Re: Howto on one pages

2003-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 08:11:24PM +0200, Christophe Courtois ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > The Howtos that I find on the Debian site are often in HTML format ; > getting them page by page is very painful. Pdf As mentioned: - You can install them locally in HTML or text format. -

Re: Install stalled

2003-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 01:17:50AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > --- "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi?: > > Size matters less than selection. Any experience installing this to > > disk to bootstrap Debian installation? > > > > I have to agree there. I have

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

2003-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 09:23:47PM +1200, cr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > It'd be nice to have a self-contained floppy with just the basic > componenets needed to boot a Linux system, so there's room to add a > few utilties of ones choice.I've done that with my DOS floppy. > But reading the HOW

Re: IRC protocol blocked

2003-09-14 Thread Jon Haugsand
* Karsten M. Self > Your best bet is to get access somewhere else. If you can and your site > allows ssh access to a remote shell account, you can run a text-mode IRC > client such as irssi from this. If you have ssh access, using X applications is trivial. Just turn on X tunnelling, and everyth

Re: IRC protocol blocked

2003-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 12:12:52PM +0800, what what ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello all, > > The IRC protocol has been blocked by the local gateway. I tried to reason > with them, but they refuse to lift such a ban. > > So, I can not have access to the irc #debian channel. > > Anyone knows

Re: whereis Mozilla 1.4 .deb (Update)

2003-09-14 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > * William Bradley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030914 18:44]: > > Thank you to everyone who responded to the above. So far I have simply > > downloaded the deb file and haven't an idea how to install it. Been playing > > > with dpkg and dselect but it st

Re: How to enlarge 3.5"?

2003-09-14 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Abdul Latip wrote: Hi, May I know the Google keywords for finding infomation on how to enlarge the 1.4MB 3.5" diskette capacity in linux? regards, -- Abdul Latip -- Junior Staff -- Angkasa Internet --- http://people.WebIndonesia.com/dullatip/ --- Since a goal of this project was to b

Re: how to get a silent harddisk?

2003-09-14 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Joachim Förster wrote: On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:49:16 -0600 Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joachim Förster wrote: Hi! On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:47:04 -0600 (MDT) "Jacob Anawalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] For me, squid disk access while someone on my internal n

Re: NFS share: cannot write

2003-09-14 Thread Jon Haugsand
* Joan Tur > Hallo! > > I've set up an NFS share (server runs Woody), and I can mount it from the > allowed computer, but I cannot write to it from the client 8-? What is the error message? Have you tried to mount it locally, that is, run the following on the server: mount -t nfs localhost:/Da

Re: Mysql question.

2003-09-14 Thread Mark Maas
Ah yes, I tried those doc's first.: menem:/home/mark# mysqladmin -u root password 'secret' mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: NO)' And I swear to you, I never set a password! I freshly installed mysql, and I cann

Re: alsa

2003-09-14 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Tom Allison wrote: I'm working on a new install and ran through the alsa-modules et al for 2.4.20-3-686 and selected my sound card (checked to make sure the module was loaded) I'm not getting anything at all on this. lsmod shows cs46xx as loaded, but unused. What's my next step? You've probab

Re: simple audio recording

2003-09-14 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Michael West wrote: On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 12:20:44AM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: Michael West wrote: I would like to record single track audio to my computer. I do not need to sync to video, I have little interest in editing. However, I would like high quality recordings. What do I n

Secret Swedish Ingredient

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IRC protocol blocked

2003-09-14 Thread what what
Hello all, The IRC protocol has been blocked by the local gateway. I tried to reason with them, but they refuse to lift such a ban. So, I can not have access to the irc #debian channel. Anyone knows a way to work out from my side? Thanks a lot! ___

..mailing list style booos, was: Can't mount cdrom

2003-09-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 02:06:23 +0100, "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 10:17:49AM +0100, Chris Wilcox > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Can't

Re: Small, silent system with 2 NICs?

2003-09-14 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 07:57:48PM -0700, Johannes Graumann wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry for this being slightly OT, but I was wondering whether anybody here > could advise me concerning a small debian compatible system that is > supposed to sit SILENTLY in my living room and function as a firewall a

two intractable problems

2003-09-14 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
Apologies for cross-posting. I'm trying to get my Dad's machines set up so I can leave the US and return Down Under, and I'm tearing my hair out with some problems I'm running into. I bought both the machines involved, and have run Linux on them successfully for a while, and so has he. We want g

Re: cannot open /dev/modem: permission denied

2003-09-14 Thread Kent West
Skippi wrote: Ok, when I tried connecting with WVDial today as user I got the message: cannot open /dev/modem: Permission denied cannot open /dev/modem: Permission denied cannot open /dev/modem: Permission denied The modem works fine and I can connect as root, but not as the user. This has worked

Commands not found at startup

2003-09-14 Thread David List
On a newly installed Debian Woody, I have made a new kernel with pristine 2.4.22 kernel sources and make-kpkg. When I boot the new kernel I get messages, such as: "getent: command not found" "head: command not found" "awk: command not found" and the system does not boot up fully, seemingly because

Re: Can't mount cdrom

2003-09-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030914 18:06]: > [...] Your inacuracies are your > responsibility. Don't blame someone else for pointing them out. "inacuracies"? ;-) good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- #include int main() { puts("Reader! Think not that \n" "t

Re: minimal installation

2003-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 07:20:38PM -0400, Ashley Graham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hello friends, > > i am trying to get a debian system on an old laptop i have copped from > a friend; it is rather old, but i couldn't give up the chance to > install linux on something else. Since online informa

Small, silent system with 2 NICs?

2003-09-14 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, Sorry for this being slightly OT, but I was wondering whether anybody here could advise me concerning a small debian compatible system that is supposed to sit SILENTLY in my living room and function as a firewall and sshd server for my wireless networ that is supposed to come into existe

Re: whereis Mozilla 1.4 .deb (Update)

2003-09-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* William Bradley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030914 18:44]: > Thank you to everyone who responded to the above. So far I have simply > downloaded the deb file and haven't an idea how to install it. Been playing > with dpkg and dselect but it still sits there doing nothing. > > Subsequent messages have

cannot open /dev/modem: permission denied

2003-09-14 Thread Skippi
Ok, when I tried connecting with WVDial today as user I got the message: cannot open /dev/modem: Permission denied cannot open /dev/modem: Permission denied cannot open /dev/modem: Permission denied The modem works fine and I can connect as root, but not as the user. This has worked fine in the p

Re: camera functioning as usb-storage not recognised

2003-09-14 Thread kmark
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > Do you have hotplug installed? (apt-get install hotplug) > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 01:26:41AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am having trouble connecting a usb digital cammera. On windows the cammera > > behaves as a flash device (like a dis

adding a directory to apt source

2003-09-14 Thread Skippi
Greetings. I am trying to add a directory to the list of sources for APT to use for installing deb packages. The dirctory is /home/skippi/0data/backup/debian30/debian I have been using the APT HOWTO. In section 2.2 it tells me to use dpkg-scanpackages to create a Packages.gz file. I did that an

installing XFree v 3

2003-09-14 Thread Skippi
Greetings. I would like to try installing X3 and see if it works better than X4 with my box. I have found this to be the case with Mandrake, and while X4 works under Debian, it's a bit slow. Now, I attempted this once and managed to screw up everything. Not only did X3 not work, but I couldn

Newbie - upgrade question

2003-09-14 Thread Zerkani_user_list
Need help! When I ran the security upgrade, I get the following error message. How do I resolve this error?. localhost:/home/zerkani# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 21 packa

Re: How to enlarge 3.5"?

2003-09-14 Thread Darik Horn
how to enlarge the 1.4MB 3.5" diskette capacity in linux? Run this command on your computer # ls -al /dev/fd0* The fd0 device is the first floppy disk in your computer. Each form of the name represents a different format. In particular, notice: /dev/fd0u1440 /dev/fd0u1680 The first name repre

Re: how to reproduce BSD's 'find -newerct' on Linux?

2003-09-14 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
Checkout: find . -mmin 5 On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 01:24:35AM +, Mark Stosberg wrote: > Hello, > > I use FreeBSD all day on servers at work, and use Debian on my system at > home. > > There is one BSDism that I really like and would like to reproduce on > Linux. On FreeBSD, I can use the fol

Re: camera functioning as usb-storage not recognised

2003-09-14 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
Do you have hotplug installed? (apt-get install hotplug) On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 01:26:41AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am having trouble connecting a usb digital cammera. On windows the cammera > behaves as a flash device (like a disk on key) using the generic driver. > Under linux, when

how to reproduce BSD's 'find -newerct' on Linux?

2003-09-14 Thread Mark Stosberg
Hello, I use FreeBSD all day on servers at work, and use Debian on my system at home. There is one BSDism that I really like and would like to reproduce on Linux. On FreeBSD, I can use the following syntax, which means "find all the files in the current directory which have changed in the last 7

whereis Mozilla 1.4 .deb (Update)

2003-09-14 Thread William Bradley
Thank you to everyone who responded to the above. So far I have simply downloaded the deb file and haven't an idea how to install it. Been playing with dpkg and dselect but it still sits there doing nothing. Subsequent messages have shown me how to get and install it online but I would still li

Re: minimal installation

2003-09-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 01:32:29 +0200, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 07:20:38PM -0400, Ashley Graham wrote: > > hello friends, > > > > i am trying to get a debian system on an old laptop i have copped > > from a friend; it is rather

Re: Install stalled

2003-09-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 01:17:50 +0200 (CEST), Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > --- "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 03:54:10PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:> On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 09:03:54 +01

Re: What is the format of a mailboxfile?

2003-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 06:33:39PM +0200, Jimmy Johansson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to create a "mailboxfile" in /var/mail/ and I am just > wondering what the format for such a file is and how you create one. I am > not even sure if it is supposed to be a special kind

nvaudio

2003-09-14 Thread Gerard
I have installed the nvaudio drivers from the nvidia site, and I have it working, kind of. I can get sound from xmms and mplayer, but not from anything else like gaim or system sounds. I am using the spdif, and I also tried inserting the module with spdif_status=0 so that spdif is off and I can use

Re: Can't mount cdrom

2003-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 10:17:49AM +0100, Chris Wilcox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: Can't mount cdrom > >Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 09:53:49 +0100 > > > >Please use postfix quoting format: your reply goes below the m

Kernel 2.6 on Woody

2003-09-14 Thread Davor Balder
Hi all, Is there an easy way to compile kernel 2.6 on Woody? There are reports that there are issues with modules etc. Has anybody done this? What steps should I take? I have source for 2.6-test5. When I compile it, I get this (last few lines): ARCH=i386 modules_install

How to enlarge 3.5"?

2003-09-14 Thread Abdul Latip
Hi, May I know the Google keywords for finding infomation on how to enlarge the 1.4MB 3.5" diskette capacity in linux? regards, -- Abdul Latip -- Junior Staff -- Angkasa Internet --- http://people.WebIndonesia.com/dullatip/ --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Installation menu not recognizing SCSI disks

2003-09-14 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 11:09:29PM +0200, Erik J.C. Laan wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install Woody on an Compaq Prosignia VS. This system has a > NCR53C710 SCSI controller with 2 disks (1G and 4,5G) connected to it. > There's also a CDROM on the SCSI chain. Both disks and the CDrom work > fine

Re: minimal installation

2003-09-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 07:20:38PM -0400, Ashley Graham wrote: > hello friends, > > i am trying to get a debian system on an old laptop i have copped from a > friend; it is rather old, but i couldn't give up the chance to install linux > on something else. > > the system is a compaq contura 430cx

Re: unable to rename a folder

2003-09-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 01:11:52AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 04:47:35PM -0700, Dweeil Brock wrote: > > trying to rename a folder and recieve the following error message: > > > > Bare word "foldername" not allowed while "strict subs" in use > > Don't use 'rename' to move

minimal installation

2003-09-14 Thread Ashley Graham
hello friends, i am trying to get a debian system on an old laptop i have copped from a friend; it is rather old, but i couldn't give up the chance to install linux on something else. the system is a compaq contura 430cx, it has a floppy drive ONLY. no cd-rom, no network (it had a pcmcia modem th

Re: Install stalled

2003-09-14 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 03:54:10PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 09:03:54 +0100, > > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > on Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at

Re: Howto on one pages

2003-09-14 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 08:11:24PM +0200, Christophe Courtois wrote: > Hi, > > The Howtos that I find on the Debian site are often in HTML format ; > getting them page by page is very painful. Pdf > apt-get doc-linux-text (or doc-linux-html; reading them locally with your favorite browser mi

Re: Install stalled

2003-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 03:54:10PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 09:03:54 +0100, > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > on Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 07:11:55AM -0500, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote:> Erik S

Not booting, oops

2003-09-14 Thread Raul Montagne
Sorry forget the dmesg part: Sep 11 22:14:49 calhetas kernel: e100: eth0: Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connection Sep 11 22:14:49 calhetas kernel: Mem:0xfceff000 IRQ:11 Speed:0 Mbps Dx:N/A Sep 11 22:14:49 calhetas kernel: Hardware receive checksums enabled Sep 11 22:14:49 calhetas kernel: S

Re: kernel-source-2.6.0-test-2

2003-09-14 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:38:42 -0400, > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 19:57, csj wrote: > > > At Sat, 13 Sep 2003 11:29:57 -0500, > > > John Hasler wrote: > > > > > > > > csj

Re: Troubles connection to the LAN

2003-09-14 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Klemens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Ahoi! > > I have got a new PC (Via Mini-ITX with C3 CPU). I have two NICs in it > and compiled a new kernel (2.4.16). I can load the net drivers > (via-rhine and ne2k-pci) and they are listed as eth0 and eth1 when i > see the ifconfig output. > Unfortu

Re: FTP only with windows, why not...

2003-09-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 06:03:33AM +0800, David Palmer wrote: > On Saturday 13 September 2003 10:01 pm, Juri Haberland wrote: > >?Peter Christensen schrieb: > >?> But recently I wanted to FTP a photo to the "personal web space" that my > >?> ISP provides. ?I've been unable to do this, and have not

camera functioning as usb-storage not recognised

2003-09-14 Thread michf
I am having trouble connecting a usb digital cammera. On windows the cammera behaves as a flash device (like a disk on key) using the generic driver. Under linux, when I load the usb-storage driver it appears as a usb-storage device on usb-view, and I see and entry under proc scsi, but sg_scan -i d

Re: Howto on one pages

2003-09-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 03:20:21PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Christophe Courtois wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > The Howtos that I find on the Debian site are often in HTML format ; > > getting them page by page is very painful. Pdf > > Hi C, > IIRC most of them come

Re: Howto on one pages

2003-09-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 08:11:24PM +0200, Christophe Courtois wrote: > Hi, > > The Howtos that I find on the Debian site are often in HTML format ; > getting them page by page is very painful. Pdf Many DDP documents offer PDF and many latest contents are available as debian package in unstabl

Re: Howto on one pages

2003-09-14 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 08:11:24PM +0200, Christophe Courtois wrote: > Hi, > > The Howtos that I find on the Debian site are often in HTML format ; > getting them page by page is very painful. Pdf No, not pdf, something that can be read from the command line in text mode, like a flat plain te

Re: What is the format of a mailboxfile?

2003-09-14 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 06:33:39PM +0200, Jimmy Johansson wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to create a "mailboxfile" in /var/mail/ and I am just > wondering what the format for such a file is and how you create one. I am > not even sure if it is supposed to be a special kind of file or if it is

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

2003-09-14 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 09:23:47PM +1200, cr wrote: > On Sunday 14 September 2003 12:39, Pigeon wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 04:33:22PM +1200, cr wrote: > It'd be nice to have a self-contained floppy with just the basic componenets > needed to boot a Linux system, so there's room to add a fe

Not booting

2003-09-14 Thread Raul Montagne
The boot process of my linux-debian-knoppix machine stops almost at the end Last change was: I was trying to apt-get imagemagick apt-get asked to download and install several libraries. I gave "Y". After a long while, the configuration process seems to be freezed at some partI tried to kill

Re: What is the format of a mailboxfile?

2003-09-14 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 06:33:39PM +0200, Jimmy Johansson wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to create a "mailboxfile" in /var/mail/ and I am just > wondering what the format for such a file is and how you create one. I am > not even sure if it is supposed to be a special kind of file or if it i

Re: FTP only with windows, why not...

2003-09-14 Thread David Palmer
On Saturday 13 September 2003 10:01 pm, Juri Haberland wrote: > Peter Christensen schrieb: > > But recently I wanted to FTP a photo to the "personal web space" that my > > ISP provides.  I've been unable to do this, and have not found any > > information on what is going wrong.  I wonder if some

Installation menu not recognizing SCSI disks

2003-09-14 Thread Erik J.C. Laan
Hi, I'm trying to install Woody on an Compaq Prosignia VS. This system has a NCR53C710 SCSI controller with 2 disks (1G and 4,5G) connected to it. There's also a CDROM on the SCSI chain. Both disks and the CDrom work fine under DOS (with the appropriate drivers). When starting the install I do so

Re: Configuring Debian

2003-09-14 Thread Mario Carugno
Most of the time you can answer with the defaults. But could be good (for you) read and read. If you don't like it, you still could get Knoppix or Gnoppix. On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 16:12:51 -0400 "Tommy McCabe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even with Windows, installing Debian is a snap- boot from the

Configuring Debian

2003-09-14 Thread Tommy McCabe
Even with Windows, installing Debian is a snap- boot from the CD/floppy, answer a few questions about which partitions to divide up and your keyboard and stuff, and the program takes care of it. When I reboot it, it asks me about a hundred different qusetions about Debian "configuartion" half of

Re: Problems after moving root partition

2003-09-14 Thread Wayne Gemmell
Problem solved, so far.. it turns out I didn't have write permissions to /dev/null. *shrug* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adding New Kernel

2003-09-14 Thread Andrés Roldán
Robert Tilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the meaning of the following LILO response? > > debian-rti:/# lilo > Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure. > Name change: '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc' -> '/dev/hda' > The kernel was compiled wit

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

2003-09-14 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 07:40:21PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 21:23:47 +1200 > cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I thought DOS could only handle partitions of up to ~500MB (512? > > 528?). I must be wrong, it happily formatted 600MB, at least for > > partition 3. >

Re: whereis Mozilla 1.4 .deb

2003-09-14 Thread Mario Carugno
Add the following in your /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://debian.relativ.org/ ./ then just run dselect and go to Install directly. Good luck :) On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 11:26:47 -0400 William Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On my Mandrake system I have Mozilla 1.3, but Debian comes with M

Adding New Kernel

2003-09-14 Thread Robert Tilley
What is the meaning of the following LILO response? debian-rti:/# lilo Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure. Name change: '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc' -> '/dev/hda' The kernel was compiled with DEVFS_FS, but 'devfs=mount' was omitted as a

Bug in GNOME detected!

2003-09-14 Thread Alexander Rogg
In GNOME 2.2 (stable woody backport) i went to Applications > Desktop Preferences > Advanced > File types and programs and I removed "rich text document" from Documents > Word Processor. Then i did "Add File Type..." and i entered (same configuration as the removed entry): Description: rich te

Re: Troubles connection to the LAN

2003-09-14 Thread Pim Bliek
> Unfortunately the NICs don't get IP addresses from their respective > dhcp-servers, and if i give them those manually i cannot ping any > other PC in the LAN either. Did you add a default route? route add default gw Net-HOWTO might come in handy too. Good luck! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Howto on one pages

2003-09-14 Thread kmark
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Christophe Courtois wrote: > Hi, > > The Howtos that I find on the Debian site are often in HTML format ; > getting them page by page is very painful. Pdf Hi C, IIRC most of them come in more that one format. So, if it comes in .ps or .pdf, you can convert it to txt with

Troubles connection to the LAN

2003-09-14 Thread Klemens
Ahoi! I have got a new PC (Via Mini-ITX with C3 CPU). I have two NICs in it and compiled a new kernel (2.4.16). I can load the net drivers (via-rhine and ne2k-pci) and they are listed as eth0 and eth1 when i see the ifconfig output. Unfortunately the NICs don't get IP addresses from their respecti

Re: 3c509 problems with 2.4.20 kernel

2003-09-14 Thread C
C wrote: > Hi, I just upgraded to 2.4.20 and my network stopped working... :( Err, scratch that - I just loaded 3c59x ;) C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dvd::rip / transcode

2003-09-14 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 03:32:49PM +0200, daniel wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > >On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 01:35:53PM +0200, daniel wrote: > > > >>Well, it seems we have been passing through the same difficulties or > >>similar. This week has been the first time I have tried dvdrip. > >> > >>In my c

Re: kernel-source-2.6.0-test-2

2003-09-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:38:42 -0400, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 19:57, csj wrote: > > At Sat, 13 Sep 2003 11:29:57 -0500, > > John Hasler wrote: > > > > > > csj writes: > > > > Qt is now required to configure a kernel? > > > >

Howto on one pages

2003-09-14 Thread Christophe Courtois
Hi, The Howtos that I find on the Debian site are often in HTML format ; getting them page by page is very painful. Pdf -- Christophe Courtois - Ostwald, Alsace, France http://www.courtois.cc/ - Clé PGP : 0F33E837 -- Don't t

Re: how to get a silent harddisk?

2003-09-14 Thread Joachim Förster
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:49:16 -0600 Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joachim Förster wrote: > > >Hi! > > >On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:47:04 -0600 (MDT) "Jacob Anawalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >>Tom Allison said: > >> > >> > >>>Jacob Anawalt wrote: > >>> > >>> > Jo

3c509 problems with 2.4.20 kernel

2003-09-14 Thread C
Hi, I just upgraded to 2.4.20 and my network stopped working... :( I Googled around and it looks like there have been quite a few changes with 2.4.20. At the moment the machine's running with a via-rhine card, but I'd like to get the 3c509 back again. I ran 'modprobe isa-pnp' and then 'modprobe

Re: kernel-source-2.6.0-test-2

2003-09-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 19:57, csj wrote: > At Sat, 13 Sep 2003 11:29:57 -0500, > John Hasler wrote: > > > > csj writes: > > > Qt is now required to configure a kernel? > > > > No. "make config" and "make menuconfig" still work. > > Well, of course ;-). I assume by your statement that "make > xc

Re: What is the format of a mailboxfile?

2003-09-14 Thread kmark
Hi Jimmy, there are many mailbox formats. the most common one is 'mbox'. Others are: Maildir, MH and the M$ outlook PST. I guess you can read the 'historical documents'(galaxyquest) aka the RFC's: 196, 278, 822. -k On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Jimmy Johansson wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to create

Re: Discover and tons of uneeded kernel modules

2003-09-14 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Kyle Girard (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have recently removed discover and hotplug from my unstable system > (since the hardware of this computer isn't going to change) but I did > an lsmod and there is a ton of useless kernel modules loaded... > > Does anyone else have this problem?

/etc/aliases

2003-09-14 Thread Bill Moseley
Ok, so I'm now getting spam sent to (and forged from) usernames listed in my /etc/aliases file. Things like "postmaster" I'll need to keep, but I'm wondering what would break if I change things to: bin: :fail: Unknown User Here's my list of aliases. Do any processes/applications send to th

Re: whereis Mozilla 1.4 .deb

2003-09-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 11:26, William Bradley wrote: > On my Mandrake system I have Mozilla 1.3, but Debian comes with Mozilla 1.0. > When I tried to "upgrade" with a local Debian mirror on my source list, it > came back with nothing. When I went to Mozilla, all I could find was a > "tar.gz" file

Re: alsa

2003-09-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 11:09, Tom Allison wrote: > I'm working on a new install and ran through the alsa-modules et al for > 2.4.20-3-686 and selected my sound card (checked to make sure the module was > loaded) > > I'm not getting anything at all on this. > > lsmod shows cs46xx as loaded, but u

What is the format of a mailboxfile?

2003-09-14 Thread Jimmy Johansson
Hello all, I am trying to create a "mailboxfile" in /var/mail/ and I am just wondering what the format for such a file is and how you create one. I am not even sure if it is supposed to be a special kind of file or if it is a special kind of directory. I've tried reading a linuxbook, "Running Lin

Mutt unstable: problem with macro after upgrading

2003-09-14 Thread D.J. Bolderman
Guys, I've upgraded Mutt to 1.5.4+20030913-1, and now I'm having a little problem with a macro. For mailboxes with mailinglists I'm using this: macro index "read thread" to mark uninteresting threads, and skip to the next (new) one. Now, say I have 10 new threads, when I'm on the first threa

Setserial, serial module and Kernel V2.6.0

2003-09-14 Thread Bruce LaZerte
Hopefully somebody here can give me some ideas. I've tried eMailing the kernel serial module maintainer (no response), and posting a bug report against setserial (but he has no experience with kernel V2.6 and would appreciate any advice too). I've compiled kernel-image-2.6.0-test5 ok. And installe

Re: kernel-source-2.6.0-test-2

2003-09-14 Thread John Hasler
csj writes: > I assume by your statement that "make xconfig" now requires qt. I assume so, but I've never tried it. > And why not gtk (do I see flame war coming)? Why would you need any GUI at all for configuring a kernel? (Menuconfig is not a GUI). -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Has

Discover and tons of uneeded kernel modules

2003-09-14 Thread Kyle Girard
I have recently removed discover and hotplug from my unstable system (since the hardware of this computer isn't going to change) but I did an lsmod and there is a ton of useless kernel modules loaded... Does anyone else have this problem? What file do I have to edit so that those kernel modules d

Re: bug tracking

2003-09-14 Thread csj
On 13 Sep 2003 16:30:11 -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 18:29, csj wrote: > > At Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:18:39 +0100, > > > Is it that much work to, as Osamu Aoki said, change the > > priority or downgrade the bug? Then I'd know how I stand WRT > > package. I know its lim

Re: kernel-source-2.6.0-test-2

2003-09-14 Thread csj
At Sat, 13 Sep 2003 11:29:57 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > csj writes: > > Qt is now required to configure a kernel? > > No. "make config" and "make menuconfig" still work. Well, of course ;-). I assume by your statement that "make xconfig" now requires qt. And why not gtk (do I see flame war

Re: Not-so-strange question about bind

2003-09-14 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
El sábado, 13 de septiembre de 2003, a las 09:39, Robin Smith escribe: > There are two ways to do this. Thanks a lot for all the ideas provided. :) Regards, Ismael -- "Tout fourmille de commentaries; d'auteurs il en est grande cherté" signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: best laptops for debian linux

2003-09-14 Thread John Holland
I'm very happy with a Sony VAIO GRX-670, it runs Debian nicely (and did well with Mandrake as well) On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 10:06:22PM -0700, Josh Rehman wrote: > Andy Firman wrote: > > >On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:12:47AM -0700, Jon wrote: > > > > > >>I'm looking to buy a laptop that can easily

whereis Mozilla 1.4 .deb

2003-09-14 Thread William Bradley
On my Mandrake system I have Mozilla 1.3, but Debian comes with Mozilla 1.0. When I tried to "upgrade" with a local Debian mirror on my source list, it came back with nothing. When I went to Mozilla, all I could find was a "tar.gz" file. Can someone point me to a Mozilla deb file please? Thank

Re: FTP only with Windows? Why not Linux?

2003-09-14 Thread William Bradley
On Saturday 13 September 2003 10:01 pm, Juri Haberland wrote: > Peter Christensen schrieb: > > But recently I wanted to FTP a photo to the "personal web space" that my > > ISP provides. I've been unable to do this, and have not found any > > information on what is going wrong. I wonder if some se

alsa

2003-09-14 Thread Tom Allison
I'm working on a new install and ran through the alsa-modules et al for 2.4.20-3-686 and selected my sound card (checked to make sure the module was loaded) I'm not getting anything at all on this. lsmod shows cs46xx as loaded, but unused. What's my next step? -- you don't have to be insane t

Bind 9 chroot now slave/tmp- failed

2003-09-14 Thread Chad M Stewart
I'm rebuilding my secondary name server. I'm using debian/testing and bind 9.2.2. I have changed the default install/config to be in a chroot jail. Actually I'm going to run two instances of bind on this same box, both in their own chroot jails. I've got this working just fine on an older d

Re: ..chroot-installs onto RAID-1 disks ,was: Evolving Debian from Red Hat

2003-09-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 03:40:40 +0100, "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > on Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 06:36:34AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote:> On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:31:38 -0400, > > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <

Re: simple audio recording

2003-09-14 Thread Michael West
Thanks, I was hoping to avoid an external mixer/equilizer since I would like to make this system portable. I should have mentioned this in my original post. Maybe I should just get a mini-disk for portability and do as you suggest for the rest. sox sounds perfect. I am

Re: Can't mount cdrom

2003-09-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 10:17:49 +0100, "Chris Wilcox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On a side note, I would personally find it a tad nicer if your replies > could use a more polite tone! It could just be me, but I find your > abrupt responses annoying and often rud

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