At 12.47 4/10/00 +0300, Shaul Karl ha escrit:
Hi
I'm a Linux newbie, and I've jut installed 2.0 on a PC. Everything
went okay, except when I try to
At 01.57 27/9/00 -0700, Bob Brown ha escrit:
p.d.: Where can I obtain a Dselect HOWTO?.
If you install few packages in the first times you use dselect, the info it
will give you wil be less enormous and it will help you to understand the
basics of dselect and dependencies/suggestions/etc.
At 11.25 30/9/00 -0400, Shaji N V ha escrit:
From insmod -f ltmodem
--
Using /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/ltmodem.o
Warning: kernel-module version mismatch
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/ltmodem.o was compiled for kernel version
2.2.12-20
while this kernel is version 2.2.17
At 08.32 1/10/00 +0900, Jack Morgan ha escrit:
I just installed a new motherboard. I'm running woody on the only HDD.
When i plug in the PS/2 mouse the system hangs during the boot strap
process. If I unplug the PS/2 mouse it boots fine, but hangs when I use
X-windows.
Is this an irq issue or
At 23.02 26/9/00 +0200, Daniel Reuter ha escrit:
Hello. This crossed my mind more than once: why was the Gnome project
started, when there was already something called GNUStep? Even if not
a full desktop, one can certainly see the beginnings of desktop-like
functionality in WindowMaker or
At 15.53 24/9/00 +0100, Glyn Millington ha escrit:
Can anyone recommend an HTML tutorial ? On line or off. I'd like
to learn how to do write it without relying on a program like
Bluefish.
In one of these addresses there is a tutorial of HTML. Regretabily,
it's a
tar of 10 MB because it
At 11.11 24/9/00 -0500, Bob Edwards ha escrit:
Does anyone have a suggestion for a book with a comprehensive list of
debian linux commands and explanations of what each command dos? I'm
new with liunux, and have just changed to debian from Corel linux.
I changed also from Corel. Debian is 100
90% of the commands, at least, are basic Unix commands, not specific to
Linux or Debian. O'Reilly's Unix in a Nutshell, or Linux in a Nutshell,
should do fine as a simple reference. Personally I find Unix Power Tools to
be my bible of Unix black magick.
If you want to go the free
At 08.45 22/9/00 +0200, Preben Randhol ha escrit:
I have not been able to access http://www.debian.org in the last days.
I can access ftp://ftp.debian.org though.
Is there others out there who also has problem accessing the site?
No. www.debian.org works for sure. Yesterday I
Dear colleagues,
I have a computer that its videocard seems to require XFree86 4.01. I
use
Potato.
I searched for stuff available, and when I decided to use the binary
packages, while looking for info related to Debian with XF 4.01, I found a
letter in XF86 page mailing
You can choose the window manager you want using the info from the Gnome
homepage, that tells which window managers are full Gnome-compliant or not.
I use sawmill (now sawfish), due to the fact that eats few resources and
it's cute.
Best,
Ignasi
At
At 09.22 15/9/00 +0800, CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] ha escrit:
Yup...installed 5.2 over the weekend.so far no problemshowever, the
Starwriter files saved as Word 5, Word 9X and Word 2000 was not
compatible..i.e. when I tried opening these files in Word 97, it said
something about file
At 12.38 16/9/00 +0200, Kjetil Ødegaard ha escrit:
* Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry Group, this must be very FAQ.
I would like some advice to which Netscape to get for my 2.2 Helix-gnome
laptop. If I check the stable files, I find numerous installers with
different numbers. I am
The Packages.gz you mention just contains a text list of the programs
that
are available in the main directory of the CD or whatever. If you're using
a CD you should have a Packages file, not compressed. It has the same info
as Packages.gz
Best,
Ignasi
At 13.52
In Debian site
http://www.debian.org/doc/
There is a link for
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html
Best,
Ignasi
At 22.49 7/9/00 EST, MOISES ELLIS ha escrit:
do you have support for theses devices please
in your kernel
At 16.00 8/9/00 -0500, Pat Mahoney ha escrit:
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 03:51:54PM -0500, Paul T. McNally wrote:
on 9/7/00 11:45 AM, Brooks R. Robinson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings,
There is yet another Linux version poll at www.justlinux.com! Debian is
sitting at 7%! Vote early
Actually I don't know your position in your work (I missed the full
thread) but a simple suggestion:
If you can be root there, why don't you install both, install a minimal
set of programs for your work in RH, and progressively use more Debian...
until leaving RH rotting in its
Use the debianized packages of Netscape in non-free section. They are
four
or five
netscape.blah_blah_blah.deb
They'll be installated in a minute.
Best,
Ignasi
At 13.54 11/9/00 -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna ha escrit:
Hi:
I am finding it difficult
At 16.10 3/9/00 -0700, Gutierrez Family ha escrit:
Thanks for your advice... but I'm having a problem running the setup
program. When I type xf86setup, it doesn't recognize it as a command.
Should it be XF86Setup, I'm not sure about the case-sensitivity. In what
directory would I find it?
At 15.19 4/9/00 -0700, Kyle Lynch ha escrit:
I may sound kinda stupid asking this question (bare with me, im only 13 yrs
old), but after I login to my root or whatever account, how do I get the X
running for the graphical interface?
http://www.debian.org/fom/21.html
And check for documentation
You can find more information by searching the mail archives using as
search query the following:
current Redhat user evaluates Debian
that is the subject for the email that that man asked to Debian-User. It
gave lots of interesting replies that you can add to the the
At 05.00 5/9/00 -0700, Shel Johnson ha escrit:
Ok, here's a dumb one.. How do you find a file directory that starts with
a dot?.. Are they hidden?.. I know the location is: /home/shel/.netscape ,
but when I look for it, all I see is: /home/shel .. Does that make any
sense??...
ls -a
ls (or
Hi to all,
After configuring DOSEMU I've started running WP5.1 for DOS there.
Everything seemed fine but it happened an event I feared. If I use WP the
CPU starts going near to 100% and this bugs me a lot, specially because I
can end hearing the laptop fan. I always needed
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/dev/null
Tell me, which of these sets of instructions is more clear? Which is
At 23.32 2/9/00 -0700, Gutierrez Family ha escrit:
Following your advice, I linked /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux. Now X starts up
!! However, I have a new obstacle to clear...
X starts as expected via startx, but the mouse will NOT respond. I have
run xf86config several times, each time choosing a
The fastest way I use is:
Download the file /dists/stable/main/binary-i386*/Packages.gz
*Or your architecture
Uncompress it and search there the packages you'll need. keywords:
sawmill
or wmaker for the window managers, for example. You'll need the packages
Don't know about WP8 running under GNU/L, but if it converts and saves
WP5.1 documents with the same grace and style as WP8 for Windoze, no great
deal.
(Personal note: I was a fan of DOS WP5.1 and continued the useless trend
of upgrading until I got tired as I wanted some decent
There was something at the pages of Linux under Winmodems... One of the
most famous... One of the persons that wrote that was a Quake programmer,
like John Carmack or similar name... Didn't payed much attention because
although I have _two_ winmodems (yes, feel free to insult) I don't have
At 05.39 29/8/00 -0500, Ronald L. Chichester ha escrit:
Does anyone have suggestions regarding what components would make up a
good PC running Debian? I'm looking for something around the $2,000
range (without monitor). I'll happily build the box myself. What I'm
looking for is a good match of
This is one of my idiosyncracies...
Do you have a little electric shock when you touch any metallic part of
the computer?
If not, interpret the messages Gnome gives you.
And start to ask you if it's hardware problem or not.
Don't know about Stormix, but
Better refer to a laptop list in [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best,
Ignasi
At 11.30 30/8/00 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrit:
Hi,
I just installed all the files for X Free 86 3.3.6 onto my system, and I'm
having a little trouble (ironically). While I'm quite sure of how to
At 08.37 28/8/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrit:
I don't get it...I need help installing x.The one question I
have is, When you run X what does it mean to set up a server, should I
have found a choice for a server in deselect and installed
it..Basically, should a server type be
At 16.54 25/8/00 +0200, marco frattola ha escrit:
i don't know if it's just me, but i keep receiving old messages,
even from 3 days ago .. is there anything wrong with the list server?
Me too. But just today, Friday. 396 messages got.
Ignasi
The text editor that you will can use without breaking your head it's
Easy
Editor. Or better, use ae (Anthony's Editor) that it's already installed
with the base system.
In the first weeks, the directory you'll access more is /etc, where are
the configuration files. Dozens of
I need to read a MS Word document. Are there
any other software in Debian for viewing a
MS Word doc?. I have a Debian 2.2 system.
Thanks
catdoc will transform it into text. No graphics, no structuration.
Ignasi
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a) change the colour depth. do i need to re-run XF86Setup? or is there a
better way?
Try xf86config
And you can edit by hand the /etc/XF86Config using info from /usr/doc/x*
(very useful info in /usr/doc/xserver-common)
hth
Ignasi
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At 21.29 20/8/00 -0300, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt ha escrit:
Debianers,
I installed Debian 2.2 this weekend and had some problems with X.
During the installation I made a mistake configuring the mouse and decided to
reconfigure the X using the XF86config. I did it. But, I don't know why,
At 06.52 21/8/00 +0200, Cajko Jozef ha escrit:
Dear sirs, Send more info about Debian, including description of its
benefits for partners.
About Debian:
-
http://www.debian.org/intro/about
Reasons to Choose Debian
I don't think that the information that I give right now is applicable
to
your case due to the chirp issue you mention, but as I've found working
HDDs that also chirp, I've thought this would be interesting for you.
In the case of a defective electrical installation, if the
At 16.37 21/8/00 -0600, Cameron Matheson ha escrit:
Hey,
Now that Staroffice is open source, will Debian include it? Or is it
not GPL'd?
Cameron
It seems that Mr. Stallman has given his approvation to Sun.
Take a look to http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12671.html
I didn't know that there was an ant proposed for a logo, so I had
curiosity as I admire ants, heh.
here it comes:
http://www.debian.org/vote/1999/vote_0004
At 13.54 2/8/00 -0400, Kirk Hilliard ha escrit:
I am trying to find one of the candidates from the Debian Logo
At 19.03 11/8/00 +0200, Andres Seco Hernandez ha escrit:
sobreescribe un
trozo de texto que tras su aparición queda bloqueado en la pantalla
mientras que el de debajo hace scroll. Un tanto cutre.
Tengo una Matrox Productiva G100 AGP, y dice la ayuda del kernel que no
esta muy testeada. ¿Será
Every time I went thru it the screen keeps coming back to the same place
asking me to install BASE system.
Could you give more detail about the quoted paragraph above, please?
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3.- ¿Cada vez que me logueo voy a tener que montar la lectora de CD/Diskette
a mano desde la terminal? y a demas ¿como hago para cambiar de CD/Diskette?
Una vez montado un CD/Diskette no me permite vor otro. ¿que estoy haciendo
mal?
Para que monte el CD y/o el Diskette al arranque, debes
.
At 20:09 03/08/00 +0200, you wrote:
Hola,
tras bucear en los CDs de la distro descubrí un archivo llamado ltecra.
Lo
copié a disquete y le cambié el nombre, pasándose a llamar linux.
Introduzco el disquete en la disquetera y enciendo el sistema. Parece que
marcha, ya no se bloquea al
Muy bueno :)
Pero hay una cosa que no acabo de entender al respecto de poder crear
particiones para otros SOs desde particionadores GNU. En la documentación
de estos te recomienda que no hagas particiones de otros sistemas de
ficheros que no sean los de GNU/L. Yo de hecho hace
Dear debianists,
I want to purchase some hardware for my computers. Because all
perihperals
need to run under Debian, I downloaded the latest Hardware-compatibility
HOWTO and I checked the Open Hardware section in Debian's site.
But I became astonished when I saw just
I learned Debian as, basically, a complete newbie to Unix/Linux. I think
it's mostly a matter of visibility. Newbies are just not aware of
Debian.
I don't know what you'll think, but perhaps the way we Debian users
could
promote Debian to our colleagues is by referring the old W95 way,
At 00.28 31/7/00 +1000, Mark Suter ha escrit:
Folks,
How common is the Debian last practice, that is, try other
distributions (including non-GNU/Linux) and then come to Debian
to stay?
My experience can't be the most usual, but well, it's my experience :)
My first GNU/L
Estimados colegas,
Aunque soy un poco novato en el tema de Debian, tal como está el asunto
de
esta sociedad de la digitalización y la falta de personal especializado en
informática a muchos niveles, y delante de la decisión por parte de las
instituciones de hacer cursos
At 12.17 28/7/00 -0700, Krzys Majewski ha escrit:
It's very hard to guess. If you want silence, you live in a small
apartment and you have some extra cash, buy a laptop and you'll get in love
with it (but check the hardware, do not get a winmodem with it!).
If you have to
This
In www.gnu.org there is a reference of a hardware vendor that supplies
its
computers with Debian. Don't remember the name.
At 18.25 27/7/00 -0700, Krzys Majewski ha escrit:
Can anyone recommend hardware vendors who will do things like
put together a machine that is completely
At 15.15 27/7/00 -0700, heu escrit:
I'm researching new hardware for my linux box. I live in a small apartment
so my main requirement is that the damn thing be quiet. Does anyone have
reports of advanced power management working under linux? I know that is
in principle supported, but what are the
The whole point of my post was to not have to read 17 web pages!
chris
Oh man, nothing is perfect! But let me tell ou something. When some
hardware companies are such bastards that they do such indecent drivers
that collide with Windoze and at my left I have a scanner that I know that
it
2. Are there any graphics based web browsers available for Linux other
than Netscape? If yes, are there release versions of these browsers?
Arena. (http://www.w3.org. Also available in main section of Debian FTP)
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Hello Dimitris,
I had the exact same problem as you.
The action you and me did wrong is to create FAT partitions with a Linux
program. In the fdisk docs it tells that if you want to do a partition for
the OS A, use the partition program from the OS A. I could not solve
At 20.16 17/7/00 +0800, LêíGh ha escrit:
Hello Lêigh,
I'd think that you'll find much more structured information regarding
your
research than our answers if you go to the main Debian page
http://www.debian.org . Then you can go to the Free Software Foundation,
Sorry Rogerio to sending the message to you twice. Absent-minded I am.
If Microsoft has not changed its contract (EULA or similar) you can
demand
a refund for the OS you are not going to use. I read this from a man in
Australia that also wiped W98 to use just Red Hat in
Hi Matt,
Do they both work under other OSes?
Ignasi
At 01.31 7/7/00 -0500, Matt Kopishke ha escrit:
Hi, I have been having a odd hd problem.
I have a machine that has 2 Promise Ultra 66 cards installed plus the
on board interfaces. The first card (hde - hdg) works
Hi Ethan,
don't use dselect. You can use dpkg. Go to the path where your .deb
resides and do
dpkg -i name_of_the_deb_package.deb
Is smooth.
but it doesnt seem to support my newer TNT2.
Trouble-free or work-free supporting depends of what
Hi people,
I use fvwm... And I've heard of Sawfish, that I've read is very fast.
But,
which one is faster, fvwm or Sawfish? (with a ISA-16 bit video card with
the config file totally hacked I still need more speed, victim of
capitalism I am!)
Thank you.
Ignasi
Sometimes I have to build PC's from spare, dusty, marooned 386-486
stuff.
Due to the fact that I don't know if the hardware still runs well, is it a
good idea to run a floppy kernel ten times consecutively, for example, to
take an initial (or decent) idea of the health of the hardware?
Hi people,
Does anybody installed a MOSIX cluster over Debian? MOSIX people just
used
it in SuSE and RedHat: as a Debianist I am, I'd like to know if you have
found any differences or trouble when you installed it into Debian.
Thank you.
Ignasi
Hi David,
It's more or less under the first 500 MB. You can find more info reading
the large-disk-howto, which refers to the affairs of huge disks and old
BIOSes (quite nasty problems, to tell you the truth).
You can also get more info with Linux's fdisk.
Hope
At 23.52 9/6/00 -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. ha escrit:
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:15:58PM -0500,
Matthew W. Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking at buying a used computer and want to install Debian
on it. I've taken a serious liking to the following and would
appreciate any comments on
As foreword:
please note that I can't figure the consequences that it can give
stopping
to provide bug track facilities.
then Debian will no longer provide the
storage, bandwidth, and bug tracking facilities for non-free packages,
including acroread, blender, netscape, jdk,
A question:
My fancy new computer has a extra-cool-nice Phoenix BIOS 4.0 Rev 6, and
when you enter into it you have a quite interesting dialogue that says:
OS: W98/2000
W95
Other
I understand the idea of W95 due to the USB bus that has the
At 01.56 9/6/00 +0200, servicom ha escrit:
A typical newbie won't start with Debian
An important factor is the question of which package management system is
the best. In my experience, Debian's is the best when used with dselect/apt,
etc. All the deps are sorted out and I think this could be
Well, as the final...
Shaul, according to the HOWTO you recommended me, when rereading it, I
noticed an error I did. I should have created FAT partitions w/ DOS fdisk,
not w/ Linux fdisk.
Actually, it's even recommended from fdisk's man:
Usually all goes well by
It seems you have made logical partitions for your Linux
install, and IIRC,
IIRC is a computer-related acronym or is similar to things like IMHO?
linux fdisk and dos fdisk do not agree how
to handle logical partitions. This could account for the fact
that dos thinks there's no logical
Actually, under the circumstances I usually found with the old
computers I
adminster (amateur), the ol' BIOS do not force a large disk towards 528 Mb,
but there is a slight difference, and I prefer to apply the Ontrack patch.
I'm used to it, and I applied it without problems (thanks for
At 13.28 29/5/00 +0300, Shaul Karl ha escrit:
I am guessing but I hope it will worth something:
1) I do believe that having Win think it got the whole disk for itself might
be a problem if it will try to use the part that is not belong to it.
Although
in this case it might fail and return an
At 18.07 29/5/00 +0800, Corey Popelier ha escrit:
Windowmaker runs fine on my 486DX2-66 with 12Mb RAM. :)
WindowMaker runs quite decently with the same machine as you, Corey, but w/
20 MB of short (in cm) RAM slots and w/ an ISA video card.
Atila, try to find somewhere in the /usr/X11, usr/doc
There is not a:\ in GNU/Linux.
It's /dev/fd0 and you'll have to mount the unit.
Put the diskette.
type:
mount /dev/fd0 /floppy (make sure you have a directory called /floppy in
the base directory).
Then go to /floppy
If you can see
Ho sento, però aquí és més recomanable escriure en anglès.
No he provat l'antivirus aquest.
Que vagi bé,
I.
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At 12.19 29/5/00 +0200, Ximo Nadal ha escrit:
Hola:
Me he bajado de http://www.avp-es.com una versión beta del
antivirus AVP para Linux (escanea virus de Win'9x).
He pensado ponerlo para escanear por la noche en el servidor todos
los directorios compartidos tipo Samba con máquinas de Windows.
Hello John,
Debian is not a company, it's a non-profit organisation. But HP is a
company and gives even less suport than Debian, so please continue
detailing your problems.
Ignasi
I recently purchased your version of linux, but am having trouble
installing it. I
Hi Vitux,
Perhaps I didn't sent that letter. Debian enormous amount of messages
dizzies me!
Sorry and thank you, man.
Ignasi
Transciption follows:
Sounds very strange to me, I would suppose
Dear Debian users,
I've installed Debian recently. My GNU/Linux knowledge at the time is
quite basic, but I hope I can learn enough in the forthcoming times, so I
can help you more than I am able right now.
Let me start with the following situation that I have in my
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