Re: USD CD-RW

2002-11-24 Thread Heather Stern
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:32:55PM -0500, Michel Hardy-Vall?e wrote: > Hi! > > I'd like to know if any of you could recommend a good external USB CD-RW > known to work correctly with Woody. The usb-linux page shows these > device as being in experimental support, but are they usable to read & > b

Re: Laptop 386dx40 with 4 MByte and 40 MByte

2002-11-24 Thread Heather Stern
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:09:59PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello laptop.deb's, > > I have gotten a NEW OLD LAptop and I like to install Debian. > MS-Dos 6.2 was no problem, but... it's a Microsoft product. > Which Version of Debian is recommended ? > bo, hamm, slink, potatop or wood

Re: laptop without floppy, cd nor dvd

2002-11-24 Thread Heather Stern
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:43:42PM +0200, Juhana Vartiainen wrote: > Thank You Joris, but could you be a LITTLE more specific - how does one > prepare > the "server" side (i.e. my debian desktop on the LAN), and how does one take > contact from the booting client laptop -- what do U mean by pexe

Re: Fn keys WAS Re: Which laptop!!!

2002-11-24 Thread Jim Richardson
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 07:42:22PM -0800, Jim Richardson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 11:12:35AM +1100, Simon Wong wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 15:03, Jim Richardson wrote: > > > > Do your Fn keys work? > > [...] > > > > > > Yes, they work fine. > > > > It's all very strange as mine work

Re: USD CD-RW

2002-11-24 Thread Nyk Tarr
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 11:22:48PM -0800, Heather Stern wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:32:55PM -0500, Michel Hardy-Vall?e wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'd like to know if any of you could recommend a good external USB CD-RW > > known to work correctly with Woody. The usb-linux page shows these > >

Re: USD CD-RW

2002-11-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Nyk Tarr wrote: > On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 11:22:48PM -0800, Heather Stern wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:32:55PM -0500, Michel Hardy-Vall?e wrote: [...] >> I haven't played with USB based CD/CDRW, but I have a tidbit to add; >> I use a PCMCIA/ATAPI based one. At some po

grub as bootloader for linux and windows

2002-11-24 Thread mw
--- please reply directly, I'm not on the list --- Hello, I guess i need the help from somebody very familiar with grub. I am going to install Woody and Win2000 with grub as bootloader on a Dell Inspiron 5000 notebook ( P III, 128 MB, 12 GB ). I proceeded so far to partition the HD like sh

tsiag ?

2002-11-24 Thread Mark Banschbach
I am looking for some help in using the tsiag spreadsheet.. it appears that the web site no longer lists anything useful about the text version only the X window version.. and although the X windowed version seems quite simple and straight forward the text version is slightly less user friendly ?

Re: grub as bootloader for linux and windows

2002-11-24 Thread mw
--- please reply directly, I'm not on the list --- ***Sorry:*** my first mail was sent accidently before finished. I intendet to do some more reading and thinking and fiddling on the whole thing, before bothering you Anyway. I guess that I don't clearly understand partioning. ( A second

problems switching from stand-alone PCMCIA drivers to kernel drivers

2002-11-24 Thread Levi Waldron
On a new woody laptop install I used the bf-2.4 stock kernel, the pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-bf2.4 binary package, and the pcmcia-cs package and got the PCMCIA network card working perfectly. Had to manually edit /etc/network/interfaces. Then I compiled a custom 2.4.18 kernel with built-in PCMCIA

Re: Fn keys WAS Re: Which laptop!!!

2002-11-24 Thread Simon Wong
On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 19:50, Jim Richardson wrote: > Er, that should be < 1600x1200... I figured as much ! The problem has been solved by increasing my HorizSync and VertRefresh to crazilylarge numbers as mentioned in another person's email. The Fn-F7(font) button can then be subsequently used t

Re: grub as bootloader for linux and windows

2002-11-24 Thread David Z Maze
mw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I chose to have no special /boot-Partition, it's within the / on > hda8. GRUB shoudl deal fine with this case. > Linux = ext2: > 4) home ... 500 ... hda6 = log2 > 5) / (inkl. /boot ) 3000 ... hda7 = log

Re: laptop without floppy, cd nor dvd

2002-11-24 Thread Heather Stern
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:43:42PM +0200, Juhana Vartiainen wrote: > Thank You Joris, but could you be a LITTLE more specific - how does one prepare > the "server" side (i.e. my debian desktop on the LAN), and how does one take > contact from the booting client laptop -- what do U mean by pexe iir

Re: Fn keys WAS Re: Which laptop!!!

2002-11-24 Thread Jim Richardson
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 07:42:22PM -0800, Jim Richardson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 11:12:35AM +1100, Simon Wong wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 15:03, Jim Richardson wrote: > > > > Do your Fn keys work? > > [...] > > > > > > Yes, they work fine. > > > > It's all very strange as mine work

Re: USD CD-RW

2002-11-24 Thread Nyk Tarr
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 11:22:48PM -0800, Heather Stern wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:32:55PM -0500, Michel Hardy-Vall?e wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'd like to know if any of you could recommend a good external USB CD-RW > > known to work correctly with Woody. The usb-linux page shows these > >

Re: USD CD-RW

2002-11-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Nyk Tarr wrote: > On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 11:22:48PM -0800, Heather Stern wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:32:55PM -0500, Michel Hardy-Vall?e wrote: [...] >> I haven't played with USB based CD/CDRW, but I have a tidbit to add; >> I use a PCMCIA/ATAPI based one. At some po

tsiag ?

2002-11-24 Thread Mark Banschbach
I am looking for some help in using the tsiag spreadsheet.. it appears that the web site no longer lists anything useful about the text version only the X window version.. and although the X windowed version seems quite simple and straight forward the text version is slightly less user friendly ?

grub as bootloader for linux and windows

2002-11-24 Thread mw
--- please reply directly, I'm not on the list --- Hello, I guess i need the help from somebody very familiar with grub. I am going to install Woody and Win2000 with grub as bootloader on a Dell Inspiron 5000 notebook ( P III, 128 MB, 12 GB ). I proceeded so far to partition the HD like sh

Re: grub as bootloader for linux and windows

2002-11-24 Thread mw
--- please reply directly, I'm not on the list --- ***Sorry:*** my first mail was sent accidently before finished. I intendet to do some more reading and thinking and fiddling on the whole thing, before bothering you Anyway. I guess that I don't clearly understand partioning. ( A second

problems switching from stand-alone PCMCIA drivers to kernel drivers

2002-11-24 Thread Levi Waldron
On a new woody laptop install I used the bf-2.4 stock kernel, the pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-bf2.4 binary package, and the pcmcia-cs package and got the PCMCIA network card working perfectly. Had to manually edit /etc/network/interfaces. Then I compiled a custom 2.4.18 kernel with built-in PCMCIA

Re: Fn keys WAS Re: Which laptop!!!

2002-11-24 Thread Simon Wong
On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 19:50, Jim Richardson wrote: > Er, that should be < 1600x1200... I figured as much ! The problem has been solved by increasing my HorizSync and VertRefresh to crazilylarge numbers as mentioned in another person's email. The Fn-F7(font) button can then be subsequently used t

Re: grub as bootloader for linux and windows

2002-11-24 Thread David Z Maze
mw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I chose to have no special /boot-Partition, it's within the / on > hda8. GRUB shoudl deal fine with this case. > Linux = ext2: > 4) home ... 500 ... hda6 = log2 > 5) / (inkl. /boot ) 3000 ... hda7 = log