Re: Séparer debian-user-french

2003-03-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 05:49:07PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: Jean-Michel Kelbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: snip, snip A mon avis, c'est de la connerie. Bien que les newbies existent, il faut que quelq'un les aide. Bien entendu que cela est une tache enfachante. Mais tout en composant quoi que

Re: Desabonnement

2009-03-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 09:15:57AM +0100, Linx ONLINE wrote: Savez vous comment se désabonner à la mailing-list ? Merci d'avance. Lisez donc! Pour desabonner, envoyez votre courriel vers debian-user-french-requ...@lists.debian.org avec un sujet d' unsubscribe simplement. Voyez, c'est la

Re: Fichero fstab, o como montar los dvds, un poquito de ayuda

2004-07-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 06:53:53PM +0200, nomentero dena wrote: Hola, tengo los sigientes dispositivos hda 80 gigas, tres particiones, ext3 (20 gigas) swap (1 giga) y nfts, el xp (58 gigas) hdb , fat32, una particion (el disco duro del antigo ordenador) 10 gigas hdc ricoh dvd +rw hdd

Re: Partman-Auto - Multi-Disk OR Use Existing Layout via Preseed

2012-05-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 01:54:40PM -0400, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Matthew Drobnak mdrob...@appnexus.com wrote: On 04/26/2012 08:50 AM, Tom H wrote: The only, somewhat unhelpful, thing that I can contribute is that I've only been able to use two disks with pressed

Re: netinst.iso - a learning experience- Part 1 grub

2012-05-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 04:36:05PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 15:40 +0200, an unknown sender wrote: Using Grub Legacy is attractive. How complex would the change be? Remove GRUB 2 and install GRUB Legacy. That's it. In the future would an update or upgrade

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

2012-11-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:30:54PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Remove gdm, and put in the file /root/.bash_profile following lines: === if [ -z $DISPLAY ] [ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ];then startx fi === To have a auto-login, you can also modify /etc/inittab

Re: Changing processor

2012-03-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 10:55:55AM -0300, rcb wrote: Dear Debian users, (or will I need to reinstall things? Both processors are intel 64 bits, btw). Thanks for your help, Beco. PS. Disclaimer: * Sorry if this is the wrong list to ask such question * Forgive-me any misspelled

Re: Billion 7800N

2011-08-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 01:48:35PM +1000, Heddle Weaver wrote: Hello everyone, I've run into a few hiccups with a new modem, as specified in the subject line. I simply can't access the modem interface with a browser, in order to configure it and yes, I've tried four different browsers. At

Re: Packages - what's the best way?

2011-01-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 10:05:38AM +, Lisi wrote: On Monday 15 November 2010 03:54:42 Bob Proulx wrote: Rob Hurle wrote: Does anyone have advice on the best way to handle a .deb package? The easiest way is to not handle .deb files at all. Instead allow apt-get to install the

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 02:21:22PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5 GB. I can do rsync -av but normally I'd use DD. Is there a way to copy an

Re: Install squeeze in DVD from usb

2011-01-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 02:17:19PM -0800, Mark wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Josep M. Gasso websur...@navegants.comwrote: Hello. With unetbootin, for example can be installed a netinst cd in a usb, no problem, I would like know if in Squeeze will be possible install a full

Re: Squeeze volatile?

2011-01-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 02:11:30PM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote: Hi all -- I'm finally getting around to migrating some systems to squeeze, and I noticed that as of now there is no squeeze-volatile repository, although squeeze-backports exists. Does anyone know if there are plans

Re: the new apt-get recommendation

2011-02-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 10:22:23AM -0500, Kete wrote: Hello, why have the authors of the Debian 6 release notes chosen to recommend apt-get? Just a few months ago, I read some other official documentation recommend aptitude. Why is Debian flip flopping? Now, I have to learn apt's commands,

Re: [OT] Magic numbers

2011-02-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 09:13:59PM +, Lisi wrote: On Sunday 06 February 2011 20:35:17 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 02/06/2011 06:27 PM, Lisi wrote: I need to find out: a)What the magic number should be for certain types of file and b)Whether a specific file of that type has the

Re: ata disk error

2011-03-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 01:54:27PM +0530, Kousik Maiti wrote: I get the following error when try to boot one lenovo 3000 N1000 laptop:- When trying to boot from hard disk:- Error 21: Selected disk does not exist... When booting from live cd. This is the output from dmesg. ... ata1.00:

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #3350

2003-11-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Une Debiane ?? [Une verre d'Evian = one glass of Evian water] Une distribution Debian me semble tres bien. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pronunciation of common Linux-related words

2007-03-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 04:18:33PM -0700, Dusty Wilson wrote: In an effort to not sound like a newbie when speaking verbally about Linux-related terms, I would like to know how to properly pronounce these words. I've been training a co-worker on server management and have run into quite a few

Re: Pronunciation of common Linux-related words

2007-04-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 11:35:03PM -0500, Kent West wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/31/07 23:35, cga2000 wrote: [snip] Not true. Try the lawn-guy-land accent for instance .. has the ugliest and most exaggerated diphthongs of any English dialect I have heard. lawn-guy-land? Long

Re: Pronunciation of common Linux-related words - gradually going OT :)

2007-04-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 10:11:21PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 01:38:06AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 04:18:33PM -0700, Dusty Wilson wrote: Canadian (7th generation, North Atlantic [St. Mary's, West Irish, Highland Scott] descent

Re: Pronunciation of common Linux-related words

2007-04-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 12:58:10PM -0700, Dusty Wilson wrote: I'm re-gathering what everyone has said so far. Here's my list so far. But there are still a couple missing (chmod/chown) and others I'm not 100% sure of (lilo, passwd, chroot). chroot = tchroot (Ch as in Chekhov + root - there's

Re: when etch will be officially released

2007-04-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 02:45:56AM -0700, Li Wei wrote: it's long overdue, No it's not - it's been there for years - it's just that it's been labelled as testing :) when etch will become stable? How unstable is it now(how many bug it has now)? Sometime tomorrow [Sunday 8 April].

Re: Etch released.

2007-04-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 08:29:55PM +0200, Helmut Sennewald wrote: Hello, Is it necessary to download all 3 DVD-ISO-images just to install this version? I am wondered a little bit because other distributions have only one ISO-DVD. Are on DVD-2 and DVD-3 only sources? If you have fast net

Re: Auditing free and non-free packages

2007-04-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 07:44:13PM +0100, andy wrote: Hello I have, since installing Etch, been downloading packages with regard for functionality and because I wanted that program, rather than focusing on whether or not that package was non-free or free (with respect to the Debian

Re: Auditing free and non-free packages

2007-04-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 03:40:31PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 07:44:13PM +0100, andy wrote: Hello I have, since installing Etch, been downloading packages with regard for functionality and because I wanted that program, rather than

Re: files in /var/tmp

2007-04-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 03:44:33PM -0700, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Hi all Can someone throw some light on as to what does /var/tmp/fast-mech.tgz and /var/tmp/raw directories do? My system (Debian Etch) has been recently compromised and I deleted most of the suspicious files. However I

Re: Does Debian 4.0 support WindowsXP partition

2007-04-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 12:49:24PM +0200, Björn Johansson wrote: Hello! Soon I'm going to install Debian 4.0 on my brothers computer and I want to know if Debian supports WindowsXP partitions so I don't get problems with the LILO bootloader. Do any know if it works? Greetings Björn

Re: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 03:46:21PM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: Well, a bit premature on solved status. The upgrade from Sarge to Etch did complete after killing the screensaver process, but it did not leave the system in a good state. Minor problems include Postgre failing on boot, as well as

Re: [debian-user] The List Standard

2007-04-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:10:42PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:01:37 -0600 Ted Hilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First: as I understand your guideline I am not to use the reply key but simply address my reply back to the list and it will be automatically added to

Re: a Debian user's introduction to Redhat EL4?

2007-04-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 01:29:51AM +0200, Peter Teunissen wrote: I'm a happy Debian user and will not move to RH. But. As I wrote in my question, I'm _forced_ to use RHEL4 at my job. Since more debianites will have been in this situation, I think it's not inappropriate to ask on this

Re: udev trouble

2007-04-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:26:54PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] I've revved four machines from Sarge to Etch now, following the release notes and letting it replace devfs with udev. All worked fine. The fifth machine was a

Re: Daily Updates

2007-04-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:14:00AM +0100, andy wrote: So, for the benefit of this newbie: If I change my sources list to reflect testing rather than etch, will my system just automagically continue to upgrade itself? Will this system - as it upgrades to Lenny - remain stable enough for

Re: Dell Latitude D820

2007-04-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 09:44:17PM +0530, Siju George wrote: Hi, Anybody Successfully runing any Debian ( based ) Distribution with Xorg on a Dell Latitude D820 Yes, run at work. No particular problems - but not tried wireless. Etch? Yes: from a couple of months ago, not yet upgraded

Re: Administration (+apt-get dist-upgrade) of 100s of machines

2007-04-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 10:31:21AM +0200, Peter Valdemar Mørch (vol) wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty dtutty-at-porchlight.ca |volatile-lists| wrote: I use aptitude (this is not a troll, please), and I use it interactivly. I have only those pacakges that I specifically _want_ installed marked as

Re: UTF8 problem with BitTornado in Ubuntu 7.04

2007-04-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:41:53AM +0200, Daniel Palmer wrote: Christian Matschke wrote: Hi, I am a linux newbie, sort of. After upgrading from Ubuntu 6.10 to 7.04, I suddenly experience a problem I might be wrong but I don't think the Debian mailing lists support Ubuntu queries. The

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 05:51:06PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: similarly, if i type a command like lynx into my panel aplet, nothing happens. I have to type it into terminal. so what is the point of the aplet (xfce, default aplet). Lynx is a text

Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

2007-04-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:51:02PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I added the lines: Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0 _Etch_ -Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0 _Etch_ -Official i386 DVD Binary-2

Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

2007-04-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:00:09PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: No, it isn't too obvious to bother writing anywhere: it may be obvious to many that some users don't bother _READING_ anywhere. Google is your friend, as is browsing the archives of the mailing list

Re: how to make a symlink

2007-04-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:11:40PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: not using Gnome or KDE, I seem to be mising some basic features (like search). One of these is the ability to make links to files. I want to make a link to seamoney, which has not registered as a browser, nor has it registered a

Re: Setting module parameters?

2007-04-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:38:05PM -0700, Colin Andrews wrote: I just did a clean install of etch (congrats and thanks to all those who made etch happen) but I seem to have this problem: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1999/06/msg02838.html For the ISA 3C509 - you need a DOS boot disk

Re: Dangers of stable in sources.list

2007-05-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 03:49:08AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: why I'd never use it. So I'd be for one of these two: -removing the public link to 'stable' -putting a strong warning in the Debian reference about the hazards of using it. So if someone uses 'stable', do tell. And if so, would you

Re: Etch install

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:23:09PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I'm new to linux, debian and etch. I've loaded etch onto another computer and am lost. I used the gui loader and expected to get to a place that was helpful but no way. When I power up I get what appears to be a

Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:38:03PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: But I would not recommend people new to GNU/Linux to run Sid. I still only have less than a year's experience. It's only been a couple of months since I formatted my ntfs partition. Tomorrow my Etch is going to turn into Sid. I

Re: How can I refresh Etch completely?

2007-05-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:54:36PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; Is this a clue? When I try to use aptitude it wants to remove 150+ unused packages, including Gnome. Doesn't feel right to me so I don't use it. aptitude keep all ; aptitude install -sf for a start. Then use

Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)

2007-05-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:33:45AM -0400, Amy Templeton wrote: Oh well. Well, in that case, I stand by my original position: I do not want to get used to depending on decoders if I can't have some degree of assurance they'll be available later. [For one meaning of decode] The US

Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)

2007-05-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:00:46PM -0400, Amy Templeton wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew M.A. Cater) wrote: There is a serious point [about proprietary formats] to be made to your college. Archiving, readability, public record. I've only been dealing with computers for about 22 years: I've

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 03:12:51PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: We had a problem on the Libranet list where a number of us got into some serious and deep discussions about religion and politics. Not one person was being disrespectful or calling names, but there were a few people that never

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:43:08PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: I think you missed Amy's point. It's great that there are technical solutions to the OT problem. However, if we take that as license to continue posting messages that are far, far removed from the world of Debian, we are going to

Re: why linux?

2007-05-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:57:09AM -0400, S C wrote: [Reformatted below to a screen width and with line endings. Please try to wrap your lines at 72 characters or so. Suggested commands indented below by one tab stop for legibility.] For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like

Re: [OT] Best of UNIX/Linux Books that you can't stop reading

2007-05-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:08:34PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: Can eveyone list the best of UNIX/Linux books. In other words the books that doesn't let you leave it. man bash :) Invaluable (at various times): Running Linux - Matt Welsh et. al. Esential System Administration - Aileen Frisch DNS

Re: The previous nonsense

2007-05-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:02:17PM -0400, S C wrote: It's better, I'm awake now. Responses: #aptitude install k3b Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... done E: Unable to

Re: does etch have package that allow user bypass Internet censorship

2007-06-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 10:37:10PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: I'm in mainland China. The government block some Web sites and some Web pages. There are anonymizing routers and web servers set up which may allow users to circumvent government censorship in countries where this is prevalent.

Re: Debian Etch can not startx

2007-06-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 01:14:37AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 04:45:30AM +, rocky wrote: Hey, I got a very old PC which was purchased 6 years ago. I use Debian netinstall CD installed the base Debian etch system. I have been trying to install basic GUI on it.

Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:36:59PM +0100, andy wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:06:38PM +0100, andy wrote: Greetings Debianistas My wife's machine (Debian Etch, clean install) is consistently showing Europe/Guernsey (BST) in its clock settings and somehow

Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead (on-going)

2007-06-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:21:56AM +0100, andy wrote: andy wrote: andy wrote: Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: As root tzconfig Set the time to UTC (probably under 12 - other time zones) hwclock --systohc Set the BIOS clock to UTC In KDE, set the clock to use local time zone

Re: laptop

2006-10-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 12:39:34AM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: I just bought an old IBM (Pentium) laptop. For installing, do I use the 386 install, or something else? Mark If it's an original Pentium - use the 386 install. Once installed, you can always try the 686 kernel. If you use

Re: i need ur help

2006-11-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 01:32:31PM +0800, meisam sarabadani wrote: dear Debian People its been long time im using ubuntu, breezy, dapper, and edgy the last one, im ganna change it to debian for a while, would u please tell me which distribution is better? i need to know it and i need to make

Re: A Question About Aptitude

2006-11-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 05:51:05AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: As a result of discussions on this thread, I just ran aptitude. Aptitude tells me that there is a broken package, and suggested that, because of dependency problems, I remove exim4, exim4-base, exim4-daemon-light, ftp,

Re: IBM eServer x series 206 RH-to-Debian migration

2006-11-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 02:18:10AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 02:34:46PM -0500, Lee Whalen wrote: Greetings all, long-time Debian user, first-time poster here. Welcome to the last OS you'll ever need X-) So, I've got a predicament. I need to get Debian Etch on a

Re: DVD playback problems

2006-11-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 07:05:26PM +, Piers Kittel wrote: snipped a fair amount here // # /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/./install-css.sh Datum point - this is probably true only for Sarge / Etch. Not in Sid - which currently suggests that you fetch the package for libdvdcss2

Re: Recommendation for build environment(s)

2006-11-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 09:53:52PM +0200, Maxim Vexler wrote: Hello Kevin, Following your suggestion I'll focus my question further. What do you want to build with this? web apps, embedded software, console tools for system administraion or ? A simple set of programs for a computer

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 12:23:11PM -0800, anonymous wrote: Many thanks for your elaborated reply. I prefer to download the iso image at least for the first time install of the distribution as it would give me a better *feel* about the distribution and the packages included with it. Later, I

Re: Debian etch RC1 installation question

2006-11-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 09:32:02AM +0200, Debeselis wrote: Hi, I just downloaded RC1 yesterday and tried to do clean installation. I noticed that this install tries to install some packages of Selinux by default. My question is - is there any way to disable these packages installations,

Re: help! my usb keyboard works only slightly on install

2006-11-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:33:14PM -0800, David Gluss wrote: I did achieve success by setting the root password to 888, and skipping the create user step. This was done with a USB-ps2 dongle. So the installation kernel definitely supports USB. The serial console is the (darn it) obvious

Re: DVDs - err what gives?

2006-12-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 09:23:34PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 19:54 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Regulations prevent distribution = non-free True, it's non-free by Debian standards. But I still would like to make a distinction between blatantly non-free

Re: smooth upgrades

2006-12-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 11:33:10AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: Andrew, Thanks for getting back to me. By 'pointed at Etch', do you mean get rid of the 'testing' addresses and have only 'stable' in 'sources.list'? Hate being a nervous nelly, but it means a lot to me to get a solid os on my

Re: kérdés

2007-09-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 06:47:09AM +0200, szélpál ági wrote: A gépem amd sempron 2200+, 256 mb ram, 80 gb hdd, 64 mb video ram dvd író, hangkártya. Milyeb debian linuxot javasoltok telapíteni? Hogyan kell és mit kell hozzá letölteni? Eddig xp-m volt. Válaszotokat előre is köszönöm I'm very

mdadm segfaults - failed upgrade to Lenny - drops to busybox/initramfs

2007-10-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Subject should say it all. Updated a box to Lenny from Etch - boot on one partition, root and everything else on an mdadm managed raid5. Booting now drops you to initramfs - attempts to use mdadm fail with a segfault. Have used a Knoppix which establishes that there is still a boot partition.

Re: mdadm segfaults - failed upgrade to Lenny - drops to busybox/initramfs SOLVED

2007-10-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Following Martin's suggestion as to how to use grml [Example instructions set out below for the clueless as to how to recover/panicked people/those who need this in a hurry from finding this as a desperate Google search] grml will recognise an existing mdadm array if given mdadm -A

Re: [Debian-User] Re: More on Network Install

2007-02-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 01:42:18PM -0700, Admin wrote: Andrei Popescu Thanks for your reply. Hope you don't have to snip too much. My yet outstanding question is the POOL directory. I think the POOL directory contains 'sarge' which would be the latest official release. But I am not

Re: [Debian-User] Xen

2007-02-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 12:07:47AM -0700, Admin wrote: One of the several reasons I left a large space on the hard drive was to establish a Debian based Xen virtual machine. To do this Xen is installed on top of the Debian kernel. If you are going to do this, may I recommend strongly that

Re: [Debian-User] Xen and a local mirror or a R/W DVD [LONG REPLY]

2007-02-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 03:14:39PM -0700, Archive wrote: I really like the idea passed on to me of getting the entire 14 disk ETCH (older and therefore stable) distribution on a R/W DVD where the first DVD contains the installer. I think you're slightly confused here. The current stable

Re: Subtle but annoying X startup problem

2007-02-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 09:25:51PM +, Bob Cox wrote: I have used Linux for several years, but always in CLI only mode. I have a Debian box running mail and webservers and also a couple of NSLU2 'slugs' running Armeb Debian. And they're all fine. Recently, however,I installed Etch with

Re: Debian vs. the Eee PC

2008-04-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 04:46:17PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: I expect this has been covered before, but people undoubtedly have more experience with it now, and it won't hurt to discuss it again. What variety of Linux is installed on the EeePC? Does it bear any relationship to Debian?

Re: Possible/reasonable to switch from unstable to etch at this point and track etch/stable going forward?

2007-01-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 10:43:23PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 04:49:16PM -0800, RParr wrote: I have sid/unstable installed at the moment. I would like to change this to etch, and stick with etch/stable for awhile. What, if any, differences are there

Re: SSH doesn't work with RSA keys

2007-01-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:50:40PM -0300, Alejandro wrote: People, I have generated the key pair RSA from my root linux's user and then I copy my RSA public key to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys from the linux ssh server. After that I edit the sshd_config file and put permit rootlogin no and the

Re: Debian unstable DVD-s

2007-01-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 05:46:56PM +0100, Yvan wrote: I know about jigdo, I used it last year, but now whoever was responsible for creating .jigdo and .template files for unstable / sid stopped updating files: ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/sid-dvd/jigdo/ These were

Re: getting realplayer to work in firefox...

2007-01-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 11:57:22PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear folks, I downloaded a file RealPlayer10GOLD.bin from the real player site that I think is a plug in for Firefox that would let me watch some movies with sound. I did chmod a+x on the file. rwxr-xr-x 1 mikef

Re: Debian unstable DVD-s

2007-01-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:10:15AM +0100, Ivan Imperl wrote: Nedavno Andrew M.A. Cater pise: | Testing is currently settling down immediately prior to release : | once it's released, the pace of updates will be slow and | manageable. | | Most of what you need is on the first DVD of any

Re: Debian unstable DVD-s

2007-01-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:38:07PM +0100, Yvan wrote: Nedavno Andrew M.A. Cater pise: | If you use apt-get, use -s for simulate or --dry-run Sorry I just remembered. I use apt-get (synaptic). If I add three testing DVD-s to apt-s list of available sources, and if the package I want

Eudora - Evolution how?

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
I've a colleague on the phone now: he wants to transfer Eudora mail archives from a Windows partition - Evolution under Debian - Testing. This will make his wife and his world Windows free for the most part :) TIA Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: usb failing, need new motherboard recommendations

2007-01-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 09:28:01AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: After struggling for a week with strange usb problems - posted xsane usb problem - I believe my problem is a hardware problem. One usb socket has failed: device not seen but device and hotplug ok if another usb socket is

Re: Ubuntu to Debian Installation

2007-01-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:50:55AM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote: Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote: Greetings, I have got several Debian installations, however, my desktop machine has Ubuntu 6.06 installed. What I wish to know is if there is an easy way to change installations (without

Re: a few dumb questions about apt sources.list file contents....

2007-01-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:01:45AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debianists, Here is my apt sources.list file; localhost:/etc/apt# more sources.list # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot amd64 Binary-1 (20061110)]/ etch contrib main Try using the

Re: goddammit

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
I understand the need to let off steam. Stuff doesn't work correctly and you haven't time to waste: it would be very much appreciated if you could please give us some of the information asked for below. Details help in formulating better questions and allowing people to narrow in on the problems

Re: New server: Sarge or Etch?

2007-02-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 09:33:03AM +, Marco De Vitis wrote: Hi, in the next few days I'll have to replace an old server running Debian Sarge with a new machine, and I was wondering: maybe I should directly install Etch on it, now that it almost reached its stable status? This depends

Re: Software Problem

2007-02-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 06:34:27AM +0100, Miguel Albalat wrote: hi...i'm new in this linux world and i have a problem, i need a software to make a multimedia can anybody help me?? Can you give more details please? What exactly do you want to make? Clear requests and more details will help the

Re: FreeAgent USB HDD

2007-11-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 06:05:24PM +, andy wrote: Hi all Yesterday, I bought a 500GB Seagate FreeAgent (external) USB hard drive. I plugged it in, downloaded the necessary ntfs-3g driver and all was fine. Today I plug it in and my Lenny system can't find it at all. There is nothing

Re: One Button Backup--USB External HD

2008-01-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 08:01:44PM +0200, David Baron wrote: From Hitachi, WD, other venders. Of course, ship with windows drivers. Anyone used this stuff with Debian? Possible to use as normal HD, i.e., partition it, some for compressed backups, i.e. squashfs or images, some for regular

Re: external hard-disk enclosure advice?

2006-08-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 01:44:29PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.A. de Vries) writes: I recently bought such a beast for backup purposes. I choose an Icy Box IB-360-BL. This is an external closure for 3.5 IDE/SATA disks and features both USB and Firewire interfaces. The

Re: Debian install and swap

2006-08-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 05:16:45AM -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote: The system is a debian derivative. hdb2 is a primary partition for Linux swap. /etc/fstab has the entry: /dev/hdb2 noneswapsw 0 0 but top utility shows 0M swap, and attempt to make it active with

Re: 3ware woes, seem to be missing vital

2006-08-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 12:32:00AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2006-08-13 22:32:03, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: originally Different this time, I promise! After much mucking about, the 3ware 9500 is working beautifully as I would expect and is sitting there with a nice fat 750GB

[Unstable] Fetchmail upgrade to 6.2.3 breaks :(

2003-08-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Have been using fetchmail here successfully for some years :) The newest fetchmail in unstable breaks - I keep getting messages about null message headers at my ISP account or some such. Any clues welcome. A cc reply to me would be appreciated - although I read this list, I get it in digest

RE: Good Debian-based distro

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 02:28:38AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Loren M Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-User Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Good Debian-based distro -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm looking for a good debian-based distro with a good

X upgrade / downgrade / upgrade??

2001-11-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Problem: (work) I have a Compaq Deskpro 5200MMX 200M Pentium machine - lots of software on the disk, lots of users. The disk was originally in a Compaq Deskpro P166 - I upgraded hardware and memory to a new machine with new CD-RW etc. The

Hercules 3D Prophet 4000XT Kyro 32MB support in Woody textmode/XFree86 4.1

2002-01-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Subject says it all. Any idea how I can install Debian with one of these cards. A Woody CD from ftp.fsn.hu won't even get past the first screen. All help appreciated. Not currently subscribed to the list - please cc all replies to me as well as to the list. Thanks, Andy

Re: How to build RHEL software to run on Debian?

2005-12-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 05:31:16PM -0600, Matt England wrote: I'm a software developer, and I would like one set of software binaries (applications, libraries) to be able to run across many Linux platforms, including FedoraCore, Redhat Enterprise Linux, and Debian (much the same way XAMPP

Re: Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems?

2005-12-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 01:45:55PM -0600, Matt England wrote: Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems: Is this feasible? I'm not talking about package management...just the raw, binary. Backward compatibility is not guaranteed. That's why, for example, some packages are back-ported

Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge)

2005-12-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 11:00:38AM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: On 12/30/05, Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm being schizo and replying to myself, again. Xine seems to actually be doing the job, at least with the w32codec installed. (I will try it w/o the codec tomorrow.) So far

Re: Where's the [EMAIL PROTECTED] GUI

2005-12-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Deleted this one by accident. Chinook - you need to slow down on the updates. It's possible that the newer KDE (3.4) isn't installable just by apt-get install kde First things first. As root Run dpkg --pending --configure [This will configure any packages that are waiting on a configure

Re: Building postgresql 8.1.0: trouble finding readline, libz, etc

2006-01-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 07:59:07PM -0600, Matt England wrote: At 12/30/2005 04:37 PM, Steve Block wrote: Install the appropriate development packages for what you seem to be missing. For example, the package libreadline5-dev (or libreadline4-dev, as appropriate). Yep, after installing the

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