Re: Various questions (3)

2004-10-26 Thread Eddy Petrisor
Rony wrote: Hi, Any advice on: How to access a usb thumb drive in linux? My usb mouse is working, so the usb in my installation should be okay. modprobe usb-storage mount /dev/sda /mnt/stick Note that if you have SCSI real or emulated drives, then you should replace /dev/sda accordingly. Any idea

Re: Various questions (3)

2004-10-24 Thread Joe Emenaker
Rony wrote: How to access a usb thumb drive in linux? Right after you plug in your thumb drive, run "dmesg" from a command-prompt. The last messages should be something like .. device detected at "sda" or "sdb", or "sd"something. Whatever it is, your thumb drive should be at that device, on the

Various questions (3)

2004-10-24 Thread Rony
Hi, Any advice on: How to access a usb thumb drive in linux? My usb mouse is working, so the usb in my installation should be okay. Any idea where i can get a .deb for kopete, at least version 8.4 (to login to yahoo)? My system is Sarge. I tried to build, but error, seems i miss some libs. From

Re: Various questions...

2004-10-19 Thread H. S.
Chris Kacoroski wrote: I cannot login to my Yahoo account using Kopete. Always password error. Anybody experience this? There is an issue with Kopete and Yahoo. I had to switch to Gaim. ski ayttm works too(Debian testing): $> dpkg -l ayttm gaim Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=

Re: Various Questions (2)

2004-10-18 Thread Curt Howland
On the issue of defrag, Unlike Windows, any new file written in a UNIX style system is written contiguously. If a file is copied or moved, like when it is renamed, if it was fragmented before it will now be contiguous. Over time, UNIX file systems self-defrag. Also in a UNIX style system, havi

RE: Various Questions (2)

2004-10-18 Thread Gustavo Halperin
8, 2004 12:49 PM To: Rony Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Various Questions (2) On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 15:59, Rony wrote: ... > For the defrag issue, someone mentioned there's a package called > defrag in the Debian package list. In the package desciption, it > states that it defra

Re: Various Questions (2)

2004-10-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 15:59, Rony wrote: ... > For the defrag issue, someone mentioned there's a package called defrag > in the Debian package list. In the package desciption, it states that > it defrags some file system, but ext3, the one i'm currently using, is > not in the list. In more than 10

Re: Various Questions (2)

2004-10-17 Thread Francois Cerbelle
Le Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 07:59:44AM -0700, Rony ecrit : > Neither the wheel of my usb mouse nor the wheel of my touchpad is > working. Any advice? Your touchpad is certainly a Synaptics. Hotplug must load the "psmouse" module. Without any argument, "psmouse" find the synaptics touchpad and use the

Various Questions (2)

2004-10-17 Thread Rony
Hi, Thx for the previous advices. For the defrag issue, someone mentioned there's a package called defrag in the Debian package list. In the package desciption, it states that it defrags some file system, but ext3, the one i'm currently using, is not in the list. As for Kopete, i saw the Yahoo i

RE: Various questions...

2004-10-17 Thread Gustavo Halperin
>-Original Message- >From: Rony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 4:40 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Various questions... >Hi, >I have few questions: >Debian automatically does the file checking every mounting 24 times, how to

Re: Various questions...

2004-10-15 Thread Chris Kacoroski
I cannot login to my Yahoo account using Kopete. Always password error. Anybody experience this? There is an issue with Kopete and Yahoo. I had to switch to Gaim. ski -- "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it connected to the entire universe"John Muir Chris "Ski" Ka

Re: Various questions...

2004-10-15 Thread Francois Cerbelle
Le Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 07:39:51PM -0700, Rony ecrit : > Debian automatically does the file checking every mounting 24 times, > how to configure this? It's too frequent for me. tune2fs -c# /dev/hd? > Do we need to defrag in Linux? If yes, what tool to use? I'm using > ext3 as the file system. No

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2004-10-14 Thread Nick Hastings
* Rony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041015 11:40]: > Hi, > > I have few questions: > > Debian automatically does the file checking every mounting 24 times, > how to configure this? It's too frequent for me. Use the command `tune2fs' with the -c flag. Eg to set from 24 to 500 for /dev/hda2 tune2fs -c 50

Various questions...

2004-10-14 Thread Rony
Hi, I have few questions: Debian automatically does the file checking every mounting 24 times, how to configure this? It's too frequent for me. Do we need to defrag in Linux? If yes, what tool to use? I'm using ext3 as the file system. My Linux time is not correct, i have dual boot with XP. I k