On Saturday 25 January 2003 9:08 am, Dave Selby wrote:
> Im planning to turn my ext2 to an ext3 after a system crash due to a
> winmodem driver running with dependency problems ..
>
> OK I get the bit about
>
> tune2fs -j /dev/hda2
>
> I dont get the bit about
>
> touch /forcefsck
>
> tou
* Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030125 09:53]:
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 09:08:50 +
> Dave Selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > touch /forcefsck
>
> > touch changes the file timestamps ? I cant find a reference to forcefsck in
> > its man or info pages. Is it a switch of some kind ?
>
>
On Saturday 25 January 2003 4:48 pm, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 09:26:09AM +, Dave Selby wrote:
> > Having had problems with my winmodem ... dont even go there ...
>
> Can't...resist... I hear you can make some strong coffee from it if
> you grind it up well.
>
mmm coffee .
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:45:21AM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> man update-rc.d
No, wrong. Just rename the file. update-rc.d is used for script
automation.
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On Saturday 25 January 2003 6:27 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 03:26, Dave Selby wrote:
> > Having had problems with my winmodem ... dont even go there ... I am
> > going to buy a full hardware modem. I have been advised that external
> > serial modems are the best for linux.
> >
>
hi ya
-- i deleted that orig email and decided to reply anyway..
if /var is too full... you can also do the following:
- ls -la /var/spool/mqueue /var/spool/mail /var/spool/clientmqueue
- remove any junk ...
- mailq should tell you of any pending emails
- ls -la /var/log
* David Z Maze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030125 20:14]:
> So while bash and zsh have aliases, you can't actually do much with
> them.
come again? What would you like to do with them that you can't?
Certainly not the example given below...
> ls() { /bin/ls --color=auto --classify "$@"; }
>
> might
Hi.
I read man for `shutdown' command. And this man describe how permit
any user using shutdowning. Need create /etc/shutdown.allow and list of
peaples that can use `shutdown'. I create it and now do from user
/sbin/shutdown -a -r now -- but I cannot reboot. Only root can do this.
What I do incorr
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
Hey everyone:
I've got some unformatted disk space and I'd like to use it to make /var
bigger. This is my existing system:
htdig@debian:/$ df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 464M 27M 413M 7% /
/dev/hda3 4.6
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 22:56:23 -0800
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You can never be too safe with your data.
Well some believe that disconnecting the ether, encasing the computer in a
waterproof safe, burying the safe in a block of concrete 80x80 and dumping
that into the ocean to pr
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 05:47:33PM +0100, Manuel Ifland wrote:
> where did you read to do a "touch /forcefsck"? In my opinion
> this command only creates a file called "forcefsck" in the root
> directory if not already there. Not more or less.
> I can only guess that by issuing this command, you tu
Ron Johnson wrote:
The Unix Way [to disable automatic starting of init scripts] is to rename S20apache to K20apache. That way, you can
see what's been explicitly turned off, and you'll know that if it's
not in /etc/rc2.d/ then it hasn't been installed.
Remeber to also rename /etc/rc6.d/K??apach
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:01:08AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:39:32AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> I'm currently subscribed to the German Debian user list and it happens
> that people tell _novice users_ things like:
>
> Yes, Debian stable is horribly outdated, but wit
Merhaba Debian-user,
Benim adým Email Miner, ben bir Email toplama ve gönderme programýyým.
Sizin email adresinizi milyonlarca web sayfasýnýn altýný üstüne getirerek buldum ve
size bu kiþiye özel maili attim.
Çünkü beni geliþtiren kiþiler beni bunun için programladý.
Beni kullanarak firmanýzý ve
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 02:59:58PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> Frankly I wouldn't bother with that second step. I've never needed it
> for any of the filesystems I've converted to ext3.
It hides the journal so you don't have a .journal file laying around
in the partition root.
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I am sorry - I deleted your original post before I got a chance to think
about it (too many messages and too much to do - nothing personal (: ).
I think I remember that your alias for mailman was wrong - you need to
have the full path to the executable, so it has to start with a '/',
like so:
"|/va
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 10:43:35PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Where did you get 900MiB CD-Rs?
>
> How many minutes of music are they supposed to hold?
>
> The only 2 sizes I've seen are 650MiB (74 min) & 700MiB (80 min).
You can get 90-minute and 99-minute discs from some mail-order places.
80m
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:24:47AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> James Buchanan wrote:
>
> >When I run `startx' I would like afterstep to run, and I would like a menu
> >giving me a list of all the window managers/desktop environments that I can
> >run. How do I tell startx to run afte
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 08:34:37PM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> Hi, this is mostly a request for a pointer to the right docs. I haven't
> ever had any USB devices until the past few months, when I picked up a
> webcam, scanner, and mouse. The webcam & the scanner aren't on the
> compatability lis
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:34:17AM +, Pigeon wrote:
> cdrecord -v -speed=32 dev=x,y,z -dao -isosize filename.raw
The hitch was the instruction to cdrecord to write the disc in DAO mode.
Many many recorders cannot deal with the CUE sheet they're sent in DAO mode
unless they're told the total si
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 10:43:35PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Where did you get 900MiB CD-Rs?
Buy them in a store. ^_^ You can get 90 minute and 99 minute discs now.
The 90's usually work in most drives that you can get to do overburn, but
the 99's are VERY twitchy because not only do they use t
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 10:44:14PM -0500, Dave W wrote:
> I've been messing around with devfs in sid, trying to learn my way
> around, since this may be the way of the future ... and although
> /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/cd makes good SENSE and is pretty easy
> to figure out, it's not so qui
Ed Lawson declaimed:
> I am running a server using woody with Exim as MTA and am having
> troubles getting mailman to function. The web interface works and
snip
> What else is needed or is something broken here?
When I had problems getting Mailman to go on Debian, I ended up
switching from Ex
On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 19:34, Pigeon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This might help someone who's using cdrecord to write BIG DISKS. I got
> a pack of 900Mb CD-Rs recently, and tried to write a large image
> according to the cookbook example in man cdrecord:
>
> cdrecord -v -speed=32 dev=x,y,z filename.raw
>
>
"Ron" == Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ron> On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 18:24, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
>> "David" == David Z Maze writes:
David> Probably the easiest way is to 'rm /etc/rc2.d/S20apache',
David> etc. as root.
>> IMHO this is almost the Debian Way to do
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:20:56AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:21:12PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> > On a sort of related point... writing a CD (at 28x), top shows 80-85%
> > system CPU usage. That's with an Athlon 1800XP (1.53GHz). Feeling the
> > heatsink, however, it's run
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:53:41PM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote:
> hi all,
>
> investigating cdrom read errors.
>
> - error only occurs at the very end of the disc
> - error occurs wether using dd or cat
> - error occurs wether using hdparm or not
> - error occurs wether media is mounted or not
> - r
Hi, this is mostly a request for a pointer to the right docs. I haven't
ever had any USB devices until the past few months, when I picked up a
webcam, scanner, and mouse. The webcam & the scanner aren't on the
compatability lists, but I'm curious to get the mouse going. There
doesn't seem to be a U
on Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 08:12:31PM -0800, nate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Russell said:
>
> > Thanks, it sounds promising. If i install win2k as the guest OS on vmware
> > which is in turn installed on linux, is there a way to copy the whole
> > win2k installation into vmware, or do i need to re
Russell said:
> Thanks, it sounds promising. If i install win2k as the guest OS on vmware
> which is in turn installed on linux, is there a way to copy the whole
> win2k installation into vmware, or do i need to re-install everything
> again?
you should reinstall everything again. VMWare has the
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 08:09:29AM -0600, Jeff Hahn wrote:
> One quick question to get me going a little better... How do you install
> services (apache, samba, whatever) and NOT have them start on system
> startup?
Go into /etc/rc?.d/ (where ? is a number, 2 is the default runlevel)
and look aro
Hello Everyone,
I am having some problems running Gnome. I have just built my new Dell
Inspiron 8200 laptop with Debian 3.0 and used the unstable tree for the
install of packages. I know that the unstable tree is a moving target,
but it has several things that I wanted (such as gnome 2).
Wel
on Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:53:34PM +1100, Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Rohan Nicholls wrote:
<...>
> >This I have not tried, the company I work for, has the Office and Win2k
> >licenses so I have just used VMware and installed them. It is a very
> >sweet system, and allows me to deal wit
Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:54:29AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
>> 'chsh /bin/zsh', then ls() { /bin/ls --color=auto --classify "$@"; }
> please explain...
The syntax for aliases is substantially different in Bourne-like
shells than in C-like shells. I
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 02:22:46PM +0100, Jernej Zidar wrote:
> After a Windows reinstall, I have lost lilo. How do I install lilo or any
> bootloader, so I will be able to access my linux system?
Type lilo as root. You probably want to read the dual-boot howtos on
how to keep Windows bootable as
I am running a server using woody with Exim as MTA and am having
troubles getting mailman to function. The web interface works and
subscriptions via it all seem to work. However subscriptions by email
do not and the lists do not work in that mail is never sent out. An
attempt to subscribe by
I've been messing around with devfs in sid, trying to learn my way
around, since this may be the way of the future ... and although
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/cd makes good SENSE and is pretty easy
to figure out, it's not so quick to type when mounting by hand. I'm
used to more or less igno
on Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 12:59:24AM +0100, Rohan Nicholls ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> * Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030125 00:17]:
> > on Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:54:46AM +1100, Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > Rohan Nicholls wrote:
> >
> > > >I have to say that I took over my win
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 07:43:52PM -0500, Bob Wheate wrote:
> i got it working late last nite,im new to debian and the install was
> different from other flavors,how ever once i got it working i enjoy "woody"
> a lot,i'm led to believe that the kernel is 2.2.x,is that correct ?,any way
> thanks for
Mouse and Keyboard are nonfunctional on KDE startup. Except for mouse
wheel, both are traditional units on traditional ports.
Any thouughts?
Thanks.
geno
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Hey everyone:
I've got some unformatted disk space and I'd like to use it to make /var
bigger. This is my existing system:
htdig@debian:/$ df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 464M 27M 413M 7% /
/dev/hda3 4.6G 1.6G 2.8G 37% /home
/
On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 18:24, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> "David" == David Z Maze writes:
>
> David> "Jeff Hahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> I'm setting up a "test" debian server (contemplating a move of
> >> several redhat boxes)
>
> >> One quick question to get me going a l
I recently changed my sources.list by adding:
deb http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/kde/woody/i386/ ./
I attempted to add the k3b program. There were some kde package
dependencies required for my otherwise Woody install (about 10 in all).
However, I then received a dpkg error message. In Synaptic,
Rohan Nicholls wrote:
* Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030125 00:17]:
on Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:54:46AM +1100, Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Rohan Nicholls wrote:
I have to say that I took over my windows partition, and now run
win2k in an emulator for the times I need to for wo
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Ludmilla Markowska wrote:
> has somebody installed Debian Woody on an Intel RAID Controller SRCU32?
Yes, but you WILL need a custom kernel for that to work. So, you cannot just
install Debian on it out-of-the box.
You need the "gdt" driver compiled into the kernel, or to load
Ludmilla Markowska said:
> hi all,
>
> has somebody installed Debian Woody on an Intel RAID Controller SRCU32?
> There is only an old driver for Potato on Intel Website :(
so install potato and dist-upgrade to woody.
dist-upgrade won't touch the kernel by default, at least you can have
a working
Hugh Saunders wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:54:29AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
> > 'chsh /bin/zsh', then ls() { /bin/ls --color=auto --classify "$@"; }
> please explain...
I think he is proposing that you change your shell to zsh since he
favors that shell? An advocacy thing.
Then the ne
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 07:21:22AM -0600, Ian Melnick wrote:
> I was wondering if there was a way to turn off kernel messages from
> getting spit out on the active tty. I keep getting this error message;
> I have no idea what it means; I don't see any problem (I can still mount
> netware drives jus
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:55:06PM -0500, Jameson C. Burt wrote:
> I re-emphasize the www.ltsp.org approach.
...
> I bought a diskless workstation 3 weeks ago from a link on ltsp.org,
> a workstation the size of your outstretched hand yet having
> audio, USB, parallel, serial, and ethernet ports
Kent West wrote:
> Jeff Hahn wrote:
>
> >I'm setting up a "test" debian server (contemplating a move of several
> >redhat boxes)
There are many differences. In many ways you will find it frustrating
because some details being different will take some time to figure
out. But let me encourage you
Hi,
I get these occasional very long bursts of disk activity, usually but
not always within an hour or so of booting up, during which the HD LED is
on continuously and the machine is very slow to respond. There were
cron jobs running global finds, which I knocked out; this helped, but
didn't stop
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 04:43:44PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:22:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 11:17, Pigeon wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > [snip]
> > >
> > > Having put appropriate deb-src lines in sources.list, pointing to CD
> > > images or websi
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:44:15PM +0100, Edwin wrote:
>
> >>
> >>Thanks for any help you can offer,
> >>
> >>Edwin
> >
> >
> >Have you got kernel-headers-2.2.20 installed? I've had stuff like this
> >from broken kernel-headers installations.
> >
> >Pigeon
> >
>
>
> I've tried Google to find out
Hi,
This might help someone who's using cdrecord to write BIG DISKS. I got
a pack of 900Mb CD-Rs recently, and tried to write a large image
according to the cookbook example in man cdrecord:
cdrecord -v -speed=32 dev=x,y,z filename.raw
Didn't work. As soon as it had written 703Mb it barfed with
[jeremy@MERCURY:pts/4:~]$ apt-cache show gnupg
Package: gnupg
Priority: standard
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 2424
Maintainer: James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.0.6-3
Replaces: gpg-rsa, gpg-rsaref
Provides: gpg-rsa, gpg-rsaref
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libgdbmg1, zl
I installed the base system of Debian 3.0 from CD-Rom which was made
bootable. Then, the installation program could not find /dev/cdrom any
longer. It is linked to /dev/hdd. I tried to mount it manually, but I
was told that no medium was present. I could not believe it because
the base system was i
cmustard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Any ideas why `cdrecord` is not working for me. Debian Woody, kernel 2.4.18bf
> thanks.
>
> hdb: R/RW 4x4x24, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> hda: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=1092/240/63
> hdb: ATAPI 32X CD-R
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 03:49:55PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> > > After I compiled the kernel (again) tonight I had re"make"
> > > the drivers.
> > > All I had to do was "make" to get them to load (I couldn't just load
> > > them). They still don't want to load even though they're in
> > > /etc/modul
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Hash: SHA1
Once upon a time Bob Proulx wrote @ Sat, 25 Jan 2003 13:29:01 -0700
> Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> > $ scp /tmp/file [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
> > /tmp/file: No such file or directory
> >
> > ls -lh /tmp/file
> > - -rw-r--r-
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Hash: SHA1
Once upon a time Kent West wrote @ Sat, 25 Jan 2003 16:34:53 -0600
> Hal Vaughan wrote:
>
> >I've tried a few different installs to get Debian working on my system.
> >
> >At one point I used the HD install script to install Knoppix on my harddrive.
On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 17:24, Hubert Chan wrote:
> AFAIK, you will need to change the Mozilla config to use the Classic
> theme in order to get native-GTK-looking scrollbars. The default in the
> Debian packages is the modern theme. Attached is my
> ~/.galeon/mozilla/galeon/chrome/chrome.rdf file.
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did an apt-get upgrade
that end in the error below.
The same error was already marked several times as "solved",
but i did not find the suggested solution.
pls drop me a copy, 'cause i'm currently not subscribed to the list.
# apt-get -f install gnotepad+
Reading Package Lists... Done
Bui
On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 12:22, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> I just found this book for almost nothing at a local book discount shop:
>
> Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed by Mario Camou and Aaron Von Cowenberghe
>
> Has anyone read or used this book? Several years ago I bought a sister book
> (same cover, s
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 07:38:53AM -0500, cmustard wrote:
> cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
My problem was that the burner was actually ide-scsi. My burner was seen
in the dmesg, but I didn't have the right modules loaded. Can you look for
the following modules with l
"David" == David Z Maze writes:
David> "Jeff Hahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I'm setting up a "test" debian server (contemplating a move of
>> several redhat boxes)
>> One quick question to get me going a little better... How do
>> you install services (apache, samb
On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 12:26, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> I've tried a few different installs to get Debian working on my system.
>
> At one point I used the HD install script to install Knoppix on my harddrive.
> It worked, in basics.
>
> There seemed to be a few problems, such as menus in KDE (I woul
hi all,
has somebody installed Debian Woody on an Intel RAID Controller SRCU32?
There is only an old driver for Potato on Intel Website :(
tia and best regards
judy
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On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 06:38, cmustard wrote:
> Any ideas why `cdrecord` is not working for me. Debian Woody, kernel 2.4.18bf
> thanks.
>
> # su root
> # password:
> # cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jrg Schilling
> cdrecord: No such file or directory.
On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 23:13, David Z Maze wrote:
> (2.4.8? Do you mean 2.4.18?)
oops, sorry :), yep 2.4.18
>
> That file is normally built as part of the build process; you should
> have one. How are you trying to build the modules? Assuming you're
> using the Debian nvidia-kernel-src package
Are you really sure that setting the priorities of stable, testing and
unstable to 900, 800 and 700, respectively, we would be able to have a
mixed system? IMHO, with this configuration, and entries for stable,
testing and unstable in sources.list, if a dist-upgrade is run then apt
will update ever
* Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030125 00:17]:
> on Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:54:46AM +1100, Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Rohan Nicholls wrote:
>
> > >I have to say that I took over my windows partition, and now run
> > >win2k in an emulator for the times I need to for work, and it
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 the mental interface of
Mohammed Sameer told:
[...]
>
> > $ scp /tmp/file [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
> > /tmp/file: No such file or directory
> >
> > ls -lh /tmp/file
> > - -rw-r--r--1 mohammed mohammed 728k Jan 25 18:40 /tmp/file
> >
>
hi ya bob
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Alvin writes:
> > autofs is sorta broken in most distro... you need to tweek the config
> > files to get it to do what you want
>
> Agreed. I *always* have to modify it to /net. Although broken is
> probably too harsh. Is there a standard
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 14:59:26 -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> So in that case, what would be the solution? I guess we would have to
> know what testing packages have fixes in unstable, and then use the "-t
> unstable" option to apt-get ... correct?
Yes, but unfortunately, this is not automatical.
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 13:40:39 -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> Quoting Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> [snip]
> > If I am not mistaken, it is possible to avoid this
> > worst case scenario by appropriately setting up apt's
> > preferences. Suppose I set the priorities of distributions
> >
Hans Wilmer said:
> It almost looks as if the X server had a serious memory leak. Is there an
> explanation for its enormous memory allocation?
most of it is due to the video memory on your card, X includes that in
the "memory usage". Another is memory leaks depending on what you
run. Much of th
> Just saw this on freshmeat:
> http://freshmeat.net/releases/110642/
> About: lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed
> informaton on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report
> exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration,
> CPU version
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 05:45:46PM +, Paladin wrote:
> > exotic tests that take a couple of hours to get to. I cut back
> > the cpu/memory speed in the BIOS and mine now runs solidly, but
>
> In the mean while, I ran memtest86 over night and it doesn't show
> any error report! I ran all th
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Joris Huizer wrote:
> I've got the following situation:
>
> /dev/hda :
> - windows stuff
>
> /dev/hdb :
> - /dev/hdb1 : / (root)
> - /dev/hdb2 : swap
> - /dev/hdb3 : /boot NOT IN USE
> - /dev/hdb4 : extended partition
>- /dev/hdb5 : /home
>- /dev/hdb6 : /usr
>
Hal Vaughan wrote:
I've tried a few different installs to get Debian working on my system.
At one point I used the HD install script to install Knoppix on my harddrive.
It worked, in basics.
There seemed to be a few problems, such as menus in KDE (I would think this
would be a problem in Gno
> "Christopher" == Christopher Nehren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Christopher> I have Galeon from sid (although I've tried the one in
Christopher> woody which shows the same thing), and I would like to
Christopher> change the main vertical scrollbar to be something other
Christopher> than the
Hans Wilmer wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:27:08AM -0500, Jason McCarty wrote:
>
> > Hope this interests somebody besides myself ;)
>
> Well, it does :) What is the difference between 'cached' and
> 'buffers'? I wanted to know that since long, but never found out.
Well, after digging throug
I'm running unstable on 2.4.20, with xserver-xfree 4.2.1-5. I've tried
with a voodoo3 and the tdfx driver, and a tnt2 with the nv driver. The
errors were the same. With startx, X comes up on the display, but quits
shortly after. The only real error I see is this:
(EE) NV(0): Cannot map SYS BIO
> I just found this book for almost nothing at a local book discount shop:
> Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed by Mario Camou and Aaron Von Cowenberghe
Got it sitting right here next to me. Love it. Highly recommended.
Especially for a guy like me. Not the smartest guy in the world but I really
wa
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 02:59:58PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> Frankly I wouldn't bother with that second step. I've never needed it
> for any of the filesystems I've converted to ext3.
Though it's not required to fsck an FS after creating a journal with
tune2fs -j, it is a good idea to do it on
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 14:59:58 +
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Frankly I wouldn't bother with that second step. I've never needed it
> for any of the filesystems I've converted to ext3.
Then how do you move .journal into its hidden location?
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cmustard wrote:
> Any ideas why `cdrecord` is not working for me. Debian Woody, kernel 2.4.18bf
> thanks.
Yes. You did not load up ide-scsi.
> # su root
> # password:
> # cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
> cdrecord: No such file or dir
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 05:47:33PM +0100, Manuel Ifland wrote:
> 4) Deactivate all further checks as they are no longer needed:
>tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/hda2
There are circumstances where a check is performed on ext3fs
partitions after a crash. Imho it would be very unwise to turn off
those ch
With the generous help of many people i've managed to restore my little
Debian box.
JZidar
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On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 22:00:09 +0100, cmustard wrote:
> Any ideas why `cdrecord` is not working for me. Debian Woody, kernel
> 2.4.18bf thanks.
Because you forgot to read the manual which says that you should add a
line like
append="hdb=ide-scsi"(lilo)
into your bootmanger configuration file.
> Any ideas why `cdrecord` is not working for me. Debian Woody, kernel 2.4.18bf
> thanks.
[snip]
> hdb: R/RW 4x4x24, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> hda: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=1092/240/63
> hdb: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
> U
cyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In a flurry of unwise decision, while trying to setup synchronization of
> my clie and looking at java sdk 1.4.1 - I attempted to upgrade my libc6 to
> 2.3.1 from 2.2.5 - a process that I didn't see as a huge problem as I
> could just roll back.
>
> LONG story shor
> "Russell" == Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Russell> Another way to install the odd package from testing or unstable
Russell> is to download the *.deb package with a browser download, then
Russell> use dpkg -i.
That isn't any better than pinning, since that won't pull in the
dependenc
Balazs Javor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a pure sid system running on my notebook. Could somebody
> please tell me whether I can still run apt-get update etc. during
> this phase without completely messing up my system?
>
> Or should I wait with any update until the transition is over? If
Haim Ashkenazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm having problems with the new kernel I've compiled on woody. I've
> used the 2.4.8 source and patched it with xfs filesystem support, and
> loopback filesystem encryption support.
(2.4.8? Do you mean 2.4.18?)
> It was compiled with make-kpkg.
>
> T
Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> $ scp /tmp/file [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
> /tmp/file: No such file or directory
>
> ls -lh /tmp/file
> - -rw-r--r--1 mohammed mohammed 728k Jan 25 18:40 /tmp/file
Very odd. Confirm that 'scp' is really scp and not an alias.
type sc
Isaac To wrote:
> When the above mail arrives my mailbox, the "From " becomes ">From ". This
> is de-facto standard (for V7 Mailboxes), I know, and is added by procmail.
And added by any delivery agent delivering mail to an old style mail
file. It is not just procmail. It is required.
> Anyone
Some ideas:
- Use apt pinning. /etc/apt/preferencesman apt_preferences
i.e.
Packages: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 2000
Packages: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 900
Packages: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 400
then put all three of stable,testing a
On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 10:41, Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Hi,
> Sorry for bothering you with my stupid questions
>
> i'm trying to use scp to copy some files from my local host to another host
> "ssh ed to it"
> I get
> No such file or directory
>
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