problem with rebooting in Sarge

Hello,   I worked at Debian 3.0 (Woody) with kernel 2.2.22 and everything was fine. Yesterday i decided install Debian 3.1r0a Sarge(kernel 2.4.27) on my computer(p2-400 NOT laptop). Installation done perfectly, then i wanted to reboot, said 'reboot'. He stopped all processes, flushed ide d

Re: problem with rebooting in Sarge

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 09:22:41AM +0300, Roman Sozinov wrote: > I worked at Debian 3.0 (Woody) with kernel 2.2.22 and everything was fine. > Yesterday i decided install Debian 3.1r0a Sarge(kernel 2.4.27) on my > computer(p2-400 NOT laptop). Installation done perfectly, then i wanted to > reboot,

Re: call for a vote -- I vote for "Reply to list".

(forgive "top post", it seems logical here)   I feel I have learned more about Linux in three months on this list, then from books over 5 years.   I hate to think of how much I didn't learn because the reply went to sender only.   I hope the list maintainers will reconsider and try "reply to list"

Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

On Tuesday 23 August 2005 09:56 pm, David Christensen wrote: > debian users: > > I am tired of replying to messages on this list, only to realize that my > reply went to the message author and not to the list. So hit Reply to Mailing List instead of Reply to Author. The list does set standard ma

FW: making backup using rsync in home LAN

H. S. wrote: > ... suggest how to backup the laptop data from it's Windows (NTFS) > paritition. ... I use Cygwin and a Perl script that uses ntbackup to backup C:\Documents and Settings to a second hard drive. I then run another Perl script on my Debian 3.1 backup server which copies out the back

call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

debian users: I am tired of replying to messages on this list, only to realize that my reply went to the message author and not to the list. It is my understanding that the people in charge of this list think that his behavior is a feature, not a bug. I disagree. I acknowledge that this issue c

Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 18:38:29 +0200 Michal Simovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > don't know, if there is a defrag utility for linux, but first of all you > should realize that after few months there is probably no need to Under most circumstances yes. I've been running linux for years, but man

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Re: OT: GUI Develpment for C++ program

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 12:01:38AM -0400, Jiann-Ming Su wrote: > On 8/23/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The point is that > > GTK (under the LGPL) and wxWidgets (under a modified LGPL) provide more > > fexibility to the developer. > > > > "Flexibility" can't be defined by

Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:19:55 -0400 kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > post your df -h output? I have a feeling that defragmenting an ext2/ext3 > partition does not increase performance if the partitions are not > heavily filled up. But I could be wrong. I'm skeptical that it woul

Re: OT: GUI Develpment for C++ program

On 8/23/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The point is that > GTK (under the LGPL) and wxWidgets (under a modified LGPL) provide more > fexibility to the developer. > "Flexibility" can't be defined by the licensing alone. The quality of the toolkit (libraries, documentation, t

Re: Switching to Debian (from Fedora)

Bryan Donlan wrote: >Testing's newer version means the security fix is considered an older >version, so it won't auto-upgrade. If the version in testing is >vulnerable, you either have to manually downgrade to stable-security, >or manually upgrade to unstable. > > Ah; hadn't thought that point t

Sitebar with MYSQL 5?

I am running unstable and upgraded to mysql-server-5.0. Shortly after that sitebar upgraded to 3.2.6-7 and was dying with: Setting up sitebar (3.2.6-7) ... ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 1: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the rig

Re: root (/) on software raid

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 02:34:45PM -0400, Erik Karlin wrote: > > If you check the rootraiddoc.97.html, usually > /usr/share/doc/mdadm/rootraiddoc.97.html or via > http://alioth.debian.org/projects/rootraiddoc > > Down around section 8, just before the appendix, there is this little > blurb: > >

Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

Tim Ruehsen wrote: You don't need to. You only need to defragment your disk if your operating system is incapable of keeping the fragmentation under control, and Linux does not suffer from this problem. Many people say so, but it is not true. Ext2 takes some precautions to reduce fragme

sarge gnome-panel always on top -- how? Worked under woody

A couple of years ago, I found a reference on the web (which I can no longer locate) that explained how to keep gnome-panel always on top. I had this applied under woody, and it worked beautifully in conjuction with auto-hide. However, following an upgrade to sarge, always on top is no longer in

Upgrading from X

In the "Release Notes for Debian GNU/Linux 3.1" it states: Distribution upgrade should be done either locally from a textmode virtual console (or a directly connected serial terminal), or remotely via an ssh link. Whats the worse that can happen if a dist upgrade is done from a local X s

Re: Returned mail: Data format error

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Re: Could not create the Java virtual machine

Yeah, you are all right. :) Have you ever had one of those days. ...Or one of those emails to a world wide distribution list that you wish could just be silently ignored. The real bug in my java application was caused by something I did in code. The "java -v" was just more stupidity on my par

Re: Problem with Firefox and Mime (I think)

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:50:18PM -0500, Jason Martens wrote: > I just installed a clean sarge laptop, and I installed firefox and > firefox-gnome-support packages. However, now when I try to download a file, > it > fails to save it. It just does nothing. Sometimes (if the url has not been

Problem with Firefox and Mime (I think)

I just installed a clean sarge laptop, and I installed firefox and firefox-gnome-support packages. However, now when I try to download a file, it fails to save it. It just does nothing. Sometimes (if the url has not been obfuscated) I can right click and save as, but that does not always wor

Re: AM radio recorder

Just thought I'd let people know that I've successfully set this up. It was so very easy. I just used a patch cable (male on both ends) to connect my radio to my sound card ('line in' socket). I set up some simple scripts with some calls to ecasound (an EXCELLENT command line program for sound ma

Re: ppp & eth0

--- Haldor Riddering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I just installed sarge on my machine, just > disconnected the harddrives > and installed a > fresh new one for trialing so have no worries with > partitions or windows > getting in the way. > [snip] > near future I want to be able to net

Re: monitor PC2000 F17 69T technical informations?

* Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050822 13:05]: > >Take a look at read-edid [1], which might find that information for you. [..] > But when you have 2 monitors, one on AGP and one on PCI, which one does > he get the edid info for? Uhm... I don't know... perhaps you can try it out? If it r

Re: Lost Labyrinth

Hi! * Markus Döbele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050822 22:13]: > > Probaly if you change your license... currently you just state your game > > would be "freeware", which is not enough according to our Debian Free > > Software Guidelines [4] to be part of the main Debian archive. > Its gpl! That's good

Re: MovieMars - Your e-mail has been received...

I did'nt receive my order of August 4, 2005, I will like to know if there is a problem. Please let me know. Item # 4564222438.   Josefina Ruiz

Re: Switching to Debian (from Fedora)

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:06:10AM +0200, A. Lanza wrote: > Hi list, > > i've been running Fedora linux for about 3 years now but... i wanted to > explore Debian as well. Recently, i had to set up a mail system and i > installed Debian Sarge on an old Pentium 3 machine with 128 MB of RAM. > The ne

making backup using rsync in home LAN

Hi, I backup my data on my home machine using a rsync script (http://www.tux.org/~tbr/rsync/rsynchowto.html website was extremely helpful). The machine runs Debian Testing, 2.6.11 kernel. My OS is on /dev/hda and backups are done on /dev/hdb. My wife uses a laptop which has Debian Unstable and W

Re: KDE vs GNOME

Leonardo Sá wrote: I really need a good looking desktop without taking up that much resources... No you don't. You need the applications you require installed over a base system. These bring all dependencies with them. You don't require a full Gnome or KDE desktop. Just use Fluxbox, or the i

ppp & eth0

Hi, I just installed sarge on my machine, just disconnected the harddrives and installed a fresh new one for trialing so have no worries with partitions or windows getting in the way. The idea is to move away from windows altogether at a later stage though my laptop will always be xp as networ

Re: OT: GUI Develpment for C++ program

On 8/23/05, Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the process of learning C++ and have written a program to solve Sudoku > grids, I know there are loads of them already :), and was just wondering > what would be the easiest/best way to write a GUI for it. "Easiest" and "best" are both very su

Re: I tought I downloaded etch...

On Tuesday 23 August 2005 23:14, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:06:08PM +0200, Piero Piutti wrote: > > http:///debian-31r0a-i386-binary-1.jigdo > >^ > someone made a mistake > > 3.1 is sarge. Either there's a mistaken link, or you accide

Re: apache 2.0.54 + mod_php

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 07:54:49PM +0100, Philip Radford wrote: > Hi All, > > On my current preinstalled debian apache I have an apache2 module > called mod_php4. > > However I can find no reference to this when compiling apache from > source as I am attempting to install version 2.0.54. The 'ap

Re: OT: GUI Develpment for C++ program

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:15:33PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 04:26:28PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Unless you don't want to develop a GPL app. If that is the case, then > > you have to shell out the $$. Nothing against Qt, but there are > > plenty of other cros

Re: Switching to Debian (from Fedora)

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:31:59AM +0100, Graham Smith wrote: > > * kernel 2.4.27 was installed in my box. It's been a suprise since > > in Fedora i'm running kernels 2.6.x. Why this 2.4 kernel? Does > > Debian consider 2.6 kernels unstable? I'd like to upgrade my kernel; > > how can i do it using

Re: OT: GUI Develpment for C++ program

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 04:26:28PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Unless you don't want to develop a GPL app. If that is the case, then > you have to shell out the $$. Nothing against Qt, but there are > plenty of other cross-platform toolkits out there, many of them free. GPL is free, accor

Re: I tought I downloaded etch...

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:06:08PM +0200, Piero Piutti wrote: > http:///debian-31r0a-i386-binary-1.jigdo ^ someone made a mistake 3.1 is sarge. Either there's a mistaken link, or you accidentally got the wrong .jigdo. -- Jon Dowland ht

Re: hard related

On 8/23/05, Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a lightening strike take out my other computer. Everything seems > fine, and I have moved over to another box, same specs. > > Everything, except the cd's , work as advertised. > > When I plug both the cdrom, and dvd-writer into the i

Re: OT: GUI Develpment for C++ program

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 04:23:59PM -0400, Jiann-Ming Su wrote: > On 8/23/05, Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the process of learning C++ and have written a program to solve Sudoku > > grids, I know there are loads of them already :), and was just wondering > > what would be the easiest

Re: OT: GUI Develpment for C++ program

On 8/23/05, Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the process of learning C++ and have written a program to solve Sudoku > grids, I know there are loads of them already :), and was just wondering > what would be the easiest/best way to write a GUI for it. > If you are serious about C++, Qt i

Re: I tought I downloaded etch...

On Tuesday 23 August 2005 21:33, Maurits van Rees wrote: > It seems so. As far as I see there are no dvd images on > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/ for etch. Those that have testing in > their name seem to be for sarge, judging by their date. Also according to the MD5 sums. DVD and CD images ar

Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 14:11 -0500, Gary Smithe wrote: > Don't hang me (or flame me) for this, but some Microsoft based speculation. No prob. All this applies to CP/M and the Apple ][ OS, too. -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG ID: D0D7FF20 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

On 8/23/05, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 23 August 2005 08:49 am, Tim Ruehsen wrote: > > > I did the last thing (after using my system for ~2 years for ~10 hours a > > day, making updates every day) and my system booted about 30% faster. Now, > > after a year or so, it seem

Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

On Tuesday 23 August 2005 08:49 am, Tim Ruehsen wrote: > I did the last thing (after using my system for ~2 years for ~10 hours a > day, making updates every day) and my system booted about 30% faster. Now, > after a year or so, it seems to be time to do it again (booting became > slower and slowe

Sarge, kernel 2.4 versus 2.6, issues: random boot, sound, usb

I have a fresh install of Sarge, chose kernel 2.4.27 during install - purpose is a home computer for entertainment and fun, stationary PC from about 2001 with debian linux OS, Sarge, only. This computer is started and stopped say 1-2 times per day. Everything functions OK with 2.4.27 - once a boo

Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

On Tuesday 23 August 2005 08:24 am, Ian wrote: > I realized, I've had Sarge installed for a few months, and I should > probably defragment my partitions. How can I do this? You can't, and you shouldn't need to. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

RE: Could not create the Java virtual machine

The Sun JVM uses java -version -Jason -Original Message- From: Roberto C. Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 3:44 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Could not create the Java virtual machine On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 01:50:29PM -0400, Chri

Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

On 8/23/05, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In gmane.linux.debian.user Ian wrote: > > > I realized, I've had Sarge installed for a few months, and I should probably > > defragment my partitions. How can I do this? > > > > Here's the best explanation of the topic that I have seen so far. > Credit

Re: Switching to Debian (from Fedora)

On 8/23/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bryan Donlan wrote: > > >On 8/23/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>It's my understanding that because of their high-priority nature, > >>security updates go into Stable even before they sometimes make it into > >>Testing (or per

Re: OT: GUI Develpment for C++ program

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 07:58:19PM +0100, Wackojacko wrote: > In the process of learning C++ and have written a program to solve Sudoku > grids, I know there are loads of them already :), and was just wondering what > would be the easiest/best way to write a GUI for it. > > Google has just broug

Re: hard related

On 8/23/05, Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a lightening strike take out my other computer. Everything seems > fine, and I have moved over to another box, same specs. > > Everything, except the cd's , work as advertised. > > When I plug both the cdrom, and dvd-writer into the i

Re: [SOLVED] Downgrading a package that is causing some problems in KDE

--- Bill Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 12:18:07PM -0700, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: > > > > First of all, how can I find out what version of a package is > installed > > on my system without going through synaptic or dselect, because > > sometimes I don't have access to

Re: Could not create the Java virtual machine

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 01:50:29PM -0400, Chris Bozic wrote: > All, > > After doing some security updates on stable today, I can no longer run > the sun jre (1.4 or 1.5) installed on my system. I've also tried the > blackdown packages but both produce the same error. When I run "java > -v", I ge

Re: I tought I downloaded etch...

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:06:08PM +0200, Piero Piutti wrote: > Did I miss something? Is it possible that the .jigdo files for testing > snapshots point to stable instead? I am confused and I'd really like > to know how to get a copy of Etch (with or without jigdo). It seems so. As far as I see

hard related

I had a lightening strike take out my other computer. Everything seems fine, and I have moved over to another box, same specs. Everything, except the cd's , work as advertised. When I plug both the cdrom, and dvd-writer into the ide bus, the computer will not get to the "check memory" check bios

Re: Re: apt-move and debootstrap - stable vs sarge

Title: Re: Re: apt-move and debootstrap - stable vs sarge Thank you for your response… debootstrap --resolve-deps appears to only be a valid option for the 'unstable' release…  I'm not sure why I'm having trouble with the 'stable' version. Is there a query that can be run to check that my

I tought I downloaded etch...

I have come across a weird problem: I wanted to download the latest weekly snapshot of testing/etch with jigdo, because I want to install it on my girlfriend's computer. I have already used jigdo to download testing when I decided to switch to debian, so I have some confidence with it. I followed

OT: GUI Develpment for C++ program

In the process of learning C++ and have written a program to solve Sudoku grids, I know there are loads of them already :), and was just wondering what would be the easiest/best way to write a GUI for it. Google has just brought up so many different choices that I don't know where to start. A

Re: Switching to Debian (from Fedora)

Adrian von Bidder wrote: >On Tuesday 23 August 2005 15.22, Kent West wrote: > > >>(such as X being broken right now in Unstable). >> >> > >How so? > >running xorg right now, have not noticed any problems. (Installed ca. 4 >days ago) > > > (See previous branch of thread_ I mis-spoke; I me

apache 2.0.54 + mod_php

Hi All, On my current preinstalled debian apache I have an apache2 module called mod_php4. However I can find no reference to this when compiling apache from source as I am attempting to install version 2.0.54. Does anyone know if this is included with the apache2 source or is supplied elsewh

Re: root (/) on software raid

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:42:15AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > I've managed to enable software raid on one of my systems. Four > different arrays built as follows: > > /dev/md0: (/boot) > - /dev/hda1 & /dev/hdc1 > > /dev/md1: (/var/log) > - /dev/hda6 & /dev/hdc6 > > /dev/md2: (/) > - /dev/

Could not create the Java virtual machine

All, After doing some security updates on stable today, I can no longer run the sun jre (1.4 or 1.5) installed on my system. I've also tried the blackdown packages but both produce the same error. When I run "java -v", I get "Could not create the Java virtual machine." Is anyone else having th

Re: Switching to Debian (from Fedora)

On Tuesday 23 August 2005 15.22, Kent West wrote: > (such as X being broken right now in Unstable). How so? running xorg right now, have not noticed any problems. (Installed ca. 4 days ago) cheers -- vbi -- Could this mail be a fake? (Answer: No! - http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/intro) pgpRIXVlXg0

Re: Switching to Debian (from Fedora)

On Tuesday 23 August 2005 11.31, Graham Smith wrote: > > * I noticed too that Debian runs XF86 instead of Xorg, as Fedora does. > > Why this? What are the differences between them? Is video hw support > > better in Xorg? Are there any licensing issues with Xorg? > > Try running testing or unstable

Re: Firefox middle click broken on stable?

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 01:53:22PM -0400, Chris Bozic wrote: > All, > > After doing some security updates today, I noticed that my middle > click in firefox is not working properly. It will no longer open all > links in a new tab. Instead, it works for some but not others. Is > there a way I c

Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

> (V)FAT), but ext2 can't prevent it. And it is not a feature of 'Linux' it is > a feature of the filesystem. With this in mind, selecting a suitable partitioning scheme can minimize any fragmentation issues. For example, areas of the filesystem with a large turnover of files can cause serious fr

DVD image creation.

Good day all! I've been trying to get mkisofs to create a DVD image for me on my Sarge machine, in order to be able to burn it on Nero (Windows 2000). The utility does create an ISO image rather quickly, however when I open it with Nero, the program refuses to recognize it as a DVD image, despi

How to build a chroot jail with mysql client and cron in it?

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Firefox middle click broken on stable?

All, After doing some security updates today, I noticed that my middle click in firefox is not working properly. It will no longer open all links in a new tab. Instead, it works for some but not others. Is there a way I can fix this problem? Thanks, Chris Bozic

Re: Switching to Debian (from Fedora)

On Tue August 23 2005 01:06 am, A. Lanza wrote: > * kernel 2.4.27 was installed in my box. It's been a suprise since in > Fedora i'm running kernels 2.6.x. Why this 2.4 kernel? Does Debian > consider 2.6 kernels unstable? I'd like to upgrade my kernel; how can i > do it using apt-get? Use the com

Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

In gmane.linux.debian.user Ian wrote: > I realized, I've had Sarge installed for a few months, and I should probably > defragment my partitions. How can I do this? > Here's the best explanation of the topic that I have seen so far. Credit goes to Lew Pitcher:

Installing Debian

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RE: Re: windows xserver client

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Re: windows xserver client

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Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 11:33 AM Subject: Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive? Defragging on a Linux system is generally unnecessary; therefore there's no utility for the task.

Re: hacked: can't delete files

If you want to press charges and if the attack had anything in anyway related to thed United States then contact the US FBI. Why? I don't know, but that is what the news companies here in the US suggest. The fact that you have the attacker hotmail address is nice. Belive it or not the cracker

RE: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

don't know, if there is a defrag utility for linux, but first of all you should realize that after few months there is probably no need to defragment. linux filesystems like ext3 get fragmented a lot lot less than FAT32 or NTFS as far as i know. besides there is certainly a method that revea

Re: apt-move and debootstrap - stable vs sarge

Patterson, Richard A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I am running sarge and am trying to run debootstrap from an apt-move | repository. I first noticed that apt-move chose to name the release | stable rather then sarge. So within debootstrap(0.2.45-0.2), I created | /usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/stab

Re: adding modules to kernel

kamaraju kusumanchi on 23/08/05 15:29, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: Hi I compile and install the kernel using the debian package process make xconfig make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --initrd kernel-image dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.12.5. and because I didn't get it right first time, I want to add jus

Re: PKARC

On (23/08/05 09:45), Harvey Greenberg wrote: > I came across your search of pkarc with google. I am in that situation. > do you have a copy of pkarc you can send to me (or tell me where to > get it)? I have a 1991 file that was compressed with it. nomarch - Unpacks .ARC and .ARK MS-DOS archives

Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

On 8/23/05, Tim Ruehsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You don't need to. You only need to defragment your disk if your > > operating system is incapable of keeping the fragmentation under > > control, and Linux does not suffer from this problem. > > Many people say so, but it is not true. >

apt-move and debootstrap - stable vs sarge

I am running sarge and am trying to run debootstrap from an apt-move repository. I first noticed that apt-move chose to name the release stable rather then sarge. So within debootstrap(0.2.45-0.2), I created /usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/stable (based on sarge). Now when I run this command, I rec

Re: KDE vs GNOME

Leonardo Sá: > > Like most first-time debian users, i started using gnome, mainly because it > was the "default" option when i did my first graphical login. After I got > used to the system (i was a slackware user) i noticed things getting slow. > Apart from firefox, which eats no less than 50mb

apt-move and debootstrap: stable vs sarge

Title: apt-move and debootstrap: stable vs sarge I am running sarge and am trying to run debootstrap from an apt-move repository.  I first noticed that apt-move chose to name the release stable rather then sarge.  So within debootstrap(0.2.45-0.2), I created /usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/stabl

Re: Re: PKARC

I came across your search of pkarc with google. I am in that situation. do you have a copy of pkarc you can send to me (or tell me where to get it)? I have a 1991 file that was compressed with it. -- Thanks, Harvey J. Greenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

Le Mardi 23 Août 2005 17:24, Ian a écrit : > I realized, I've had Sarge installed for a few months, and I should > probably defragment my partitions. How can I do this? well, with linux, i believe you just don't have to defrag your partitions... so don't worry about that anymore ;-)

Re: Switching to Debian (from Fedora)

On Tuesday 23 August 2005 11:32 am, Kent West wrote: > Rick Friedman wrote: > >X is broken in Unstable? How so? I run Unstable and have no problems with > > X (X.org) at all. At least, no problems that I have been able to > > perceive. What are the problems to which you refer? > > Oops; I mis-spoke

Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

> You don't need to. You only need to defragment your disk if your > operating system is incapable of keeping the fragmentation under > control, and Linux does not suffer from this problem. Many people say so, but it is not true. Ext2 takes some precautions to reduce fragmentation a bit (in com

RE: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

Not a problem. If you don't ASK, you don't GET. -Jason From: Ian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 11:42 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive? Thanks for the help, and sorry for my newbish

root (/) on software raid

I've managed to enable software raid on one of my systems. Four different arrays built as follows: /dev/md0: (/boot) - /dev/hda1 & /dev/hdc1 /dev/md1: (/var/log) - /dev/hda6 & /dev/hdc6 /dev/md2: (/) - /dev/hda7 & /dev/hdc7 /dev/md3: (/opt/backup) - /dev/hda8 & /dev/hdc8 Three of the four com

Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

Thanks for the help, and sorry for my newbish lack of knowledge.-- "If practice makes perfect, and no one is perfect, then why practice?"

RE: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

I realized, I've had Sarge installed for a few months, and I should probably defragment my partitions. How can I do this? Normally this is not necessary. But if you want you can use defrag. Flori -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

--- Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I realized, I've had Sarge installed for a few months, and I should > probably > defragment my partitions. How can I do this? > You don't need to. You only need to defragment your disk if your operating system is incapable of keeping the fragmentation under

Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

Kretzer, Jason R (Big Sandy) wrote: >Unless I am mistaken, there is no "defrag" utility for linux. Anyone >have anything to add? > > Defragging on a Linux system is generally unnecessary; therefore there's no utility for the task. -- Kent West Technology Support /A/bilene /C/hristian /U/niver

Re: Switching to Debian (from Fedora)

Rick Friedman wrote: >On Tuesday 23 August 2005 09:22 am, Kent West wrote: > > >>X.org wasn't ready in time for Sarge's release. It is migrating into >>Unstable. Many desktop users (myself included) run Unstable rather than >>Stable (whereas we tend to keep Stable on the servers). That way we ge

Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

On 8/23/05, Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I realized, I've had Sarge installed for a few months, and I should probably > defragment my partitions. How can I do this? > http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Partition.html#FRAGMENTATION -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frig

RE: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

Unless I am mistaken, there is no "defrag" utility for linux. Anyone have anything to add? -Jason From: Ian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 11:25 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive? I

Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

I realized, I've had Sarge installed for a few months, and I should probably defragment my partitions. How can I do this?-- "If practice makes perfect, and no one is perfect, then why practice?"

Re: Module Assistant and NVIDIA

No, it doesn't. You'll have to run module-assistant again. On 8/20/05, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I upgrade the linux-kernel and/or nvidia drivers, > does the m-a automagically do the driver upgrade for me? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject o

Re: Newest Firefox - Problems

On 08/21/2005 07:30 PM, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > [sarge; mozilla-firefox-1.0.4-2sarge2] > > I've encounter some problems after the recent 'firefox' update ... > > For example, entering C-b (or selecting View/Sidebar/Bookmarks via the > menus) causes 'firefox' to immediately exit. Same with C-h (

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