Newbie needs help with LAN set up

2006-01-26 Thread j Mak
First off, I am a newbiein Linux and networking. I have two computers, both about four years old and both have built in Ethernet and LANsupport. One runs ubuntu ant other sarge. The one with sarge connected to the Internet with dial-up modem. Both works perfectly. I

Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up

2006-01-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 26 January 2006 15:21, j Mak wrote: First off, I am a newbie in Linux and networking. I have two computers, both about four years old and both have built in Ethernet and LAN support. One runs ubuntu ant other sarge. The one with sarge connected to

Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up

2006-01-26 Thread Peter Colton
On Thursday 26 January 2006 20:21, j Mak wrote: First off, I am a newbie in Linux and networking. I have two computers, both about four years old and both have built in Ethernet and LAN support. One runs ubuntu ant other sarge. The one with sarge connected to

Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up

2006-01-26 Thread j Mak
Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 26 January 2006 15:21, j Mak wrote: First off, I am a newbie in Linux and networking. I have two computers, both about four years old and both have built in Ethernet and LAN support. One runs ubuntu ant other sarge.

Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:17:50 -0500 (EST) j Mak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 26 January 2006 15:21, j Mak wrote: First off, I am a newbie in Linux and networking. I have two computers, both about four years

Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up

2006-01-26 Thread Chris Howie
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I see no ethernet there. Are you sure there is built-in ethernet? if so, (I assume it is since you've plugged it in right ;) is it perhaps disabled onthe motherboard by some jumper? Could be disabled in the BIOS too. Might want to double-check that. -- Chris

Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up[SOLVED]

2006-01-26 Thread j Mak
Chris Howie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I see no ethernet there. Are you sure there is built-in ethernet? if so, (I assume it is since you've plugged it in right ;) is it perhaps disabled onthe motherboard by some jumper?Could be disabled in the BIOS too. Might want to

Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up

2006-01-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 26 January 2006 17:17, j Mak wrote: Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 26 January 2006 15:21, j Mak wrote: First off, I am a newbie in Linux and networking. I have two computers, both about four years old and both have built in

Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up

2006-01-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 26 January 2006 17:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:17:50 -0500 (EST) j Mak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 26 January 2006 15:21, j Mak wrote: First off, I am a newbie in Linux and

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-16 Thread j Mak
--- Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 04:32:14PM -0400, j Mak wrote: snip Thanks for everyone helping me setting up my sources.list. Now, it works fine. But I still cannot find anywhere Nvidia drivers. Hi J, one of the neat tools in Debian is

Newbie needs help with synaptic

2005-06-16 Thread j Mak
Hi, I've just installed sarge and from some strage reasons, I cannot start synptic form the menu. But it runs perfectly from the command line. However, when I close synaptic it leaves the following message in the terminal. (synaptic:2788): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_tree_view_unref_tree_helper:

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 04:32:14PM -0400, j Mak wrote: snip Thanks for everyone helping me setting up my sources.list. Now, it works fine. But I still cannot find anywhere Nvidia drivers. Hi J, one of the neat tools in Debian is 'module-assistant'. Use Debian's neat search tool: apt-cache

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-15 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 06:30:23AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: one of the neat tools in Debian is 'module-assistant'. Use Debian's neat search tool: apt-cache like so: 'apt-cache search nvidia' to find nvidia related software but it is actually better to use 'module-assistant' in this case!

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-14 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 14.06.2005 um 01:38 schrieb j Mak: 1 My /apt/sources.list is empty, where can i find repository addresses. There is a tool called apt-setup, which will help you to make entries for mirrors near you and/or the cdroms you have. Of course, you can always edit your sources.list manually

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-14 Thread Matthias Kaeppler
j Mak wrote: 1 My /apt/sources.list is empty, where can i find repository addresses. If it is empty, I suggest you first run apt-setup. This will create a first sources.list for you, and will offer you a long list of debian mirrors from all around the world. These are for official packages

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-14 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
Matthias Kaeppler wrote: # Skype, Java 5, Real Player, Flash, etc. deb http://archive.unable-to-package.org/debian-utp sarge main contrib non-free restricted Doesn't work. And it looked useful! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:48:35AM +0200, Dennis Stosberg wrote: There is a tool called apt-setup, which will help you to make entries for mirrors near you and/or the cdroms you have. And apt-spy will determine which servers are currently most efficient. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:20:53AM +0200, Matthias Kaeppler wrote: You will probably also want to add these to your sources.list: # mplayer, acroread, LAME, etc. deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ stable main # Skype, Java 5, Real Player, Flash, etc. deb

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-14 Thread j Mak
--- Matthias Kaeppler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: j Mak wrote: 1 My /apt/sources.list is empty, where can i find repository addresses. If it is empty, I suggest you first run apt-setup. This will create a first sources.list for you, and will offer you a long list of debian mirrors

Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-13 Thread j Mak
Hi, I've just installed sarge with much help from the debian community. It works fine, now, and I am very satisfied with it. But I have a few things still left to fine tune. 1 My /apt/sources.list is empty, where can i find repository addresses. 2.Currntly, I can start synaptic only form the

USB newbie needs help

2004-07-06 Thread Torsten Schrammen
hi @ all (please be patient with me for my bad english) if ve got a debian woody running with an asus p2b as samba sever. now i like to get cups running with usb and a canon bjc 6100 ( a parport lp0 kyocera printer works fine with cups) if ve compiled some kernels (2.4.18 / 2.4.23 / 2.4.26 and

Re: Newbie needs help :-)

2004-01-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:57:14PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Jaume Alonso wrote: Well, today I've installed Sarge and finally all went OK (it was the third time I tryed it). But I have a problem: GNOME 2.4 does not work :-( I use GDM and when I selectioned session GNOME and my user name and

Re: Newbie needs help :-)

2004-01-22 Thread rthoreau
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:23:01AM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:57:14PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Jaume Alonso wrote: Well, today I've installed Sarge and finally all went OK (it was the third time I tryed it). But I have a problem: GNOME 2.4 does not work :-(

Re: Newbie needs help :-)

2004-01-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:51:09AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:23:01AM +, Colin Watson wrote: That won't quite work on sarge yet. It should in about two days' time, though. That is great news, so Gnome 2.4 will be a full meta package, does it include

Newbie needs help

2004-01-21 Thread Jaume Alonso
Hi! Well, today I've installed Sarge and finally all went OK (it was the third time I tryed it). But I have a problem: GNOME 2.4 does not work. I use GDM and when I selectioned session GNOME and my user name and password it didn't work, it says that did not find gnome-session. I went to debian

Newbie needs help :-)

2004-01-21 Thread Jaume Alonso
Hi! Well, today I've installed Sarge and finally all went OK (it was the third time I tryed it). But I have a problem: GNOME 2.4 does not work :-( I use GDM and when I selectioned session GNOME and my user name and password it didn't work, it says that did not find gnome-session. I went to

Re: Newbie needs help :-)

2004-01-21 Thread Kent West
Jaume Alonso wrote: Hi! Well, today I've installed Sarge and finally all went OK (it was the third time I tryed it). But I have a problem: GNOME 2.4 does not work :-( I use GDM and when I selectioned session GNOME and my user name and password it didn't work, it says that did not find

Re: Newbie needs help

2004-01-21 Thread M . Kirchhoff
Jaume Alonso schall at wanadoo.es writes: Hi! Well, today I've installed Sarge and finally all went OK (it was the third time I tryed it). But I have a problem: GNOME 2.4 does not work. Gnome is semi-broken under Sarge. See the DebianWiki Gnome page for further details from Colin

newbie needs help.........

2003-10-02 Thread Zakaria
Hey I was trying to buy Debian Cd instead of downloading debian... but they have for different Architectures Alpha ; ARM ; HPPA ; i386 ; IA-64 ; m68k ; MIPS ; PowerPC ; S/390 ; Sparc ; source ; Hurd-i386 ; Hurd-source ... I'm getting Debian for my VIA EPIA M1, Would that would be i386? i

Re: newbie needs help.........

2003-10-02 Thread John Spray
Zakaria wrote: I'm getting Debian for my VIA EPIA M1, Would that would be i386? i know it is but i just wanna make sure that the right CD to buy thanks for your help Yes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newbie needs help.........

2003-10-02 Thread Kent West
Zakaria wrote: Hey I was trying to buy Debian Cd instead of downloading debian... but they have for different Architectures Alpha ; ARM ; HPPA ; i386 ; IA-64 ; m68k ; MIPS ; PowerPC ; S/390 ; Sparc ; source ; Hurd-i386 ; Hurd-source ... I'm getting Debian for my VIA EPIA M1, Would that

Re: newbie needs help.........

2003-10-02 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 23:20:10 +0200, Zakaria wrote: Hey I was trying to buy Debian Cd instead of downloading debian... A very good idea actually :-) but they have for different Architectures Alpha ; ARM ; HPPA ; i386 ; IA-64 ; m68k ; MIPS ; PowerPC ; S/390 ; Sparc ; source ; Hurd-i386 ;

Re: ip_tables newbie needs help [was test - please ignore

2003-04-04 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Ernst-Magne Vindal [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030403 02:54 PST]: On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Vineet Kumar wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030402 09:21 PST]: Is there an easy way to change the rule so I can limit to e.g : one host? one net/subnet or users? Do you mean you

Re: ip_tables newbie needs help [was test - please ignore

2003-04-03 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Vineet Kumar wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030402 09:21 PST]: Hugh Saunders wrote: [OFF-LIST] On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:47:20PM -0100, ernst wrote: test - please ignore flame it is *never* necessary to post a test message. /flame

ip_tables newbie needs help [was test - please ignore

2003-04-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hugh Saunders wrote: [OFF-LIST] On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:47:20PM -0100, ernst wrote: test - please ignore flame it is *never* necessary to post a test message. /flame why not just post something relevant (as that is why you joined the list (hopeully)) then see if you get it back? Sometimes

Re: Newbie needs help badly!

2002-11-30 Thread Rob Weir
[please wrap your lines to something reasonable] On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:41:38AM -0800, Fred Sloniker wrote: I'd like to apologize in advance to anyone who's helped me with my previous questions and hasn't gotten a thank-you. There's a good reason for that, though: Debian ate my email.

Newbie needs help badly!

2002-11-29 Thread Fred Sloniker
I'd like to apologize in advance to anyone who's helped me with my previous questions and hasn't gotten a thank-you. There's a good reason for that, though: Debian ate my email. I've been trying to get a window system working, but I decided to focus on something more basic, specifically

Re: Newbie needs help badly!

2002-11-29 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Fred Sloniker wrote: I'd like to apologize in advance to anyone who's helped me with my previous questions and hasn't gotten a thank-you. There's a good reason for that, though: Debian ate my email. I've been trying to get a window system working, but I decided to

Re: newbie needs help w/partitioning

2002-04-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 06:42:09PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a 1.5 Gbyte disk partitioned into 2 DOS drives, one 900 Mbyte (Windows), and the other 600 Mbyte. I want to use the 600 Mbyte for Linux. Using cfdisk in dbootstrap I configure two primary partitions in this drive, a

Re: newbie needs help w/partitioning

2002-04-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation: I have a 1.5 Gbyte disk partitioned into 2 DOS drives, one 900 Mbyte (Windows), and the other 600 Mbyte. I want to use the 600 Mbyte for Linux. Using cfdisk in dbootstrap I configure two primary partitions in this drive, a Linux swap and a Linux native.

Re: newbie needs help w/partitioning

2002-04-25 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 06:42:09PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a 1.5 Gbyte disk partitioned into 2 DOS drives, one 900 Mbyte (Windows), and the other 600 Mbyte. I want to use the 600 Mbyte for Linux. Using cfdisk in dbootstrap I configure two primary partitions in this drive, a

newbie needs help w/partitioning

2002-04-24 Thread wirtsgasse
Hi, I have a 1.5 Gbyte disk partitioned into 2 DOS drives, one 900 Mbyte (Windows), and the other 600 Mbyte. I want to use the 600 Mbyte for Linux. Using cfdisk in dbootstrap I configure two primary partitions in this drive, a Linux swap and a Linux native. I'd like to keep the Windows

Re: newbie needs help w/partitioning

2002-04-24 Thread David Wright
I have a 1.5 Gbyte disk partitioned into 2 DOS drives, one 900 Mbyte (Windows), and the other 600 Mbyte. I want to use the 600 Mbyte for Linux. Using cfdisk in dbootstrap I configure two primary partitions in this drive, a Linux swap and a Linux native. I'd like to keep the Windows partition

virtual newbie needs help with lib (?)

2001-10-20 Thread sam rosenfeld
When I installed my current (debian-2.2r2) distribution, I think I unconsciously chose a reduced version -- that is, with a smallish subset of the files on the CD-rom. I may also have chosen a much too small set of lib files. The problem: After downloading files from the net (just about any

Re: virtual newbie needs help with lib (?)

2001-10-20 Thread Kurt Lieber
Have you tried using dselect and/or dpkg and/or apt-get instead of compiling things manually? Those will handle dependencies for you so if you don't have the correct lib file, it will download it automatically for you. Much, much easier than trying to compile everything yourself from source.

Re: virtual newbie needs help with lib (?)

2001-10-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:49:49PM -0500, sam rosenfeld wrote: When I installed my current (debian-2.2r2) distribution, I think I unconsciously chose a reduced version -- that is, with a smallish subset of the files on the CD-rom. I may also have chosen a much too small set of lib files. The

Re: virtual newbie needs help with lib (?)

2001-10-20 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:49:49PM -0500, sam rosenfeld wrote: | When I installed my current (debian-2.2r2) distribution, I think I | unconsciously chose a reduced version -- that is, with a smallish subset | of the files on the CD-rom. I may also have chosen a much too small set | of lib files.

Re: virtual newbie needs help with lib (?)

2001-10-20 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
sam rosenfeld wrote: When I installed my current (debian-2.2r2) distribution, I think I unconsciously chose a reduced version -- that is, with a smallish subset of the files on the CD-rom. I may also have chosen a much too small set of lib files. The problem: After downloading files from the

Re: Newbie needs help finding newer packages ...

2001-10-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:52:06AM -0500, Brice D Ruth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm a newbie when it comes to debian - I've relegated myself to the likes of redhat and mandrake for the past 5 years :( ... I have an installation of debian 2.2 and it seems to be working all right. My

Re: Newbie needs help finding newer packages ...

2001-10-10 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:52:06AM -0500, Brice D Ruth wrote: | I'm a newbie when it comes to debian - I've relegated myself to the | likes of redhat and mandrake for the past 5 years :( ... I have an | installation of debian 2.2 and it seems to be working all right. My | main problem is

Newbie needs help finding newer packages ...

2001-10-09 Thread Brice D Ruth
I'm a newbie when it comes to debian - I've relegated myself to the likes of redhat and mandrake for the past 5 years :( ... I have an installation of debian 2.2 and it seems to be working all right. My main problem is that I can't find updated packages to install ... using dselect, the

Newbie needs help

2001-04-30 Thread Rahul Agarwal
Hello, I am new to Unix/Linux. I installed debian linux according to the installationinstruction at debian.org. But my ethernet card(SMCEZCard10/100 PCI (SMC1211Series)) was not recognized. Also I dont have a gui installed. I found a driver name at linuxdoc.com for 1211 series but dont

Re: Newbie needs help

2001-04-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:22:27AM -0400, Rahul Agarwal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, I am new to Unix/Linux. I installed debian linux according to the installation instruction at debian.org. But my ethernet card(SMC EZ Card 10/100 PCI (SMC1211 Series)) was not recognized. Also I dont

Re: Newbie needs help

2001-04-30 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001, Rahul Agarwal wrote: Hello, I am new to Unix/Linux. I installed debian linux according to the installation instruction at debian.org. But my ethernet card(SMC EZ Card 10/100 PCI (SMC1211 Series)) was not recognized. Also I dont have a gui installed. I found a driver

Re: Newbie needs help

2001-04-30 Thread Renai LeMay
Since you say 'I dont know anything about linux/unix' I would also recommend a very well-balanced Linux intro book by Michael Kofler, entitled _Linux_. It's on its second edition and is published by Addison-Wesley. bookpool.com should carry it, along with many other retailers. When I've

Serious newbie needs help!

2000-10-25 Thread Viper5192
Hi, I'm really quite new at this. Just installed 2.0.4 of Debian on my laptop, wiping out Windoze completely. :-) I just have the basics as the person I got it from just gave me the basic files, no packages, just the base system. Anyone have the whole set on CD? Oh and I also have a problem.

RE: Serious newbie needs help!

2000-10-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-Oct-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm really quite new at this. Just installed 2.0.4 of Debian on my laptop, wiping out Windoze completely. :-) I just have the basics as the person I got it from just gave me the basic files, no packages, just the base system. Anyone have the

Newbie needs help with IP-Masquerading

2000-08-09 Thread Jason Schepman
HELP!! I can't get IPMASQ working. I've recompiled my kernel to add MASQ support and I'm pretty sure that I got it right. I've read through the HOW-TO but I had problems following along (I think it was written with BSD in mind.not Sys5). Anywaysany ideas or suggestions would be

Re: Newbie needs help with IP-Masquerading

2000-08-09 Thread Ron Rademaker
What does it say when you do: ipchains -L Ron Rademaker On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Jason Schepman wrote: HELP!! I can't get IPMASQ working. I've recompiled my kernel to add MASQ support and I'm pretty sure that I got it right. I've read through the HOW-TO but I had problems following along (I

Re: Newbie needs help with IP-Masquerading

2000-08-09 Thread Jason Quigley
A list of steps you've already performed would be useful in order to pinpoint where things are going wrong. Cheers, Jason. --On Wednesday, August 9, 2000 6:22 -0500 Jason Schepman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HELP!! I can't get IPMASQ working. I've recompiled my kernel to add MASQ support

Re: newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-28 Thread Shaul Karl
--- DOUGLAS HUNTER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I'm in bash and trying to ls large files I can only see the last part of the file due to it scrolling past too fast. Is there a command to insert that means I can veiw the output page by page and change pages when I want to ? ls |

Re: newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-28 Thread David Teague
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: --- DOUGLAS HUNTER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I'm in bash and trying to ls large files I can only see the last part of the file due to it scrolling past too fast. Is there a command to insert that means I can veiw the output page by

newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-26 Thread DOUGLAS HUNTER
When I'm in bash and trying to ls large files I can only see the last part of the file due to it scrolling past too fast.Is there a command to insert that means I can veiw the output page bypage and change pages when I want to ?I've also got a problem with GNOME in that the screen only

Re: newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-26 Thread Dänzer
--- DOUGLAS HUNTER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I'm in bash and trying to ls large files I can only see the last part of the file due to it scrolling past too fast. Is there a command to insert that means I can veiw the output page by page and change pages when I want to ? ls | more The

Re: newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-26 Thread Paul Huygen
Quoting Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- DOUGLAS HUNTER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I'm in bash and trying to ls large files I can only see the last part of the file due to it scrolling past too fast. Is there a command to insert that means I can veiw the output page by page

Re: newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-26 Thread Ron Rademaker
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Michel [UNKNOWN] Dänzer wrote: --- DOUGLAS HUNTER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I'm in bash and trying to ls large files I can only see the last part of the file due to it scrolling past too fast. Is there a command to insert that means I can veiw the output page

Re: newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-26 Thread Robert Mognet
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Newbie needs help :-)

2000-01-07 Thread Armin Steiner
Dear friends, i am brandnew to Unix, and followed an advise, that debian is the best unix-distribution to get. so i did. Erased this windows things from my old computer and put debian on it :-) But - ofcourse - problems appearing at once: At the mo, my main-prob is, that kde says upon start,

Re: Newbie needs help :-)

2000-01-07 Thread Francois Deppierraz
Armin Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But - ofcourse - problems appearing at once: At the mo, my main-prob is, that kde says upon start, that it cannot connct to xserver. hu ? under dselect there are Can you tell us the entire error message ? Where can i find (despite the debian.org)

Re: Newbie needs help on X win!!!

1999-09-20 Thread John Foster
Tam Ma wrote: hi, more on X window info. I am install from cdrom. --- 1. use dselect as your installer. 2. set dselect to use apt as the file aquisition method from menue 1. 3. when setting up apt select file as the storage method an

Newbie needs help on X win!!!

1999-09-19 Thread Tam Ma
Hi guys, Hi guys, I just install slink and all of the packages that I need. Now I want installl X window but I don't know which packages to install. Can you guys give me a list of packages I should Install to get X window working. I don't want anything fancy yet, right now I just want ordinary X

Re: Newbie needs help on X win!!!

1999-09-19 Thread j way
I just install slink and all of the packages that I need. Now I want installl X window but I don't know which packages to install. Can you guys give me a list of packages I should Install to get X window working. I don't want anything fancy yet, right now I just want ordinary X window and

Re: Newbie needs help on X win!!!

1999-09-19 Thread Adrian Thompson
Hello, Depending on what graphics card you have, install the required Xserver. ie. XF86_SVGA. that one is very generic to most graphic card types. Install all the bins and then the rest is up to you... like apps and games. You will be required to configure a script called

Re: Newbie needs help on X win!!!

1999-09-19 Thread John Foster
Tam Ma wrote: Hi guys, Hi guys, I just install slink and all of the packages that I need. Now I want installl X window but I don't know which packages to install. Can you guys give me a list of packages I should Install to get X window working. I don't want anything fancy yet, right

Re: Newbie needs help on X win!!!

1999-09-19 Thread Tam Ma
hi, more on X window info. I am install from cdrom. Thanx, Tam On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, John Foster wrote: Tam Ma wrote: Hi guys, Hi guys, I just install slink and all of the packages that I need. Now I want installl X window but I don't know which packages to install. Can you guys

Newbie needs Help!

1999-08-29 Thread Tam Ma
Hi everyone, I didn't get much responses the last time I post this message, but probably because the people who know about this problem didn't have chance to read this. Anyhow I post this message up again and hopefully there will be someone out there who know how to solve this problem. (I am

Re: Newbie needs Help!

1999-08-29 Thread David Blackman
I just looked in the CDROM HOWTO: that's not what teh device should be: you must go int /dev then ( as root) type mknod /dev/sbpcd b 25 0 also, in /etc/fstab, it's /dev/sbpcd, no partition number, it's a cdrom. make the devie, then try to install the module. for Howtos goto

Newbie needs help with installation

1999-07-13 Thread Gerhard S. Neugschwandtner
I have a 486DX 50Mhz with 8MB Ram. I tried to install Debian 2.1, with two boot floppies (Resc1440, Drv1440). The installation-routine cannot mount the prop. CD-Rom (SoundBlaster) successful. By configure the sbpcd Module i get following message: eval: 1: Syntax error: EOF in backquote

Re: Newbie needs help with installation

1999-07-13 Thread Romeu
Is the cd-rom attached to the sound card? There's a few trouble about it. I had to put mines at the onboard secondary IDE, since I have Win95, Windows NT and Linux on the same machine. NT does not recognize a CD-ROM at the sound card. I think there's a way to do so in Linux - Don't know how

Re: Updating the system - Debian newbie needs help

1999-07-02 Thread Stephan A Suerken
Peter Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 01-Jul-1999, Carley, Jason Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I am considering switching over from SuSE 6.1 to Debian. I guess I am an Ok, but I hope you don't

Re: Updating the system - Debian newbie needs help

1999-07-02 Thread Didi Damian
I recently switched from SuSE 6.1 to Debian potato and I'm really happy. I like my Debian system more and more every day. I applied this distribution-switch strategy: free up a partition from SuSE and take it out from fstab to become your new root partition, download the install floppy image

Re: Updating the system - Debian newbie needs help

1999-07-02 Thread Matthew Dalton
Didi Damian wrote: Maybe fixing LILO to boot both sytems would work too but I never tried it. Alternatively, you could boot one of the systems from floppy. I boot 3 different linux partitions (Slackware, RH5.2 and Debian 2.1) and Win95 from LILO. It's a bit of a hack... I used the LILO on

Updating the system - Debian newbie needs help

1999-07-01 Thread Carley, Jason \(Australia\)
Hi guys, I am considering switching over from SuSE 6.1 to Debian. I guess I am an average linux user but I am not really familiar with Debian's way of doing things. I am concerned to understand the process that I will need to go through to update things like my XFree installation to 3.3.3 as I

Re: Updating the system - Debian newbie needs help

1999-07-01 Thread Peter Ross
On 01-Jul-1999, Carley, Jason Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I am considering switching over from SuSE 6.1 to Debian. I guess I am an average linux user but I am not really familiar with Debian's way of doing things. I am concerned to understand the process that I will need to

Re: Linux newbie needs help

1998-12-05 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 00:10:52 AST Jeff Browning writes: Thanks but when I dpkg the .deb file, it says qt1g depends on xlib6g. Where could I get that? Thanks. Do you still have a bo Debian box or a hamm/slink one? xlib6g is the libc6 version of the X11 libraries (the according package in bo

Re: Linux newbie needs help

1998-12-04 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Just successfully installed my first linux box with no problems. Now I want to install KDE. If you are using Debian, you need to install it the Debian Way... Most of KDE is in the contrib, X11, extra section. If you select it with dselect or apt, it'll automatically download whatever

Re: Linux newbie needs help

1998-12-04 Thread MallarJ
I'd suggest you read over the GCC-HOWTO... But the gcc compiler can be found at: ftp://ftp.debian.org/net/ac121/linux/distributions/debian/hamm/hamm/binary- i386/devel -Jay In a message dated 12/3/98 1:59:33 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Uh, help. Where can I get a

Re: Newbie needs help

1998-12-04 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Firstly, I'm not sure which way you'll want to go, so please don't hesitate to ask me for more details on some point that I skim over... The install worked fine (minus I can't boot from the HD). I don't have any experience with this, but the most common response I've seen to this

Re: Linux newbie needs help

1998-12-04 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Jeff wrote: Thanks but when I dpkg the .deb file, it says qt1g depends on xlib6g. Where could I get that? Thanks. Same place as the first .deb file, in the directory main/x11. Actually, if you don't have xlib6g, that most likely means you are missing most or all of X11, too. If you

Re: Linux newbie needs help

1998-12-04 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 04. desember 1998 reit Jiri Baum svohljóðandi: Hello, Jeff wrote: Thanks but when I dpkg the .deb file, it says qt1g depends on xlib6g. Where could I get that? Thanks. Same place as the first .deb file, in the directory main/x11. Actually, if you don't have xlib6g, that most

Linux newbie needs help

1998-12-03 Thread Jeff Browning
Hey all, Just successfully installed my first linux box with no problems. Now I want to install KDE. In the KDE install guide, it says that I need the Qt library. I downloaded Qt, untar-ed it. When I type ./configure (like it says to do in INSTALL) it says: Checking for a C-Compiler...

RE: Linux newbie needs help

1998-12-03 Thread Jeff Browning
Thanks but when I dpkg the .deb file, it says qt1g depends on xlib6g. Where could I get that? Thanks. Jeff From: Person, Roderick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Jeff Browning' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Linux newbie needs help Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 15:02:56 -0500 I meant the .deb

RE: Linux newbie needs help

1998-12-03 Thread Person, Roderick
@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Linux newbie needs help Thanks but when I dpkg the .deb file, it says qt1g depends on xlib6g. Where could I get that? Thanks. Jeff From: Person

Re: Newbie needs help

1998-12-01 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: host error. Also I have no clue how to install the software packages. I tried to download to floppy and then transfer over (which is a problem since my zip program doesn't do a split) and then run DSELECT. When I choose the floppy access

Newbie needs help

1998-11-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all. I've just recently installed the Debian sytem on an old 386. It is the only OS on the computer. The install worked fine (minus I can't boot from the HD). I'm having problems with the FTP. The modem connects fine to my ISP (i'm using ppp) but when I try to open a site I get unable to

Re: Newbie needs help

1998-11-30 Thread Mitch Blevins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I've just recently installed the Debian sytem on an old 386. It is the only OS on the computer. The install worked fine (minus I can't boot from the HD). I'm having problems with the FTP. The modem connects fine to my ISP (i'm using ppp) but when I try to

Re: Newbie needs help

1998-11-30 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 05:15:31PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I've just recently installed the Debian sytem on an old 386. It is the only OS on the computer. The install worked fine (minus I can't boot from the HD). I'm having problems with the FTP.

Re: Newbie needs help connecting to isp

1998-06-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Stephanie Bloodworth wrote: I have recently installed the base distribution of hamm and ran pppconfig. Now when I run pon the modem dosn't dial. Two processes are created pppd and chat but I am not connected to my isp any help as to the cause of this problem would be appretiated.

HELP: Newbie needs help with crash

1998-03-05 Thread Albert Hurd
My computer just seized up (cursor frose; ctrl-alt bksp and ctrl-alt del did nothing). I then warm rebooted. After the usual, I got: Checking root file system Parallelizing fsck /dev/hda2 contains a file system with errors, check forced /dev/hda2: unattached inode 28780 /dev/hda2: UNEXPECTED

Re: HELP: Newbie needs help with crash

1998-03-05 Thread alemas
Go ahead, and run e2fsck, but read the man page first! I don't guarantee anything for you here (disclaimer) and am not a LINUX expert, but it did work for me when I received similar error messages. Read those man pages. If you can't do so on your Debian LINUX OS, the man pages are on the

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