Re: Newbie Problems!

2005-09-23 Thread sean
Thanks very much. I have been thinking about it though. I have a DNS server already running on silentflame.com. So I edited the Host File (using WHM), and added a simple a record underneath for a subdomain. Will this work? Thanks. Quoting ke6isf [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Sean

Newbie Problems!

2005-09-22 Thread Sean Whitton
Hi all, I would be grateful for any help on the following problems. Please indicate what you are replying to in your response! Thanks. 1) I installed apache using wajig. I want to create a link between ~/public_html and the webspace for the user at ip/~user. How do I do this please? 2) I want a

Re: Newbie Problems!

2005-09-22 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Sean Whitton wrote: Hi all, I would be grateful for any help on the following problems. Please indicate what you are replying to in your response! Thanks. 1) I installed apache using wajig. I want to create a link between ~/public_html and the webspace for the user at ip/~user. How do I do

Re: Newbie Problems!

2005-09-22 Thread ke6isf
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Sean Whitton wrote: 2) I want a domain to point to the server. During installation I selected DNS server, and I need to know how to set this up. A link to a tutorial would be appreciated. Like another responder said, assuming you have a domain and a static IP, check

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-17 Thread Damon L. Chesser
David A. Cobb wrote: Jacob S. wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:08:14 -0500 Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian archive has nVidia patches for

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-17 Thread David A. Cobb
Not a very successful day!!! Trying to go with the fact that TUN driver sees my network controller. Two occurrences of Warning Failure trying to run chroot /target dpkg --force-depends \ /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_3.0.2_i386.deb \ (same basepath)/base-passwd_3.4.1_i386.deb

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-17 Thread Mark Pictor
Well I guess I'm gonna reply to two people at once... --- David A. Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not a very successful day!!! Trying to go with the fact that TUN driver sees my network controller. Two occurrences of Warning Failure trying to run Warning *doesn't* mean failure... and

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-16 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:08:14PM -0500, Kent West wrote: Run lspci to see what type of Ethernet device you have, then run modprobe to install the correct driver for it. You might then need to modify /etc/network/interfaces (see man interfaces for examples) and restart networking

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-16 Thread David A. Cobb
inline- Kent West wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian archive has nVidia patches for 2.4.26. My plan is to go to .26, but in the meanwhile I can't use X Windows and I

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-16 Thread David A. Cobb
Jacob S. wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:08:14 -0500 Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian archive has nVidia patches for 2.4.26. My plan is

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-16 Thread David A. Cobb
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2004-07-15, David A. Cobb penned: [snip] I don't have the brain power right now to answer your question about kernels ... so moving on ... I need to pass things back-and-forth between Linux and Windoze. I see references to VFAT FS on the web site, but for the

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-16 Thread David A. Cobb
Ryan Waye wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:19:03 -0400, David A. Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I purchased a CD set of Debian 3.0 Woody Official and started to install it. First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-16 Thread David A. Cobb
Kent West wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still haven't figured out how to make the Linux data visible from within Windoze, other than scribbling files from Linux onto one of the VFAT-mounted drives. And you won't, unless you resort to third-party products (I've heard of such utilities, but

Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread David A. Cobb
Hi! I purchased a CD set of Debian 3.0 Woody Official and started to install it. First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian archive has nVidia patches for 2.4.26. My plan is to go to .26, but in the

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Kent West
David A. Cobb wrote: First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian archive has nVidia patches for 2.4.26. My plan is to go to .26, but in the meanwhile I can't use X Windows and I can't access my NIC, so all

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-15, David A. Cobb penned: [snip] I don't have the brain power right now to answer your question about kernels ... so moving on ... I need to pass things back-and-forth between Linux and Windoze. I see references to VFAT FS on the web site, but for the life of me, I

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Ryan Waye
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:19:03 -0400, David A. Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I purchased a CD set of Debian 3.0 Woody Official and started to install it. First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Zachary Rizer
Aye, it does sound like you have quite a mess on your hands. My personal _recommendation_ (do not take this as law) would be to start from scratch, and use one of the beta Sarge installers. You'll find Sarge far more up-to-date, with support for 2.6 kernels and Nforce chipsets right out the

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Zachary Rizer
You really shouldn't run apt-* without apt-update, first, by the way. --- Ryan Waye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:19:03 -0400, David A. Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I purchased a CD set of Debian 3.0 Woody Official and started to install it. First woe: my

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Jacob S.
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:08:14 -0500 Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian archive has nVidia patches for 2.4.26. My plan is to go to .26,

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello David A. Cobb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I purchased a CD set of Debian 3.0 Woody Official and started to install it. First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian archive has nVidia patches for

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Kent West
Jacob S. wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:08:14 -0500 Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; You might be able to get your network working, in which case you won't need to reboot into Windows. snip Actually, he mentions nVidia

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread anlace
--- David A. Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I purchased a CD set of Debian 3.0 Woody Official and started to install it. First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian archive has

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread listcomm
I need to pass things back-and-forth between Linux and Windoze. I see references to VFAT FS on the web site, but for the life of me, I can't find a trace of the software. It's really bad to have to play games with tar at both sides of the route in order not to munge up the magic

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still haven't figured out how to make the Linux data visible from within Windoze, other than scribbling files from Linux onto one of the VFAT-mounted drives. And you won't, unless you resort to third-party products (I've heard of such utilities, but have never used

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Chris
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 21:34, Kent West wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still haven't figured out how to make the Linux data visible from within Windoze, other than scribbling files from Linux onto one of the VFAT-mounted drives. And you won't, unless you resort to third-party

[Fwd: Re: Newbie problems galore]

2004-07-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
---BeginMessage--- David A. Cobb wrote: Hi! I purchased a CD set of Debian 3.0 Woody Official and started to install it. First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian archive has nVidia patches for

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread cr
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 07:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to pass things back-and-forth between Linux and Windoze. I see references to VFAT FS on the web site, but for the life of me, I can't find a trace of the software. It's really bad to have to play games with tar at both sides

Re: Solved: [newbie] Problems getting Xwindows working

2002-04-01 Thread I.J.W. Wever
The G450 is a dualhead card. Because you are not specifying which monitor is connected to which vga port, as you would if you were writing a dh config, X will default to #1. Look at the numbers on the backplate of your card and check that your monitor is connected to vga port #1. Do not assume

[newbie] Problems getting Xwindows working [includes /etc/X11/XF86Config and startx logfile]

2002-03-31 Thread I.J.W. Wever
Hello all, A few days ago I installed Woody and since then I have been trying to get Xwindows running. I've downloaded the appropriate drivers for my Matrox G450 from the Matrox site and tried the XF86config with various options, but withous succes. I don't know how to tell XFree86 to use the

Re: [newbie] Problems getting Xwindows working [includes /etc/X11/XF86Config and startx logfile]

2002-03-31 Thread Simon Hepburn
I.J.W. Wever wrote: A few days ago I installed Woody and since then I have been trying to get Xwindows running. I've downloaded the appropriate drivers for my Matrox G450 from the Matrox site and tried the XF86config with various options, but withous succes. These are not strictly neccessary

Re: [newbie] Problems getting Xwindows working [includes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and startx logfile]

2002-03-31 Thread I.J.W. Wever
Dear Simon, thanks for your reaction. I realised that I was using the wrong file and XF86Config-4 actually had 'mga_hal' where it should have had 'mga' (which is almost the same problem for which you gave the solution :) ). Please ignore the attachments of the previous message: I made some

Re: [newbie] Problems getting Xwindows working [includes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and startx logfile]

2002-03-31 Thread Simon Hepburn
I.J.W. Wever wrote: Section Device Identifier Matrox G450 Driver mga Option UseFBDev true EndSection Are you using the linux framebuffer ? If not, comment out this line: Option UseFBDev true

Re: [newbie] Problems getting Xwindows working [includes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and startx logfile]

2002-03-31 Thread I.J.W. Wever
Hmmm... I should ask this on one of the xfree86 mailing lists instead of here, shouldn't I? sincerely, Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Problems getting Xwindows working [includes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and startx logfile]

2002-03-31 Thread Simon Hepburn
On Sunday 31 Mar 2002 11:36 pm, you wrote: Are you using the linux framebuffer ? If not, comment out this line: Option UseFBDev true Apart from that your config looks fine. During the install the --configuration of some package asked whether I wanted to

Re: Newbie: problems intalling aps

2002-03-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 02:28:55AM +0300, FFF wrote: I'm a newbie to debian, I had problems when I try to install from a local disk, after selecting the packs using either simple or the advanced method it fails to find them. I checked the installation path file:/mnt/hde6/debian and is correct.

Newbie: problems intalling aps

2002-03-17 Thread FFF
Hi, I'm a newbie to debian, I had problems when I try to install from a local disk, after selecting the packs using either simple or the advanced method it fails to find them. I checked the installation path file:/mnt/hde6/debian and is correct. So I can't understand why it says it can't find

Re: Another newbie (problems with installation)

2001-01-25 Thread Kent West
Patrick Klee wrote: I'm not sure what problem you're describing. If your machine will boot off the CD, don't worry about floppies (except to make a boot floppy near the end of the install for emergency purposes). If your machine won't boot off the CD, you have to create some boot/root floppies

Re: Another newbie (problems with installation)

2001-01-25 Thread ktb
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:40:24PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Patrick Klee wrote: I'm not sure what problem you're describing. If your machine will boot off the CD, don't worry about floppies (except to make a boot floppy near the end of the install for emergency purposes). If your

Re: Another newbie (problems with installation)

2001-01-24 Thread Kent West
Patrick Klee wrote: Hi, I have been a Redhat user since 4.2. I now have SuSE 6.4 but don't like it. I have the Debian 2.2r0 CDs that were burnt by a friend but I can't install the OS and kernel, or the base system, also, it has trouble finding the directories and mounting the floppy.

Another newbie (problems with installation)

2001-01-23 Thread Patrick Klee
Hi, I have been a Redhat user since 4.2. I now have SuSE 6.4 but don't like it. I have the Debian 2.2r0 CDs that were burnt by a friend but I can't install the OS and kernel, or the base system, also, it has trouble finding the directories and mounting the floppy. Here's the situation: I

Re: Another newbie (problems with installation)

2001-01-23 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Patrick, Wish you would have included a tid-bit of info on your system. Anyway, if you can boot off the CDROM drive (look in your bios settings), then do it. If it boots, then this isn't an issue at all. The debian installer isn't like what you have played with in the past. It will ask

Re: newbie problems with eth0

2000-04-20 Thread Agner-Nichols
] Cc: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 9:28 AM Subject: Re: newbie problems with eth0 On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Agner-Nichols wrote: Then, with the net-modules.txt documentation, tried: # insmod -mpv /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/smc-ultra.o io=0 irq=0 Same

Re: Debian Newbie problems.

2000-02-17 Thread Suresh Kumar.R
Hi, I am surprised to note that debian distributions in cdrom donot contain netscape. Why is it that Redhat distributions contain netscape while debian cdrom doesnot? As I a newbie to Debian, could anyone please tell me the plus/minus points of debian over redhat distribution. Please consider

Re: Debian Newbie problems.

2000-02-17 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am surprised to note that debian distributions in cdrom donot contain netscape. Why is it that Redhat distributions contain netscape while debian cdrom doesnot? Netscape is non-free. In this context, that means that it doesn't fit the DFSG (Debian Free Software

Re: Debian Newbie problems.

2000-02-17 Thread aphro
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Suresh Kumar.R wrote: cetvm Why is it that Redhat distributions contain netscape while debian cdrom cetvm doesnot? it does not comply with the free software defenition(sp) let alone an open source one, debian is much more strict as to what they include. for some it can be

Re: Debian Newbie problems.

2000-02-17 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (aphro) wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Suresh Kumar.R wrote: cetvm Why is it that Redhat distributions contain netscape while debian cdrom cetvm doesnot? it does not comply with the free software defenition(sp) let alone an open source one, Hmmm - I think you mean the other way

Re: Debian Newbie problems.

2000-02-16 Thread Suresh Kumar.R
Is netscape available with any of the debian distributions in cdrom? Suresh use apt-get, or choose apt under method menu in dselect, and download over the internet. Netscape is not in main but there is an install package (netscape4) that will give you instructions on where to get the

Re: Debian Newbie problems.

2000-02-16 Thread aphro
no, unless you get corel which could be considered a debian distribution even tho its not released by debian, its based on debian. there is stormlinux(?) that is also based on debian and may include netscape i could be wrong though.. nate On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Suresh Kumar.R wrote: sudhas Is

Debian Newbie problems.

2000-02-15 Thread Suresh Kumar.R
Hi, I have the following problems on installing debian 2.0 from a single cdrom of cheapbyte official binary. 1. Sometimes when I shutdown using cntrl-alt-delete, my machine sometimes hangs with the last line saying Shutting down cron. I have tried changing the ctrl-alt-delete command to

RE: ATAPI CDROM -- Aargh! Newbie problems

1999-01-25 Thread Shaleh
Hi Terry, sorry this is your welcome to Linux. Perhaps you could try the boot disks in either slink or potato on the ftp site. Perhaps the newer kernel will help. All linux dists use the same kernel and mostly the same apps, it is the packaging and file placement that differs. It would be

ATAPI CDROM -- Aargh! Newbie problems

1999-01-21 Thread Terry Hancock
Well, this becomes a long story (3 months of hassle so far :) ), so here's a keyword list: ATAPI CDROM Linux distributions Debian Linux NEC-260 (250?) CDROM Creative Labs CD1220E CDROM Award BIOS IDT-C6 Winchip, 200MHz Shuttle Spacewalker Motherboard (HOT-569) I'm trying to get my first Linux

ATAPI CDROM -- Aargh! Newbie problems

1999-01-21 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I've had some problems with cdroms too, but different. I have a cdrom made by Panasonic for IBM that is labeled as an 8X atapi. When it was connected as a master on a paddle card (aux ide card strapped as ide #2) the bios saw it correctly, but linux thought it was a tape drive! When strapped as

Re: newbie problems. . .

1997-01-10 Thread Brian Sheaff
At 12:42 PM 8/01/97 -0600, you wrote: I have been trying to get man working. Iused deselect to install man and all the files it required, but whenever I try to run it, it gives me an error saying: groff: can't load library 'libstdc++.so.27' Some of the other programs I've installed have similar

newbie problems. . .

1997-01-08 Thread Eric Budd
I have been trying to get man working. Iused deselect to install man and all the files it required, but whenever I try to run it, it gives me an error saying: groff: can't load library 'libstdc++.so.27' Some of the other programs I've installed have similar error messages asking for different