Sid net-install

2004-10-15 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
Hello, Is it also possibe to download a minimal cd for SID net-install ? I only found the software for the stable and testing release and i want to install SID but don't want to download everything. Cheers, Philippe Disclaimer : This e-mail is intended for the exclusive use by the person(s)

Re: X Windows security

2004-10-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Sherman, Michael (GE Energy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a quick question. I know that a machine is much less secure when X > Windows is running. Does it apply in the same way when X stuff is installed, > but the desktop is not actually run

Re: idotdist service port

2004-10-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Ali, Mohammed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do we know the purpose of the port number > > TCP  2590 ? http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/?q=2590/tcp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBcMQtUzgNqloQMwcRAvOMAJwOtC

Re: need help

2004-10-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 MARCELLA CHAMBERS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Im having trouble with my proxy connection on my computer can you > help? Help us help you. Ask a smarter question. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: reinstall

2004-10-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have not long perched a second hand computer witch has windows 98 > on it and my partner has wiped of the cd rom drive by accident and i > cannot get it back now. How do i get it back could you tell me in > English becaus

Re: disk defragmenting

2004-10-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ext2, minix and xiafs filesystem defragmenter Not ext2, should be just ext... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBcMMPUzgNqloQMwcRAvj4AJ4gcsXD6r2j6uLOHWDj2x1DeXzM8wCgsucf 7YEuFH

Re: disk defragmenting

2004-10-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any defragmenting tool in any distro? Not anymore. > and if not why? Modern filesystems are designed to minimize fragmentation in the first place. The need for a seperate, user-space de

Re: space-limiting /var/cache/apt/archives

2004-10-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to somehow tell apt to use no more than X MB of space > for the archive, or not to keep more than Y versions of any package? > I can't find anything about it in apt.conf(5). apt-get autoclea

Re: Install RPM ?

2004-10-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a possibility to install these RPM's ? Check out the alien package. > This e-mail is intended for the exclusive use by the person(s) > mentioned as recipient(s). If you are not the

Re: where do I download Unstable from?

2004-10-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [re: Using apt to get sid on dialup] > This may not work if you are not on broadband but if you aren't on > broadband it probably isn't a great idea to use SID anyway because > of the frequent updates. Actually

Re: where do I download Unstable from?

2004-10-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am able to find download sites and jidgo files for Testing but not > for Unstable. Because there is no installer for unstable (and there is no real motivation for creating one). Go with testing, change your so

Re: disk defragmenting

2004-10-15 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:23:58 -0700, Mike Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 15 October 2004 07:31 am, robin wrote: > > > > Mike Chandler wrote: > > >On Friday 15 October 2004 06:49 am, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > >>Hello, > > >>Is there any defragmenting tool in any distro, and i

Re: cyrus-imap on Sarge

2004-10-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Adi Linden wrote: > I am trying to build cyrus-imap from sources on Sarge. For some reason the > ./configure script complains that -ldb-4.2 does no contain a db_create > function. Why would that be? /usr/lib/libdb-4.2.so certainly exists. Upstream source for Cyrus IMAPd, or th

Running PHP4 and PHP5 Simultaneousl on Apache in Debian!

2004-10-15 Thread Siju George
Hi all, I run LAMP on Debian the configuration is. Debian Woody 3.0r2 with all security updates Apache 1.3.26 PHP 4.3.6 MySQL 4.0.18 The MySQL and PHP packeges were from http://www.dotdeb.org/ Now I would like to run PHP5 also with Apache simultaneously with PHP4. Could someone please tel

Re: X Windows security

2004-10-15 Thread Don Parris
Sherman, Michael (GE Energy) wrote: Hi all. I have a quick question. I know that a machine is much less secure when X Windows is running. Does it apply in the same way when X stuff is installed, but the desktop is not actually running? How secure are vncserver sessions and X over ssh? Thanks in adv

Re: X Windows security

2004-10-15 Thread Don Parris
Sherman, Michael (GE Energy) wrote: Hi all. I have a quick question. I know that a machine is much less secure when X Windows is running. Does it apply in the same way when X stuff is installed, but the desktop is not actually running? How secure are vncserver sessions and X over ssh? Thanks in adv

RE: Intel 82865G driver

2004-10-15 Thread Rituraj Buddhisagar
Thanks a lot for the reply. I now got it working by applying 865patch deb package from http://www.joepenguin.com/ FYI; Compiling intel driver did not succeed. I just applied that pacth and now it works!!! Thanks again Rituraj -Original Message- From: ms linux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Houston, do I have a problem?

2004-10-15 Thread Ramsay D. Seielstad
Thanks Carl, I dunno why my selected search terms didn't turn that up in the debian archives ... and shame on me for not thinking of Google. As I read it, it is nothing to worry about, I'll just amuse myself and see how far it goes. Carl Fink wrote: On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 04:08:58AM +, Ra

Re: Houston, do I have a problem?

2004-10-15 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 04:08:58AM +, Ramsay D. Seielstad wrote: > Unknown HZ value! (10) Assume 100. Just as an exercise, I did a two-minute Google Groups search, and found this thread: http://snipurl.com/9t4p ...a discussion of this very problem on this very mailing list. It's

Re: space-limiting /var/cache/apt/archives

2004-10-15 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 15 October 2004 14:05, Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 12:33:07PM -0400, Derrick Hudson wrote: > > One solution would be to make that directory a separate file system. > > Then when the filesystem's space is consumed apt won't be able to > > exceed that limit. > > I wond

Houston, do I have a problem?

2004-10-15 Thread Ramsay D. Seielstad
Hello all, been a satisfied debian convert for almost two years now and am now starting to find some unexpected output when I run certain utilities and programs. I suspect there is nothing to worry about, but I thought I'd toss this out to the group to look over for a second opinion. I've searc

Re: apache and phpwebsite

2004-10-15 Thread psychoelmo
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:35:21 -0400, Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i am trying to virtual host using apache. i have several hosts already > but, for some reason, I haven't been able to get phpwebsite to work > out. > > in /etc/httpd.conf i have: > > Listen 8080 > > . >

Re: Combining PDF documents

2004-10-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 23:12:29 +0200, Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In Adobe Acrobat, there is the ability to combine PDF documents, inserting > > document 2 at a given location within document one. Actually, all I really > > need i

Re: Internet slow with Debian Sarge w/2.6

2004-10-15 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 04:55:32AM -0400, Mark Schonfeld wrote: > I've just installed Debian Sarge via netinstall with the 2.6 kernel. > The internet is horribly slow. However I've had this before in Suse > 9.1 so I assumed I need to disable ipv6 support. Is this a common problem with 2.6? What

Re: disk defragmenting

2004-10-15 Thread Mike Chandler
On Friday 15 October 2004 07:31 am, robin wrote: > Mike Chandler wrote: > >On Friday 15 October 2004 06:49 am, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >>Hello, > >>Is there any defragmenting tool in any distro, and if not why? Thanks!!! > > > >Nope, not needed. > > There are lots of hits on google for this o

Re: Multiple CD ISO's into single DVD ISO?

2004-10-15 Thread psychoelmo
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:32:50 -0700 (PDT), Eric Wagar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I actually mounted all the CD ISO's and then mkisofs'd > them into one large ISO that I burned to DVD. But, I > don't think that it would work the same way as a > properly configured DVD ISO. > > I'll keep working o

Re: Intel 82865G driver

2004-10-15 Thread ms linux
Rituraj Buddhisagar wrote: > Can anybody please tell me where to get debian driver for Intel 82865G. > > The intel site says its supported /tested on RedHat and suse. I am getting following errors when I run the install script > > > > Debian1:~/dripkg# cat dri.log > > rm -f *.o *.ko dristat drms

Re: mozilla-firefox 0.9.3-6 crash

2004-10-15 Thread Jules Dubois
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:36:19 -0500, Frederick B. Henry Jr. wrote: > I have been experiencing inexplicable, apparently random crashes of > mozilla-firefox. This URL crashes Firefox 0.9.3.6 for me: http://pclinuxonline.com/ The previous version didn't. > At first I believed it to be a javascri

Re: converting old style ufs to ext2

2004-10-15 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:30:29 -0700, Marc Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've connected a "j-bod" with to an Alpha running the latest stable > release of Debian linux. I can mount the filesystems as "ufs" in > /etc/fstab, but I can't write to them. > In poking around, it seems as

Re: Install/Upgrade/Use ext3 or xfs

2004-10-15 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 15 October 2004 09:37 am, Eric Wagar wrote: > How do I install and use ext3 or xfs filesystems > from the initial install? I see a lot of > documentation > on how to convert, but I'd like to get them running > from the beginning. > > Thanks > eric Install Sarge, xfs (and ext3) are part

Re: Not optimal display -> DRI activation with ATI Radeon 9000

2004-10-15 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 16 October 2004 00:57, Jean-Francois Lefebvre wrote: ... > (WW) RADEON(0): Option "UseInternalAGPGART" is not used > (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled > There are two AGPGART modules to be loaded (in /etc/modules). One is for the specific motherboard that you have, the second

Re: What means that: FATAL: udev is already active on /dev/.

2004-10-15 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Jim McCloskey said... > > |> FATAL: udev is already active on /dev/ > > I've been banging my head against this problem for a week and a half > now. I get the error message at boot time, but udev (as far as I can > tell) seems to work as it is supposed to. Are you sure udev is

Re: Not optimal display -> DRI activation with ATI Radeon 9000

2004-10-15 Thread Jean-Francois Lefebvre
Selon Sylvain Vedrenne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello Jean-François, > > > Here's what I get with "glxinfo" > > > > name of display: :0.0 > > display: :0 screen: 0 > > direct rendering: No > So, it looks like DRI is not around, at least for OpenGL. > > > I don't know what to do? Is my kernel too ol

Re: cyrus-imap on Sarge

2004-10-15 Thread Adi Linden
> You probably need the libdb4.2-dev package installed. Yes, that is installed. Adi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reclaiming Windows ptn for Linux (was: Re: )

2004-10-15 Thread cr
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 04:32, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from P P PRASAD: > > Can you guide me in following case : > > We are having a System having 2 HDDs C & D . On C Windows 2000 Server > > is installed and on D Red Hat 9 is installed. Now D is nearly full. > > We want to format C and extend it f

Re: Install/Upgrade/Use ext3 or xfs

2004-10-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Eric Wagar wrote: How do I install and use ext3 or xfs filesystems from the initial install? I see a lot of documentation on how to convert, but I'd like to get them running from the beginning. Boot a Knoppix CD and do a "chroot install" What is a "chroot install"? You mean boot Knoppix and the

Re: NFS slow/lockups

2004-10-15 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 13 October 2004 23:33, Tim Kelley wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:05:21PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > Just to show its not networking problems, I have resorted to copying the > > files via scp - even encrypted I am getting about 0.5Mb/sec > > That's horrible! Is this a 10Mb ne

Re:

2004-10-15 Thread cr
I'd add a further comment - if you want to 'play it safe', you could make yourself a GRUB boot floppy, then check that you can use it to boot your Linux on the second hard drive ("D:") _before_ you wipe your W2K install. There are some good instructions on how to use GRUB and create a boot f

Re: catch-all in /etc/aliases

2004-10-15 Thread Peter Hicks
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 10:08:49AM +0100, James Cummings wrote: >On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:02:06 +0100, James Cummings ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I'm using debian unstable and exim4 and forwarding a bunch of >> mail on for another system using /etc/aliases >> >> Firstname.Lastnam

Re: What means that: FATAL: udev is already active on /dev/.

2004-10-15 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> FATAL: udev is already active on /dev/ I've been banging my head against this problem for a week and a half now. I get the error message at boot time, but udev (as far as I can tell) seems to work as it is supposed to. For me, the error-message began appearing only after a hard shutdown (ca

Re: Kernal Upgrade Pt2

2004-10-15 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Johnno (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have now got the kernel upgraded (2.4.18-1-686) and working with > iptables.. > > I was running 2.2.20-idepci and it pickup the network cards (2) with > this new kernel it won't pickup up the network cards.. > > I tried installing kernel-patch-ether

Re: cyrus-imap on Sarge

2004-10-15 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:26:35 -0500, Adi Linden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to build cyrus-imap from sources on Sarge. For some reason the > ./configure script complains that -ldb-4.2 does no contain a db_create > function. Why would that be? /usr/lib/libdb-4.2.so certainly exists. > >

cyrus-imap on Sarge

2004-10-15 Thread Adi Linden
I am trying to build cyrus-imap from sources on Sarge. For some reason the ./configure script complains that -ldb-4.2 does no contain a db_create function. Why would that be? /usr/lib/libdb-4.2.so certainly exists. If I build db-4.2 from source and use this to build cyrus-imap all is well. At leas

Kernal Upgrade Pt2

2004-10-15 Thread Johnno
Many Thanks to those that helped. I have now got the kernel upgraded (2.4.18-1-686) and working with iptables.. I was running 2.2.20-idepci and it pickup the network cards (2) with this new kernel it won't pickup up the network cards.. I tried installing kernel-patch-ethernet-drivers still with

Re: What means that: FATAL: udev is already active on /dev/. ?

2004-10-15 Thread John L Fjellstad
Christian Leimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So every udev user has an old .dev? > Which is used befor udev starts or if udev maybe is broken. Yes. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

base-config assumes "testing" even after changing source.list and apt.conf

2004-10-15 Thread H. S.
Hi, I am in the process of installing Debain Unstable on an Inspiron 5160 laptop. I am using the new Debian Installer (great job, developers! Yeh!). I passed the step where base-config askes for apt sources and did practically nothing except choosing one source - which was by default "testing".

Re: Install/Upgrade/Use ext3 or xfs

2004-10-15 Thread Sylvain Vedrenne
On Friday 15 October 2004 22:57, linux wrote: > >Use "chroot install" to install the Knoppix to a hard drive. > >Knoppix is based on Debian, so I assume Roberto means "chroot install" > > using just your Knoppix CD, that's it. > >[..] Sylvain. > > I may be missing something, but you suggest to inst

Re: unable to find swap space signature

2004-10-15 Thread Sylvain Vedrenne
On Friday 15 October 2004 23:02, messmate wrote: > Hi folks, > what can this mean ' unable to find swap space signature' > on boot ? > Thanks for the info Hi, Apparently it means that the kernel couldn't activate the swap space (a region on a hard disk used for storing temporary information when R

Re: Kernel Upgrade

2004-10-15 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Bernie Berg (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Johnno wrote: >>Bernie Berg (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >>> Johnno wrote: VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or 03:01 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel Panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:01 >>> Are you us

RE: Sarge with lilo?

2004-10-15 Thread Preston Boyington
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Preston Boyington wrote: >> Andreas Janssen wrote: >> >> >> It happens when Grub starts to boot my system. I see the following: >> >> root (hd0,0) >> kernel /boot/vmlinz-2.6.8-1-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro >> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-1-386 >> savedefault >> boot >> >> a

X Windows security

2004-10-15 Thread Sherman, Michael (GE Energy)
Hi all. I have a quick question. I know that a machine is much less secure when X Windows is running. Does it apply in the same way when X stuff is installed, but the desktop is not actually running? How secure are vncserver sessions and X over ssh? Thanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

unable to find swap space signature

2004-10-15 Thread messmate
Hi folks, what can this mean ' unable to find swap space signature' on boot ? Thanks for the info -- Amicalement mess-mate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Install/Upgrade/Use ext3 or xfs

2004-10-15 Thread linux
Sylvain Vedrenne wrote: On Friday 15 October 2004 22:29, Eric Wagar wrote: How do I install and use ext3 or xfs filesystems from the initial install? I see a lot of documentation on how to convert, but I'd like to get them running from the beginning. Boot a Knoppix CD

Re: Install/Upgrade/Use ext3 or xfs

2004-10-15 Thread Sylvain Vedrenne
On Friday 15 October 2004 22:29, Eric Wagar wrote: > > > How do I install and use ext3 or xfs filesystems > > > from the initial install? I see a lot of > > > documentation > > > on how to convert, but I'd like to get them > > > > running > > > > > from the beginning. > > > > Boot a Knoppix CD an

Re: Not optimal display -> DRI activation with ATI Radeon 9000

2004-10-15 Thread Sylvain Vedrenne
Hello Jean-François, > Here's what I get with "glxinfo" > > name of display: :0.0 > display: :0 screen: 0 > direct rendering: No So, it looks like DRI is not around, at least for OpenGL. > I don't know what to do? Is my kernel too old? I don't think so (I assume that someone would have told you

Re: Install/Upgrade/Use ext3 or xfs

2004-10-15 Thread Eric Wagar
> > How do I install and use ext3 or xfs filesystems > > from the initial install? I see a lot of > > documentation > > on how to convert, but I'd like to get them > running > > from the beginning. > > Boot a Knoppix CD and do a "chroot install" What is a "chroot install"? You mean boot Knoppi

Re: vcd/ video dvd howto

2004-10-15 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:56:12 -0400 Carl Fink disseminated the following: > > Could anybody tell me where can i find any information about > > how to write (copy) a video dvd or cd? I need dvd, but maybe > > some are interested in cd, maybe the same way. > > I'm no expert, but the HOWTOs are at th

cgi scripts not executed with ssl

2004-10-15 Thread Bernd Prager
Hi, I just set up apache2 and configured ssl.conf with: ... same DocumentRoot as my default.conf ... only siginificant difference for scripts is SSLOptions +StdEnvVars Testing a cgi script with "http:.../cgi-bin/hello.cgi" executes the script and returns "hello world" but the same url just

Re: printer won't stop

2004-10-15 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 15 October 2004 16:41, CW Harris wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:26:09AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > I have one box where cups won't let me change anything and I > > cannot see what I have configured wrong. > > Are you a member of the SystemGroup (default lpadmin) defi

Re: vcd/ video dvd howto

2004-10-15 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 03:21:26PM +0200, Na Zo wrote: > Hi! > > Could anybody tell me where can i find any information about > how to write (copy) a video dvd or cd? I need dvd, but maybe > some are interested in cd, maybe the same way. I'm no expert, but the HOWTOs are at the Linux Documentatio

Re: Kernel Upgrade

2004-10-15 Thread Johnno
Cool Bananas It works... Many thanks for that, you don't want to know how many hours I have spend trying to get to work :))) Johnno - Original Message - From: "Andreas Janssen" > Hello > > Johnno (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I was trying to update the kernel from 2.2.0 to 2.4.18-

Re: Wireless interface not working

2004-10-15 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:16:58AM +0100, Werner Otto wrote: > I installed debina on my Dell Latitide D505. I am unable to get my > wireless working. To add to what others posted, did you install the wireless tools? What's the output of iwconfig? What kernel version are you running? Have you r

Re: Kernel Upgrade

2004-10-15 Thread Johnno
I have in lilo.conf image=/vmlinuz label=LinuxNew root=/dev/hda1 read-only optional - Original Message - From: "Bernie Berg" > Well, this must not be your problem becuase I am sure ext2 is in that > kernel. Is the root option setup cottectly in your boot loader (for > lilo it is in

Re: Not optimal display

2004-10-15 Thread Jean-Francois Lefebvre
> On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 10:08:33 -0400, Jean-Francois Lefebvre > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I'm using Debian since 2 weeks, and so far I'm happy with it. But there's one > > problem. I have an ATI Radeon 9000 graphic card, and still when a GL > > screensaver (like Euphoria) appears, i

Re: Kernel Upgrade

2004-10-15 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Johnno (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I was trying to update the kernel from 2.2.0 to 2.4.18-1-386 > > I used apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-1-386 > > I have tried to install it a few times but still get the some errors > when I reboot > > VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or 03:01

Re: Kernel Upgrade

2004-10-15 Thread Bernie Berg
- Original Message - VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or 03:01 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel Panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:01 Are you using ext3 or reiserfs (or maybe some other fs that isn't compiled by default)? If so you should compile your filesystem

Re: Missing ttys with udev

2004-10-15 Thread John L Fjellstad
Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > you'll have to create symlinks yourself. Look in the /etc/udev > directory. It's well documented. No you don't. And if you did, it would disappear at next reboot anyways. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet

Re: Missing ttys with udev

2004-10-15 Thread John L Fjellstad
Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently switched from devfs to udev. Everything is fine except that I > now have no virtual consoles, only X. > > The device /dev/tty exists as do /dev/vc/tty/*, but there are no > symbolic links like /dev/tty0 -> vc/0. > > Does anyone know what's goi

Re: space-limiting /var/cache/apt/archives

2004-10-15 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 12:33:07PM -0400, Derrick Hudson wrote: > One solution would be to make that directory a separate file system. > Then when the filesystem's space is consumed apt won't be able to > exceed that limit. I wonder how hard apt would crash when it hits the limit. I have hopes tha

Re: Install/Upgrade/Use ext3 or xfs

2004-10-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Eric Wagar wrote: How do I install and use ext3 or xfs filesystems from the initial install? I see a lot of documentation on how to convert, but I'd like to get them running from the beginning. Thanks eric Boot a Knoppix CD and do a "chroot install" -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Descriptio

Kernel Upgrade

2004-10-15 Thread Johnno
I was trying to update the kernel from 2.2.0 to 2.4.18-1-386 I used apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-1-386 I have tried to install it a few times but still get the some errors when I reboot VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or 03:01 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel Panic: V

can only ping after kernel upgrade

2004-10-15 Thread Bernie Berg
Howdy, I loaded up woody with the bootbf2.4-xfs_with_basedebs.iso netist image yesterday. I then proceeded to upgrade my kernel to 2.4.27. I used apt-get to get the sources, copied the orig config from /boot, ran make oldconfig (used the defaults) and then ran make-kpkg to compile. I then i

Re: Wireless interface not working

2004-10-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Werner Otto wrote: > I installed debina on my Dell Latitide D505. I am unable to get my > wireless working. > > Can someone please lead me in the right direction. we'd need more info if we do not have that dell box to do your homework for yoou - what is the output of lsp

Re: apache + mass virtual hosting +tomcat please help (resin ??)

2004-10-15 Thread Pritpal Dhaliwal
You can accomplish this with resin. You can tell resin which hosts resin should take care of and which it shouldn't. read some docs and give it a whirl www.caucho.com resin 3.0.9 has been release as GPL. Pritpal Dhaliwal Roozemond, D.A. wrote: Hi, Few virtual sites needs tomcat in order to wor

Re: Has anyone usded gensplash ?

2004-10-15 Thread Glyn Tebbutt
On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 09:57, duzhenhuan wrote: > I googled about gensplash installation ,it's almost all about gentoo. > Can u give me some instructions on setting up gensplash in Debian? Myself and others are actually working on a port atm. There's a quick guide on my site *see url below* but its

Re: ATI 3D acceleleration and dpkg-divert

2004-10-15 Thread Nicolas de Sereville
Hi! Just for closing this thread. I finally got 3d acceleration and OpenGL working well following the installation method from http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html. Celestia and Tuxracer are running smooth. Thanks to everybody Nico Nicolas de Sereville wrote: Hi

Re: Install/Upgrade/Use ext3 or xfs

2004-10-15 Thread Mike Smith
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:37:22 -0700 (PDT), Eric Wagar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I install and use ext3 or xfs filesystems > from the initial install? I see a lot of > documentation > on how to convert, but I'd like to get them running > from the beginning. > > Thanks > eric > > -- > To

Install/Upgrade/Use ext3 or xfs

2004-10-15 Thread Eric Wagar
How do I install and use ext3 or xfs filesystems from the initial install? I see a lot of documentation on how to convert, but I'd like to get them running from the beginning. Thanks eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: idotdist service port

2004-10-15 Thread Ali, Mohammed
Hi   Do we know the purpose of the port number TCP  2590 ?   Thanks Mohammed Ali    

Re: can't find /dev/dsp ?

2004-10-15 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 15 October 2004 11:16, belahcene wrote: > thank you for reply > Yes I am using 2.6 kernel > > the strange is that > inst162:~# insmod snd-pcm-oss > insmod: can't read 'snd-pcm-oss': No such file or > directory > Yes, that is strange. > while the lsmod gives : > nst162:~# lsmod |grep os

Re: mozilla-firefox 0.9.3-6 crash

2004-10-15 Thread Frederick B. Henry Jr.
On Friday 15 Oct 2004 11:36:19 -0500, Frederick B. Henry Jr. wrote: > Greetings, > > I have been experiencing inexplicable, apparently random crashes of > mozilla-firefox. At first I believed it to be a javascript issue, but > having turned javascript off, I still get the crashes. > > I'm runni

Re: poll: managing high volumes of list mail effectively

2004-10-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Brian Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.15.1823 +0200]: > > I am subscribed to 237 mailing lists and even though my tools are > > Holy crap! > > How much time per day do you spend on all that mail? Too much. But as I said, I have good tools. For instance, crm114 and a custom neura

Re: converting old style ufs to ext2

2004-10-15 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:30:29AM -0700, Marc Jackson wrote: | Hello, | | I've connected a "j-bod" with to an Alpha running the latest stable | release of Debian linux. I can mount the filesystems as "ufs" in | /etc/fstab, but I can't write to them. | In poking around, it seems as if there is no

mozilla-firefox 0.9.3-6 crash

2004-10-15 Thread Frederick B. Henry Jr.
Greetings, I have been experiencing inexplicable, apparently random crashes of mozilla-firefox. At first I believed it to be a javascript issue, but having turned javascript off, I still get the crashes. I'm running unstable, fluxbox wm, nvidia driver. I receive this on the crash: The progr

Re: space-limiting /var/cache/apt/archives

2004-10-15 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 12:52:18PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: | | On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:53:19 +0200, Maurits van Rees writes: | >> Is it possible to somehow tell apt to use no more than X MB of | >> space for the archive, or not to keep more than Y versions of any | >> package? I can't find

Re: Upgrade from testing to experimental ?

2004-10-15 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:46:23 +0200, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I need to have alot of 'latest' releases, now i am using the > testing-debian. What exactly do you _NEED_ as opposed to _WANT_ for the latest of everything? > Can i change to experimental d

Re: Multiple CD ISO's into single DVD ISO?

2004-10-15 Thread Eric Wagar
> > But, I was not able to find any file like a > .discinfo > > (referenced in above article about which disk, > etc) > > on Debian. > > > > Has anyone been able to do the multi CD's into > single > > DVD? If so, how? > > Well, I don't know about concatenating all the disks > into a single > dv

Re: Re: can't find /dev/dsp ?

2004-10-15 Thread belahcene
thank you for reply Yes I am using 2.6 kernel the strange is that inst162:~# insmod snd-pcm-oss insmod: can't read 'snd-pcm-oss': No such file or directory while the lsmod gives : nst162:~# lsmod |grep os snd_pcm_oss48168 0 snd_pcm85412 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss

Re: Missing ttys with udev

2004-10-15 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 06:41:12PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: | | Hi all, | | I recently switched from devfs to udev. Everything is fine except that I | now have no virtual consoles, only X. | | The device /dev/tty exists as do /dev/vc/tty/*, but there are no | symbolic links like /dev/tty0 ->

Re: need help

2004-10-15 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 14:06:25 -0700, MARCELLA CHAMBERS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im having trouble with my proxy connection on my computer can you help? Call your sysadmin for more instructions. He might also require you to supply information you might've have willingly, purposely withheld earli

Re: poll: managing high volumes of list mail effectively

2004-10-15 Thread Brian Kimball
On Friday 15 October 2004 08:01 am, martin f krafft wrote: > I am subscribed to 237 mailing lists and even though my tools are Holy crap! How much time per day do you spend on all that mail? I'm trying to be as efficient as I can with my 19 mailing lists and I still spend too long on them. th

Re: Can't umount / at shutdown

2004-10-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pau Capdevila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've added a probe in the umount rc script to see what's opened just >before trying to umount filesystems. I can see the following > >COMMANDPID USER FD TYPE DEVICESIZE NODE NAME >lsof 2401 root1w

need help

2004-10-15 Thread MARCELLA CHAMBERS
Im having trouble with my proxy connection on my computer can you help? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Combining PDF documents

2004-10-15 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 08:39:59PM +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > Received Thu 14 Oct 2004 7:14am +1000 from Martin Dickopp: > > Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > In Adobe Acrobat, there is the ability to combine PDF documents, inserting > > > document 2 at a given locat

Re: reinstall

2004-10-15 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:27:44 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have not long perched a second hand computer witch has windows 98 on it > and my partner has wiped of the cd rom drive by accident and i cannot get it > back now. How do i get it back could you tell me in English

Re: reinstall

2004-10-15 Thread Ken Gilmour
Ar Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:27:44 EDT, scríobh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:  I have not long perched a second hand computer witch has windows 98  on it and my partner has wiped of the cd rom drive by accident and  i cannot get it back now. How do i get it back could you tell me in  English because i don't underst

RE: reinstall

2004-10-15 Thread Rituraj Buddhisagar
If I understand correctly what you are saying:-   Maybe if the CDROM drive is not connected properly. Shut down the computer; remove power connection; open the lid and then remove the connections going to CDROM(one is power and another is called data-cable) and then connect them again.

Re: NFS slow/lockups

2004-10-15 Thread Alan Chandler
Tim Kelley writes: On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:00:18AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: Both you guys have missed my main message - the speed I was talking about was using SCP - so perhaps its also processors trying to do encrypt the message. No, that is neglegible, unless this is a 386 or something

Intel 82865G driver

2004-10-15 Thread Rituraj Buddhisagar
Title: RE: x server configuration problems Can anybody please tell me where to get debian driver for Intel 82865G. The intel site says its supported /tested on RedHat and suse. I am getting following errors when I run the install script   Debian1:~/dripkg# cat dri.log rm -f *.o *.ko d

Re: What means that: FATAL: udev is already active on /dev/. ?

2004-10-15 Thread Christian Leimer
Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 23:35:59 +0200, Christian Leimer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If I boot from another system the .dev is gone. >> But booting back in the troble maker shows the .dev and with the contents >> of an old /dev only null and console and I can not dele

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