Re: Hello I'm new to Linux, anybody can tell me the best way of learning it. I'm interest in realtime applications

2005-10-23 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Eduardo wrote: > Thanks you will need a real-time distro that supports the resolution and hardware you need vs a generic linux distro google/yahoo for your hardware you want to support and linux to come up with suitable distro ... or tweek/change any existing distro to be w

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-23 Thread Kent West
Paul Johnson wrote: >On Saturday 22 October 2005 03:57 pm, Ian Cavnar wrote: > > >>I'm hopingthat you mean 60 and 80 GB, as 140MB is nowhere near enough to >>install Debian and have anything useful for a newb on there. >> >> > >Not true. Just depends on the newbie's situation. Case in poin

Re: Hello I'm new to Linux, anybody can tell me the best way of learning it. I'm interest in realtime applications

2005-10-23 Thread Carl Fink
The best way of learning it (to the extent that means anything) is to do it. If you could be just a bit more specific on what you want to learn, people might be more helpful. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken,

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Andy Streich wrote: > AFAIK, there is not a single vendor of PC's that provides a robust system out > of the box that includes a ready-to-go backup/recovery procedure. It's > always something left to the user. It's like selling a car without a spare > and a jack. It's a hardware issue.

Re: OOo 2.0 compatibilty w/OOo 1.x

2005-10-23 Thread [KS]
Steve Lamb wrote: > I know it probably goes without saying but OOo 2.0 will be compatible with > the 1.x saved files; and not in the way Micro$oft Word sense of compatible. I > just started a project in OOo 1.13 and am mildly concerned about switching > over when OOo 2.0 hits unstable/testing.

Easy Debian Wireless 101

2005-10-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Ok, in the near future chances are I am going to dive into the wacky world of wireless. Thing is my first poke at it was less than successful. I bought a wireless PCMCIA card for my laptop and was unable to get the card to run with Debian. Chances are I just bought a difficult card to try to

OOo 2.0 compatibilty w/OOo 1.x

2005-10-23 Thread Steve Lamb
I know it probably goes without saying but OOo 2.0 will be compatible with the 1.x saved files; and not in the way Micro$oft Word sense of compatible. I just started a project in OOo 1.13 and am mildly concerned about switching over when OOo 2.0 hits unstable/testing. -- Steve C. La

Re: gtk+extra package

2005-10-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 10:37:37PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > >libgtkextra-dev - A useful set of widgets for GTK+ (development files) > >libgtkextra16 - A useful set of widgets for GTK+ > >libgtkextra17 - A useful set of widgets for GTK+ > >libgtkextra17-dev - A useful set of w

Confused by modules

2005-10-23 Thread Cam
My ultimate goal is to run patched versions of modules hermes, orinoco and orinoco_cs so I can run kismet or prismstumbler. I am presently running 2.4.26 that came with Sarge but Debian doesn't offer 2.4.26 kernel sources so I apt-got 2.4.27 kernel sources, did the configuration (including requesti

Re: How to make a rescue disk ?

2005-10-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 06:51:45AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:07:31AM +, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm looking for procedure / howto about creating rescue CD disk. > > Thanks. > > Bruno > > > > Download either the full CD1 or the net install CD

Hello I'm new to Linux, anybody can tell me the best way of learning it. I'm interest in realtime applications

2005-10-23 Thread Eduardo
Thanks - Original Message - From: "Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: < > Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 9:11 PM Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] Re: Ready to join the club.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 23 October 2005 07:53 pm, Andy Streich wrote: > On Sunday 23 October 2005 06:27 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > > This is a straw-man argument.  Anybody who actually cares about their > > data keeps a good set of backups anyway. > > Then you are not familiar with the legions of PC users who kno

Re: guessnet problem

2005-10-23 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 10/18/05, Daniel Déchelotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It doesn't give desired reslut. > > Okay. I am sorry from being be such a inquisitive person, but what does > it give, then ? it gives disconnected eth0. -- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ linux user No.205042

Re: Re: How to make boot CD to run your curent hard disk installed linux?

2005-10-23 Thread R. Ramesh
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 11:57:47PM -0500, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: Hi, I have installed stable release of debian (using the netinst CD) on a headless machine (no kb, mouse or monitor) . The machine also does not have a floppy drive. I like to make a bood cd of the installed kernel so t

Re: USB detection gone on Etch system

2005-10-23 Thread Carl Fink
Supplement: /proc/usb is completely empty. The connection lights on USB devices and hubs do NOT light when plugged into the computer, even directly into the motherboard-based ports. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't b

Re: NVidia with Xorg (testing)

2005-10-23 Thread [KS]
Eric P wrote: > > Thanks for responding. (*looks at notes again*) I remember now that > running module assistant (m-a a-i nvidia) creates the new packages based > of the installed kernel headers. > Thats great that nvidia is working for you now. For everyone's benefit it is a good practice to

USB detection gone on Etch system

2005-10-23 Thread Carl Fink
I rebooted my Etch system yesterday. Now it can't detect any USB devices. Support worked fine yesterday, but if I tail /var/log/messages, NO messages appear when I plug in a USB device. System freshly updated this morning. Relevant-seeming packages are: libusb-0.1-42:0.1.10

Re: OpenOffice 2.0

2005-10-23 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 07:38:55PM -0700, Andy Streich wrote: > On Sunday 23 October 2005 05:53 pm, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion of using alien to install OpenOffice.org on > > Sarge. It worked flawlessly. > > Someone else mentioned it need updated libraries from unstable.

Re: Mathematica seg. faults with glibc 2.3.5

2005-10-23 Thread Victor Munoz
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 11:32:06PM +0200, Jan wrote: > > Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can make Mathematica work? > This may not be very smart, but if nothing works, you could try a sarge install in a chroot environment. Then you could install Mathematica there. I had the inverse probl

help: Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

2005-10-23 Thread Li Weichen
Hi everyone: I have met a problem when boot my PC with my manual built kernel 2.6.12. The error messages are, modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.13/modules.dep: No such file or diretory mount: mount point dev does not exist pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init: 432: can

Re: How to make boot CD to run your curent hard disk installed linux?

2005-10-23 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:08:46AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > >Why would you install two operating systems on a machine where you > >cannot choose the OS at boot time? > > > > Can you change the default selection from inside windows and then reboot? > It's just a case of chang

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-23 Thread Andy Streich
On Sunday 23 October 2005 06:27 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > This is a straw-man argument.  Anybody who actually cares about their data > keeps a good set of backups anyway. Then you are not familiar with the legions of PC users who know nothing of making backups, care a lot about their data, and on

Re: OpenOffice 2.0

2005-10-23 Thread Andy Streich
On Sunday 23 October 2005 05:53 pm, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion of using alien to install OpenOffice.org on > Sarge. It worked flawlessly. Someone else mentioned it need updated libraries from unstable. Is that not the case or did you selectively update? -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Cinelerra: did someone install it?

2005-10-23 Thread Bruno Buys
David E. Fox wrote: On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 16:46:45 -0200 Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am following this page: http://www.ftconsult.com/twiki/bin/view/Cinelerra/Debian But there are unmet deps, still. Sometime ago, I used: # cinelerra deb http://www.kiberpipa.org/~minmax/c

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 21 October 2005 06:45 pm, Greg wrote: > It worked, sort of. > > Thanks to all for the advice, including the kind I didn't listen to. > The dual boot stet up fine. However, during the Debian install, I > accidently skipped over the part to install the desktop environment, > print server,

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 21 October 2005 04:39 pm, Marty wrote: > Antony Gelberg wrote: > > He is new to Debian but sounds like he has a decent understanding of > > PCs. If he is stupid enough to delete his Windows partition during the > > install, it will certainly be the kind of mistake he learns from. :) > >

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 22 October 2005 03:57 pm, Ian Cavnar wrote: > I'm hopingthat you mean 60 and 80 GB, as 140MB is nowhere near enough to > install Debian and have anything useful for a newb on there. Not true. Just depends on the newbie's situation. Case in point, I switched because I couldn't stand

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 21 October 2005 12:02 pm, Greg wrote: > I've sorted for this topic what wasn't able to find information on my > setup. Didn't try too hard, eh? Windows ME and Windows 95 are identical from a booting perspective. http://ursine.ca/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en

re: OpenOffice 2.0

2005-10-23 Thread Mark Grieveson
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Re: How to make boot CD to run your curent hard disk installed linux?

2005-10-23 Thread m
Why would you install two operating systems on a machine where you cannot choose the OS at boot time? Can you change the default selection from inside windows and then reboot? It's just a case of changing a text file so I imagine so. Regards, M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: some changes after upgrading Testing (locale ,gv)

2005-10-23 Thread H.S.
Bill Marcum wrote: > > It isn't clear whether those error messages come from your machine or > the university's, but you can try: > "locale -a" to see which locales are currently available. > "dpkg-reconfigure locales" to add the locales you want. I already tried that. I even tried setting the

Re: xfs_db -c frag -r /dev/hda1 - Segmentation fault

2005-10-23 Thread Justin Piszcz
Thanks, I will give this a try. On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Nathan Scott wrote: On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 07:39:34AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: p34:~# xfs_db -c frag -r /dev/hda1 Segmentation fault p34:~# xfs_db -c frag -r /dev/hde1 Segmentation fault p34:~# xfs_db -c frag -r /dev/hdk1 Segmentation f

Re: Vim question

2005-10-23 Thread m
Substitute every beginning of a line with //: :% substitute ?^?//?g Thanks to the vim manual hanging off the main vim page. Please do purchase a hard copy - the profits go towards feeding Ugandan orphans. Regards, Max -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: reduce write access to hard disk

2005-10-23 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 23 2005, Bill Marcum wrote: > Are you aware of the "noatime" mount option, which you could put in > /etc/fstab? You could also use a non-journaled filesystem, such as > ext2. In the same spirit of your recommendation, this is a document that I wrote quite a while ago, when trying to boost

Re: Vim question

2005-10-23 Thread m
No idea about vim. Sorry. Would be nice to know though! Isn't emacs meant to be the infinitely programmable editor? Wd be nice to know how to program it in any editor. If you wanted to instead replace line 1 line 2 line 3 with /* line 1 line 2 line 3 */ Commenting out C - traditi

Re: some changes after upgrading Testing (locale ,gv)

2005-10-23 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 02:14:48PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > > 2. When I do ssh to my university, I am getting: > couldn't set locale correctly > couldn't set locale correctly > couldn't set locale correctly > Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged > $> LANG=en_US ssh -f -X [EMAIL

Re: reduce write access to hard disk

2005-10-23 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 06:12:07PM +0200, Jonathan Schmitt wrote: > Dear all, > I'm currently trying to build a low power/low noise computer and as a part of > the concept, I would like to use a flash card as the main storage. > I'm aware, that flash cards have only a limited amount of write cycle

Re: xfs_db -c frag -r /dev/hda1 - Segmentation fault

2005-10-23 Thread Nathan Scott
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 07:39:34AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > p34:~# xfs_db -c frag -r /dev/hda1 > Segmentation fault > p34:~# xfs_db -c frag -r /dev/hde1 > Segmentation fault > p34:~# xfs_db -c frag -r /dev/hdk1 > Segmentation fault > p34:~# > > Debian Etch, 2.6.13.4, stopped working a while a

Re: FAM (File Alteration Monitor) daemon enter in loop

2005-10-23 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Monday 24 October 2005 00.56, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > Hello, > > time to time FAM (File Alteration Monitor) daemon enter in a continuous > loop using 99% of cpu on my Sarge system (installed on laptop Acer). > > Is it a mandatory daemon ? > Any problem already reported about FAM daemon ? This

FAM (File Alteration Monitor) daemon enter in loop

2005-10-23 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello, time to time FAM (File Alteration Monitor) daemon enter in a continuous loop using 99% of cpu on my Sarge system (installed on laptop Acer). Is it a mandatory daemon ? Any problem already reported about FAM daemon ? Thanks, Bruno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: How to make boot CD to run your curent hard disk installed linux?

2005-10-23 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 11:57:47PM -0500, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed stable release of debian (using the netinst CD) on a > headless machine (no kb, mouse or monitor) . The machine also does not > have a floppy drive. I like to make a bood cd of the installed kernel

Re: Thanks for Debian

2005-10-23 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 07:06:24 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom considered, crafted and sent: >|--- Rogério Brito wrote: >|--- > On Oct 22 2005, John Hasler wrote: >|--- > >|--- >>aciddata writes: >|--- >> >|--- >>>i just wanna say that debian is great and the community and all >|--- >>>programmers of

Re: Access to multiple terminal windows?

2005-10-23 Thread m
Thanks all. Knew it was something like that but was in a rather delicate state of development and didn't want to destroy everything by monkeying about! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: reduce write access to hard disk

2005-10-23 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Jonathan. On Oct 23 2005, Jonathan Schmitt wrote: > Now, I've once used noflushd on a notebook, which somewhat does, what > I want, however, with every read cycle also writes are performed. As far as I know, noflushd or similar tools are deprecated and the 2.6 kernels should use "laptop mode"

Kmenu logoff quit powering off computer

2005-10-23 Thread J F
I did an upgrade and used the maintainer's scripts rather than my own. Now with I use kmenu to logout and then select "Turn off computer" in the popup window, it shuts down the computer but leaves the fan and video card on. I have to turn it off at the power switch. I really want to have it autom

Re: Cinelerra: did someone install it?

2005-10-23 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 16:46:45 -0200 Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am following this page: > http://www.ftconsult.com/twiki/bin/view/Cinelerra/Debian > > But there are unmet deps, still. Sometime ago, I used: # cinelerra deb http://www.kiberpipa.org/~minmax/cinelerra/builds/sid/ ./ d

Re: Vim question

2005-10-23 Thread Eric P
>> > If you wanted to instead replace >> >>>line 1 >>>line 2 >>>line 3 >>> >>>with >>> >>>/* >>>line 1 >>>line 2 >>>line 3 >>>*/ >>> >>>I'm not sure how you'd do it. Perhaps others do. >>> >> >>Actually, I would like to know how to do this in VIM. >> >>Any takers? >> >>Eric > > > I have scripts c

Re: reduce write access to hard disk

2005-10-23 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
> >"Jonathan Schmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Dear all, >> I'm currently trying to build a low power/low noise computer and as a part >> of >> the concept, I would like to use a flash card as the main storage. >> I'm aware, that flash cards have only a lim

Re: reduce write access to hard disk

2005-10-23 Thread Joe Smith
"Jonathan Schmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear all, I'm currently trying to build a low power/low noise computer and as a part of the concept, I would like to use a flash card as the main storage. I'm aware, that flash cards have only a limited amount of w

Re: Access to multiple terminal windows?

2005-10-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 01:07:45PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >Dear all, > > > >When operating in terminal only mode (no X11, no graphical user > >interface) is there a way of having several active terminal windows? > > alt-F1 -> F6 work. If you want multi-terminals on o

Re: Access to multiple terminal windows?

2005-10-23 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 08:13:06PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear all, > > When operating in terminal only mode (no X11, no graphical user interface) > is there a way of having several active terminal windows? > > I seem to remember that something like F4 is meant to permit cycling >

Re: Access to multiple terminal windows?

2005-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 20:13 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear all, > > When operating in terminal only mode (no X11, no graphical user interface) > is there a way of having several active terminal windows? > > I seem to remember that something like F4 is meant to permit cycling > through t

Re: Access to multiple terminal windows?

2005-10-23 Thread Jeff D
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, When operating in terminal only mode (no X11, no graphical user interface) is there a way of having several active terminal windows? I seem to remember that something like F4 is meant to permit cycling through terminal windows but that doesn't seem to work

Re: Access to multiple terminal windows?

2005-10-23 Thread Angelina Carlton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Dear all, > > When operating in terminal only mode (no X11, no graphical user > interface) is there a way of having several active terminal windows? > > I seem to remember that something like F4 is meant to permit cycling > through terminal windows but that doesn't seem

Re: root raid: SOLVED

2005-10-23 Thread David Koski
I forgot to mention: add raid1 to /etc/mkinitrd/modules. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: reduce write access to hard disk

2005-10-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 08:06:45PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What's the power consumption of dram compared with a conventional hard > drive? > > Regards, Max > Considerably less. Andy > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Default background color of xterm

2005-10-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
Christian Christmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm using KDE as window manager. > Where can I define the default colors for a xterm session which > is started by clicking on the xterm icon in the KDE bar? KDE bar (unless you've customized it), does not have an xterm icon. KDE packages a

Re: root raid: SOLVED

2005-10-23 Thread David Koski
I found no /dev/hd?? devices. But here is the whole procedure: * Add /dev/md0, /dev/hda1,/dev/hd... to /etc/minitrd/files * Execute mkinitrd to create image. It should now have the needed /dev nodes. * Mount image and copy to a directory: -- mkdir mnt -- mount -o loop,ro -t cramfs initrd.img-2.6.8

Re: date --set

2005-10-23 Thread Meni Shapiro
On 10/23/05, Simo Kauppi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 12:55:20PM +0200, Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote:> Hi everybody,>> I want to set the date using date --set .> The man page says --set=STRING but does not tell the format. > What must STRING be if I want e. g. Oct 23 2005, 12:54

Access to multiple terminal windows?

2005-10-23 Thread m
Dear all, When operating in terminal only mode (no X11, no graphical user interface) is there a way of having several active terminal windows? I seem to remember that something like F4 is meant to permit cycling through terminal windows but that doesn't seem to work. Unless perhaps I have

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-23 Thread Carl Greco
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 04:37:52PM +0100, Joseph Haig wrote: --- Rick Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Edit your sources.list file (usually in /etc/apt). Add the following > line: > > deb http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/2.x ./ > > Once you've done that, run apt-

Re: reduce write access to hard disk

2005-10-23 Thread m
What's the power consumption of dram compared with a conventional hard drive? Regards, Max -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Default background color of xterm

2005-10-23 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I'm using KDE as window manager. Where can I define the default colors for a xterm session which is started by clicking on the xterm icon in the KDE bar? Thank you. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apt Needs Counseling

2005-10-23 Thread Freddie Witherden
Thanks! After editing the pre-removal files (commenting out most of them) and touching the file like you said it all seems to work fine. Thank you very much for all of your help! From: Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Apt Needs Counseling Date: Sat, 22 O

some changes after upgrading Testing (locale ,gv)

2005-10-23 Thread H.S.
Hi, I upgraded Debian Testing (2.6.12 kernel) yesterday and notice a few changes: 1. gv displays ps files differently. I can't say for sure, but anti-aliasing seems to be different now. It appears as if there is little difference between viewing anti-aliased file and viewing non-anti-aliased file

Re: /dev/cdrom mounting and umount -l

2005-10-23 Thread J Merritt
OK, the lazy unmount via 'umount -l' worked. I was able to unmount and re-mount two different discs. No problems reported. I take it this is something that should not be done under normal circumstances? Is there any issue with using lazy unmount (I assume it's called lazy for a reason)?

Gnome problems with sarge

2005-10-23 Thread Andy Baxter
hello, I installed debian sarge recently from the DVD, and since then I've been unable to get Gnome to start. It hangs for a long time at the point where the 'toolbar loading' icon has just come up, then eventually starts up an empty desktop with no toolbar or desktop icons. Also, the icons in nau

root raid

2005-10-23 Thread David Koski
I have compiled raid drivers into the kernel to get raid on root working. But now I am trying to get another kernel without drivers compiled in to work. mkinitrd did not add the raid1 module needed for the root partition so I added it to /etc/mkinitrd/modules. Now the initrd.img image looks good

installing debian onto a usb flash drive

2005-10-23 Thread Sanjay Debian
I thought I could find tons of documents as to howto install debian or any linux onto a usb flash drive. I found only one and that too talks about installing encrypted. Do you guys know of any other howto ? Thanks

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 04:37:52PM +0100, Joseph Haig wrote: > --- Rick Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Edit your sources.list file (usually in /etc/apt). Add the following > > line: > > > > deb http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/2.x ./ > > > > Once you've done that, run a

reduce write access to hard disk

2005-10-23 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Dear all, I'm currently trying to build a low power/low noise computer and as a part of the concept, I would like to use a flash card as the main storage. I'm aware, that flash cards have only a limited amount of write cycles before the cells wear out and therefore I'm looking for ways to reduce

Re: How to make boot CD to run your curent hard disk installed linux?

2005-10-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: Hi, I have installed stable release of debian (using the netinst CD) on a headless machine (no kb, mouse or monitor) . The machine also does not have a floppy drive. I like to make a bood cd of the installed kernel so that I can bypass the grub boot. Specifically

Re: PCMCIA Netgear MA401RA not working anymore after Sid dist-upgrade

2005-10-23 Thread Marco Laverdière
Hi to all, The problem was that the /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.conf file link the MA401RA card to the prism2_cs module, while it should be to the orinico_cs module. The only thing I had to do to make it work is to replace the following lines: card "NETGEAR MA401RA 11Mbps 802.11 WLAN Card" version

Re: How to make a rescue disk ?

2005-10-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, I'm looking for procedure / howto about creating rescue CD disk. Thanks. Bruno With lilo comes mkrescue. mkrescue --iso puts rescue.iso in the dir. Then you burn that with cdrecord and you boot from that. mkrescue is a script. I change it a little, to show t

Re: apt-get and authentication

2005-10-23 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 02:09:19PM +0100, marc wrote: > Ephemeral root said... > > Quoting Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Why has apt-get started giving me this message: > > > > > > WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! > > > > That's part of apt 0.6's new securit

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-23 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Rick Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Edit your sources.list file (usually in /etc/apt). Add the following > line: > > deb http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/2.x ./ > > Once you've done that, run apt-get update followed by > apt-get install openoffice.org > Will this work

Re: Wireless Help

2005-10-23 Thread Greg
Stephen R Laniel wrote: > You need to handle this from the command line. There may be > some way to do it graphically -- maybe using Synaptic? -- > but the command-line route is pretty straightforward. Just > go to the command line and type > > dpkg -i wlassistant_0.5.4a-2_i386.deb I was able to

Re: Adaptect (and other) ATA cards

2005-10-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 23 October 2005 06:49 am, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 10:04:56PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > I've been searching for RAID cards and regular ATA cards. I want to use > > either a good hardware RAID card that supports RAID 5, or an ATA card > > that works well wit

Re: Mouse scroll wheel

2005-10-23 Thread Mirco Sippel
J Merritt schrieb: Small prob: The mouse is working perfectly except for the scrolling wheel, which stopped working out of the blue. I checked the KDE control center and everything appears to be set up correctly there. What could be causing this? Any possible course of action? Try "dpkg-reconfi

Re: ways to read man pages

2005-10-23 Thread James Vahn
Titus Barik wrote: > info is nice, but I much prefer pinfo, which is basically the same thing > with colors. One up on pinfo for KDE users is "info:/" in the Konqueror URL box. Eyecandy for info pages, it's amazing how things have changed. :-) Somewhere is a list of nifty URI's like these: syste

Re: /dev/cdrom mounting

2005-10-23 Thread J Merritt
> On Monday 17 October 2005 17:19, J Merritt wrote: > > >> So what I do > is shell out, su, and > > 'mount -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom'. This works fine > for reading a single CD > > or DVD. However, after I enter the command, it > will not allow me to > > 'umount /dev/cdrom'. It keeps saying the devi

Mouse scroll wheel part II

2005-10-23 Thread J Merritt
Just to be sure, the wheel works fine in Mdk and XP. TX __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Mouse scroll wheel

2005-10-23 Thread J Merritt
Small prob: The mouse is working perfectly except for the scrolling wheel, which stopped working out of the blue. I checked the KDE control center and everything appears to be set up correctly there. What could be causing this? Any possible course of action? TX

Re: apt-get and authentication

2005-10-23 Thread James Vahn
marc wrote: > Thanks for advertising apt-key's existence :-o It might also help folk > to know about man apt-secure. > > That said, I couldn't work out what steps I am supposed to take from > those man pages. W: GPG error: http://secure-testing.debian.net etch/security-updates Release: The foll

Re: Kernel 2.4.31 does not compile on Debian sid/unstable?

2005-10-23 Thread Boštjan Müller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 David wrote: | I'm sending this private reply back to the list. It's best to keep all | mail on the list for several reasons - the main one here is that I may | not be very helpful, I'm just guessing. Sorry, I just hit reply, and it went direct

Re: ways to read man pages

2005-10-23 Thread Mark Grieveson
Another way to read man pages is by installing man2html, and then entering the address http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html in any web browser. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-23 Thread Michael Satterwhite
Rick Friedman wrote: On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 11:14 -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: OK, I'll be the first to admit that the problem is with me. Where are these packages as far as apt is concerned? I tried apt-get update; apt-get install openoffice.org; It reports that I already have the latest

Re: set problem

2005-10-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Oct 2005, biosedit wrote: > hi > now when i am went to root > > uses "su" > the computer must tell that > - ??QUOTAS_ENAB??() > - ??NOLOGIN_STR??() > - ??ENV_HZ??() > - ??PASS_MAX_LEN??(??

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-23 Thread Thomas Jollans
Greg wrote: I'm a noob to Debian but I'm ready to install Debian to my current machine. (PIII, 512MB Ram, 2 HDs; 60 MB - main and 80 MB secondary). The first HD contains WinME (don't laugh) and the second will contain Debian in one partition and Windows files (mp3s, JPEGs) in the other. I've al

Re: procmail/fetchmail question

2005-10-23 Thread stan
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 11:25:38AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2005-10-22 22:24:39 +0200, Chrissie Brown wrote: > > stan wrote: > > >Can anyone show me how to write a procmail recipe that adds something > > >(like **SPAM** > > >to the To: header in a message? > > > > There is an optin in

Re: Firefox - No Scrollbars

2005-10-23 Thread Thomas Jollans
Hendrik Boom wrote: -- but only in etch. In sarge -- same box, same set of home directories, but different / -- everything works fine. She's using mozilla under KDE in both systems. are sarge and etch using the same mozilla version ? If they use the same /home, the themes will be the same,

Re: Thanks for Debian

2005-10-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Rogério Brito wrote: On Oct 22 2005, John Hasler wrote: aciddata writes: i just wanna say that debian is great and the community and all programmers of it too! thanks! Thank you for doing something that never seems to occur to most users. Well, I'm also feeling guilty after your message

Re: Vim question

2005-10-23 Thread Winston Smith
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 08:16:52PM -0500, Eric P wrote: > > If you wanted to instead replace > > > > line 1 > > line 2 > > line 3 > > > > with > > > > /* > > line 1 > > line 2 > > line 3 > > */ > > > > I'm not sure how you'd do it. Perhaps others do. > > > > Actually, I would like to know ho

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kent West wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Under what conditions can I copy data under X and paste with gpm and viceversa, with just the mouse strokes? I don't believe you can. I just tried selecting text in X, switching to VT1, and pasting with my middle button. Nothing happened. So I selecte

xfs_db -c frag -r /dev/hda1 - Segmentation fault

2005-10-23 Thread Justin Piszcz
p34:~# xfs_db -c frag -r /dev/hda1 Segmentation fault p34:~# xfs_db -c frag -r /dev/hde1 Segmentation fault p34:~# xfs_db -c frag -r /dev/hdk1 Segmentation fault p34:~# Debian Etch, 2.6.13.4, stopped working a while ago, either before newer debian packages or a newer kernel, does anyone who uses

set problem

2005-10-23 Thread biosedit
hi now when i am went to root uses "su" the computer must tell that 配置错误 - 未知项目“QUOTAS_ENAB”(请通知管理员) 配置错误 - 未知项目“NOLOGIN_STR”(请通知管理员) 配置错误 - 未知项目“ENV_HZ”(请通知管理员) 配置错误 - 未知项目“PASS_MAX_LEN”(请通知管理员) 配置错误 - 未知项目“CHFN_AUTH”(请通知管理员) 配置错误 - 未知项目“CLOSE_SESSIONS”(请通知管理员) that mearn the set of that is err b

Re: How to make a rescue disk ?

2005-10-23 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya bruno On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > I'm looking for procedure / howto about creating rescue CD disk. proceedure .. "think" :-) .. - find out what hardware chipset is in your pc - find out what kernel you're using - save the kernel and /lib/modules

Re: date --set

2005-10-23 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 12:55:20PM +0200, Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I want to set the date using date --set . > The man page says --set=STRING but does not tell the format. > What must STRING be if I want e. g. Oct 23 2005, 12:54 h? > > THX > -- > Joachim Fahnenmüller For

ssh chroot scp and sftp

2005-10-23 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
Hi, I am running Debian on a production box, and I look for a Debian package to install that would make easy to chroot an user that tries to scp/sftp. What is available? Thank you :-) -- Administration & Formation à l'administration de serveurs dédiés: http://www.google.fr/search?q=aspo+infoger

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