Re: can ping but mozilla doesn't work

2005-06-01 Thread Kent West
hosts by name - can ping hosts by IP - can lookup hosts using nslookup - can see sites with mozilla if I use the IP address - CANNOT see sites by name with mozilla. I'm baffled. Does /etc/resolv.conf look the same for both kernels? -- Kent West Technology Support /A/bilene /C/hristian /U

Re: can ping but mozilla doesn't work

2005-05-30 Thread Kent West
Daniel McBrearty wrote: Hi Have an odd problem that I can't work out. I I recently took out my wireless networking (driver was ndiswrapper for a dlink card) and replaced it with a normal wired connection via eth0. Since then, I can ping any website as a normal user, but mozilla waits

Re: Ghost windows on my graphic display

2005-05-27 Thread Kent West
olivier henley wrote: Hi to all, I have a small problem with my display under Debian (woody). My X server is 4.1, but as I installed from vanilla I am still running on a 2.2 kernel. The computer is an old laptop with a trident 9385 chipset (2mb of ram). Everything goes fine except when I

Re: Not able to start X

2005-05-26 Thread Kent West
the problems with X. -- Kent West Technology Support Abilene Christian University

Re: Not able to start X

2005-05-26 Thread Kent West
erver-xfree86". (Please do not reply privately; keep the discussion on-list so that others may add their input and/or others may benefit from the exchange, such as via the mail list archives months from now.) -- Kent West Technology Support Abilene Christian University

Re: Not able to start X

2005-05-26 Thread Kent West
If the SVGA driver works, you may just need to live with that, or get a different video card, or choose the correct driver for the video card in this "new" box. (PS: Also, no need to CC: me; I already read the list; don't need two copies of the message. Thanks!) -- Kent West Technology Support Abilene Christian University

Re: No faces in gdm browser

2005-05-25 Thread Kent West
Olivier Laurent wrote: Hi everybody, I'm tring to configure gdm to show faces in the face browser. After trying to figure out why there are no faces, I discovered that gdm does not like zsh in /etc/passwd For example: toto:x:1004:1004:,,,:/home/toto:/bin/zsh

Re: X and sound on debian

2005-05-25 Thread Kent West
Ionut Georgescu wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 06:54:52AM -, shatam bhattacharya wrote: At present I am having a couple of problems. And now to the [first problem] snip PS With respect to [the second problem], I can only second Jonathan's advice snip And I

Re: alsa problem

2005-05-25 Thread Kent West
]:~$ alsamixer alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device Please post the output of lspci and uname -a and groups. -- Kent West Technology Support /A/bilene /C/hristian /U/niversity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: CT4810 Sound Card

2005-05-25 Thread Kent West
Landy Bible wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get a Creative Labs CT4810 sound card to work. I'm a windows user most of the time, and don't have a clue what do to. I'm running Sarge, with kde installed. Add yourself to the audio group: # adduser landy audio This may be all that's needed,

Re: Changes to apt-get

2005-05-24 Thread Kent West
passwords to your associates to whom you've delegated administrative tasks. Just use sudo. -- Kent West Technology Support /A/bilene /C/hristian /U/niversity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Configuring X on Intel 82845 gl board

2005-05-22 Thread Kent West
shatam bhattacharya wrote: Also, is 192.168.1.1 a real DNS server? I suspect that is pointing to your router, and I suspect it should be pointing to your ISP's DNS server(s). That might be configurable in your router's web interface, or you can just change your resolv.conf file for a quick

Re: Can't start X in Sarge

2005-05-21 Thread Kent West
Amira Youssef wrote: Hello, After I've installed Sarge thru net for the fist time. X didn't start so I installed the XFREE86 V4 pkg I used to install over woody and configure it same way but whenever it try to start x it give the following msg: apm: BIOS not found! I've checked

Re: Configuring X on Intel 82845 gl board

2005-05-20 Thread Kent West
shatam bhattacharya wrote: deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free 0% [Connecting to security.debian.org (1.0.0.0)] My DSL router has a web based configuration. The DNS tab has the following options -- 1) Use User Discovered DNS server Only 2) Use Auto

Re: Configuring X on Intel 82845 gl board

2005-05-20 Thread Kent West
shatam bhattacharya wrote: # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installationauto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp If the auto eth0 really is not on its own line, it needs to be. Otherwise, that looks okay. What's in your /etc/resolv.conf file? -- Kent West

Re: Configuring X on Intel 82845 gl board

2005-05-20 Thread Kent West
shatam bhattacharya wrote: On Fri, 20 May 2005 Kent West wrote : shatam bhattacharya wrote: # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installationauto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp If the auto eth0 really is not on its own line, it needs

Re: customizing PS1 environment var with colour escape codes breaks readline

2005-05-20 Thread Kent West
Jacobo221 wrote: I like customizing my PC. In my console I use the following PS1 var: PS1='\n\033[34;1m[\w]\033[0;34m\$ ' PS1=$PS1'\033[s\033[1;1f\033[37;47;1m\033[K Terminal: \033[2m\l\033[1m\033[;19fJobs: \033[2m\j\033[1m\033[;29fUser: \033[2m\u\033[1m\033[;45fHost:

Re: Configuring X on Intel 82845 gl board

2005-05-19 Thread Kent West
shatam bhattacharya wrote: 2) I still cant apt-get update (the same problem i.e. (1.0.0.0) hang persists.) the sources.list is deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main Notice mine does not have a slash after .org. Perhaps it'll make a difference? deb http://security.debian.org

Re: Configuring X on Intel 82845 gl board

2005-05-19 Thread Kent West
shatam bhattacharya wrote: On Thu, 19 May 2005 Kent West wrote : shatam bhattacharya wrote: 2) I still cant apt-get update (the same problem i.e. (1.0.0.0) hang persists.) the sources.list is deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main Notice mine does not have a slash

Re: Problems upgrading woody to sarge

2005-05-17 Thread Kent West
shatam bhattacharya wrote: Hello List, I wanted to upgrade from woody to sarge by APT. I am facing a peculiar problem after apt-get dist-upgrade, the apt never gets connected. It says [0%] Connecting to http.us.debian.org(1.0.0.0) and then sort of hangs, I have even tried with

Re: problem with new release of 3.0

2005-05-17 Thread Kent West
Lee Braiden wrote: On Tuesday 17 May 2005 09:10, j smith wrote: in this new release, i have to type mount /dev/hda5 /dos each time i start Debian. mount /dos does not work, error message says Mount: /dos is not a block device, though fstab is properly configed, see attachment Nope,

Re: Problems upgrading woody to sarge

2005-05-17 Thread Kent West
shatam bhattacharya wrote: Please post the current contents of /etc/apt/sources.list. deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free Try putting a slash after debian, as in: deb

Re: No sound (no /dev/dsp) on newly installed 2.6.8-2-386 with Intel 82801.

2005-05-17 Thread Kent West
Adam Funk wrote: Marty wrote: You should see one or more devices listed, depending on how many other sounds devices are in your system. You can cat .wav files into a device file as a test, but beware that the output may be highly distorted so turn down your volume control. $ cat

Re: No sound (no /dev/dsp) on newly installed 2.6.8-2-386 with Intel 82801.

2005-05-17 Thread Kent West
Adam Funk wrote: Adam Funk wrote: I've just installed Debian testing on a new computer but I can't get the sound to work. I think the problem is that /dev/dsp doesn't exist, although when I did modprobe snd-intel8x0 it created /dev/snd/controlC0 and /dev/snd/timer. I think the

Re: Configuring X on Intel 82845 gl board

2005-05-16 Thread Kent West
shatam bhattacharya wrote: I think its just a problem with apt configuration. plz have a look. Since you otherwise have net capability, I agree. You can surf on the net and ping sites from the console in Debian or in XP? I can surf the net on Debian. What's the result of ping

Re: Configuring X on Intel 82845 gl board

2005-05-16 Thread Kent West
shatam bhattacharya wrote: One more thing there was a directory called apt.conf.d in /etc/apt. This had a file called 70debconf. when I removed the file, the apt-get update started working!!!. I suspect you'll want that file. Here's what mine looks like: enjae[westk]:/etc/apt/apt.conf.d

[IPMG1:SUSPECTED SPAM] Re: Configuring X on Intel 82845 gl board

2005-05-16 Thread Kent West
and downloading the latest goodies, etc). -- Kent West Technology Support /A/bilene /C/hristian /U/niversity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian newbie without internet connection...

2005-05-16 Thread Kent West
the most popular packages on it), and the dependency issues will be handled automagically. -- Kent West Technology Support /A/bilene /C/hristian /U/niversity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No sound (no /dev/dsp) on newly installed 2.6.8-2-386 with Intel 82801.

2005-05-16 Thread Kent West
Adam Funk wrote: Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 814e It's been my experience that if a device is an Unkown device, it doesn't work for me. I usually try upgrading to a newer kernel, or the latest Sid update, which sometimes works for me. -- Kent West Technology

Re: Network Setup Help

2005-05-16 Thread Kent West
to see what chipset is being used by your NICs; then run modconf to install the driver appropriate for that chipset. (Or modprobe to install the driver for just this session.) Or you can install discover to help do the automagic hardware probing. -- Kent West Technology Support /A/bilene /C

Re: Configuring X on Intel 82845 gl board

2005-05-15 Thread Kent West
shatam bhattacharya wrote: I am having trouble in configuring X on my system. I am using the following configuration -Intel 82845 GL motherboard uname -r says 2.2.20-idepci XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) Release

Re: Configuring X on Intel 82845 gl board

2005-05-15 Thread Kent West
shatam bhattacharya wrote: On Sun, 15 May 2005 Kent West wrote : shatam bhattacharya wrote: I am having trouble in configuring X on my system. I highly recommend you upgrade to Testing or Sid As advised by you I am currently downloading sarge ISO images. If you're on a network

Re: Configuring X on Intel 82845 gl board

2005-05-15 Thread Kent West
shatam bhattacharya wrote: On Sun, 15 May 2005 Kent West wrote : shatam bhattacharya wrote: On Sun, 15 May 2005 Kent West wrote : I highly recommend you upgrade to Testing or Sid As advised by you I am currently downloading sarge ISO images. If you're on a network, don't

Re: unsubscribe

2005-05-14 Thread Kent West
Adam Hardy wrote: On 13/05/05 10:02 Lars Schimmer wrote: unsubscribe Here's how to unsubscribe: First, ask your Internet Provider to mail you an Unsubscribing Kit. Then follow these directions. The kit will most likely be the standard no-fault type. Depending on requirements, System A

Re: Installing BOINC (Was KDE, Kernel, Varia Downloading and Installing)

2005-05-14 Thread Kent West
David R. Litwin wrote: # boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu -attach_project http://setiathome.berkeley.edu b151599a701963ef98f16ac804e1b9ee bash: boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu: command not found The current directory is not in the default PATH environment variable (for security reasons). To run the

Re: how to remove debian

2005-05-13 Thread Kent West
Charles Li wrote: On one of my pc, I have debian and winXP dual boot, with XP on the hda1. I would like to remove debian, can I just delete the partition? Yes, but that will leave you with a blank partition. You might as well leave Debian on it for future/emergency use. Unless of course you

Re: Internet (Once and for all)

2005-05-13 Thread Kent West
David R. Litwin wrote: You will not BELIEVE how stupid I truly am. I had the username and password mixed up. I'm floored. I'm sorry to put you all through so much hassle. I'm embarrassed. Feel free to flay me. No need to worry; we've all made mistakes. For example, I made one in 1973. So

Re: KDE, Kernel, Varia Downloading and Installing

2005-05-13 Thread Kent West
David R. Litwin wrote: Essentially, I am asking how one installs in Debian. Firstly, I would like to get KDE 3.4. I am currently using KDE 3.3. Is there a way to upgrade without having to do a full installation? Or, can I run apt-get install kde or some thing like that? There are basically

Re: Gaim not connecting to Yahoo

2005-05-13 Thread Kent West
[KS] wrote: Hi, I can't get gaim connect to yahoo today. It was working fine till yesterday. There has been no change on my machine since the last time I logged in to yahoo with gaim last night. ii gaim 1.2.1-1multi-protocol instant messaging client Linux localhost

Re: Gaim not connecting to Yahoo

2005-05-13 Thread Kent West
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Kent West wrote: [KS] wrote: I can't get gaim connect to yahoo today. It was working fine till yesterday. There has been no change on my machine since the last time I logged in to yahoo with gaim last night. ii gaim 1.2.1-1multi

Re: Sound

2005-05-12 Thread Kent West
David R. Litwin wrote: The following is going to sound vague. The sound on my Sarge 2.6 kernel KDE 3.3 will not work. I'm in the group audio, so that isn't the answer. With kernel 2.4, I had sound. Now, not. What can I check or do to get my sound back? I have a Creative Sound Blaster PCI

Re: Internet (Once and for all)

2005-05-12 Thread Kent West
David R. Litwin wrote: Alright. I'd really like to get my Internet working so, please, help me. I know nothing about pppoe, so don't rely too heavily on me. I have given up on getting Debian to connect me to the internet; so, I downloaded the software from Sympatico, my ISP (

Re: Upgrading from Woody to Sarge on PowerPC

2005-05-12 Thread Kent West
Kevin wrote: OldWorld PowerPC (604e). I recently installed Woody on such a machine using the 3.0r4 binary CDs for PowerPC and the resulting system seems to work fine, but I didn't realize how old the software was in Woody and would like to upgrade to Sarge My /etc/apt/sources.list file reads:

Re: Upgrading from Woody to Sarge on PowerPC

2005-05-12 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: What I would do is return the sources.list file to its original form, and run aptitide update. If the system updates properly, go back into sources.list and comment all but one line. Then change that one line so that instead of stable it reads sarge, And you'll have to change

Re: Import Screen Images

2005-05-11 Thread Kent West
David Baron wrote: Using import. If I do the whole screen, no mouse selection, it is perfect. If I use import file.gif which has one select an area, the image is off. Opened in a browzer, it looks OK but in Kshow, it is displaced in a larger area and reading this image blows up PART of the

Re: X session error

2005-05-10 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having problems logging into my gnome desktop environment as my regular users. I can however log into it as root. When I attempt to log in as a regular user I get a message which states the following,Xsession warning: unalbe to write to /tmp;xsession may exit

Re: INSTALLATION PROBLEM

2005-05-10 Thread Kent West
? If not, try running modconf and see if you can find a module for your audigy. -- Kent West Technology Support /A/bilene /C/hristian /U/niversity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine?

2005-05-10 Thread Kent West
to http://www.mozilla.org/security/#Security_Alerts -- Kent West -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: INSTALLATION PROBLEM

2005-05-10 Thread Kent West
Emmanuele BARBARO wrote: Have you received my e-mail? Any news? You got one reply: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/05/msg01131.html You'd probably get better results if you'd separate the two problems into two separate threads, and use a meaningful subject line on each (people tend

Re: Login KDE style as Root

2005-05-09 Thread Kent West
David R. Litwin wrote: Let me preface this by saying: Yes, I know the security threats involved in logging in as the root; some times, however, I wish to do so. Thank you for understanding. Now then, I use KDM to login. With this, it is necessary to choose login through console, then login

Re: i845

2005-05-09 Thread Kent West
.) -- Kent West Technology Support /A/bilene /C/hristian /U/niversity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE

2005-05-09 Thread Kent West
KDE or Gnome for that matter? Basically, how do I get a graphical desktop environment to work? Try starting X with the command startx at the prompt. If that works, try apt-get install kdm. If the startx command does not work, try apt-get install x-window-system kdm. -- Kent West Technology

Re: Libranet / Ubuntu -- Debian?

2005-05-09 Thread Kent West
, so that migration to pure Debian is a no-brainer. http://kanotix.org/ -- Kent West Technology Support Abilene Christian University

Re: Debian Installation

2005-05-09 Thread Kent West
the correct CD at the correct time. I also suspect you're using Woody. Yuck! (Well, fine for a server, but yuck for a workstation.) Woody is quite ancient. If you're looking for a modern desktop, I suspect you'll find Testing/Sarge (or even Unstable/Sid) more to your liking. -- Kent West Technology

Re: broadband question

2005-05-08 Thread Kent West
Lee Braiden wrote: On Sunday 08 May 2005 17:55, Peter Klauer wrote: I have tried many ways to configure for a connection to my Comcast Broadband service to no avail. ipconfig keeps giving me this: dummy0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 ... This means nothing to me. Any

Re: Stuck at desktop

2005-05-07 Thread Kent West
On Sat, 07 May 2005 08:45:00 -0700 Peter Klauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just installed Debian GNU/Linux i386 Woody, Version 3.0r5. It boots to the Gnome Desktop Manager where my keyboard is recognized and I can log in. That puts me to the Gnome 1.4 desktop GUI where my mouse is not

Re: Thumbnail picking software

2005-05-06 Thread Kent West
David Dorward wrote: I'd also like to be able to pick a part of the image to focus on, e.g. if the image is a portrait of a person I could pick their face. Idealy I'l like a piece of software which would present me with the images one at a time and let me draw a bounding box (with a fixed ratio I

Re: IM

2005-05-06 Thread Kent West
on the web that offers web hosting; I believe there are even some free posting sites (well, free, if you don't count the advertisements and them selling your contact info, etc). -- Kent West Technology Support /A/bilene /C/hristian /U/niversity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: xml problem with thunderbird on sid

2005-05-04 Thread Kent West
Paul Scott wrote: With Thunderbird 1.0.2-2 on my sid system email works fine but many menu items including Help/About, Edit/Preferences, trying to open an attachment all give me a message box with some variation of: XML parsing error: not well-formed The errors are reported to be in files

Re: Openoffice won't load and won't terminate afterwards

2005-05-03 Thread Kent West
version didn't do anything. Thanks for any help, Vjekoslav Does this happen for a new user on one of the machine (not an existing user)? If so, look into your home's OO.o directories. Is /var on your read-only root? Is /tmp? -- Kent West Technology Support /A/bilene /C/hristian /U

Re: Network Everywhere NX100U-WM NIC

2005-05-02 Thread Kent West
Marc Shapiro wrote: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does your /etc/network/interfaces look like? On the gateway box (mareschal -- 192.168.0.1): /etc/network/interfaces: # Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or # /usr/share/doc/netbase/examples for more

Re: claraocr

2005-05-01 Thread Kent West
Csanyi Pal wrote: Hello! Why can I not to open the URL: http://www.claraocr.org in any browser? Maybe the project is death? It's also not pingable. Nor does host find it. I'd say it's a dead project. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Mouse on console

2005-05-01 Thread Kent West
Deboo Geek wrote: On 4/30/05, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deboo Geek wrote: My mouse works fine under X, as a 2 button mouse. It has a trackball which doesn't work, whichever mouse I select. IT is a cheap mouse. I have tried using many protocols to make it work under gpm

Re: Mouse on console

2005-05-01 Thread Kent West
Deboo Geek wrote: On 5/1/05, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Incoming from Deboo Geek: Yes, I'm doing it on the usual console, not under X. Here's the file content of gpm.conf: device=ttyS0 Mine says /dev/ttyS0 responsiveness= repeat_type=ms3 type=msc append='' sample_rate=

Re: Network Everywhere NX100U-WM NIC

2005-05-01 Thread Kent West
Marc Shapiro wrote: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100 (rev 11) Subsystem: Linksys: Unknown device 0570 It's been my experience that whenever a device shows up

Re: Network Everywhere NX100U-WM NIC

2005-05-01 Thread Kent West
Marc Shapiro wrote: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you ping localhost? Can you ping your gateway, by address? by name? Can anyone point me to some way to get either my LAN or my modem working? See questions above. What does your /etc/network/interfaces look like? What's the result

Re: [OT] X-friendly KVM switch?

2005-05-01 Thread Kent West
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: I'm looking for an X-friendly PS/2-style KVM switch. Currently, I have a Belkin 4-port Omniview E series, and whenever I switch back to X from another system, the mouse goes all crazy and I have to ctrl+alt+backspace. Sorry; don't have a suggestion on a KVM, but to fix

Re: Network Everywhere NX100U-WM NIC

2005-04-30 Thread Kent West
Marc Shapiro wrote: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: The new card is a PCI Network Everywhere NC100U-WM. SNIP # modprobe tulip snip /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/tulip.o: insmod tulip failed What does lspci -vv report about the card? Results here: 00

Re: More woes from earlier upgrade

2005-01-08 Thread Kent West
Thomas Adam wrote: --- Michael Satterwhite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/fr/man1/cups-config.1.gz', which is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287609 *sigh* Thomas, I can understand your sigh, but searching bugs.debian.org and actually

Re: OT: Replying to top-post (Re: locatedb is world readable)

2005-01-07 Thread Kent West
David Garamond wrote: Jon Dowland wrote: Ah, a top-post to a message posted off-list. D-u is getting to be as readable as work email :-) Yeah, sorry about the off-list thing. However, I always thought the proper (polite?) way to reply to a top-post is by another top-post? I can see the logic in

Re: locatedb is world readable

2005-01-07 Thread Kent West
David Garamond wrote: Sorry, a followup question. I deleted /etc/cron.daily/find several days ago. How do I get it back? Reinstalling the findutils package (using synaptic) doesn't bring it back. Do I have to purge and install? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk apt-file search /etc/cron.daily/find

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-07 Thread Kent West
, wouldn't it also pre-date flashable BIOS? No, I remember flashing old ATT 6300 (4.77MHz 8086 PC) PCs here on campus because they had a Y2K-style glitch in the BIOS; it wouldn't go beyond 1987 or thereabouts (my memory is hazy). -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-07 Thread Kent West
CW Harris wrote: On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:53:11PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 06 January 2005 01:44 pm, John Schmidt wrote: Old pcs often can't boot from a CD even if they have one. You might be able to flash the BIOS to upgrade it, but that assumes

Re: installing on a partition

2005-01-06 Thread Kent West
Ivan Glushkov wrote: messmate wrote: On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:39:27 +0100 Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just use the Windows installer for creating an NTFS or FAT partition and leave the rest of the disk empty. When you're finished, use the Debian installer to partition the rest. You may

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-06 Thread Kent West
Nate Bargmann wrote: I may have not have jumped the MS ship seven years ago had I not found FTE. Wow! I was not aware of this editor. I do like it (for familiarity reasons - don't know about power yet). Thanks for mentioning it. -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: installing on a partition

2005-01-06 Thread Kent West
messmate wrote: I don't understand :( Bought a new hd. Installed the first partition as VFAT32 with fdisk to win. Then installed win98. Bought a win2000 + 2000professionnal. Installed that over the first win98. Now I can run win2000 or win2000 professionnal wihout any problem and can read and

Re: modem for potato

2005-01-05 Thread Kent West
Andreas Rippl wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 10:01:27AM +0100, Dani Belz wrote: * John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [04-12-30 01:03]: Any external modem that connects to the computer via a serial port will work. Unfortunately not true! I agree, I had major trouble finding a modem

Re: debootstrapping via knoppix, and what next?

2005-01-05 Thread Kent West
David T-G wrote: I also don't want to take my first pass at this on the server, a fragile node in the household. It would be much better to test on a spare box first. That, then, also leads to why a mirror would be useful (I'd save myself *two* frustrating WAN installs). The test machine is a

Re: Sarge on IBM Thinkcentre A50 - instability

2005-01-05 Thread Kent West
George Karaolides wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 08:24 -0600, Kent West wrote: I'd leave the machine in console mode (no X) for that period of time, to see if the machine gets sluggish. If not, you know it's somehow related to running X. I have left it on console mode, and the problem

Re: free vs commercial

2005-01-05 Thread Kent West
understand that Linux still needs some work to make it easier for manufacturers to support their devices in Linux, but the bottom line is that the manufacturers simply don't support their hardware on Linux, making it more difficult to use those devices in Linux. -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-05 Thread Kent West
_as a workstation_, you need more horsepower. -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Kent West
YH wrote: Hi, Is sarge stable to install? Depends on your criteria. For personal workstation use, I find even Sid to be stable enough for my needs, and that way I get all the newest goodies. If I were installing a non-critical server, I'd probably go with Stable. For a critical server, I'd

Re: Sarge on IBM Thinkcentre A50 - instability

2005-01-04 Thread Kent West
George Karaolides wrote: Greetings, I am having problems running Debian Sarge on IBM ThinkCentre A50 PC's. I have made an installation of the Desktop Environment from tasksel using Debian Installer RC2. At some point the machine starts to behave in an errratic manner: the system clock jumps

Re: Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 08:22:20AM -0600, Kent West wrote: If you're only wanting to upgrade your kernel, and the 2.6 series is not in the Woody repositories (implied from your post, but I haven't checked lately), and you have network access, you can add the Stable

Re: Clarification concerning security of testing on a laptop

2005-01-04 Thread Kent West
as a vulnerability is found, if the developer/maintainer of that package is on the ball, the fix will be in Sid very quickly, perhaps even before it makes it into Stable. You also get newer toys to play with. -- Kent -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-04 Thread Kent West
snip I was really hoping this non-Debian-related thread would have died by now . . . . -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Re: Ubuntu.org

2005-01-02 Thread Kent West
Tom Allison wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Monday 27 December 2004 02:56 pm, Kent West wrote: William Ballard wrote: One must pick boring names, like Word :-) John 1:1 Yep; that one should be free of controversy. Hah! No kidding. For those who do not have a Bible, the verse cited reads

SOLVED: OT: How to add tab-closing X in Firefox, like Galeon?

2005-01-01 Thread Kent West
J.A. de Vries wrote: On 2004-12-31 @ 10:54:44 (week 53) Kent West wrote: [I want a closing X on my tabs, like the feature found in Galeon. I googled for [tabx] and found [it] at the Extension Room at MozDev (http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/ctc), but when I click to install

Re: newbie installation question

2005-01-01 Thread Kent West
Brian M. Godfrey wrote: This included hotplug (if you use kernel 2.6) and discover. discover is also part of Woody (the stable version), but not part of the base system. You can however install it later. So I could install the stable version (Woody) minimally But I'd suggest installing

Re: Re-partitioning -- uh oh, I'm confusedconfusconfusconconfusedfusededed

2005-01-01 Thread Kent West
Ridge Chittenden wrote: Hi all, I have a machine running Debian Woody. There's one 120GB hard drive, /dev/hda. When I installed Debian a few months ago, I split the disk into two 60GB partitions. I figured that I'd install another OS in the second partition. I never did. Now, I want to recombine

Re: Re-partitioning -- uh oh, I'm confusedconfusconfusconconfusedfusededed

2005-01-01 Thread Kent West
Ridge Chittenden wrote: --- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ridge Chittenden wrote: Now, I want to recombine the partitions into one, big chunk. This would be a pretty straightforward use of parted, I assume, but here's the rub: For some reason, the Debian installer put / on /dev/hda1

Re: newbie installation question

2005-01-01 Thread Kent West
Brian M. Godfrey wrote: But I'd suggest installing Sarge instead of Woody. (Let the flamefest begin . . . .) I haven't seen any flames yet, Kent. Maybe it's a good idea. But I can borrow the 3.0r2 disks which, I think, are Woody. I'm sure they'll be fine for now. Feel free to correct

Re: Problems encountered while upgrading fr 'woody' to 'sarge'

2004-12-31 Thread Kent West
jianan wrote: I have upgraded from 'woody' with kernel-2.6.3 and KDE 3.1 to 'sarge' with kernel-2.6.8 and KDE-3.2.3 using CD-ROM #1. It was not as easy as I had read about. Below are some problems and questions. Wow, you have a lot of problems. Unfortunately, I can't provide much info for

OT: How to add tab-closing X in Firefox, like Galeon?

2004-12-31 Thread Kent West
Galeon has an X on each tab; clicking on the X closes that tab. I really like this feature, but can't seem to figure out how to add it to Firefox. I had it added a few (pre-0.9) versions ago via an extension, but that extension no longer seems to be available. Does anyone know how to add the

Re: OT: How to add tab-closing X in Firefox, like Galeon?

2004-12-31 Thread Kent West
khromy wrote: J.A. de Vries wrote: On 2004-12-31 @ 10:16:43 (week 53) Kent West wrote: Galeon has an X on each tab; clicking on the X closes that tab. I really like this feature, but can't seem to figure out how to add it to Firefox. I had it added a few (pre-0.9) versions ago via an extension

Re: netenv boot popup

2004-12-31 Thread Kent West
Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Can someone point me to the source that explains how to remove the Network Environment Setup popup that comes up on boot. I don't know what this Network Environment Setup popup is; can you post a screen-shot of it on a web site somewhere so we can see what it looks

Re: OT: How to add tab-closing X in Firefox, like Galeon?

2004-12-31 Thread Kent West
Pascal Bonesh wrote: On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 10:54 -0600, Kent West wrote: Galeon has an X on each tab; clicking on the X closes that tab. I really like this feature, but can't seem to figure out how to add it to Firefox. I had it added a few (pre-0.9) versions ago via an extension

Re: OT: How to add tab-closing X in Firefox, like Galeon?

2004-12-31 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Pascal Bonesh wrote: On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 10:54 -0600, Kent West wrote: Does anyone know how to add the closing X to Firefox's tabs? have you tried TabbrowserExtension? No, because the homepage for that extension (http://www.pryan.org/mozilla/site/TheOneKEA

Re: OT: How to add tab-closing X in Firefox, like Galeon?

2004-12-31 Thread Kent West
Travis Crump wrote: Pascal Bonesh wrote: On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 10:54 -0600, Kent West wrote: Does anyone know how to add the closing X to Firefox's tabs? have you tried TabbrowserExtension? The URL is http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/tabextensions/index.html.en According to the Advantages

Re: Trying to install using Koppix CD, system poweres down

2004-12-31 Thread Kent West
stan wrote: But the question to the list is what to use to install a Debian unstable system, that blessed by Debian. The Sarge netinst installer CD (http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/). Then upgrade via the net to Unstable. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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