On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 06:41:02PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote:
*plonk* yourself.
killfiled
I am FED up with you.
If you killfile Colin Watson, you obviously dont want good advice. Therefore
I suggest you unsubscribe as you have no reason left for being on the
list.
[I would have sent this
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 12:32:53PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote:
*I* don't get any spam.
im guessing you dont get much ham either...
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On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:54:38PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
I don't think I want to do this ;
# sudo apt-get -u install apt=0.5.8
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
apt-utils aptitude synaptic
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:10:19PM -0500, Matt Peter wrote:
hello,
Is there a debian-way of viewing the changelog for an app? I can
usually find them .gz'd up on my system, but it's a hassle, is there
any simple way to view a changelog?
talk about FAQ! second time today!!
look at the
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:12:39PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
And, this is *NOT* valid:
deb http://security.debian.org unstable/updates contrib main non-free
Please, correct my misunderstandings, Colin; but, what I understand from
your message above is that, regardless of an
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 03:58:31PM +0200, Timo Kamph wrote:
I had a little trouble installing my ethernet cards drivers. Now the
interface is up and works fine.
But there is a problem with DNS. /etc/resolv.conf was missing, so i created
one, containing a single line:
nameserver
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 06:43:57PM +0530, Joydeep Bakshi wrote:
Hi all,
I can enter into the interactive mode of Redhat by pressing * key i * at the
time of booting. but this technique doesn't work in Debian . how to get the
same thing in Debian ?
what are you meaning by interactive mode? i
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 02:44:23AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
How do I get man pages to show in color?
used to have it on mandrake at one of the workplaces but never figured
out how to enable it under debian.
i quite like most and pinfo for displaying man pages/info doc in colour.
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 09:32:20AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
And, if so, why do you want to screw with him?
he's already said hes a bofh ;-)
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 04:49:30PM +0100, Paulo Jorge wrote:
The interactive mode of Redhat asks the user what services should be
started up during boot but I believe Debian doesn't have anything like
that.
i guess the best thing to do if you want to start some services
sometimes but not others
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:45:03AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have to ask a dumb question. When booting is lilo.conf read?
no. lilo cannot read filesystems. The inverse is what is s good
about grub.
Or is lilo.conf only used for writing the MBR plus the additional boot
sectors? I
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 02:39:56PM +0200, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 07:40:15AM -0400, dhobner wrote:
Is there a driver for the Netgear 54Mbps Wireless PC Card (32-bit Cardbus
WG511)? If so where can I get it?
AFAIK there is no driver available for any 55Mbps card.
i
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:34:49PM -0500, Ian Melnick wrote:
Hello, all
For a while I've been wanting to play games like doom and quake thru an
ssh session. I would have settled for 'text mode' quake, but the older
libraries provided with it segfault on my system. Then I thought maybe I
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 01:00:19AM +, Robin Gerard wrote:
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:32:25PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
* David selby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030709 12:08]:
Is there a neater way to get a modification date for a file without ls
-l sed ? I have a bash script that needs
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 10:43:32AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote:
Hi,
I just downloaded Umbrello, and had this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ umbrello
libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted
libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
depends, does the user you are running it as have
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 08:23:50PM +0200, LeVA wrote:
Hi!
I need a testing program (under console or X) which can test memory,
mainboard, cpu, disks, graphics card, network card, sound card
etc...
Anybody could suggest a nice, and useable one?
not sure about actual test programs apart
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:56:34PM +0200, Schulze Thomas wrote:
Where i can find the Debain references?
in the fine packaging system :)
apt-cache search debian reference
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On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 07:47:45PM +0800, Zhao YouBing wrote:
So many distributions, it seems that the life will be easier if they can
unite into one,
anyway, there is only one breed of kernel.
/me humms something about Debian GNU/hurd..
;)
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On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:01:36AM +0100, Paladin wrote:
Hi,
In X, is it possible to switch between two programs being one in
full screen?
not an X problem, this is done by your window manager. If you just want
to switch between fullscreen apps then matchbox or ratpoison would be
good for
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:28:32AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote:
ITYM 'for file in *'...
ISTR earlier versions...
flip man! i needed two references to `dict` to read your email.
Guess i should learn some acronyms!
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On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 03:11:48PM +0200, JZidar wrote:
Is there an app or trick that would enable to just pop a cd or floppy in the
drive and use it without the need for mount and unmount every time? Can be
this built-in in the kernel?
Basically this would an aoutmounter of some kind.
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 03:03:27PM +0100, David selby wrote:
Hello,
I am writing bash a bash sed script, it has been going suprisingly
well. I need a loop to count 9 times the variable n to the count ..
for n=1 to 9
next
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#!/bin/bash
i=0
while
wont
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:23:32AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Sid
isnt 3.1 [or 3.0r1 possibly?] woody?
didnt think sid had a release number.
sorry cant help with xv probs.
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:26:37AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm also wondering how this number compares with the number of unique IP
addresses that have downloaded the install CDs.
the thing with that is that, of the people who've downloaded cds, many
will have copied for their friends
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:47:14PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
What do I need to do to stop syslog from sending messages to the virtual
consoles?
I am operating in a new Debain testing (aka sarge?) system with a 2.4.18
stock kernel. It's non-graphical, so I'm using different virtual
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:01:04PM +0200, Marino Fernandez wrote:
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 04:28 am, Bill Morgan wrote:
Is this a good time to move to unstable, or is there breakage right now?
Should I watch the mailing lists for 12-18 hours after the mirrors update
to see if there are
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:49:12PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unable to find the Ncurses libraries.
You must have Ncurses installed in order
to use 'make menuconfig'
Even then, I cannot find the ncurses-devel package in dselect, nor on debian's
FTP site.
If it's not the
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:39:58PM +0200, Nico Meijer wrote:
Hi Breno,
I've googled for it, and searched the debian-user lists' archive, and
found nothing useful there, except for one page which refers to SUSE,
and said:
That's weird, the solution should have been in the archives. I'll
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:20:22PM +, Matthias Leopold wrote:
hi
although this isn't debian-specific, i hope someone can help me (i AM using
debian). how can i make screenshots of playing videos(maybe fullscreen)?
i've tried to do this using the import program from ImageMagick, but it
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:21:20PM +1200, cr wrote:
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 01:27, Hugh Saunders wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 12:52:01AM +1200, cr wrote:
I'm still booting off floppy and trying to get GRUB sorted.
erm, not quite sure whats wrong but what happens if you boot grub from
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:03:00AM +0200, Paul Wright wrote:
I decided that it may be easier to get a reasonable count of how many known
users of Debian can be counted by the number of unique email addresses have
suscribed to the lists hosted here.
from http://lists.debian.org/stats/
you can
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:25:37AM +0100, David selby wrote:
In bash how can I split a string eg ...
var1=0624todaysfile
I want var2 to equal the first 4 digits, ie 0624
My first instinct was cut but this is for files only, head tail are of
no use ...
echo $var1 |cut -c 5-${#var1}
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On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 12:52:01AM +1200, cr wrote:
I'm still booting off floppy and trying to get GRUB sorted.
erm, not quite sure whats wrong but what happens if you boot grub from
floppy then run root (hd0,0) then setup (hd0) from floppy?
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On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:33:42PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 02:29:09AM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote:
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 12:20:46AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
thanks, i had ~/.Xresources, renaming it Xdefaults got it read by
default, thanks :)
Using 'xrdb
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 04:36:29PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:08:32AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 05:42, Aryan Ameri wrote:
I don't know why everybody is flaming Bijan. I think his argument is
valid.
Call me a zealot, or anything you
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:31:46PM +0100, iain d broadfoot wrote:
* Hugh Saunders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
i agree, now i dont like oranges, so should i hate nazis??
oh look, a mention of the nazis, i declare this thread dead :p
you do know that doesn't work, right?
evidently
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:21:52PM +0100, iain d broadfoot wrote:
* Hugh Saunders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:31:46PM +0100, iain d broadfoot wrote:
* Hugh Saunders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
i agree, now i dont like oranges, so should i hate nazis??
oh
hello, a couple of fairly simple bashish questions:
1. whats the advantage of using |tee -a rather than ?
2. how can i consolidate |grep -v from |grep -v archive?
- i think it should be something like |grep -v \(archive|from\) but that
doesnt seem to work..
thanks :)
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 06:57:31PM +1200, cr wrote:
Errm, me too (though I'm still in the process of sorting Debian).
~aolify cr :-)
I hadnt used deadrat much till last night at lug meeting was trying to
sort out this dudet's wifi card. Things are all over the place!
/var/log/syslog doesnt
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 12:30:06PM -0500, ian wrote:
Is Open Office v1.0.3.1 compatible with woody (kern. ver. 2.4.18)?
http://www.apt-get.org/search.php?query=openofficesubmit=arch%5B%5D=i386
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:46:20AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
Most DVD players on the market just happen to be able to play VCDs and
SVCDs. This is probably what you meant.
I was under the impression that DVD is mpeg2 and so is SVCD? -could be
wildly wrong there!
Having said that, i had a nice
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:39:08AM +0800, Terence Ng wrote:
I have modified /etc/X11/default-display-manager, it
shows:
/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm
have you checked that xdm actually exists in that location?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which xdm
/usr/bin/X11/xdm
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On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:55:05PM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote:
On Monday 16 June 2003 21:39, Karsten M. Self wrote:
I don't believe the PII was shipped less than 200MHz, so what I'm saying
is: pre-PII HW, you're going to want a lighter-weight option.
Opera then.
i wouldnt say opera was
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 06:43:46PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 12:00, Hugh Saunders wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which xdm
/usr/bin/X11/xdm
And:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~ $ ls -l /usr/bin/X11
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 12 May 25 11:08 /usr/bin/X11
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 07:23:19PM -0400, Stephen Touset wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
Stephen Touset wrote:
I'm trying to set up my .xsession to include an alias Unfortunately,
the alias isn't created--when I run Eterm from the menu, it doesn't
include the options. I'm positive that the
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 07:19:25PM +0800, Terence Ng wrote:
Hi!
How do I set xdm as default? I have tried:
rcconf and select xdm and
/etc/init.d/xdm start
but message shows:
Not starting X display manager (xdm); it is not the
default display manager.
I have viewed
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 07:12:43AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
Since there's no real benefit to having more than one display manager
installed, dpkg --purge gdm, dpkg-reconfigure -plow xdm
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man dpkg-reconfigure |grep plow
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
been doing some farming??
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On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 04:10:17PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
First, you really should use aptitude to install and remove stuff. Try
that first.
Its fine to suggest aptitude, its usefull in some situations, but i dont
think you can say that people _should_ use it. People can install packages
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 07:58:38AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 04:36:06PM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man dpkg-reconfigure |grep plow
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
been doing some farming??
The man page is out of date if it doesn't include -plow
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 08:57:19PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 04:42:43PM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote:
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 04:10:17PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
First, you really should use aptitude to install and remove stuff.
Try that first.
Its fine
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 11:22:58PM +, Robin Gerard wrote:
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 12:33:16AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:36:06AM +, Robin Gerard wrote:
Can someone tell me what I forgot to do or which type of internal
modem (ISA) works with linux.
hello,
i have an xrdb -load line in my .xsession which loads some xterm
resources from a file. The .xsession then spawns the wm [rat poison] and
an xterm. The xterm spawned by .xsession has the correct resources but if
i use ratpoison to start a new xterm it has the default resources.
I had
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GNU GRUB version 0.93 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completions of a
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 12:33:16AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:36:06AM +, Robin Gerard wrote:
Can someone tell me what I forgot to do or which type of internal
modem (ISA) works with linux.
Sure. Finely
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 10:20:22AM +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote:
If I recall correctly, I had to use quotes around the (hd0) when I ran
grub-install:
$ grub-install (hd0)
either that or grub-install \(hd0\) to prevent bash nicking the
brackets, shouldnt be a prob in grub shell
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 11:12:25AM +0200, Jan C. Nordholz wrote:
Time and again, opera eats my keyboard cursor, i.e.
the graphical bar disappears, and further key events
are obviously discarded.
I have experienced that and it annoyed me, so i now use konqueror or
mozilla-firebird neither of
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 03:09:49AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
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On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 09:39:38AM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote:
I agree, but if you have spare int ones, non winmodems [ie onees that
have proper serial controllers], or lucent
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 12:12:24PM +0200, Mariano Kamp wrote:
Hi,
My googling hasn't been a success so far. It's tough to find the right
keywords ;-(
Can anybody point me out to a howto or a relevant posting about
aquiring/compiling/installing 2.5.69? Or with the right search terms?
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 01:39:57PM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 09:07:40 +0100
Hugh Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
grub find /vmlinuz
(hd0,3)
grub setup (hd0)
Error 12: Invalid device requested
grub setup (hd0,0)
Error 12: Invalid device
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 12:20:46AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
Op za 14-06-2003, om 09:46 schreef Hugh Saunders:
hello,
i have an xrdb -load line in my .xsession which loads some xterm
resources from a file. The .xsession then spawns the wm [rat poison] and
an xterm. The xterm spawned
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 10:05:26AM -0400, stan wrote:
Yesterday I saw a recomendation for qiv as an image viewer on this list.
I'd never heard of it, and had beeen using xv and fbi for various things.
I really like qiv as used like this qiv -f -m -d 3 -s -r, it works a lot
like my favorite
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 05:34:51PM -0400, lists1 wrote:
What can I do to kill a process that refuses to be killed?
depends, can be rather tricky if processes have the zombie flag.
kill or kill -9 usually works though.
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On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:51:22PM -0500, SwordSaint0 wrote:
snip mess [fluxbox]
Excuse my noseyness, but whats wrong with the flux packaged for debian?
Ive used the packages from woody and sid, both of which have worked fine
for me.
If you really really want to compile, you could get the source
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:36:06AM +, Robin Gerard wrote:
Hello,
I installed an old internal modem in my box :
my (old) box : 486 SX OS = potato
my modem: Sporter Winmodem 56k
The modem works fine with win98 on COM3
With potato I use ttyS2 (in the BIOS I enable COM3)
but pppconfig
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 12:44:04PM +0100, David selby wrote:
I have been given 2xcdroms of photoes in jpeg format from australia. I
would like to view them full screen scaled to the screen size and idealy
flick through them.
I have tried various apps xzgv,gphoto, konqueror etc but I need an
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:13:32AM -0400, ScruLoose wrote:
To start with, can anyone recommend what command or program I would use
to simply see what process is using bandwidth... (anything out there
like top for the network?)
Any other ideas or suggestions?
as allready suggested, iptraf is
uOn Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:45:14AM +0100, Fred Bowker wrote:
This is a really dumb question but I don't know how to post a follow up
message in the mailing list
How to post a reply thanks for any answers ill test them by replying a
message to the thread
Problem:
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook,
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 02:35:09AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
Well, i tested this again and it's connected to that line.
I've put the setterm -blength 0 command in the /etc/inputrc
file, saved and then logged in. My s was gone again.
I removed the line, exit, logged in again. s key worked
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:20:10AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
If the OP wants to join the list to climb the debian
learning curve, it is likely that he's not yet installed Linux, in which
case mutt is probably not an option. Would Eudora be a more relistic
alternative?
If i was feeling
Hello, i have a CF card which i mount with a PCMCIA-CF adaptor, when i
insert the adapter, i get the following messages in syslog:
[wrapping disabled]
Jun 9 16:19:18 anni cardmgr[234]: executing: 'modprobe ide-cs'
Jun 9 16:19:21 anni kernel: hde: 256MB CHH, CFA DISK drive
Jun 9 16:19:21 anni
On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 11:24:03PM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
Yes! Woohoo! You da man!
I checked my /etc/inputrc file and bingo, there was a
setterm -blength 0 line in there that caused the s
to disappear.
surely that just means, that the terminal wont beep?
-blength [0-2000]
Sets
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 instructions ask me to do a 'chroot
/dev/debinst'. All works ok. But how do I exit 'chroot' gracefully? I
can
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 04:42:06PM +0200, David List wrote:
Where does one find the kernel config file for the kernel that is
installed by default on a Debian system?
/boot/foo.config
if your gonna compile your own, [recomended] use make-kpkg.
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On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 06:54:04PM +0530, SRIKANTH NS wrote:
I also installed IceWm by apt-get install icewm.
gd idea :)
Problem 1.
Since this is a low end m/c , I wanted to use only IceWm.
what ya mean 'only' icewm? IM(NS)HO icewm is hardcore :D
But during installation I gave gdm as the
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:40:17PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 02:41:37AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
Or maybe it's easier to just lobby the various MLM authors to add
List-Id? If so, where could I find a list of MLMs and their
respective authors?
When you
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 02:02:49AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
I know KDE's file browser knows how to figure it out, but I'm not sure
what it is using to do so.
would make sense to use /etc/magic but i bet it doesnt.
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On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 09:32:53AM -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
book2 so the other thread isn't hijacked.
What are the pros/cons of usin Grub vs Lilo? Lilo vs Grub?
I have had great success with SystemCommander+PartitionCommander (not
free and not expensive). Tried using lilo the other
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:18:30AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This isn't meant to be picking on you. But I've been considering this
for a while.
People shouldn't wrap lines at all in messages they send -- this is a
hoary hold-over from the dark ages.
while you are using debian mailing
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:31:09PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:
I am getting email from an old friend who is not a Debian type like
me. He types his email into a window on what he calls 'just a
standard PC' and the computer automatically starts new lines on his
screen when needed. His software
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:19:02AM +0200, Yaron wrote:
Since I rebooted my machine in the 1st time I can't login as root through the gui
login screen.
I get error msg system administrator can't login from this screen
i use xdm as my gui login screen and havent seen this message before.
which
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 04:50:59PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[something that wasnt wrapped @~80cols]
Being a newbie I had the same problem that you had I couldnt log onto
X with the root account. This is actually meant to be that way. The
reason being is that if you want to do any system
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 12:56:56AM +0100, Clive Standbridge wrote:
PS I hope this will thread correctly; I read the message in the web
archive and faked the In-reply-to header.
yes mutt showed it as threaded normally -v clever of you:)
hugh
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On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:38:34AM -0800, robert marley wrote:
I know about booting from the install CD.
at boot: i issue RESCUE
boot halts at Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 01:00 .
resuce root=/dev/hda1
is what i would use, substitute for your root partition
hugh
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On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:48:57PM +0200, Hans Ad wrote:
How do I make a SSH server, and forward that port?
apt-get install sshd but it should be installed by default.
switch configuration depends on the type of switch you have.
please answer in dutch
that is forbid by the mailing list rules.
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 04:57:01PM -0700, Glenn English wrote:
(Another problem: I can't find the boot log.
Where is it on Debian?)
dmesg
The networking isn't set at all - eth0 doesn't
exist (ifconfig and webmin both say so, and the ready LED on the Orinoco
card is off) and there's no
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 07:20:35PM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote:
On bootup ifconfig shows only the loopback interface while ifconfig -a
shows the above values but wla0 is not up. The command ifup wlan0
produces a reponse that wlan0 is already configured. If I then enter
the following
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 07:46:11PM -0700, Glenn English wrote:
That did it - pretty much. It took killall cardmrg to get pcmcia to
stop. Restart said it was busy. There's only one PCMCIA card in this
machine. I don't know what it was busy doing...
i think cardmgr manages the pcmcia controller
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 05:25:21PM +1100, Lindsay Yardley wrote:
G'day all,
Now I've got a fileserver all configured and worked out the neccessary
redundancy senario's, I'd like to administer it remotely. I know of
webmin and someone suggested ssh in another thread any other methods i
should
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:11:09AM +, Paul Grenyer wrote:
I'm new to this list and I am hoping someone can answer a quick
straight forward question for me. I have looked on the website and did
try the archives, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do a global
search...?
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:24:03AM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
Hugh Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 04:50:16PM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote:
Yeah but who wants a Smash-n-toss?? ;-)
me gots a powerbook520 and it is so fustrating! there are no flippin
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 01:54:47PM +, Paul Grenyer wrote:
As for backing up first. I thought you migth be interested to know that
Risc OS is entirely ROM based and can run with or without a hard disk.
So other than personal files (of which I don't have any :-) ) there is
nothing to back
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:30:33PM -0800, Alex Togstad wrote:
Hey!
I know this is a tad off topic, so I'll make it on topic.
I'm doing a bunch of shell programming on my Debian box :0) And I'm
looking for any type of mailing list such as this one, but for shell
scripting purposes.
people
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 01:52:46PM +, Richard Kimber wrote:
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On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 06:39:32PM -0500, Metnetsky wrote:
I also have a PCMCIA wireless card,
suggestions or links on how I might go about installing that?
what is it?
linux-wlan-ng, is a good place to start.
[http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/]
wlan is fun:-)
hugh
ps: this isnt for
hello,
I have a hdd which i suspect id dieing [yes i have burnt cds of any
important stuf] this drive is in a windows box, so stuck in knoppix cd
for diagnostics.
cat /dev/hda /dev/null
gives no output [no errors?] -me thought that would be a good indication
that all sectors of the disk are
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 02:58:19AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Hugh Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.03.14.0221 +0100]:
can anyone explain why the cat worked?
it is entirely possible that reads work fine, just that writes don't
stick. so say a given byte is 0xcf and when you
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:50:29PM +0200, Birzan George Cristian wrote:
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:06:54AM +, Hugh Saunders wrote:
that is the file i was looking for, thanks. The thing that confuses me
is that if debootstrap is the officially way to install debian and that
uses
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:00:46PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote:
So, is there a more modern way to hotwire two boxes without the
use of routers or extra file systems? Is it possible to do a
straight USB to USB or NIC to NIC connection?
There's something called an ethernet crossover cable,
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:59:23PM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote:
It's somewhat pointless to have an adapter I would think since you are still
going to need the male RJ-45 end on both ends. If you going to carry and
adapter and a cable isn't just as easy to carry two cables? If you really
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