Vidar Langseid wrote:
Hi
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
[snip upgrade instructions]
Thanks for posting your experience! I am sure it will be useful to
others.
You could have a debate about whether this is an installer
bug
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 03:33:06PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
[ when I upgraded Etch to Lenny, device names changed and the
Lenny kernel wouldn't
I googled for the answer and didn't find it, and lots of people
asking, so this is for the next person with the same problem.
I installed a Debian Etch workstation, tasksel: desktop, guided
partitioning, the six partitions (/ /usr /var /home /tmp swap) way.
Works great. I upgraded to Lenny, the
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris Lale wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I've got a Debian bastion host at a small nonprofit.
Windoze. We're using CUPS on the
Debian box. We want to share all the printers
across all the hosts on the
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], charles norwood wrote:
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 19:32 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My desktop debian system is at home with no available internet
connection.
Work provides internet with no linux.
is
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Pobega wrote:
I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea
where to start.
Install the uswsusp package. Don't shut your system down.
Just suspend it to the swap partition
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:31:34PM -0800, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
A very large file in
/var/mail was created instead. Any idea?
That would be the default delivery.
Your
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Yuwen Dai wrote:
Now I move both Inbox and the expected result to my home dir. But command
$ formail -s Inbox |procmail /home/yuwen/rcfile
Should be
$ formail -s procmail /home/yuwen/rcfile Inbox
No
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Yuwen Dai wrote:
[I wrote]
$ formail -s mboxfile | procmail recipefile
recipefile looks like this:
:0:
* ^Received: .* myserver.example.net ;.* Dec 2006
/home/me/December
I created a similiar rc file like this:
:0:
* ^Received: .*;.*Nov 2006
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
Yuwen Dai wrote:
I'd like to backup part of my Inbox, e.g., the emails of last year as my
Inbox becomes larger and larger. I also want to restore and read the
backup quick in
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dave Walker wrote:
The Problem:
When I run X (startx) from any user account, it begins, loads Gnome (just
today downloaded it) but the mouse does not move. I found out that Ctrl
Alt Backspace quits X,
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], john gennard wrote:
I have an IBM T20 Laptop and want to put on it Etch
(Kernel 2.6.18-3) with Kde. The installation without GUI
is fine, but Kde will not launch. Error messages in
/var/log/kdm.log
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:50:40PM -0800, Ric Otte wrote:
=20
I was wondering if anyone else had had problems like this and had any
suggestions. I don't know much about hardware
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A colleague did a dist-upgrade, sarge to etch, and everything
still worked except the X Window System. dpkg-reconfigure
left him with No screens found X unusable.
The standard fix for that, boot Knoppix and use the xorg.conf
file it
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Fothergill wrote:
[new install, Internet not working]
My old box is an AMD Duron 1200 Mhz 32 bit machine which is running Etch
i386. The internet connection works fine on it.
I use NTL broadband
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:54:46PM +0100, MeneM wrote:
Could anyone tell me how to copy my current debian installation to a
different external iomega jazz drive,
I recently
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
When installing, debian-installer cannot recognize my card, and gives
me a list of modules. In it is ``3c509'', but without a letter.
Relatively few 3C509 (Primat chip) s were made.
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Abu Zaher wrote:
I'm currently running my Sid on a 40GB hdd which is running out of life, In
a few days I'll buy a new 80GB. Now what is the best way 2 dump my whole /
to my hdd so that I can boot and do
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:46:29PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
probably the simplest way is to just make a new /var on the new drive
and move all of it there.
-add new HD to computer
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], a spammer wrote:
[hashbuster]
Take that!
http://from.mayroty.com/
Bcusty Tzanned Brunette [garble raunch]
The previous junk was apparently brought to you courtesy of the
Python Video/Webfinity/Dynamic
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I had sarge on a Compaq Armada 3500 notebook. No ACPI,
but APM suspend to disk was working with an upstream
kernel with APM compiled in.
Fresh etch install on the same system, 2.6.17-2-686.
modprobe apm gives
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you, everyone who offered suggestions and observations. I've got
KDE working, basically by using aptitude to remove the remaining bits
of gnome, and then (re)installing the kde
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin Mark wrote:
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 11:47:15AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently running gedit and gnome-terminal for about a week now
without any noticeable side-effects after
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Grok Mogger wrote:
I'm planning on buying components individually and piecing
together a computer. I'd like to install Debian Linux on it.
I'm not buying any of the latest and greatest stuff, and the
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], SAJChurchey wrote:
the e-mail is getting sent to the proper command through the aliases
(In this particular case, I'm trying to subscribe by sending an e-mail
to mailman-subscribe), but the owner doesn't
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Douglas Tutty wrote:
I'm revisiting how I make documents. I have been using lout since I
started with linux in 2000
My primary use is for letters and notes but also larger projects. I
don't like wysiwyg.
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Grieveson wrote:
I did try to use superformat. It seemed to do the low level format
OK, but then it got to running mformat and the drive just made a whole
lot of noise and eventually gave me the
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kent West wrote:
I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5 floppies on two
different machines, and can't get anywhere with them. I decided to put
it on the back burner and read my email when I came
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Thomassen wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to convert a dvi2ps-generated file to TIFF, using
$ gs -q -dNOPROMPT -dBATCH -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -sOutputFile=file.tif file.ps
Try -dNOPAUSE and -dQUIET
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with a subject of
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Thomassen wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to convert a dvi2ps-generated file to TIFF, using
$ gs -q -dNOPROMPT -dBATCH -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -sOutputFile=file.tif file.ps
Try -dNOPAUSE and -dQUIET
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with a subject of
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Critchlow wrote:
Hi everyone, Anyone good with Bind?
Yeah, the guy who packages it for Debian.
I was wondering that if I set up a dns =
server just for local hosts would I have to include
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I've installed etch with default kernel on a laptop
with APM BIOS but no ACPI. It runs a lot hotter
than it did with my customized kernel on sarge.
I added apm=on to the boot options to get apm -s
to work.
Still got heat and battery life
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], s. keeling wrote:
Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 09/28/2006 12:23 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
[...]
also, threadjacking, but its spam related... is anyone else getting a
lot of these bounced
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris Humphries wrote:
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| On Thursday, Sep 21, 2006 at 03:51:36AM +, s. keeling wrote:
| operator [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
| Could
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin Mark wrote:
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On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 05:49:57PM +0100, Michael
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
qmail has the least Debian support, due to uninteresting
licensing issues, but has a large user community and excellent
documentation (www.lifewithqmail.org, qmail.org). It runs
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Leonid Grinberg wrote:
Hello,
I have obtained the proper module for the 2.4 kernel and my ethernet
card (3c509), but modprobing it results in
insmod: Unresolved symbol isapnp_find_dev_Rdae0a386
Google
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Leonid Grinberg wrote:
The machine has both a floppy drive and a CD drive, but the BIOS does
not recognize the CD drive as a drive, and does not allow me to boot
off of it, let alone USB. That leaves only
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rick Reynolds wrote:
J F wrote:
Will VNC run on a laptop with 32MB?
WOuld be a nice remote desktop in my living room to
my bedroom linux machine or windows machine.
I've got an old laptop.
I was
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marcin Owsiany wrote:
I get the following
error when dumping the root partition:
[...]
| DUMP: Dumping volume 1 on /srv/backup/2006-07-26_Wed_level_3/_001
| DUMP: Volume 1 started with block 1 at: Wed
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Leonid Grinberg wrote:
The machine has both a floppy drive and a CD drive, but the BIOS does
not recognize the CD drive as a drive, and does not allow me to boot
off of it, let alone USB. That leaves only floppies.
the machine is unable to
recognize the ethernet
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I've got three friends who installed 3.1r2 from CD.
They're on dial-up.
I'd like to make an update CD for them from the files in
my /var/cache/apt/archives.
It would be nice if they could use apt-cdrom add
to bring it in.
(Otherwise I'm
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Manon Metten wrote:
Art Edwards wrote:
I have had several CD burners die. They read just fine, but they stop
writing after a very finite number (say tens) of CD's.r
My cd writer of white label died
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A friend of mine uses a user friendly Windoze box
to record (with permission) radio shows in background,
on a predetermined schedule. It's the last thing he still
needs Windoze for.
We'd like to replace that setup with a cron-driven
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
Currently on web based forums, one can request the forum software to
send an email when a particular threads gets updated. These threads
could be anything that you opted in (for
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Denis wrote:
[three lines of some (c 0x7f) alphabet, deleted]
I specialize in selling PCs. I would like to start installing Linux
Debian to customers' PCs. Would you please let me know what packages i
can charge customers for. Denis.
I think the GNU General
I burned a Dec 10 weekly Etch 1 of 15 CD to try the installer.
Seems to work fine until we try the auto-partitioner.
I had already prepared my 6 GB test drive with ext3
on hda1 and swap on hda2. Autopartitioner blew that
away and replaced it with an LVM partition.
Then it reported failure.
I
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joe Mc Cool wrote:
Yesterday I took delivery of an X30 (£250). I took it home after work,
booted off a Knoppix installation CD and a couple of hours later it
had installed itself fine. Video, sound,
My friend has installed a sarge workstation from
the 14 CDs. With limited dial-up access he can't
upgrade it. I would like to make a disk 15
for him from the contents of my /var/cache/apt/archives.
Is there a script to gather a set of .deb files
and produce an .iso which apt-cdrom would
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hodgins Family wrote:
Good morning:
Follow this link http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=7455page=1
My friend has installed a sarge workstation from
the 14 CDs. With limited dial-up access he can't
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Paul Johnson wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/38?ref=rss
How to detect whether infection has
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Hasler wrote:
Bruno Buys writes:
I moved recently, and there´s no easy/cheap broadband in the new
address. So, what do I need to run a dialup modem on my debian sarge?
Hook up your modem, run
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joe Mc Cool wrote:
Please,
I am trying to get create a cron job that will go fetch a doc file
from a particular web site.
I had hoped to run:
lynx -cmd_log my_script http://www.siteiwant.com
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
I have a
stack of old IDE hard drives that I want to use in a RAID configuration. The
server's case has plenty of room for drives and a number of PCI expansion
slots. I would
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mats Bengtsson wrote:
Hi,
I have just upgraded my machine at home from woody to sarge and now the
name resolution doesn't work anymore. To be more precise, programs such
as Mozilla or lynx don't manage to
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alban Browaeys wrote:
Le Sat, 04 Jun 2005 02:49:26 -0700, belahcene abdelkader a écrit :
I have the knoppix CD, NOT an iso format, I want to
create an iso BOOTABLE from the expanded directory.
How to do
Now that two people gave the same advice, I'm going to
dissent. The instructions in install.txt are adequate if
you have Debian on CDROM. Not if you download to disk
yourself. I downloaded what I believed was an accurate copy of
ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/linux/debian/bo onto a spare hard
drive and
tr -d '\r' dosfile unixfile
removes all ^Ms, even if they are not at the end of the line
where MSDOS seems to put them. tr(1) is small and fast.
perl -p -i.bak -e 's/\r$//;' dosfile
renames the dosfile dosfile.bak and writes the corrected
output in dosfile. The $ anchors the search
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