On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:56:59 +, Colin Watson wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 07:43:18AM +, Pedro M. wrote:
In any case, one can create a newbie-user and advanced-user email lists
if necessary.
I think it's what Debian need now .
There was a good rebuttal of this recently,
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:02:57 +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote:
Hello
Andy Fish ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I have just figured out that there are 4 separate (types of) crontabs
in debian
/etc/crontab
/etc/cron.d/...
/etc/cron.daily, monthly, weekly
/var/spool/crontabs/...
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 22:07:32 +, Colin Watson wrote:
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 07:50:22AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:43:31AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
I know you weren't; I was referring to Paul's remark about package
quality, which came right out of left field.
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 22:51:02 +0530, Deboo wrote:
I'm using debian woody. After reading an article in LG on apt (Issue 86 -
Debian APT, part2), I wanted to try using some package from testing and I
did as per the artile, putting 2 new lines for testing and unstable in
sources.list. But after I
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 18:34:25 +0100, mess-mate wrote:
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:20:26 +0100
Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|On 2004-02-19, mess-mate penned:
|
| Sorry, not clear enough for me.
| I'd a kernel-image -2.4.24-1-686 installed and did an upgrade to the 2.4.24-2
| Since
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:54:11 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
(I wonder how I managed to change that setting without noticing ...)
You make me a bit nervous for you when you say stuff like that, Monique :)
--
paul
It is important to realize that any lock can be picked
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 23:05:13 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 12:35:59PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
I swear to Christ, when I was in France, I said to myself: PLEASE GOD
PLEASE get me back to my land of 500 channels of pablum,
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:50:18 -0500, David T-G wrote:
Oh, for the days when Linux really was just for geeks... :-)
OK, I can't resist as this thread is so way off topic anyway...
A geek is walking along a country road trying to find a use for an array
of pointers to arrays of pointers to
All,
Just some info. lilo's behavior has changed with the above package in
Sarge. It will by default apply change automatic, which for me meant
that it changed the partition types of all but one of the NTFS/FAT32
partitions on the disk containing my XP system partition to hidden,
causing a
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:01:34 -0500, Darin Strait wrote:
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I'm running kernel 2.6.2 and I'm experimenting with tmpfs.
I added the following to my fstab:
tmpfs /tmptmpfs size=50m,mode=1777 0 0
I then
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:17:06 -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 04:13:22PM -0500, David T-G wrote:
What about a switch with a 1 and 0? From what I've read of you so far it
would obviously be 'turned on' :-)
Do yourselves a favor and stop this patheticness. I'm cringing just
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 17:44:03 +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:16:54AM +0100, Thorsten Haude said
* s. keeling wrote (2004-02-09 06:44):
Just because it doesn't mention kde 3.x doesn't mean it's obsolete.
The book is 20 years old! There wasn't even an X Window to speak of!
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:37:20 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
... Disney got rid of
it's animation department
Disney didn't.
--
paul
It is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big
enough hammer.
-- Sun System Network Admin manual
--
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 19:45:15 -0600, Joshua Jankowski wrote:
As I have been quite intelligent in setting permissions on my debian server,
I am here to see if anyone has a solution. In my attempt to write recursive
permissions on one of my directories, I hit enter a little too prematurely
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:45:31 -0500, Bob Mills wrote:
2. How can I get into a command line interface from the graphical login
window without the mouse?
Bob Mills
Bob, please post in plain text...
To get to a console, Ctrl-Alt-F1 through F6. (There are 6 virtual consoles
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 16:33:15 +0800, Katipo wrote:
How much further ahead would Debian be if it already incorporated
Knoppixs' hardware recognition, Adamantixs' security features and
Xandros' drag and drop capability? Instead I have sat back and watched
as supposedly mature aged individuals
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 13:50:17 -0700, s. keeling wrote:
Incoming from Paul Morgan:
You must also be referring to the almost constant stream of infantile anti
M$ remarks with which I am heartily sick and tired. I use several OSes,
This is an attitude of which _I_ am sick and tired
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 22:44:38 -0700, s. keeling wrote:
Incoming from Thorsten Haude:
* Paul E Condon wrote (2004-02-08 05:15):
Start with Kernighan and Pike, The UNIX Programming Environment.
Please don't. This might have been a good book twenty years ago but
now it's obsolete.
I
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 12:29:37 -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:11:29AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
What would you suggest as an alternative? I've heard calls for Morphix,
but that's a derivitive of Knoppix.
I'd suggest them putting the Woody CD in the drive and
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 12:07:55 +, Clarke Fussells wrote:
[snip]
Complete all stainless steel mashed potato plant with blanchers,
peelers, emulsifiers and mixers * Complete forming battering
crumbing and frying lines Formax, Koppens and Stein
[snip]
Yes, but does all that stuff
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 13:06:38 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
I want to dual boot an i686 machine with Debian Sarge and Windoze. My
situation is somewhat special, so the directions that I find when I
google the topic do not really apply IMHO.
The i686 computer already has Sarge installed on a
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 21:11:15 +, Sam Halliday wrote:
i cant believe i just replied to an anti-microsoft troll on debian-user
:-/
I'll note it in my diary, Sam :
--
paul
It is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big
enough hammer.
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 21:04:34 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
[snip]
If the idea is to dumb things down so that the stupids don't have to think,
eventually all that will be left are the stupids.
[snip]
Ha! Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want
to use it.
I've just
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 07:43:41 +0800, Katipo wrote:
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 15:59:43 -0500
Paul Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 13:50:17 -0700, s. keeling wrote:
Incoming from Paul Morgan:
You must also be referring to the almost constant stream of
infantile anti M
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 07:53:13 +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
[Say] we can't do apt-get dist-upgrade over our puny modem. We must go to
town to burn the files onto a CDROM and take them back to install it.
Sure, we could do apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris, or use apt-zip, but
that creates a
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 01:08:40 -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
I have an ASUS P4C800. I have 2.6.2 kernel. I wish to see my CPU and
Mobo temps (and ideally fan speeds) like Asus PC Probe shows in Windows.
I have successfully installed lmsensors, (using 2.2.23 and 2.4.24
kernels) and it works great,
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 11:23:28 +, James Tappin wrote:
Could be expensive though, I remember when I was using dialup, about
1-hour/day connection at off-peak rates only cost only about £5 /month
less than I currently pay for ADSL 24 hours /day at 10 times the data
rate.
James
Hah, yes,
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 11:28:58 +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote:
Hi,
* Paul E Condon wrote (2004-02-08 05:15):
Start with Kernighan and Pike, The UNIX Programming Environment.
Please don't. This might have been a good book twenty years ago but now
it's obsolete.
Thorsten
Not by any means.
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 13:38:57 +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote:
Hi,
* Paul Morgan wrote (2004-02-08 12:50):
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 11:28:58 +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote:
* Paul E Condon wrote (2004-02-08 05:15):
Start with Kernighan and Pike, The UNIX Programming Environment.
Please don't
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 14:16:33 -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 08:44:28AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
Feh. While it may well work for you, who has clue, anyone who suggests to
a cluebie that using Knoppix is a way to get Debian should be shot.
Well a lot of new users like
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 17:23:37 +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote:
Hi,
* Paul Morgan wrote (2004-02-08 16:37):
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 13:38:57 +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote:
I use Linux for a couple of years now, and usually know my way around on
various Unix systems. Most of the tools described
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 15:04:21 -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
[snip]
Nano, I don't know anything about compiling the 2.6 kernel, I'm sticking
with 2.4 series for now. The only problem I had with compiling the
lmsensors modules was that there were two author-related macros which
needed fixing for the
On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 05:12:31 -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 07:36:35AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
KIND : Knoppix Is Not Debian
KIND BUD: Knoppix Is Novice Distro Based Upon Debian
:-)
KIND POOR BUM: Knoppix Is Not Debian, Packages Often Original Release But
Ultimately
On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 12:09:10 -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
I'm trying to compile my own 2.4.24 kernel using the sources from
kernel.org and the .config from Sarge, and I'm getting some errors:
# make-kpkg kernel_image
compiling...
if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F
On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 21:02:00 +0100, bruno doutriaux wrote:
i would like to read some root files on a distant debian host. could
somebody help me.
(i have some hints: the debian host is using gaim 0.75 which has security
fails and i would like to also listen it with a trojan, is it possible on
On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 22:28:03 +0100, David Baron wrote:
[snip]
Knoppix is a quick jumpstart into Linux for Novices, yes. One can also
purchase Lindows or Xandro for similar results. After HD installation,
this mailing list becomes the best source of advice. Knoppsters on their
mailing list
On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 22:09:32 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
On 2004-02-06, Paul Johnson penned:
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:28:14PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
Hopefully Rick forgives the personal intrusion.
If you consider getting an email from someone else on the net as a
personal
On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 21:05:37 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:59:04AM +0100, David Baron wrote:
Try a knoppix CD (you can download the image and burn one yourself). Use this
and in 15 minutes you have a fully configured Debian system. Painless.
Apparently this bears
On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 07:36:35 -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
I was going to respond earlier, but I've tried to inform the OP previously
Sorry, not the OP, I was confused by his unthreaded reply.
--
paul
It is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big
enough
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:54:30 +0530, Gauri S Deshmukh wrote:
hello all
i am not a subscriber to the list. i hope this message gets posted. i
also request you to mark a copy of your replies to me.
i use debian 3.0.
is there any program/ utility that will let me see jpg/ gif files on the
On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 07:18:44 +0100, Alex Fitterling wrote:
[snip]
music, tex. that's it! So CAN i use it without logs?? why gentoo users can
do and not debian? the packages depencies are almost everytime connected
with unnecessary server stuff as I don't want use. I like to use my debian
On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 00:44:34 -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
[snip]
I guess my point is we are a smart bunch of people and if we stay quiet
we can have all we want and no one will bother us. That's all. I've
seen bigger movements than this go down.
Very elegantly put, Nano, my congratulations
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:30:13 -0600, Will Trillich wrote:
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:56:25PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
My understanding is that lilo works off a system
map which is created at installation and is sector based. So, as long as
it can figure out where the kernel is physically
On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 09:33:21 -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
Gauri, a text terminal is a *text* terminal. The Linux GUI interface is
X. So you need to be using a viewer in X.
Linux is not like the old DOS OSes which ran programs which took over the
video with their own custom device-specific
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:55:21 -0800, Wendell Cochran wrote:
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:27:57 -0600
From: Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am looking for a mobo that has controls on for all its fans so
they can be turned off or down when not needed . . .
PC Power Cooling ( maybe
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:42:22 -0800, Day Brown wrote:
One other reminder that PCs were designed for the corporate environment.
People at home open the windows. And after being a home a few years, the
fans have clogged the heat sinks with dust, and the system fries. I run
with the hood off.
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 10:49:59 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
So, um, is there a way to list all packages that are in a particular
section? My aptitude test must have been naive, but I'm not sure why.
Other than my just-now reverse-engineered approach of trying the url
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 12:42:42 -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 03:20:43PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
aptitude ~sbase
aptitude search ~sbase
Thank you, nano, I am an idiot.
--
paul
It is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:15:45 +, Colin Watson wrote:
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:09:09AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
by hand; I expect that to be difficult for xfree86. There's nothing to
^
Oops; closing parenthesis goes
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:40:30 +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
I just noticed that in bash ulimit -u is the same as ash's
ulimit -p, while bash has another meaning for ulimit -p ... This
makes writing scripts quite difficult, I'd say you cannot then use
ulimit in /bin/sh scripts, only in
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:08:59 -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:40:30 +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
I just noticed that in bash ulimit -u is the same as ash's
ulimit -p, while bash has another meaning for ulimit -p ... This
makes writing scripts quite difficult, I'd say you
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 09:46:48 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
Fine, drag my shame out into the light of day.
You know that red line that goes through the speaker icon on the gnome
panel? Yeah, apparently that means it's set to mute, and clicking it
fixes the problem, and gets rid of the
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 20:48:34 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
Also, he says that it runs on the PDP-11 and the Interdata 8/32, which
contradicts my memory that it was developed on an earlier model DEC
computer. But he does say that work on UNIX started in 1971. so maybe
my memory is OK.
IIRC,
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 04:49:26 +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 05:01:17PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
Here's another view of that data:
What about this one?:
| Country Aid(Billions) People(Millions) Dollars/Person
| Australia 1 19.750.76
| Austria 0.5 8.1
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:42:44 -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
Paul Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 03:56:13 +0100, knoppix wrote:
Kernels work differently than other debian packages. Each kernel revision
is a *different* package. So, do:
apt-get update
apt-cache search
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 09:11:39 +0200, Johannes Lehtinen wrote:
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 06:41:35AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 03:40:18 +0200, Johannes Lehtinen wrote:
I have a problem disabling IDE DMA. I am trying to install Debian Sarge
in to an old laptop and with DMA
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 07:21:02 -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:43:56PM -0800, Day Brown wrote:
Linux comes from Unix, which was designed for mainframes.
windows comes from dos, which was designed for personal desktops.
Well technically Unix was designed for mid-sized
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 00:46:13 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
Thank you Collin. Beautiful reading. Scary. To think that so many of the
statements made in science fiction have come through, to know how dark
life can be made to be on the surface of this ball, or on the surface of
the other
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 03:40:18 +0200, Johannes Lehtinen wrote:
Hello,
I have a problem disabling IDE DMA. I am trying to install Debian Sarge
in to an old laptop and with DMA enabled (default) I keep getting DMA
timeouts and retries from /dev/hda. The kernel image is 2.4.23-1-386
(2.4.23-1).
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 03:56:13 +0100, knoppix wrote:
Hi
is apt-get update kernel-2.6 enough to upgrade the kernel ?
Kernels work differently than other debian packages. Each kernel revision
is a *different* package. So, do:
apt-get update
apt-cache search kernel-image
apt-get install
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:01:14 +0100, Jaume Alonso wrote:
Paul Morgan wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:05:24 +0100, Jaume Alonso wrote:
I'm a newbie in debian. I'm currently using Sarge. When will I be able
to install the new GNOME 2.4??
You can do it right now, you just have to do
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:04:20 -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
Hello,
I want to make a rescue floppy set for my woody system. Where should I
look for information? The Rescue Floppy section of the Installing
manual doesn't help...
man mkrescue
--
paul
It is
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:05:01 +, Clive Menzies wrote:
Hi List
I've just reorganised the partitions on a second (Seagate) drive in
a dual booting Dell Dimension XPS T500 to give more room to /usr
(to upgrade from woody to sid).
The partitions I messed with were /home, /usr and two
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:05:24 +0100, Jaume Alonso wrote:
I'm a newbie in debian. I'm currently using Sarge. When will I be able
to install the new GNOME 2.4??
You can do it right now, you just have to do it in bits and pieces.
apt-cache search is your friend (look for the gnome2 packages).
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:36:38 -0600, Kent West wrote:
M.Kirchhoff wrote:
If you want the newest software available, Sid/Unstable is where you want to be.
`Unstable` is a misleading term; really, it's more `volatile` than unstable,
that is, packages move into Sid/Unstable constantly, so the
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:39:52 -0800, Ian Neubert wrote:
I just installed bugzilla with `apt-get install bugzilla`. I set some of the
congiuration settings wrong when it ran the configure part of the deb
package.
I then ran `apt-get remove bugzilla`, and `dpkg -P bugzilla`.
But now, when I
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:52:47 -0500, Jose Peralta Ramirez wrote:
i have 2 hard disks drives in my computer, one have fat32 an windows98,
the other has four partitions, one NTFS, other with fat32, and with
windows XP in the NTFS partition, other with SWAP and othe with EXT3
and with linux
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 23:57:44 +, Clive Menzies wrote:
On (22/01/04 14:31), Paul Morgan wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:05:01 +, Clive Menzies wrote:
I've just reorganised the partitions on a second (Seagate) drive in
a dual booting Dell Dimension XPS T500 to give more room to /usr
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:13:07 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
Hi there,
Please excuse the OTness of this post. Since I am writing a library
to be included in Debian, I feel that I should not be slaughtered
for bothering you and hoping for your time and knowledge.
It wouldn't be OT if you
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 22:30:39 +, Pigeon wrote:
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 04:41:59AM +0800, Ryan Mackay wrote:
If you dont choose this chipset i would suggest sticking with nVidia
none the less, they do support Linux (or Xwindows should i say) alot
more/better than other companies.
Hmm,
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:42:26 +, Antony Gelberg wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks!
I'm looking for a dedicated server supporting Debian, without paying
through the nose for a custom installation.
I'm with aktiom.net. I've been very pleased with their service after a few
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 01:13:11 +0100, kegwasher wrote:
Help.
I seem to have developed a problem during my update. The mirror selected
must be overwhelmed or just slow. My update time remaining is swinging
from 7hrs to 4days! Is is possible to stop and restart without causing a
mess?
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 23:00:55 +, Pigeon wrote:
Like I said, running mount will tell you how the FS is mounted. It does
not echo what is in /etc/fstab. When it mounts an FS, it writes an
entry in /etc/mtab describing the mount. Of course it's going to look
similar to the fstab entry
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 03:02:30 -0300, Cristian Gutierrez wrote:
This seems to be partly due to the nature of issues' contexts.
You have trouble with XFree, then you post relevant parts of
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and /var/log/XFree86.0.log (you are usually
specifically asked for this files).
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 02:39:14 +, Faheem Mitha wrote:
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 18:00:51 -0500, Paul Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Running mount, as you suggest, will tell you with which options the FS
was mounted, including the journaling mode.
It just seems to echo what is in /etc/fstab
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 13:18:21 +0200, David Baron wrote:
In the continuing attempt to get my ext3 active, following instructions in
the Debian Reference, I apt-got a new kernel image (so I took the 2.24-1
version, i686-smp. This installs demanding and initrd.
I edited lilo config with an
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:36:01 -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
Brett Carrington wrote:
That is not too difficult. The [U.S.] military (and others, I'm sure)
use wide-band recorders for some applications (not sure what, as it is
not my field of expertise). Essentially, they record onto 1 or
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 01:04:10 +, Colin Watson wrote:
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 08:26:03PM +0100, peter a wrote:
But that would only work with the so far unstable Sarge-release? As this
is a server install I would prefer a stable release.. or is it possible
to use the installer too boot a
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:18:09 +0300, Alphonse Ogulla wrote:
Got 200 plus mail bombs in my pop3 account this morning. Luckily I used Kmail
and filtered (deleted) every incoming message of size greater than 40Kb. Just
wondering, is swen back from holiday? How you people managing?
I've been
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:43:51 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
On 2004-01-19, Paul Morgan penned:
With regard to booting: if you don't specify the root filesystem at
boot time, how is the OS going to find it? There is, apparently a
default for the root filesystem compiled into the kernel - I
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:22:42 -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
As to why revert to ext2, after conversion to ext3 and serveral other
changes, the hard disk stays on all the time. I'm trying to figure
out why.
Anyone know how to safely convert an ext3 FS to ext2?
A quick google (hint,
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:51:28 -0700, Doug Holland wrote:
On Sun 18 Jan 2004 1:16 pm, Faheem Mitha wrote:
Dear People,
Just wondering if anyone knows of a easy and definitive way to
determine whether a specific mounted partition is ext2 or ext3, and if
ext3, whether is mounted as ordered data
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 23:34:17 +0100, David Baron wrote:
cat /proc/mounts
mount command and /etc/mtab contents simply parrot what is in /etc/fstab.
The OP wanted to see also what ext3 journal option is in effect. You can't
see that in /proc/mounts, so the mount command would be the way to go.
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 17:32:49 -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote:
Paul Morgan wrote:
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 13:18:50 -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote:
So you would wish, for instance, to deprive me of a package which I can
understand and use simply because the documentation is not adequate enough
for you
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:37:27 -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote:
The obvious solution to this quandry, would be to put the URL in the man
page if the page applied to that implementation. Shouldn't that be easy
to do? (but it does leave out those poor unfortunates that do not have
internet
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 03:51:22 -0800, Phillipus Gunawan wrote:
Hi there,
How to compile kernel 2.6.1 in Debian way? Can
somebody point me at a good doco?
What are the requirements to install kernel 2.6.1? The
gcc, etc?
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html
also, I
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 13:18:50 -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote:
I think my point would be closer to not allowing a package on-board
without adaqate instruction on what it was and how to use it.
Where is the value of providing a widget to a customer without giving
them a clue as to what the widget
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:22:59 -0800, Cloids wrote:
I am trying to the Debian Takeover Script
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/debian-devel-200401/msg00313.html)
Wehn I execute the script, I get this error:
./debian: line 200: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 03:19:54 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
I'm taking a class this semester which is all about installing and using
Linux. After talking with the professor on Tuesday, I've learned a few
details. First, I have to use Vulgarly Illogical for my text editor for
the purposes of
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:37:57 -0500, alex wrote:
If a computer works with a preinstalled SUSE system and doesn't have an
installed MS Windows system, what problems can be expected with adding
and running additional systems like Debian and a MS Windows if the hard
drive is properly
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:47:56 -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
Obviously, for tech stuff, the internet is authoritative. And there
should be travel brochures and fan sites on the internet. But I would
much rather googling for Stonehenge returned 27 hits comprising
thousands of printed pages of
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:42:43 -0500, Brad Cramer wrote:
I am running Sid with 2 matching 40gig drives. Everything has been running
great until I get this message when going and apt-get upgrade:
hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 08:08:33 -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:11:55PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
Firstly, you are not going to make many friends by dissing what many
long-time Unix programmers regard as the best test editor going. So you
can pretty much assume
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 03:07:48 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
See above reference to proper usage of the 'find' command. It really
comes in handy in situations like this. :) - Once again. Smiley. Joke.
Ha ha. Funny. Etc, etc, etc, ad nauseaum. Need I go on? :)
I owe you an apology. I
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 20:37:57 +0100, Arkel wrote:
hello guys
does anybody know how to get super user privilege when a normal user not
supposed to
You could try buying the SA a hooker.
--
paul
It is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big
enough
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:12:38 -0800, Deryk Barker wrote:
My major beef is the way that they allow the Druids (virutually
nothing is known about the real Druids aside from a paragraph in
Caesar) to prance about there on midsummer's morning.
Firstly the real Druids did *not* build Stonehenge
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 02:14:14 +, Oliver Elphick wrote:
On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 09:27, Paul Morgan wrote:
I've been following this thread with interest, being a user of postgreql
7.3.4 on sarge, as the upgrade will be heading my way soon. I did wonder
why the postinstall on your first
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:14:45 +, Richard Lyons wrote:
On Saturday 10 January 2004 01:08, Oliver Elphick wrote:
[...snipped: details of stupidly upgrading postgres
without first doing pg_dumpall, causing need to
downgrade from 7.4 to 7.3 temporarily...]
[snip]
Then used
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 12:48:55 -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote:
My real question is this,
-should I give up on Woody and move to Sarge as one post (elsewhere)
suggested in hopes that Sarge's .deb will actually work?
-give up on the .deb package system and use the .tar file - (takes me
back to
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 12:25:34 +, Tendril wrote:
Now I get all the same files as before come up except with ~ at the end.
What does the ~ mean? I tried to edit these files but was informed that the
'buffer is read only'
If you look at the man page for the editor you were using, you'll
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