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On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Scarletdown wrote:
My big question that I have been pondering is, with an 80GB hard drive
and a 13.6GB hard drive, what would be the best partitioning scheme,
instead of having just one big root partition and a swap partition?
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
i want my system to ALWAYS be on time.
you're close with ntpdate
apt-get install ntp
it uses more system resources, but it's usually worth it. i only use
ntpdate on my ancient 486 laptop.
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On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Joris Huizer wrote:
As far as I saw you didn't get the problem fixed yet so maybe you don't
mind me suggesting this one...
tar is broken; maybe you should try and compile tar from source (without
using the malfunctioning
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Adam Funk wrote:
On Wednesday 25 August 2004 20:10, Adam Funk wrote:
How do you enable APM or ACPI in the kernel?
Let me rephrase that. How can I enable ACPI in a stock Debian kernel?
(I have no experience in compiling my
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Jody Grafals wrote:
If I can't get the thing to mount the way I want it, Can I somehow give the
user (myself) root access to this directory?
Yes. Use sudo. apt-get install sudo first (if you don't have it)
Create a script in
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Johnny wrote:
Late last nite i reinstall Debian 30r2 i386. and I am using gdm as login
now i wanting to use kdm how do i go about get kdm and not gdm.
apt-get install kdm
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 03:39:21PM -0400, Abdool wrote:
hi,
While installing the base system in Debian, I get the error message,
file:/instmnt/pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.5.4_1386.deb was corrupt.
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Tom Allison wrote:
XDM comes up fine, but when I log in, it flashes a few times and then
reverts back to the original XDM login screen.
Replacing XDM with WDM has the same effect.
I've found wdm to be pretty useful for
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, John Harrold wrote:
Can someone tell me what metric is used to determine which modules are
included?
Well, first you need somebody to volunteer to maintain the package. :)
Is it version numbers?
Nope. There are lots of
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
I happens often that when I copy or install from a CD-R -- haven't tried
originals -- that my system crashes. I use a Samsung CD-ROM drive and
wonder if it is its problem or something
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Ivo Marino wrote:
Hello folks,
Each time I try to suspend my x86 `sid` workstation as a non-root user
via the command apm -s I receive this error message:
apm: Operation not permitted
Any suggestions on how to fix
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Nicolaus Kedegren wrote:
/dev/sda6/home ext2 defaults02
Perhaps add 'auto' to options? Maybe defaults has changed.
Also, when is pass 2? Perhaps pass 1...?
Obviously you've got the right device number fs
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Ivo Marino wrote:
anyway I think apm -s should also work without being root or using sudo
for as-root execution, this is at least what happens on PowerPC
machines with pmud (Similar to apmd for x86) installed: An user can
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On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Paul E Condon wrote:
I am trying to understand how to use dpkg-deb from reading the man page.
I've been downloading deb packages and installing them on my system
using aptitude and apt-get. Now I would like to burn a CD that
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On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, S.D.A. wrote:
One would think that some Debian Mac hobbyist, would have written up a 'how
to' for installing on Old World Macs -- Or perhaps, I just haven't looked
hard enough...
Old World Macs are pretty rare these days.
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On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, messmate wrote:
on my debian sarge can't mount /floppy as user nor root :(
It's probably your kernel.
The fstab output:
/dev/fd0 /floppy autousers,noauto0 0
Looks like my fstab.
/dev/fd0
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On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Glenn Keenan wrote:
I am a complete newbie to Debian and just installed it using sarge. Install
went fine, machine rebooted without a problem, continued install over
network via http and then got to the package installation.
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On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, John Summerfield wrote:
A user who can create users can do anything.
Er, not true.
A user who can sudo vi /etc/passwd can do anything. However, a user who
can sudo /usr/local/bin/dedicated-user-creation-script cannot.
A user
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On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, P V Mathew wrote:
Also the time maintained by the system should be more
accurate than the hard ware clock. In my case why is it not so?
You should be using an NTP server. Network time is the solution to most
timing
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On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Colin Theseira wrote:
Can you help me by telling me where I can find documentation to configure
our Qmail server so it will only accept inbound e-mails from the Postini
server? Any help you can offer will be greatly
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On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
Is there a serial terminal program in testing? Like what you'd use to
log in to another host over a serial line?
Look in the comm section. That's where all the old-school RS-232 terminal
programs
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On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
Unfortunately the proxy and firewalls here do not allow me to use jigdo
or bit-torrent, and so the only way for me to download the ISOs are by
downloading them directly. Over a day or two I managed to
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On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Ed Sutherland wrote:
I'll be using the PPC version of Sarge. But text in the console (not
text in X) is clipped on the left edge of the screen. (Linux is printed
inux on my iMac monitor.) This clipping doesn't happen in
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On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Dave Whiteley wrote:
I have an old system that has been running stable for ages. I am now
truing to upgrade it to testing but somehow I have got myself into a
deadlock position.
debconf is dying because:-
debconf: Perl
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On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, H. A. Sujith Shastry wrote:
I have Debian 3.0rc2. I've installed XFree86(4.1) and I'm using the
fbdev driver, because my video card is not supported. But my video card
is supported in newer versions of XFree86(4.2 onwards), so
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On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Kirk Strauser wrote:
I cheated on my mirror: I installed a Squid server and pointed apt at that
proxy. That way, there's no penalty of downloading more packages than
needed, but additional hosts benefit from the packages
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, P V Mathew wrote:
I am using Debian sid. I had also installed some packages and libraries
from original tar balls also. Now I think there are conflicts between some
installed libraries.
Is there any utility or option
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On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Richard Cavell wrote:
Secondly, how do I make my computer boot with no kde at all? My default
runlevel is 2, and in /etc/rc2.d I have:
S10sysklogd, S11klogd, S14ppp, S18portmap, S20exim4, S20fam, S20inetd,
S20makedev,
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Hi. I've got debian running, it works fine.
I only have one question about a strange behaviour of catman. It seems to
build cat files for section 1 mostly just fine, but when it comes to the
other sections, I get this kind of output:
Updating cat
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I had a box that today experienced a power failure. When I rebooted, it
wasn't even pingable. I brought it upstairs (no minotor in the basement)
and noticed that I was always pausing during the boot sequence at a root
prompt.
-fixes, but how to do that?
Loki.
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Loki wrote:
I'm using Debian kernel 2.2.18 and X11R6 as well
as FVWM 2.something - and X windows hangs quite
often, sometimes 2 or 3 times per day (ok, mostly
not at all, but sometimes a few times in a row).
The mouse cursor
, the kernel,
FVWM, my PS2 mouse, Netscape 4.76, or what?
Any help would be appreciated.
Loki
tells exim not to rewrite addresses
matching the first field.
Using folder hooks as in Brian May's mail, just make sure your From:
header is set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] when you change to the appropriate
folders. Seems to work for me now,
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will give you sox and the play
wrapper which can play wavs. mpg123 is a popular (non-free) console
mp3 player, or XMMS for a graphical one (GTK-based).
4. What modules do I need ?
soundcore.o, sound.o (generic support) plus your particular soundcard.
HTH,
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1.1.1 working fine here on my potato box with an MX300.
Didn't encounter any problems. Maybe if you post more detail about
the error..?
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and then reinstalled it, then
reran magicfilterconfig afterwards. If you can't find other reasons
why it doesn't work, this is worth a try.
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in complexity and space.
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you sign/encrypt mail using stock
GnuPG?
Apologies if this has been asked and answered exactly too recently.
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.
Just to forestall the if you want it write it yourself and We're
volunteers, don't complain flames: I appreciate it all, I just think it can
be improved too :) If I understood all Debian's package flags better, I
might have a crack at it myself some time.
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On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 09:43:31AM +1100, loki wrote:
Anyone have any hints on how to fix this?
Silly me, figured it out later after thinking about it. My old X server
was patched to be able to use TrueType fonts, the one packaged in potato
wasn't. Hence the X server was panicking when
'fixed'
When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
Anyone have any hints on how to fix this?
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I'm trying to use amd 5.2.2.2 unoficial patch lev 102 under debian 1.2
could some other users please post their amd configuration files, with
copious comments? As far as I can tell from the error messages, the
NFS systems are never mounted anywhere in any way. Trafshow tells me
that no udp
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