what is the equivalent to chkconfig with debian?

2000-07-01 Thread Cyril Niklaus
Hi all, the title says it all. I'm trying to adjust my setup here by not having certain services run at startup, but I don't feel like doing it by hand, not unless there's no other way. The tools I know that can do that are not present, so I'm wondering if there is a debian specific tool for that?

sound works for root only...

2000-06-23 Thread Cyril Niklaus
Hi all, I've been recompiling my kernel like crazy these last few days (btw thanks again for the help Andre) to get my sound working. Nothing was doing it, it beeped ok, but xmms was complaining about the fact that it cannot open audio, the sound card not being configured or something else. But in

Re: Helix GNOME 1.2 packages built

2000-06-20 Thread Cyril Niklaus
Hello! thanks for taking care of making those debs, that's nice. I just tried Dl them, but it seems you forgot to make the Packages.gz list. Therefore apt-get does not work (ast least on my machine) this is what I get: Failed to fetch http://southpole.penguinpowered.com/debian/dists/unstable/main/b

Re: problem with mounting cdrom

2000-06-18 Thread Cyril Niklaus
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > When did you get the installer? I think this is fixed in the current > version. Last night. I did a net install, using first the base image (etc) from the http debian site in the us (question: isn't it a bit strange that the only recognized protocol at this stage of

Re: problem with mounting cdrom, solved

2000-06-18 Thread Cyril Niklaus
I indeed had to create the /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc simlink, but first I had to use MAKEDEV in order to create all the /dev/hdc, which where missing. thanks for the hints, Cyril

Re: problem with mounting cdrom

2000-06-18 Thread Cyril Niklaus
hello Nelson, It seems it's slightly more complicated than that, as my cdrom is /dev/hdc. That's where it has been on all my installs, (be they of linux or osx), and this is confirmed by the kernel messages(hdc: MATSHITA CR-174, ATAPI CDROM drive). But I do not have the /dev/hdc eith

problem with mounting cdrom

2000-06-18 Thread Cyril Niklaus
hi all, I just installed debian, with no problems. I realize though now that I do not have the possibility to mount cdroms. I get the following error message: lempo:/home/cyril# mount /dev/cdrom mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist /dev/cdrom is in fstab, but indeed not in /dev/. How can