fdisk

1998-09-03 Thread David Parmet
i'm trying to eliminate one partition (accidentally i made two swap partitions.. i'm a newbie). ran fdisk, edited fstab so far so good. rebooted ok. so far so good. i typed df and the freed up space (25 megs) still doesn't show up. any suggestions in fdisk? basically i deleted the

Re: fdisk

1998-09-03 Thread David Parmet
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: You haven't put the free space into a partition. got that.. now do i just work from the hda partition in fdisk, destroy it and rebuild? fdisk is not the most obvious program!

Re: fdisk

1998-09-03 Thread David Parmet
ack! no one ever said linux was easy!! thanks On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, David Parmet wrote: On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: You haven't put the free space into a partition. got that.. now do i just work from the hda partition

another good book

1998-08-10 Thread David Parmet
ok.. I got 2.0 installed and running. Can anyone recommend some good reading on basic programming? I have no knowledge aside from knowing a bash shell from a hole in the ground and I'd like to learn some basic skill so I can figure out how this thing works? thanks.

Re: hardware purchase advice: modems

1998-08-03 Thread David Parmet
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: (since this is not really on topic (not that this list has much of a topic as it is just general for al debian users private replies are ok... I really have no preference to private or public) I'm interested in this as well so keep it public!

disc two

1998-07-31 Thread David Parmet
base14-2 is coming up bad sector every time i try to rawrite it to a diskette any other sources? tia -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

more linus!

1998-07-29 Thread David Parmet
Linus on the cover of this weeks Forbes! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

dselect

1998-07-28 Thread David Parmet
Is there some sort of reconfig going on ? For the past two days, I've been trying to run dselect and I get stable binaries not found or non-free binaries you get the idea... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: dselect

1998-07-28 Thread David Parmet
I'm specifying stable, non-free, contrib, etc... still no go... On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote: David Parmet wrote: Is there some sort of reconfig going on ? Perhaps you're still specifying frozen - if so, convert to stable. I've noticed that my best sites were one

Re: no pon!

1998-07-27 Thread David Parmet
ok.. i looked there and i found LCK..ttyS0 and LCK..ttyS1 should i rm them? On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, David Parmet wrote: who is this pid 109 and what does it want with my life? If there is no process with a pid of 109 running, you can have

Re: no pon!

1998-07-27 Thread David Parmet
got it going. thanks all. On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Randy Edwards wrote: When I type pon, nothing is happening. I ran plog and got the message that Device ttyS1 is locked by pid 109 ttyS1 was working fine for weeks. who is this pid 109 and what does it want with my life? PID is

no pon!

1998-07-26 Thread David Parmet
When I type pon, nothing is happening. I ran plog and got the message that Device ttyS1 is locked by pid 109 ttyS1 was working fine for weeks. who is this pid 109 and what does it want with my life? thanks -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

cd rom drives

1998-07-23 Thread David Parmet
newbie alert. since my 1.3 box, which i'm upgrading asap, doesn't have a cd-rom drive and has only a 14.4 modem, i was thinking of upgrading both before upgrading to 2.0. now.. here's the dumb newbie question.. apart from staying away from plug and pray, is there any complication to

Re: Forwarded mail....

1998-07-22 Thread David Parmet
I guess email scams are the new universal language On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, ASHEESH RASTOGI wrote: Dear All, I just received this mail from a friend of mine in my College. Please respond to it. It will just mean employing a little bit of time and won'tcost you a penny. All it

the time

1998-07-13 Thread David Parmet
dumb newbie question I got everything up and running (still working on X but that's another story) but when i ask for date it gives me May 25th. How do i change the date and time? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null