Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

On Tue 15 Feb 2022 at 19:28:48 (+0100), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 14 feb 22, 17:23:52, David Wright wrote: > > > On 2/14/2022 10:19 AM, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > > > > > > Not sure about the Debian installer (except that it does boot and > > > > run Linux, but not sure it ever switches to

Re: Stupid question

On Ma, 15 feb 22, 11:59:59, David wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 at 07:57, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 14 feb 22, 10:41:52, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > > > How does it decide which partition to boot from? I think this is what > > > the OP is asking. > > > As far as I understand the path to

Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

On Lu, 14 feb 22, 17:23:52, David Wright wrote: > > On 2/14/2022 10:19 AM, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > > > > Not sure about the Debian installer (except that it does boot and > > > run Linux, but not sure it ever switches to another kernel > > > midway), but the Grub bootloader is kind of a

Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question

With respect to the original problem, this response is moot. On Sun 13 Feb 2022 at 18:50:43 (+0100), Hans wrote: > > If you want to boot A, just select it from the menu presented by B's > > grub. > > > > When you boot and run A, you can update-grub¹ and that will scan > > and see both systems,

Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question

On Sun 13 Feb 2022 at 19:26:51 (+0100), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 13 feb 22, 11:01:48, David Wright wrote: > > > > Typically, one would have a primary, "master" linux system which would > > be used to write an MBR pointing to itself. The other, legacy system > > would have its grub.cfg kept

Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question

On Mon 14 Feb 2022 at 10:18:13 (+1100), David wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 05:27, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 13 feb 22, 11:01:48, David Wright wrote: > > TLDR: > On the topic of grub automatic configuration > 1) suggestions how to avoid it > 2) why I prefer to do that > > Disclaimer:

Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

On 2022-02-15, David wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 at 10:24, David Wright wrote: > >> Effectively, Grub has two shells, Grub> and Grub rescue>, depending on >> whether the "normal" module has been loaded, and about the only thing >> you can sensibly do without normal is to find it and insmod it.

Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 at 10:24, David Wright wrote: > Effectively, Grub has two shells, Grub> and Grub rescue>, depending on > whether the "normal" module has been loaded, and about the only thing > you can sensibly do without normal is to find it and insmod it. > But most people will never see

Re: Stupid question

On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 at 07:57, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 14 feb 22, 10:41:52, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > How does it decide which partition to boot from? I think this is what > > the OP is asking. > As far as I understand the path to search for the second stage, modules > and grub.cfg is

Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

On Mon 14 Feb 2022 at 12:13:20 (-0500), Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > On 2/14/2022 10:19 AM, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On 2022-02-14 10:02, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I think I did mis-remember this, and the behavior I described > > > is more like the > > > behavior of the Debian installer

Re: Booting with Grub, was Re: Stupid question

On Mon 14 Feb 2022 at 10:41:52 (-0500), Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > On 2/13/2022 11:23 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 13 feb 22, 02:40:27, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > > This is my understanding of how grub works. > > > > > > It looks you are using the old MBR partitioning scheme. The logical

Re: Stupid question

On Lu, 14 feb 22, 10:41:52, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > That's a good clarification that the active partition is a Microsoft thing > implemented by the bootcode Microsoft installs in the MBR of the device > chosen to boot from. Now for an unanswered question: What > does bootcode installed by

Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

On 2/14/2022 10:19 AM, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On 2022-02-14 10:02, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I think I did mis-remember this, and the behavior I described is more like the behavior of the Debian installer (i.e., it boots an image (with a Linux kernel)  into RAM to use temporarily for the

Re: Stupid question

On 2/13/2022 11:23 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 13 feb 22, 02:40:27, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: This is my understanding of how grub works. It looks you are using the old MBR partitioning scheme. The logical partition indicates that. So I also assume you are using the legacy booting (not

Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

On 2022-02-14 10:02, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I think I did mis-remember this, and the behavior I described is more like the behavior of the Debian installer (i.e., it boots an image (with a Linux kernel) into RAM to use temporarily for the installation. I just wanted to try to correct this

Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

On Saturday, February 12, 2022 09:04:50 AM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > The way I understand it (but I may be misremembering), grub temporaily > boots into a, well I'll say restricted Linux kernel and OS which is used > by grub until it boots up the main system. The kernel used in grub may > not

Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question

On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 05:27, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 13 feb 22, 11:01:48, David Wright wrote: TLDR: On the topic of grub automatic configuration 1) suggestions how to avoid it 2) why I prefer to do that Disclaimer: contains generalisations and lacks full justifications of points made.

Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question

On Du, 13 feb 22, 11:01:48, David Wright wrote: > > Typically, one would have a primary, "master" linux system which would > be used to write an MBR pointing to itself. The other, legacy system > would have its grub.cfg kept up-to-date, but would never touch the > MBR by running grub-install.

Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question

Hi David, yes, that is what I thought, would be working. But sadly did not. I expected, after using update-grub, that os-prober would detect both partitions with the menu.lst or grub.cfg inside and create two entries in the boot menu. However, this did not work, only one (the last

Re: Stupid question

Hi, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > It looks you are using the old MBR partitioning scheme. The logical > > partition indicates that. > > So I also assume you are using the legacy booting (not UEFI). Not necessarily. It is specified that the EFI System Partition may be marked by a MBR partition

Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question

On Sat 12 Feb 2022 at 10:04:43 (+0100), Hans wrote: > > I am thinking of a solution of a problem. But I have an understanding > problem, > maybe you can give some background knowledge. > > The problem: I have one harddrive, there are two linuces installed. > > The partitions are as followed:

Re: Stupid question

On Du, 13 feb 22, 02:40:27, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > This is my understanding of how grub works. > > It looks you are using the old MBR partitioning scheme. The logical > partition indicates that. > So I also assume you are using the legacy booting (not UEFI). So the first > thing that >

Re: Stupid question

On 2/12/2022 4:04 AM, Hans wrote: Dear list, I am thinking of a solution of a problem. But I have an understanding problem, maybe you can give some background knowledge. The problem: I have one harddrive, there are two linuces installed. The partitions are as followed: kali-linux: 1st

Re: Stupid question

ully understood how grub is working, and what it is doing. Any hints are welcome, and if this does never work at all, please drop me a line. Best regards Hans It's not a stupid question -- it's an observation of how complexity grows as the number of items grows. I have found it is better to inst

Re: Stupid question

On Saturday, February 12, 2022 04:04:43 AM Hans wrote: > But how can I tell grub, to use the kernel of the second /boot? > > I dunno, if it is possible at all, to get a dual boot, the way I want it. > With a combination of Windows + Linux on one harddrive this is working, > however, just because

Re: Stupid question

12 Feb 2022, 19:04 by hans.ullr...@loop.de: > Dear list, > > I am thinking of a solution of a problem. But I have an understanding > problem, > maybe you can give some background knowledge. > > The problem: I have one harddrive, there are two linuces installed. > > The partitions are as

Stupid question

Dear list, I am thinking of a solution of a problem. But I have an understanding problem, maybe you can give some background knowledge. The problem: I have one harddrive, there are two linuces installed. The partitions are as followed: kali-linux: 1st primary -> /boot 2nd >

Re: Stupid question about Debian keyboard keys and Swedish alphabet

Hi Karl, Thanks for the tip. I just enforced Alt+w to be å using: xmodmap -e "keycode 25 = w W aring Aring aring Aring" Not it is just a matter to add it into my .xinitrc. Not sure nowadays the desktop environments read it, but at the least it will be saved in some place I can easily find.

Re: Stupid question about Debian keyboard keys and Swedish alphabet

[Alt Gr] [o] [a] should work. http://stefaanlippens.net/accented-characters-on-qwerty-keyboard/ /Staffan 2018-03-30 15:08 GMT+02:00 Helio Loureiro : > Hi, > > It is probably a dumb question for most of people here but... I do have all > my keyboards in English. I can use

Stupid question about Debian keyboard keys and Swedish alphabet

Hi, It is probably a dumb question for most of people here but... I do have all my keyboards in English. I can use it to write in English and Portuguese, where I can create characters like "ç" using +"," or '+c. For é, '+e. For ô, ^+o. Some Swedish characters do work fine, like ö and ä using

stupid question about pvdisplay, just to be sure.

Just to be sure in case I misunderstand and do something really stupid: When pvdisplay says april:/farhome/hendrik# pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/md0 VG Name VG1 PV Size 673.62 GiB / not usable 3.00 MiB Allocatable

Re: stupid question about pvdisplay, just to be sure.

On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:26:09 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: Just to be sure in case I misunderstand and do something really stupid: When pvdisplay says april:/farhome/hendrik# pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/md0 VG Name VG1 PV Size

Re: stupid question about pvdisplay, just to be sure.

On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:53:30 +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:26:09 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: Just to be sure in case I misunderstand and do something really stupid: When pvdisplay says april:/farhome/hendrik# pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name

Re: stupid question about pvdisplay, just to be sure.

On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:33:06 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:53:30 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) does that mean that /dev/md0 still has 59037*4.00 = 236148 mebibytes of free space left to be allocated to logical volumes? Mmm... I've been reading the man page for pvdisplay

Re: stupid question about pvdisplay, just to be sure.

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: april:/farhome/hendrik# pvdisplay  --- Physical volume ---  PV Name               /dev/md0  VG Name               VG1  PV Size               673.62 GiB / not usable 3.00 MiB  Allocatable           yes  PE Size    

Re: stupid question about pvdisplay, just to be sure.

Just to be sure in case I misunderstand and do something really stupid: When pvdisplay says april:/farhome/hendrik# pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/md0 VG Name VG1 PV Size 673.62 GiB / not usable 3.00 MiB Allocatable

stupid question

hi list, how do i get rid of the message of a new (of course much valued) maintainer Christian about MTA'S and cron when updating squeeze on the commandline before using startx? apt-get upgrade hangs on this message and i do not know the protocol to go on in this situation (if there is

Re: stupid question

Hello ! just enter `q' ! hth, Jerome On 13/05/10 14:37, steef wrote: hi list, how do i get rid of the message of a new (of course much valued) maintainer Christian about MTA'S and cron when updating squeeze on the commandline before using startx? apt-get upgrade hangs on this message and i

Re: stupid question

On 5/13/2010 1:37 AM, steef wrote: hi list, how do i get rid of the message of a new (of course much valued) maintainer Christian about MTA'S and cron when updating squeeze on the commandline before using startx? apt-get upgrade hangs on this message and i do not know the protocol to go on in

Re: stupid question

On Thu,13.May.10, 08:37:31, steef wrote: hi list, how do i get rid of the message of a new (of course much valued) maintainer Christian about MTA'S and cron when updating squeeze on the commandline before using startx? apt-get upgrade hangs on this message and i do not know the protocol

Re: stupid question

On 05/13/2010 08:37 AM, steef wrote: hi list, how do i get rid of the message of a new (of course much valued) maintainer Christian about MTA'S and cron when updating squeeze on the commandline before using startx? apt-get upgrade hangs on this message and i do not know the protocol to go on

Re: stupid question

godo schreef: On 05/13/2010 08:37 AM, steef wrote: hi list, how do i get rid of the message of a new (of course much valued) maintainer Christian about MTA'S and cron when updating squeeze on the commandline before using startx? apt-get upgrade hangs on this message and i do not know the

Re: ip route weight stupid question

On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 05:34:50AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:59:10PM +0300, Stuart Gall wrote: Does a higher weight mean that the route will be used more or used less ? [snip] Furthermore, if you really want to do this, you probably also want to look at

ip route weight stupid question

Hello, SO I have scoured the internet, the man pages, groups. I just cant find a definitive answer. weight NUMBER - is a weight for this element of a multi- path route reflecting its relative bandwidth or quality. So more weight = better quality = preferred e.g. ip route add

Re: ip route weight stupid question

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:59:10PM +0300, Stuart Gall wrote: Hello, SO I have scoured the internet, the man pages, groups. I just cant find a definitive answer. weight NUMBER - is a weight for this element of a multi- path route reflecting its relative bandwidth or quality. So

Re: ip route weight stupid question

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:59:10PM +0300, Stuart Gall wrote: Does a higher weight mean that the route will be used more or used less ? Citation from Linkname: Re: Loadbalancing the gat: msg#00055 URL:

Re: Stupid question (was Re: Repost of some earlier described challenges)

Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't like it, but I also don't like reloading. :-) Ah, ya puss! Burn a backup CD and do it. Think of all those doors opening up for you. You can try anything! =[8]-) -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)

Re: Stupid question (was Re: Repost of some earlier described challenges)

Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't like it, but I also don't like reloading. :-) Ah, ya puss! Burn a backup CD and do it. Think of all those doors opening up for you. You can try anything! =[8]-) -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)

Re: Stupid question (was Re: Repost of some earlier described challenges)

On Wed, 2007.09.26 12:52, Mike McCarty wrote: Fedora I would not recommend to anyone not interested in eternally fiddling with the machine, broken interfaces, and churn. It's for people whose hobbies include fiddling with new installs and reloading. I'm not into that, either, for these large

Re: Stupid question (was Re: Repost of some earlier described challenges)

On 9/27/07, Owen Heisler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I started using Linux with FC2 (or FC3 maybe) and was just thrilled with it (with Linux, really). Then I got annoyed with FC's bleeding edge software and also decided that I shouldn't have to reinstall every 6 months in order to stay

Stupid question (was Re: Repost of some earlier described challenges)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/26/07 11:58, Mike McCarty wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Mike McCarty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Ok, so how does one get a newer kernel, install it, and get all the memory available? That question indicates, to me at least,

Re: Stupid question (was Re: Repost of some earlier described challenges)

Ron Johnson wrote: I know how to do the necessary admin with FC. Debian I'm much less capable with. I wouldn't call FC turnkey. But it uses a completely different set of admin tools. Why did you push Debian on her, when your expertise lies in FC? Push is a four letter word :-) I got her a

Re: Stupid question (was Re: Repost of some earlier described challenges)

Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't like it, but I also don't like reloading. :-) Ah, ya puss! Burn a backup CD and do it. Think of all those doors opening up for you. You can try anything! =[8]-) -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)

Re: Kernel modules stupid question

Leon ha scritto: Marco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi everybody, with lsmod I see the modules loaded, but what should I type in order to see what options they were loaded with? Maybe `modinfo'? Hi Leon, I have tried with modinfo, but I don't see what I want to see :-( Any idea?

Re: Kernel modules stupid question (solved)

klatt-st ha scritto: -+--+-in reply to: subj: Kernel modules stupid question [0.4K/0L] from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (To debian-user@lists.debian.org) date: 21May2006 @ 22:32 (141th doy|1148247145 sse) -+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- hi Marco, have a look at /sys/module

Re: Kernel modules stupid question

At 1148251289 past the epoch, Leon wrote: Marco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: with lsmod I see the modules loaded, but what should I type in order to see what options they were loaded with? Take a look through /proc/modules. Is the information you want present there? -- Jon Dowland

Re: Kernel modules stupid question (solved)

At 1148299046 past the epoch, Marco wrote: klatt-st ha scritto: have a look at /sys/module/*/parameters. Thanks for that, very informative... -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Kernel modules stupid question

Hi everybody, with lsmod I see the modules loaded, but what should I type in order to see what options they were loaded with? Ex. modprobe ipw2200 led=1 lsmod -- ipw2200 I would like to see: modprobe ipw2200 led=1 command -- ipw2200 led=1 Thanks a lot... Bye Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Kernel modules stupid question

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Re: Really stupid question about apt unsubscribe

Paul Johnson writes: UNIX is a trademark of ATT. No. It's a trademark of The Open Group. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Really stupid question about apt unsubscribe

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Re: Really stupid question...

Ivan Teliatnikov wrote: On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 13:17 +0700, mslinuz wrote: Andy Anderson wrote: Okay, I'm sure everyone here knows how to do this except me... I have a server with some disk space shared using Samba. Each user has an account and a home share. When a

Re: Really stupid question...

mslinuz wrote: Ivan Teliatnikov wrote: On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 13:17 +0700, mslinuz wrote: Andy Anderson wrote: Okay, I'm sure everyone here knows how to do this except me... I have a server with some disk space shared using Samba.

Re: Really stupid question...

Hello Andy, Am 2006-02-19 20:49:16, schrieb Andy Anderson: Okay, I'm sure everyone here knows how to do this except me... I have a server with some disk space shared using Samba. Each user has an account and a home share. When a user logs in to a workstation, I'd like their home share on

Re: Really stupid question...

Ivan Teliatnikov wrote: On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 13:17 +0700, mslinuz wrote: Andy Anderson wrote: Okay, I'm sure everyone here knows how to do this except me... I have a server with some disk space shared using Samba. Each user has an account and a home share.

Re: Really stupid question...

mslinuz wrote: I'm sorry if I misunderstand, but after reading your mail, I have 2 assumtions: Your assumptions are correct. Actually, I have only Debian users, and they all use gnome/gdm, so your #1 solution is the one that I'm interested in. 1. Users use debian with gnome/gdm in the

Re: Really stupid question...

Opus wrote: mslinuz wrote: I'm sorry if I misunderstand, but after reading your mail, I have 2 assumtions: Your assumptions are correct. Actually, I have only Debian users, and they all use gnome/gdm, so your #1 solution is the one that I'm interested in. 1. Users use debian with

Re: File System - a stupid question ;)

Wodzu Wodzowski wrote: I want to install Debian on laptop, but I want to have ReiserFS/Reiser4 or XFS file system. I've found that I can convert/create partition with one of above file system. Can I install Sarge on Reiser/XFS partition?? If you want maximum data security, you might want to

Really stupid question...

Okay, I'm sure everyone here knows how to do this except me... I have a server with some disk space shared using Samba. Each user has an account and a home share. When a user logs in to a workstation, I'd like their home share on the Samba server to be automatically mounted, and then unmounted

Re: Really stupid question...

Andy Anderson wrote: Okay, I'm sure everyone here knows how to do this except me... I have a server with some disk space shared using Samba. Each user has an account and a home share. When a user logs in to a workstation, I'd like their home share on the Samba server to be automatically

Re: File System - a stupid question ;)

On Friday 17 February 2006 16:38, Wodzu Wodzowski wrote: I want to install Debian on laptop, but I want to have ReiserFS/Reiser4 or XFS file system. I've found that I can convert/create partition with one of above file system. Can I install Sarge on Reiser/XFS partition?? ReiserFS and XFS are

File System - a stupid question ;)

I want to install Debian on laptop, but I want to have ReiserFS/Reiser4 or XFS file system. I've found that I can convert/create partition with one of above file system. Can I install Sarge on Reiser/XFS partition?? Oglądaj Puchar Jedynki 18

Re: File System - a stupid question ;)

Wodzu Wodzowski wrote: I want to install Debian on laptop, but I want to have ReiserFS/Reiser4 or XFS file system. I've found that I can convert/create partition with one of above file system. Can I install Sarge on Reiser/XFS partition?? Yes, you can use any partition type you want. Be

Re: Probably a stupid question but...

On Thu, 26 May 2005, SA wrote: You know what they say, there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers ;-) Anyway, First thing, I wouldn't count on the release date of sarge, on the other its rather stable at the moment. As for releases, when its not near its release date (as sarge IS for

Probably a stupid question but...

Dear List, I wanted to install debian on an amd64 / x86_64 SMP machine from IOS images, I can't find a suitable set of images on the mirrors I have looked for these but they are absent. I have found amd64.debian.org however I am still a little confused: Since sarge is due out at the end of

Re: Probably a stupid question but...

On 5/26/05, SA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear List, I wanted to install debian on an amd64 / x86_64 SMP machine from IOS images, I can't find a suitable set of images on the mirrors I have looked for these but they are absent. I have found amd64.debian.org however I am still a little

Re: Probably a stupid question but...

Certainly a stupid Subject: line (sorry :P) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fwd: Re: Probably a stupid question but...

-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Probably a stupid question but... Date: Thursday 26 May 2005 18:20 From: SA [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] I downloaded the netinst image, put it on a CD and booted my machine with it - after a few questions

Re: Fwd: Re: Probably a stupid question but...

to make it onto the CD (seems unlikely) or is there a problem with the installer (in which case what do I do?), Cheers, SA On Thursday 26 May 2005 18:30, SA wrote: -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Probably a stupid question but... Date: Thursday 26 May 2005 18:20

Issues with network card and installer [WAS: Re: Fwd: Re: Probably a stupid question but...]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 07:05:18PM +0100, SA wrote: Pissing around with the expert mode of install leads me to belive that some (possibly all) the network modules are missing from the installer as well as some other modules. In an attempt to get around this I installed another network

Re: Issues with network card and installer [WAS: Re: Fwd: Re: Probably a stupid question but...]

No I haven't sent this to anyone else (actually just forwarded to debian-boot). This is the first time I have used debian for 3 years (previously only once before on an old alpha). Despite many years unix experience I haven't got the foggest idea what is going on here or if this is in fact

Re: Issues with network card and installer [WAS: Re: Fwd: Re: Probably a stupid question but...]

Well this could explain one of the problems but not the majority: http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianInstallerFAQ Question 22: Why isn't my NIC supported by DebianInstaller, I know the tg3 driver supports it! Answer: As tg3 contains firmware which does not seem to meet the requirements

Alan Cox patches [probably stupid question]

I want/need to compile one of the Alan Cox variants of the 2.4.20 kernel (it apparently has better support for the particular Asus motherboard that I have). I've routinely hand-compiled kernels for some years, but I've never tried any of the non-standard kernel branches before. I downloaded the

Re: Alan Cox patches [probably stupid question]

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 02:07:02PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote: I want/need to compile one of the Alan Cox variants of the 2.4.20 kernel (it apparently has better support for the particular Asus motherboard that I have). I've routinely hand-compiled kernels for some years, but I've never

Re: Alan Cox patches [probably stupid question]

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 02:07:02PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote: I downloaded the 2.4.20 source from ftp.debian.org, uncompressed it, un-tarred it. Then I downloaded patch-2.4.20-pre10-ac2 from the same site, and tried: patch -p1 patch-2.4.20-pre10-ac2 at the top of the

probably a stupid question

using rc?.d, but still need further assistance. and now the stupid question: why aren't nfs, the rpcs, and the startup scripts at least an option during the installation? i understand that some people may not want these daemons running, but it should be offered during the installation just as samba

Re: probably a stupid question

On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 01:30:10AM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: and now the stupid question: why aren't nfs, the rpcs, and the startup scripts at least an option during the installation? i understand that some people may not want these daemons running, but it should be offered during

Re: probably a stupid question

to be specific: portmap lockd mountd rquotad statd // timothy -- On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 01:30:10AM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: and now the stupid question: why aren't nfs, the rpcs, and the startup scripts at least an option during the installation? i understand

Re: probably a stupid question

On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:55:32PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: to be specific: portmap lockd mountd rquotad statd Yes, and all of them are in the packages I mentioned earlier, with the exception of rquotad, which is in the quota package. I'm not terribly familiar with the package

A stupid question - how to set line wrap in mutt?

Well, the subject really says it all, doesn't it? I've RTFM, and all I can find is how to set the display line wrap, but not the send line wrap. I suppose it should be done through the editor? (I use emacs.) Sorry for such a silly question, but I've mostly been using Balsa up till now, and

Re: A stupid question - how to set line wrap in mutt?

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 03:31:22PM -0400, Steve Gran wrote: Well, the subject really says it all, doesn't it? I've RTFM, and all I can find is how to set the display line wrap, but not the send line wrap. I suppose it should be done through the editor? You are correct. Mutt just takes what

Re: A stupid question - how to set line wrap in mutt?

Steve Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, the subject really says it all, doesn't it? I've RTFM, and all I can find is how to set the display line wrap, but not the send line wrap. I suppose it should be done through the editor? (I use emacs.) Sorry for such a silly question, but I've

Re: A stupid question - how to set line wrap in mutt?

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 15:31:22 -0400, Steve Gran wrote: I've RTFM, and all I can find is how to set the display line wrap, but not the send line wrap. I suppose it should be done through the editor? Yes. HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto-

Re: A stupid question - how to set line wrap in mutt?

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 03:31:22PM -0400, Steve Gran wrote: Well, the subject really says it all, doesn't it? I've RTFM, and all I can find is how to set the display line wrap, but not the send line wrap. I suppose it should be done through the editor? (I use emacs.) Sorry for such a silly

Re: A stupid question - how to set line wrap in mutt?

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 03:31:22PM -0400, Steve Gran wrote: Well, the subject really says it all, doesn't it? I've RTFM, and all I can find is how to set the display line wrap, but not the send line wrap. I suppose it should be done through the editor? (I use emacs.) Sorry for such a silly

Stupid Question...keymappings?

I recently helped a friend resurrect an old machine with Debian :-). There is one little thing that annoyed me, and will annoy him, the more he learns. The keymappings that I am used to don't always seem to work. For instance with a 'man man,' I couldn't use the vi(m) like keybindings for

Re: Stupid Question...keymappings?

On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, John Travis wrote: I recently helped a friend resurrect an old machine with Debian :-). There is one little thing that annoyed me, and will annoy him, the more he learns. The keymappings that I am used to don't always seem to work. For instance with a 'man man,' I

Re: Stupid Question...keymappings?

On Friday 02 February 2001 12:11, David Purton wrote: just a thought, but do you have 'less' installed? I think man uses 'more' if 'less' isn't available and hence you can't scroll up, etc. LOL. THWACKKK! (sound of hand hitting forhead). I just assumed that it got pulled in somewhere

Re: Stupid question

On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 09:21:02PM +0100, Gary Jones wrote: Okay, stupid question time. What is the best way of connecting to the 'net? I don't mean the mechanicals, which connection type to use, that sort of thing, but rather which account(s) should do so. Preferably I don't want

Re: Stupid question

At Mon, 18 Dec 2000 22:12:10 + , Matthew Sackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It generally doesn't matter: so long as you are able to dial up then the other processes take care of themselves. [...] the details are in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ There are similar files for isdn which I use, and you are of

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