Debian install to subnotebook

2001-10-01 Thread Bruce Best \(CRO\)
My brother-in-law has recently purchased a Sony Vaio SR(??) subnotebook. The computer has no internal cd or floppy (though I do have a USB floppy from my laptop), but does have a PC-Card D-Link network card, and a USB ZIP drive. More unfortunately, it came pre-installed with Windows ME. He wants

Re: Debian install to subnotebook

2001-10-01 Thread Gustaf Erikson
"Bruce Best (CRO)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My brother-in-law has recently purchased a Sony Vaio SR(??) subnotebook. The > computer has no internal cd or floppy (though I do have a USB floppy from my > laptop), but does have a PC-Card D-Link network card, and a USB ZIP drive. > More unfortuna

Re: problem with asus lk8460 and apm

2001-10-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:05:17AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > The major problem I'm feeling is with apm. I can easily see the battery > status and shutdown properly the laptop, but standby and suspends (both > suspend to ram and suspend to disk) just freeze the machine *before > entering th

RE: Debian install to subnotebook

2001-10-01 Thread Bruce Best \(CRO\)
> >How did you install Win2k? > Put the CD in a desktop computer on the network, copied the relevant folders over the network to the Vaio hard drive, and ran the install from within Win ME. >This link may help with the WinME/DOS problem: > >http://www.geocities.com/mfd4life_2000/ > Thanks, I

Re: Random crashes with testing on IBM T22

2001-10-01 Thread Glen Mehn
I had almost the exact thing happen on a T20 of mine, and after a huge amount of work, it started showing POST errors. It ended up being a hardware problem. glen On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:31:36AM +0200, Martin Sk?tt wrote: > Hi > I got Debian testing running on my Thinkpad T22 a couple of

Re: how to install debian without floppy drive or cdrom-drive

2001-10-01 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 05:02:07PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello > > I have a laptop, it's an acer with a pentium 100 and > 16 meg ram. I want to install debian on it but I have > a problem : I don't have a floppy drive(broken) and I > don't have a cd drive. But,I have an adapter that >

Re: Debian install to subnotebook

2001-10-01 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 12:21:22PM -0400, Bruce Best (CRO) wrote: > My brother-in-law has recently purchased a Sony Vaio SR(??) subnotebook. The > computer has no internal cd or floppy (though I do have a USB floppy from my > laptop), but does have a PC-Card D-Link network card, and a USB ZIP drive

Re: ALSA

2001-10-01 Thread Tom Allison
On Saturday 29 September 2001 18:41, Tom Allison spewed forth: > > Hmm. Random question: which alsaconf package do you have installed? > > alsaconf or alsaconf-0.4? I think that you want the alsaconf package. > definitely alsaconf and not alsaconf-0.4 > I'm pretty sure it was the not 0.4 version.

Re: ALSA

2001-10-01 Thread Tom Allison
On Saturday 29 September 2001 18:41, Tom Allison spewed forth: > On Saturday 29 September 2001 18:35, Hubert Chan spewed forth: > > Hmm. Random question: which alsaconf package do you have installed? > > alsaconf or alsaconf-0.4? I think that you want the alsaconf package. > > I'm pretty sure it

Alsa configuration - missing modules

2001-10-01 Thread Tom Allison
I'm unable to find the alsaconf version 0.5, but I am using the 0.4.3b, which calls for a /etc/alsa/modutils/0.5 file. The problem that I've got right now in getting this to work is this: I have a ibm A21m notebook with a CS4614 soundcard/chip in it. According the the /etc/modutils/alsa file, I sh

Re: Install: Compaq LTE 5300

2001-10-01 Thread Richard Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Gnome is bigger, yes, but it's better supported. Depends on what you mean by "supported". Gnome is different to fvwm - you can't compare one with the other. Gnome provides an extra layer of functionality which people may or may not want. > I'd recommend Gnome over FV

Error executing make xconfig in debian Sid 01/10/01

2001-10-01 Thread Pere Castañer
Hi debian users, recently I adquired a laptop and I put the debian in it, all seems going correctly but I have some errors that I haven't seen before executing make xconfig. The log is here: -- debian:~# cd /usr/src/linux debian:/usr/src/l

Re: Install: Compaq LTE 5300

2001-10-01 Thread Heather
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Gnome is bigger, yes, but it's better supported. > > I'd recommend Gnome over FVWM any day. > > Depends on what you mean by "supported". Gnome is different to fvwm - > you can't compare one with the other. Gnome provides an extra layer of > functionality which peop

Re: Random crashes with testing on IBM T22

2001-10-01 Thread Martin Skøtt
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 09:27:55PM -0700, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:31:36AM +0200, Martin Sk?tt wrote: > > > > I got Debian testing running on my Thinkpad T22 a couple of months ago thanks > > to this list and it has been working almost like a charm ever since :-) > > The

Debian install to subnotebook

2001-10-01 Thread Bruce Best (CRO)
My brother-in-law has recently purchased a Sony Vaio SR(??) subnotebook. The computer has no internal cd or floppy (though I do have a USB floppy from my laptop), but does have a PC-Card D-Link network card, and a USB ZIP drive. More unfortunately, it came pre-installed with Windows ME. He wants

Re: problem with asus lk8460 and apm

2001-10-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:05:17AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > The major problem I'm feeling is with apm. I can easily see the battery > status and shutdown properly the laptop, but standby and suspends (both > suspend to ram and suspend to disk) just freeze the machine *before > entering t

Re: Debian install to subnotebook

2001-10-01 Thread Gustaf Erikson
"Bruce Best (CRO)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My brother-in-law has recently purchased a Sony Vaio SR(??) subnotebook. The > computer has no internal cd or floppy (though I do have a USB floppy from my > laptop), but does have a PC-Card D-Link network card, and a USB ZIP drive. > More unfortun

RE: Debian install to subnotebook

2001-10-01 Thread Bruce Best (CRO)
> >How did you install Win2k? > Put the CD in a desktop computer on the network, copied the relevant folders over the network to the Vaio hard drive, and ran the install from within Win ME. >This link may help with the WinME/DOS problem: > >http://www.geocities.com/mfd4life_2000/ > Thanks, I

Re: Random crashes with testing on IBM T22

2001-10-01 Thread Glen Mehn
I had almost the exact thing happen on a T20 of mine, and after a huge amount of work, it started showing POST errors. It ended up being a hardware problem. glen On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:31:36AM +0200, Martin Sk?tt wrote: > Hi > I got Debian testing running on my Thinkpad T22 a couple of

Re: how to install debian without floppy drive or cdrom-drive

2001-10-01 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 05:02:07PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello > > I have a laptop, it's an acer with a pentium 100 and > 16 meg ram. I want to install debian on it but I have > a problem : I don't have a floppy drive(broken) and I > don't have a cd drive. But,I have an adapter that

Re: Debian install to subnotebook

2001-10-01 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 12:21:22PM -0400, Bruce Best (CRO) wrote: > My brother-in-law has recently purchased a Sony Vaio SR(??) subnotebook. The > computer has no internal cd or floppy (though I do have a USB floppy from my > laptop), but does have a PC-Card D-Link network card, and a USB ZIP driv

Re: ALSA

2001-10-01 Thread Tom Allison
On Saturday 29 September 2001 18:41, Tom Allison spewed forth: > > Hmm. Random question: which alsaconf package do you have installed? > > alsaconf or alsaconf-0.4? I think that you want the alsaconf package. > definitely alsaconf and not alsaconf-0.4 > I'm pretty sure it was the not 0.4 version

Re: ALSA

2001-10-01 Thread Tom Allison
On Saturday 29 September 2001 18:41, Tom Allison spewed forth: > On Saturday 29 September 2001 18:35, Hubert Chan spewed forth: > > Hmm. Random question: which alsaconf package do you have installed? > > alsaconf or alsaconf-0.4? I think that you want the alsaconf package. > > I'm pretty sure it

Alsa configuration - missing modules

2001-10-01 Thread Tom Allison
I'm unable to find the alsaconf version 0.5, but I am using the 0.4.3b, which calls for a /etc/alsa/modutils/0.5 file. The problem that I've got right now in getting this to work is this: I have a ibm A21m notebook with a CS4614 soundcard/chip in it. According the the /etc/modutils/alsa file, I s

Re: Install: Compaq LTE 5300

2001-10-01 Thread Richard Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Gnome is bigger, yes, but it's better supported. Depends on what you mean by "supported". Gnome is different to fvwm - you can't compare one with the other. Gnome provides an extra layer of functionality which people may or may not want. > I'd recommend Gnome over F

Error executing make xconfig in debian Sid 01/10/01

2001-10-01 Thread Pere Castañer
Hi debian users, recently I adquired a laptop and I put the debian in it, all seems going correctly but I have some errors that I haven't seen before executing make xconfig. The log is here: -- debian:~# cd /usr/src/linux debian:/usr/src/

Re: Install: Compaq LTE 5300

2001-10-01 Thread Heather
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Gnome is bigger, yes, but it's better supported. > > I'd recommend Gnome over FVWM any day. > > Depends on what you mean by "supported". Gnome is different to fvwm - > you can't compare one with the other. Gnome provides an extra layer of > functionality which peo

Re: Random crashes with testing on IBM T22

2001-10-01 Thread Martin Skøtt
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 09:27:55PM -0700, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:31:36AM +0200, Martin Sk?tt wrote: > > > > I got Debian testing running on my Thinkpad T22 a couple of months ago > > thanks > > to this list and it has been working almost like a charm ever since :-) > >