Re: Dave Cinege and Paul Wade

1997-08-23 Thread Vern Hamberg
At 09:02 AM 8/23/97 -0400, you wrote: My first suggestion for the charter would be that profanity should not be tolerated: no matter whom it comes from. Just English profanities or those of any language? Who's going to maintain the list of forbidden words? Not only is that ridiculous, I find

Re: Basic questions

1997-08-20 Thread Vern Hamberg
At 06:08 PM 8/18/97 -0400, Robert wrote: I could use some help with some basic questions that have me puzzled. 1. How do I get Linux to boot from the HD? I am using System Commander, and it will call LILO if configured. System Commander and LILO serve the same function--multiple boots. Run LILO

Re: Storing XVidtune changes...

1997-08-15 Thread Vern Hamberg
At 01:17 PM 8/15/97 -0400, you wrote: What is the easiest way to store changes that are made with xvidtune? I used it to setup X the way that I like it, and I would like the changes to become permanent. Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Marc I thought xvidtune

Re: common commands not working

1997-08-12 Thread Vern Hamberg
At 02:53 PM 8/12/97 -0400, you wrote: As a new debian user I was suprised @ how easy the installation of 1.3 went... not a hitch. However, when I issue the man command to explore the manual pages I get a bad command message. same for apropos. Is this related to the Packages and the dselect

Re: combining linux partitions

1996-11-06 Thread Vern Hamberg
At 05:30 PM 11/5/96 +, you wrote: I've recently installed Debian distribution. I really like it, so I'd like to get rid of my old slackware install, and make the Slackware and Debian partition into one. Is there a program out there that would do it. I have Partition Magic, but it refuses

Device does not exist

1996-10-13 Thread Vern Hamberg
I'm having problems with devices. I put on a clean install of the latest Debian stable release. Then I downloaded and installed mdutils.deb, since I want to have /usr span a couple partitions on 2 drives. When I use mdadd /dev/md0 /dev/hdb4 /dev/hdd3 I get a message Device