Ralf Mardorf wrote:
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P.S. Be sure to give the kids their own accounts, because they will
drag panels all over the screen, add countless Untitled Folders to
the desktop, etc. My kids also liked the idea of having a secret
password to log in. I used our last name, so they could practice
lee wrote:
T Elcor tel...@yahoo.com writes:
KDE 4.x.x looks like a horrible disaster that never ends. Time to
start looking for another desktop.
fvwm-crystal is pretty awesome
I used fvwm-crystal a good bit a few years back:
http://prestonboyington.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/crystal-clear/
T o n g wrote:
Hi,
Do you have any *first hand experiences* of games available in Debian
that toddlers of 2 to 4 can enjoy?
while not exactly a game, my daughter enjoyed playing with TuxPaint.
there are plenty of stamps, colors, and sounds that kept her entertained
while getting her used
William Hopkins wrote:
On 06/28/11 at 08:39am, Martin McCormick wrote:
I have a bootable live CD of an out-dated version of a
specialized distribution of Debian called Vinux. I never saved
the ISO image and I now want to copy from the CDRW it is on to a
CDR to use as a rescue disk on systems
Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 10:45:33 -0800, peasthope wrote:
RibbonSoft notes that QCAD Pro worked in Debian 3.1 and 4.0. Is anyone
using it in 6, Squeeze? I'm wondering whether to stick with Generic
CADD 6.1 purchased years ago or switch to QCAD Pro 2.2. Recommendations
appreciated.
Camaleón wrote:
On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:49:03 -0800, Mike wrote:
update-rc.d network-manager remove
I don't have this service, but generally I'd expect to disable a service
through its /etc/default/ settings.
I agree this is the most common place to set the desired variable values
for the
teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote:
I'm assuming you checked this already;
But is the disk filthy or scratched to heck and back??
as an aside, most people flip the CD over to keep from scratching the
bottom when it's laying around out of the jewel case/sleeve not
realizing that the top has
Mark wrote:
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None of this matters if you use Clonezilla. So why even fiddle with it
when there's a great alternative?
I use Clonezilla a great deal, but most people don't think to make an
image of the machine before they start Windows for the first time.
What I'm talking about is
Ogya Chief wrote:
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At this stage there is no data to backup.
If there is any other thing I can backup, please let me know.
Since most newer computers don't come with a Restore disc, I would
suggest burning the Restore partition and any associated utility
partition to a DVD. Usually
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In my case you probably wouldn't. Mixed Lenny+security+volatile/lenny-
backports/testing+volatile/Sid/experimental systems with debian-multimedia
added in don't fall on your support list do they? ;)
I thought this was normal...
:D
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Anirban Patra wrote:
HiI 've tried to install Debian 5 version but the problem is that*
DVD is not detected by my PC.* I 've tried in other PCs , there it is
running ok. But in my PC, other linux version (*SUSE 10,FEDORA 10) are
running fine*.What should I do? My PC configuration is :
Zachary Uram wrote:
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But when I try to sudo as that user to root I get error:
$ sudo su root
I think there is some confusion.
I don't know of any reason to use both 'su' and 'sudo' in a command.
either you would 'su' to root or you would 'sudo' to run a singular command.
'su' is to
Mr. Wang Long wrote:
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:05, Preston Boyington
preston.li...@gmail.com wrote:
(commented in-line)
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote:
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I've re-created my keyring and made sure that the libpam files are
installed. Still
Michael Biebl wrote:
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As already said, setting gdm to autologin will of course not work. you
actually
have to type your password once.
If you are using autologin, you might just as well use a blank password for
your
gnome-keyring (not that i recommend that).
hmm, haven't thought
I have Debian Testing with the Gnome environment setup on a friends'
laptop. In an effort to make things easier to use I'm trying to stick
with Network Manager because of the PPP support for the USB cellular
broadband.
Each time the computer is started (GDM auto logins to user) NM asks to
access
(commented in-line)
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote:
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You are using Debian testing, so I guess you use NM 0.7.
specifically 0.7.1-1
If so, you have two options:
Mark the connection as system connection in nm-connection-editor (Available
to
all
Kevin Ross wrote:
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If you want auto-login, and fast startup with minimal dependencies, then
skip the display manager, change your getty to rungetty and configure it to
autologin, and add startx to your ~/.bash_profile. Then of course you put
whatever window manager you want into
Dale wrote:
2009/9/17 K. Jantzen k.d.jant...@t-online.de:
Hello
in the booting sequence of Debian lenny I see a line saying
Starting MTA:
It takes ages until Debian comes up with exim4. Thus booting takes
quite some time.
What does that mean?
Do I have to have that?
If not, how can
I have a laptop that functions 'just right' hardware wise so I have no
interest in upgrading the compiled kernel (2.6.26 I believe), xorg, or
rhythmbox (11.6). Newer kernels seem to break my fglrx and madwifi
setups along with the newer rhythmbox giving me grief.
I am looking into apt pinning
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
This is really an embarrassing question for an old Debian hand to
ask, but how do I install Debian?
I just bought a netbook which has no CDROM drive, but which can
boot from a USB stick. I could dd an Ubuntu image to the stick and
then boot from it. But I prefer
Lisi Reisz wrote:
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XFCE is currently looking like the front runner, but I fear that it may be en
route to getting bloated. Opinions, please.
well, it's going to be a little bit of a trade off since I'm seeing more
GNOME libs and such. still it will be faster and less bloated than
Paul E Condon wrote:
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I like the way I can plug a USB device into a USB socket and have it
mounted automatically within a few seconds. I expecially like the way
a device that has a label given to it is mounted on a mount-point that
is named with that label, and when I un-mount the
Manon Metten wrote:
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...when I tried this, aptitude asked if it should remove
'network-manager-kde'. As I'm using that app and don't have wireless,
I cancelled the installation.
yes, this will also happen if you are running the gnome network manager.
it's sort of 'all or nothing'.
Paul E Condon wrote:
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I am having some difficulty with network-manager. Aptitude says it is
installed on my Acer Aspire one...
Paul, seriously take a look at wicd. network-manager is now the second
thing I uninstall on my Debian/Ubuntu machines (the first being the
update-manager
Mark wrote:
Thanks J. Found an 8 GB drive for $16 so I'm moving forward with this,
I figure it's worth a try.
Just curious but have you tried UNetbootin?
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
it's also available in Debian:
http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=allkeywords=unetbootin
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I did an upgrade the other day and now rhythmbox throws an error when it
opens an mp3 (can't find codec?) then WILL eventually play. Also it
takes quite a while for it to start a new song after the previous is
finished.
All other system sounds, videos, game sounds play just fine.
abdelkader belahcene wrote:
HI,
on my new laptop HP,
I tryed debian 5.0, ubuntu 9.04 , linuxMint 7,
the sound is not running on all, while the hardware is detected , the
sound indicator is green correct, When I play a sound file, it plays
normally, but no* sound is heard.*
here is the
Paul Johnson wrote:
Preston Boyington wrote:
IF there were more of a push for Linux at the workplace (desktops not
just server room) then the money factor would help bring the
businesses around. As it is, there's no real incentive to produce a
product that is cross platform when most
Paul Johnson wrote:
Alan Shutko wrote:
Aryan Ameri a.am...@linuxiran.org writes:
Well, I always thought that AutoCAD was the equivalent of Windows in the
CAD world. And I thought that for more professinal stuff ( i.e
designing BMW cars) businesses use more sophisticated products (which
Kelly Harding wrote:
2009/2/8 Stefan Monnier:
What's the best method for cloning a partition? [searching for an
open-source software alternateive for it :P]
If you use XFS the xfsdump/xfsrestore programs are very good.
Theres also clonezilla which should do the job.
I've had good
Nuno Magalhães wrote:
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Can i have a regular desktop Debian without an MTA?
yes. install 'nullmailer' via aptitude. i use it on my laptops.
(haven't read all the posts yet, so someone might have already suggested
this)
Preston
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Micha Feigin wrote:
My two problems with wicd (one of them is not an issue at the moment, but it
was)
1. the memory overhead of the client (why python? it's very good for daemons
and such, not very memory efficient)
root 4634 0.2 0.3 89776 7776 ?S00:51 3:23 python
Dean Chester wrote:
Hi
Is there anyway i can speed up debians boot time. Its embarrassing that
Vista boots up quicker than debian.
Dean
I use nullmailer instead of Exim since I don't need/want to run a mail
server and I bring up my networks (wi-fi, lan) manually when I want them.
I used bum
S D wrote:
Am trying to mount an old BusLink USB drive but can't determine what device
the USB drive is connected to, that is, the device that I'd pass to the mount
command. I tried fdisk -l but it only appears to show my other internal HDs.
snipped
check your dmesg output also.
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H.S. wrote:
Paul Johnson wrote:
Right up until it doesn't. And when it doesn't, it's a severe pain to fix.
I noticed that in FC9, the sound was working quite smoothly even when
the processor was quite busy (updating and installing stuff using yum).
This was a surprise to me. With as
Damon L. Chesser wrote:
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I think I will once more look it over, if for no other reason then Ron
Johnson will not snicker at me.
well i don't know Ron but given what i have read i wouldn't bet on
that. :D
I moved from apt-get to aptitude and now I don't even think about it
anymore.
Daniel Burrows wrote:
If you just mean that
you have to learn the keystrokes ... that's probably not going to
change; with the limited screen real estate on a terminal, I can't
afford to put in buttons on everything.
Although I haven't delved into aptitude as deeply as I probably should,
I
Bob Cox wrote:
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 12:11:06 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Preston Boyington wrote:
As it stands, I press / enter my search criteria and then press
enter to access the packages. Then I press / again and enter to
go to the next found item. I don't
H.S. wrote:
On a Debian Testing I just compiled the new module from madwifi-source.
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I've got to where I am using Module Assistant for this stuff. It is
super easy and if you open a terminal and type sudo m-a you will be
able to do everything you need in just a few minutes.
check
Frank McCormick wrote:
well said, Frank. well said...
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Bruno Voigt wrote:
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I just found
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# cat /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc
# which /dev/dsp wrapper to use
ICEWEASEL_DSP=auto
I changed it to none and everything is fine now :-)
lol, mine was different. for me i had to use:
ICEWEASEL_SDP=auto
i think my problem was that
Ron Johnson wrote:
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It appears that something blocked my l.d.o email for about 16 hours.
It's all flowing now, though.
maybe you need a gmail account...
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why is it that after a round of updates via aptitude i have to go in and
install things like linux-headers afterwards? how can i tell it to
automatically update them along with the kernel? i was under the
impression that if i had them installed then aptitude would update them
as it does any
jpk wrote:
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I really hate this thread... Now I am sitting in a corner, crying like a
little girl... ;)
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yes, but it has brought so much joy to others. i even forwarded it to
people not on list. :D
Preston
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abelahcene wrote:
Hi,
I have a miniPc, can't install the heavy gnome or kde on it . I want to
install a just graphic , in fact I want to use it , just to display a
window . Any small WM will be OK.
i have Fluxbox running on a 133mhz/16mb compaq laptop. with gKrellm and
a few scripts i
Marc Shapiro wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 06/04/08 11:24, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 09:40:20AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:13:09AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:13:09AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/02/08 23:28, Marc Shapiro wrote:
[snip]
Wine is fermented from fruit.
Distilled wine is brandy.
Beer is fermented from grain.
Distilled beer is whiskey.
Corn beer?
Javier Vasquez wrote:
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I have an old laptop with a 10G HD...and changing the HD on the only
IDE slot is getting less fun each time
i really like using a livecd for these things and my current favorite is
the gparted-clonezilla livecd. couple that with a usb laptop drive
enclosure
Uwe Bugla wrote:
I am running the latest Debian Lenny / Sid combination and wanted to adjust a
workstation to another monitor.
Traditionallly that works by the following command:
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg.
If I run that command, the script ends up with the question whether to emulate
a
Mumia W.. wrote:
On 05/15/2008 07:29 PM, Celejar wrote:
Nitpick - the apt-get command doesn't need to be run as superuser if
it's just printing uris.
:-O
Why you're right!
Now I might be able to use apt-get to experiment with potential changes
without damaging the system. Thanks.
Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:31:21AM -0500, Preston Boyington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
actually you can do:
apt-get install or dist-upgrade --dry-run
and it will show you exactly what will happen. since i have started
using aptitude for my package manager i
Manu Hack wrote:
Hi,
I decided to upgrade my etch box to lenny/sid but an apt-get
dist-upgrade got stuck. Please let me know what could be done here.
Thanks a lot.
Manu
i wonder if you could do this:
dpkg -i --force-overwrite
/var/cache/apt/archives/libbonobo2-common_2.22.0-1_all.deb
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Indeed, reprepro is a lot better, I tried it yesterday, and faster too.
I invoke reprepro from a C++ program to generate a local mirror of all
the packages that a system contains, generated by dpkg-repack, if
anybody is interested.
Hugo
I am very interested. How
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
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xfce used to use gtk1. It now uses gtk2 which is far more bloated which
makes it slower. It also uses more memory...
Icewm does not, and OpenBox may not either. You could try those.
currently i use FVWM-Crystal as my default desktop environment with
Rick Kalkowski wrote:
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I've got an old WinXP lap-top I'd like to resurrect for my son to use
What is the brand and model of the laptop? places like:
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/
are usually a good place to start.
When I crank up the PC now,
it's asking me for an admin password
Celejar wrote:
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What's the chipset (appropriate excerpt of 'lspci')?...
If nothing shows with 'lspci' then also try 'lsusb'. I have found that
some cards show up as a USB device (Realtek nics on some Toshiba laptops
comes to mind).
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Since I have been having an issue with the current xorg blowing the
display on this HP dv5000 laptop, I wanted to keep the currently
installed (stable) version.
Is there a way that I can let aptitude update everything else without
having to worry about it automatically selecting xorg packages
I have been given an external drive and was wondering if there would be
a problem with my making it a partial mirror. Does the mirror require
any particular permissions or can I leave the drive Fat32?
Has anyone done this from a Windows machine and could maybe give me some
examples?
i run debian testing and noticed today that acidrip is not showing any
status / progress in either the full or compact views. since it
seems to work very well otherwise i am wondering if it is a permission
issue or something relatively simple to fix.
any help will be appreciated.
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Serena Cantor wrote:
I have used Linux for 8 years.
I have not found any suitable file manager(FM).
I use twm. I don't use KDE or GNOME. so don't recommend any FM based
on KDE or GNOME I still use command line. I will prefer GUI FM so my
life can be a little easier. I use sarge and etch.
ROX
steve wrote:
Bruno Boettcher wrote:
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i want to play around with ip-telephony and thus need a webcam...
so what webcam are there that are easy to get working under debian?
http://qce-ga.sourceforge.net/
drivers for logitech, well known, well supported, and widely available
Bruno Boettcher wrote:
so what webcam are
there that are easy to get working under debian with more appropriate
resolution and framerate?
as a quick update i have just got a Logitech QuickCam Pro for Notebooks
working with ekiga and luvcview. the beta of Skype is giving me some
video errors,
Daniel Burrows wrote:
Identical behavior to apt-get has never been a goal for me, so the
answer is almost certainly yes. (not that I gratuitously break
apt-get compatibility; it's just not something I track one way or the
other unless I get bug reports)
one thing i noticed from my
didier gaumet wrote:
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:59:56 -0500, Preston Boyington wrote:
[...]
and fyi, i use debian with fluxbox on my P133, 16mb, compaq laptop. :D
Hello Preston,
what version of debian are you talking about? On a P133, 32MB, Dell Laptop
it seemed to me that the last Debian
Kent West wrote:
Girl-Friend. (I used to understand the concept of girlfriends better
before Debian came along )
...that lives in another town and can't come to dance (prom, graduation,
party) because she always seems to get sick or help her parents. :D
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Javier Vasquez wrote:
Don't know about windowMaker, but you might try:
fluxbox
icewm
pekwm
fvwm2
You might find some pretty light, and some besides offering lots of
fun and good looking features... I use fluxbox and a machine with
512M main, and 64M ati-rage is performing pretty
Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote:
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What changed is the name and logo in compilation time, nothing else
also be aware that some extensions don't like Iceweasel as opposed to
FireFox or SwiftFox. this will hopefully change in the near future
since i suspect that it is looking for some type
On 1/25/06, Stephen Cormier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 21:52, Stephen Cormier wrote:
That would be dpkg -i
--force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libiec61883-0_1.0.0-0.1_i386.deb
Stephen
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thanks to all. had to do it a couple of times but no problems with
Would someone mind helping me with this? I was doing an
update/upgrade and it keeps dying with this error message:
Unpacking libiec61883-0 (from .../libiec61883-0_1.0.0-0.1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/libiec61883-0_1.0.0-0.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to
On 9/13/05, antgel wrote:
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If you attempt to install a package not cached, it downloads it on the
fly. Not sure if that's what you want.
It seems that apt-proxy will work for what I want at home on my machines since
I will install much of the same software on all machines.
I have successfully used Debmirror (thanks to all responders) to create a local
mirror and now I want to use it for my home network.
I have been reading up on a FAI server and have also had suggested to me to use
Apache to serve Debian (and a couple of other) distros.
The server is on a
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On 9/12/05, Mark Lijftogt wrote:
I would start with FAI if I would be doing 1 installs a week. Anything
below that would need some carefull thought, simply because it is a lot
of work to set it up and to maintain your profiles that you create. I am
not sure if that is what you want.
antgel to debian-user wrote:
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Perhaps I missed the point, but don't you want to use apt-proxy for
offering this service?
I was under the impression that apt-proxy was used for serving packages that
one had downloaded for a particular machine. So if I had downloaded pingus
for my
On 9/12/05, Mark Lijftogt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snipped
Because you told us that it is for home use only I don't see any use in
FAI, or getting the whole shabang that Debian has to offer. Over 15.000
packages downloaded, and at the most 1000 used if you are totally lost
and out of luck.
After a recent update (I am running Unstable) I receive an error message at
GNOME startup that states that there is already a panel running. Once GNOME
finishes starting it offers me a box to ok, but how can I tell it to only
open one panel to begin with? Where do I edit this configuration?
On 09 Aug 2005 20:24:33 -0400, dzpost wrote:
Are there net-install CD images for Woody still available somewhere?
I found the floppy boot disk images, but not CD images.
My /usr partition got hosed before I got around to upgrading to
sarge. I'd like to reinstall woody so I can restore the
From: Bob Proulx
snipped
You should be able to point your sources.list there to retrieve them.
I am currently looking through the FAI server material, but was wondering if I
could just use SAMBA since it is a public share? Would this be a case of:
deb file:/debmirror/debian/ stable main
I have come to the point of needing / wanting my own partial Debian mirror
(amd64 and i386). I've been reading about debmirror but when I tried it my
mirror didn't look quite like what I thought it should. All the packages were
dumped into folders under pool/ and folders it created such as
From: [KS]
To: Debian User
Hi,
I run nightly backups on my external USB drive using dirvish and it has
been working perfectly since the last few days when I started them.
However, when I went to work on the machine this morning, I heard some
wierd noise and noticed that the external USB was the
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Preston Boyington wrote:
Andreas Janssen wrote:
It happens when Grub starts to boot my system. I see the following:
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinz-2.6.8-1-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-1-386
savedefault
boot
after that, nothing
I've been trying off and on to install Sarge onto a Gateway Solo 1150 laptop without
great success. Each time I would complete the install, the computer would reboot, and
the laptop would hang at GRUB's boot loader. Since I know that the installer is still
evolving, I didn't think much of it.
Andreas Janssen wrote:
Hello
Preston Boyington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I've been trying off and on to install Sarge onto a Gateway Solo 1150
laptop without great success. Each time I would complete the
install, the computer would reboot, and the laptop would hang at
GRUB's boot
Ryan Waye wrote:
Hello,
I am attempting to use a USB Flash drive on my 2.6.7 Linux box.
Debian seems to detect it, here is the entry from
/proc/bus/usb/devices file:
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So it appears to have been detected, but how do I access it?
Sincerely,
Ryan Waye
maybe try as root:
mount
I am trying to install Sarge on a Gateway Solo 1150 laptop and it is hanging after I
reboot. Specifically it hangs on bootup when I see boot on the screen. I am using
the Sarge disks (downloaded iso's) from debian.org and there doesn't seem to be a
problem with the initial base install or
I am involved with a project that is (currently) using Knoppix as a base for a LiveCD.
The end result of the project is having a trial cdrom that can then be installed as
a real Debian system.
I know that there are projects like Morphix (which is what the Debian Non-Profit is
based on) and
Paul Johnson wrote:
Since when is Debian based on Morphix?
not Debian. Debian-NP. it's a Custom Debian Distribution (CCD) for non-profits.
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-nonprofit/
information on the Bootable CD is here:
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-nonprofit/News/2003/20031129
Joris Huizer wrote:
As far as I know, there are *no* debian/unstable iso images (it'd be a
nightmare to keep those updated... )
Sarge has (currently) 13 disks. Look on Debian.org for links to the images (I think
under CD Images or some such).
I've had to go this route only because I don't
Grant wrote:
Hey,
Just wondering if i was to download all debian woody cd's
could i copy
the contents to a folder on my Intranet server and use that as an
apt-get source... as every UK apt-get source seems to give me errors
or is missing parts.
It would only be for LAN access and would
I would like to set up a home mirror (i386 archive) to run my installs from. I am
on dial-up and a friend has offered to download the 13 CDs of Sarge for me to help get
started.
What is the best way to take the CDs and convert them into a working APT archive?
Is this something I would use
David Baron wrote:
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When I bought a big disk, I put in several Windows paritions and a
Linux one. No sweat, installed Knoppix and onwards. If I get around
to dividing Linux things up, I will probably use it again.
I have moved to using QTParted. It's on the Knoppix cdrom and works very
Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
Is there any particular reason that you don't want to use aptitude or
dselect to interactively change the installed packages?
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sorry, there was more to the story than i guess i led you to believe. here's a bit
more information.
the existing debian box
i have inherited an existing debian box and want to change the packages to suit me
and the office that it will now be used.
i would like to take the installed packages listed from:
dpkg --get-selections packages.txt
and edit the file to reflect what i actually want/need on the box.
after i
recently there was a post in which someone posted a url to their apt sources.list.
the one i saw began as such:
#
# My source.list that covers all versions of Debian
# usually uptodate, some backups are present if some fail
# which do on occasion. Usually a 3rd party site.
#
would someone mind
David Haughton wrote:
Steve Lamb wrote:
David Haughton wrote:
Then you have elm and lynx for email and web and that's pretty
much all you need, eh?
s/elmg/mutt/
s/lynx/links/
I still prefer lynx over links (or links2 or whatever).
agreed. and i use mp3blaster for my
This weekend I installed a base Debian system using the new installer. My only
problem is after using pppconfig to setup my external modem it will activate the
modem (dial and apparently connect) but I can't get apt-setup to connect to any
sources to download programs. I su in to pon my
John Hasler wrote:
: Preston writes:
:: This weekend I installed a base Debian system using the new
:: installer. My only problem is after using pppconfig to setup my
:: external modem it will activate the modem (dial and apparently
:: connect) but I can't get apt-setup to connect to any sources
I haven't seen a minimum, but I was wondering since there are a couple of 133's here
with 32meg of ram that I want to update. They are currently running kernel 2.2.20
which I want to upgrade to whatever is the latest kernel-image available (adding a
wireless card to one and it was suggested I
Seems the 2.4.18-1.586tsc or maybe 2.4.18-1.686 packages are what you
need (if you use Woody).
how up to date are the patches in the kernel from debian.org? i've never patched a
kernel, so it will be something new/fun to do.
i am planning on compiling a kernel next, wish me luck.
Preston
-Original Message-
From: David Clymer
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 12:41 PM
On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 11:49, Bojan Baros wrote:
Hello.
I am looking into creating a firewall for my home network. So far I
have a simple Internet router (Netgear) that protects my win and deb
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