Hello Debian-World,
I wanted to update my system yesterday with dselect, but somehow, I must
have typed something wrong, because dselect wants to remove some important
.debs (although they are marked as installed).
My question: How do I tell dselect to "forget" this stupid selection, or
even bette
> Sorry...I already deleted the original message, so I'll just respond to this
> one...
>
> I'm using a Toshiba Satellite 2775XDVD, and I'm thoroughly impressed.
> I bought a Netgear FA510c eth card, compiled the cardbus and tulip modules
> that came with my kernel (test7; didn't try the
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 03:13:32PM -0800, Heather wrote:
> ::snip::
> > But it sure beats the crap out of memorizing the availables list.
> um...apt-cache?
If I had more than one machine I was trying to do, that could be handy;
it's not really much help for the first one.
* Heather Stern * star
I'm looking at buying a low cost laptop to run Debian on.
A lot of the big names are making low-end consumer laptops
in the $1000-$1400 range like the IBM Thinkpad iSeries, the
Compaq K6 laptops, etc. From the Laptops on Linux page, it
looks like some folks have had problems getting some of these
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 05:29:30 -0500
Kent Pirkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
KP> I'm looking at buying a low cost laptop to run Debian on.
KP>
KP> A lot of the big names are making low-end consumer laptops
KP> in the $1000-$1400 range like the IBM Thinkpad iSeries, the
KP> Compaq K6 laptops, etc. F
Hi all,
I get several responses, groupable in two solutions:
1) put the packages to hold;
2) mark my custom packages with epoch >= 1
Tried the first without success (actually I think I had them in hold when I
first wrote to the list); I'll try 2nd approach whenever I have a night to
spend :)
Hello,
About a year ago I picked up an IBM Thinkpad 560
(ultra portable, came out in '96) to experiment with
Linux on.
Because it did not have a builtin CDROM, I had to
learn a lot about Linux, to get started, but I ended up
getting everything to work on it.
My advice is to get a laptop w
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 04:10:09PM +, John Miskinis wrote:
>About a year ago I picked up an IBM Thinkpad 560
> (ultra portable, came out in '96) to experiment with
> Linux on.
>
>Because it did not have a builtin CDROM, I had to
> learn a lot about Linux, to get started, but I ended up
Andreas Tscharner wrote:
>
> Hello Debian-World,
>
> I wanted to update my system yesterday with dselect, but somehow, I must
> have typed something wrong, because dselect wants to remove some important
> .debs (although they are marked as installed).
> My question: How do I tell dselect to "forg
G'Day !
Yeah I tried to Upgrade my desktop with dselect instead of apt-get and dpkg
And I trashed my system :-( I finally got it working enough to boot so I can
recover my files, but unless someone can show me a better way, I will need to
reinstall from scratch then do a restore from backu
> >About a year ago I picked up an IBM Thinkpad 560
> > (ultra portable, came out in '96) to experiment with
> > Linux on.
> >
> >Because it did not have a builtin CDROM, I had to
> > learn a lot about Linux, to get started, but I ended up
> > getting everything to work on it.
> >
> >
> Hi all,
>
> I get several responses, groupable in two solutions:
>
> 1) put the packages to hold;
> 2) mark my custom packages with epoch >= 1
>
> Tried the first without success (actually I think I had them in hold when I
> first wrote to the list); I'll try 2nd approach whenever I have a ni
On Friday 17 November 2000 11:22, m.nine.six wrote:
> don't use dselect. use apt-get and dpkg
>
> > Thanks for your help in advance.
> > Andreas
Is there a way to get apt-get or dpkg to tell you about suggested packages?
This can make the difference between having something _technically_
This depends alot on what you wan't to use it for. My Compaq Armada has a 850
MB HD, which is plenty for my use ( although an extra gig, never hurts :-).
It's an 75 MHz Pentium processor with 16 MB RAM, enough for fvwm, XF4 and
emacs. I tried using gnome on it, but that was simple too much for i
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> G'Day !
>
> Yeah I tried to Upgrade my desktop with dselect instead of apt-get and dpkg
>
> And I trashed my system :-( I finally got it working enough to boot so I can
> recover my files, but unless someone can show me a better way, I will need to
> reinstall fr
I have problem using Xfree on Compaq Armada 1130
The chipset is a CLGD7548 and I`ve XF3.3.6 (my chipset is unsupported in
XF4! :( )
I`m searching for XF86Config that permit 800x600 resolution and 16 bpp.
Please Help Me ;)
Best Regard
s.
--
G'Day !
I forget which package it choked on (maybe libpam0) ... basically a package
needs libpam0 but libpam0 cann't update till I've upgraded the other package, a
real Catch-22. So now it is stuck in this limbo state of packages installed but
not configured properly.
When I went back thru the
Heather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you last used it before about February or so (maybe earlier...) its
> interface has changed immensely, and is a lot more like aptitude now. It
> even has real menus.
Heh, heh. No, I tried it a couple weeks ago. Actually I was pretty impressed
with t
Hey all,
New to the list, new to notebooks, using debian for over a year,
and linux since 0.99pl14 ;-)
So I've recently got myself a Dell Inspiron 4000 and am having
trouble getting the 3Com miniPCI NIC working.
I've got potato installed on the machine (base + a few bits) but
whenever I try
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> G'Day !
>
> I forget which package it choked on (maybe libpam0) ... basically a package
> needs libpam0 but libpam0 cann't update till I've upgraded the other package,
> a
> real Catch-22. So now it is stuck in this limbo state of packages installed
> but
> not config
> I've got potato installed on the machine (base + a few bits) but
> whenever I try to load the 3c59x (vortex) kernel module, it
> craps out with (paraphrased): "device or resource busy".
...
> I verified that the card (and the other hardware) were working
> fine under the preinstalled windoze en
+++ Heather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yeah... boot off a rescue disk (my favorites: Tom's rtbt, or Linuxcare's
> BBC), mount up the drive's partitions in the right order, chroot into the
> environment, then dpkg --purge pcmcia-cs. (That'll get it out of the init
> scripts, as well as getting
+++ Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Come to mention it, I've had problems with the potato boot disk too, on a
> Toshiba 490CDT. It won't boot off the CD, just doesn't see it, if I recall
> correctly. Other CDs (e.g. slink, what I originally installed Debian off)
> boot fine, so I thou
I installed debian on an old total peripherals 486dx4100 - no cd rom.
I used base floppies ,installed samba and then used dselect through a network
connection to my other pc with a cdrom.
Everything works fine - pcmcia, modem , touch mouse pad in X
(X was the hardest thing to configure)
Lappie cos
> Sorry...I already deleted the original message, so I'll just respond to this one...
>
> I'm using a Toshiba Satellite 2775XDVD, and I'm thoroughly impressed. I
>bought a Netgear FA510c eth card, compiled the cardbus and tulip modules that came
>with my kernel (test7; didn't try the one
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 03:13:32PM -0800, Heather wrote:
> ::snip::
> > But it sure beats the crap out of memorizing the availables list.
> um...apt-cache?
If I had more than one machine I was trying to do, that could be handy;
it's not really much help for the first one.
* Heather Stern * sta
I'm looking at buying a low cost laptop to run Debian on.
A lot of the big names are making low-end consumer laptops
in the $1000-$1400 range like the IBM Thinkpad iSeries, the
Compaq K6 laptops, etc. From the Laptops on Linux page, it
looks like some folks have had problems getting some of thes
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 05:29:30 -0500
Kent Pirkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
KP> I'm looking at buying a low cost laptop to run Debian on.
KP>
KP> A lot of the big names are making low-end consumer laptops
KP> in the $1000-$1400 range like the IBM Thinkpad iSeries, the
KP> Compaq K6 laptops, etc.
Hi all,
I get several responses, groupable in two solutions:
1) put the packages to hold;
2) mark my custom packages with epoch >= 1
Tried the first without success (actually I think I had them in hold when I
first wrote to the list); I'll try 2nd approach whenever I have a night to
spend :)
Hello,
About a year ago I picked up an IBM Thinkpad 560
(ultra portable, came out in '96) to experiment with
Linux on.
Because it did not have a builtin CDROM, I had to
learn a lot about Linux, to get started, but I ended up
getting everything to work on it.
My advice is to get a lapto
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 04:10:09PM +, John Miskinis wrote:
>About a year ago I picked up an IBM Thinkpad 560
> (ultra portable, came out in '96) to experiment with
> Linux on.
>
>Because it did not have a builtin CDROM, I had to
> learn a lot about Linux, to get started, but I ended u
Andreas Tscharner wrote:
>
> Hello Debian-World,
>
> I wanted to update my system yesterday with dselect, but somehow, I must
> have typed something wrong, because dselect wants to remove some important
> .debs (although they are marked as installed).
> My question: How do I tell dselect to "for
G'Day !
Yeah I tried to Upgrade my desktop with dselect instead of apt-get and dpkg
And I trashed my system :-( I finally got it working enough to boot so I can
recover my files, but unless someone can show me a better way, I will need to
reinstall from scratch then do a restore from back
> >About a year ago I picked up an IBM Thinkpad 560
> > (ultra portable, came out in '96) to experiment with
> > Linux on.
> >
> >Because it did not have a builtin CDROM, I had to
> > learn a lot about Linux, to get started, but I ended up
> > getting everything to work on it.
> >
> >
> Hi all,
>
> I get several responses, groupable in two solutions:
>
> 1) put the packages to hold;
> 2) mark my custom packages with epoch >= 1
>
> Tried the first without success (actually I think I had them in hold when I
> first wrote to the list); I'll try 2nd approach whenever I have a n
On Friday 17 November 2000 11:22, m.nine.six wrote:
> don't use dselect. use apt-get and dpkg
>
> > Thanks for your help in advance.
> > Andreas
Is there a way to get apt-get or dpkg to tell you about suggested packages?
This can make the difference between having something _technically_
This depends alot on what you wan't to use it for. My Compaq Armada has a 850 MB HD,
which is plenty for my use ( although an extra gig, never hurts :-). It's an 75 MHz
Pentium processor with 16 MB RAM, enough for fvwm, XF4 and emacs. I tried using gnome
on it, but that was simple too much for
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> G'Day !
>
> Yeah I tried to Upgrade my desktop with dselect instead of apt-get and dpkg
> And I trashed my system :-( I finally got it working enough to boot so I can
> recover my files, but unless someone can show me a better way, I will need to
> reinstall from
I have problem using Xfree on Compaq Armada 1130
The chipset is a CLGD7548 and I`ve XF3.3.6 (my chipset is unsupported in
XF4! :( )
I`m searching for XF86Config that permit 800x600 resolution and 16 bpp.
Please Help Me ;)
Best Regard
s.
--
G'Day !
I forget which package it choked on (maybe libpam0) ... basically a package
needs libpam0 but libpam0 cann't update till I've upgraded the other package, a
real Catch-22. So now it is stuck in this limbo state of packages installed but
not configured properly.
When I went back thru the
Heather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you last used it before about February or so (maybe earlier...) its
> interface has changed immensely, and is a lot more like aptitude now. It
> even has real menus.
Heh, heh. No, I tried it a couple weeks ago. Actually I was pretty impressed
with
Hey all,
New to the list, new to notebooks, using debian for over a year,
and linux since 0.99pl14 ;-)
So I've recently got myself a Dell Inspiron 4000 and am having
trouble getting the 3Com miniPCI NIC working.
I've got potato installed on the machine (base + a few bits) but
whenever I try
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> G'Day !
>
> I forget which package it choked on (maybe libpam0) ... basically a package
> needs libpam0 but libpam0 cann't update till I've upgraded the other package, a
> real Catch-22. So now it is stuck in this limbo state of packages installed but
> not configured
> I've got potato installed on the machine (base + a few bits) but
> whenever I try to load the 3c59x (vortex) kernel module, it
> craps out with (paraphrased): "device or resource busy".
...
> I verified that the card (and the other hardware) were working
> fine under the preinstalled windoze e
+++ Heather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yeah... boot off a rescue disk (my favorites: Tom's rtbt, or Linuxcare's
> BBC), mount up the drive's partitions in the right order, chroot into the
> environment, then dpkg --purge pcmcia-cs. (That'll get it out of the init
> scripts, as well as getting
+++ Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Come to mention it, I've had problems with the potato boot disk too, on a
> Toshiba 490CDT. It won't boot off the CD, just doesn't see it, if I recall
> correctly. Other CDs (e.g. slink, what I originally installed Debian off)
> boot fine, so I tho
I installed debian on an old total peripherals 486dx4100 - no cd rom.
I used base floppies ,installed samba and then used dselect through a network
connection to my other pc with a cdrom.
Everything works fine - pcmcia, modem , touch mouse pad in X
(X was the hardest thing to configure)
Lappie co
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