to be done
before release.
Maybe I got
Geordie Birch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At least `woody' sounded.. well erect :-
why don't you lose all those cd's, do a network install of stable,
then, before installing _anything_ beyond base, apt-get dist-upgrade to
testing or unstable?
dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How much did you post to the list? I can only find the following
threads:
Fresh install no network
Neighbor table overflow.. what does it mean
Configuring locales
Enough time wasted, moving on
You may have a point there. There
OK, list posters, you've advised me to coninue my efforts and step
back to potato. (See thread suject `Enough time wasted.. moving on')
A coulpe of posters have suggested a network install. Thing is I have
$40 dollars worth of cds setting here. Surely I can at least use them
to get the base
Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
High,
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Harry Putnam wrote:
I had hoped the install routine would find my nic and know what to
load but as I went thru the initial install, it wasn't found. Any
attempt to select something from the module list for net, failed.
I'm
Just got a basic install running and during the course of setting mail
with the base-config tool, I think I answered something wrong but not
sure what would have been right. Or where to hand edit it.
I have a fair bit of experience with sendmail, but my first go around
with exim.
The details of
OK, list posters, you've advised me to coninue my efforts and step
back to potato. (See thread suject `Enough time wasted.. moving on')
You all will be sick of me soon..
Just a little note of apology to the list and for being a crybaby.
(Its not my fault ... its genetic .. :-) )
Also a
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Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Running Redhat Linux-5.1
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