I agree, close this thread. the main issue was resolved with a reinstall. Thanks for the sources.list info. Leonard Chatagnier ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 1:18 PM Subject: Re: Fw:Mewbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work
> Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > >From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > >>Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Well. finally achieved partial success. Modem, ppp,wvdial and gnome GUI now working without error messages except Mozilla mail client still gets mail from the wrong account. > >>> > >>> > >>Somewhere in the Moz menus will be an "Account Options" or similar item > >>(on Thunderbird, it's "Tools" / "Account Settings"). Delete the wrong > >>account; create the correct account. > >> > >> > >Gee, I thought I made it clear that I have only one account set up and have deleted it several times and restarted. I set up [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I get [EMAIL PROTECTED] User ID is lchata and I think Mozilla is getting confused. Getting correct email set up with outlook express > >worked the first time when I first changed addresses. > > > > > > Is Outlook Express responsible for the horrible quoting style I'm seeing > in this email (which I've cleaned up in this reply)? If so, it's hardly > a program to be praising, even if it is easy to set up. > > Perhaps you did make it clear that you only have one account set up and > have deleted it & restarted several times in an earlier posting, but > this list generates way too much traffic for most people to remember > details not specified in the immediate context. > > At any rate, what you're describing is not being understood by me. Maybe > you should start a new thread with an appropriate subject line to deal > with just this one issue. > > >>>Dselect didn't run. The reinstall failed > >>>everyltime I used my backup CD' so I turned to the originals to reinstall > >>>and it still didn't complete dselect as on the original installation. > >>> > >>> > >>I'm beginning to think you have bad/damaged CDs. > >> > >> > >Ditto, I think the same. So I used the unused original disks and still had errors. The originals from Linux CD-r's could be corrupt. > > > > > > Could be. > > > >>In order to inform your system of newer stuff, like newer > >>kernels, you'll have to point your system to a different source for > >>packages. > >> > >> > >Ok, I've changed sources.list from stable to testing and commented out the CD entries and assume I will see Sarge kernel images to download when I run `apt-get dist-upgrade. Right? Can I just upgrade the kernel to Sarge to start instead of updating/upgrading the entire Debian distribution or > >will that cause problems? I only have dialup modem service. > > > > > > Just changing "stable" to "testing" won't do the job, as your > sources.list file is currently (presumably) only looking toward your > on-hand set of CDs. You'll have to add appropriate lines for grabbing > files off the network. "man sources.list" is a good reference, but to > get you started, here's what my sources.list file looks like (I only > pull from the net; no CDs, etc): > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk:> cat /etc/apt/sources.list > > #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main > > > > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main > > # deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main > > > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main > > > PS: It's a good idea to prune excess material that's no longer needed in your reply. It's also a good idea to not "top post", but rather to place your response directly below whatever you're responding to. It's my understanding that Outlook Express encourages top-posting by putting your cursor at the top of a reply email; very bad, nasty habit. > > > -- > Kent West > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
