Arthur Marsh wrote:
[snip]
I believe that Debian *should* provide a tool and documentation to
easily resize partitions to satisfy the cylinder boundary requirements
of fdisk/cfdisk, and proprietary programs such as Partition Magic.
What is there that you want to do that fdisk won't do? Yes,
I have a couple of 40 GB drives in a machine whose BIOS only supports
hard disk drives up to 32 GiB. The motherboard (BIOStar M6TLC)
manufacturer has confirmed that it is not possible to work around this
limitation via a BIOS upgrade. Since installing Debian unstable in a
dual boot arrangement
On 20:25 Mon 11 Dec , mitchell phillip Laks wrote:
I solved the problem.
there was a bad .pc file in
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
from a prior build of glib2.0 that was taking precedence
over the debian
/usr/lib/pkgconfig directory version of the .pc file
and preventing the configure from work
On Monday 11 December 2006 22:43, Mathias Brodala wrote:
> Hello David.
>
> David Baron, 11.12.2006 15:21:
> >> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 11:15:35PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote:
> >>> I recently installed Qemu, and later found out from the documentation
> >>> that I need to install KQemu too..for that ac
Sami Liedes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> I wondered if anyone can help me fix things. I think I might have
> misconfigured something.
You have not.
> I clearly remember getting big warnings and a _question_ that allows
> me to break off when installing a kernel that replaces the currently
> run
On Mon December 11 2006 21:25, Alan Ianson wrote:
> In the past I have always used k3bsetup2 to configure permissions so that
> k3b would work properly. k3bsetup2 seems to be gone and k3b can't blank a
> cdrw disk. What does wodim need to be able to blank/write a cd? Should I
> set wodim suid root,
In the past I have always used k3bsetup2 to configure permissions so that k3b
would work properly. k3bsetup2 seems to be gone and k3b can't blank a cdrw
disk. What does wodim need to be able to blank/write a cd? Should I set wodim
suid root, or create a burning group or???
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On Monday 11 December 2006 01:08 pm, andy wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm new to Debian - having run Slackware solidly since 8.1 I have become
> used to particular ways of maintaining my machine and also became used
> to a certasin belt-&-braces mentality. I loved Slackware, found
-
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 03:42:02PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> We're wanting to use one Debian box to play two different audio streams
> to two different systems: one playing music-on-hold for our general
> telephone system, and one playing tips-and-updates for our Helpdesk
> phone system (for sim
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 06:56:49PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 05:06:08PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
[snip]
Are you using "service" in the technical sense? Like FTP, for
example? My firewall drops all packets, just like n
Ryo wrote:
> I've never seen this message, and googling has only told me that it's
> related to public keys used by apt. Could some one tell me how to fix
> the problem? Also, I'd appreciate it if some one could point me to
> some
> reference to learn these things from.
It could be caused by a n
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 05:30:51PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 01:58:51AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 03:22:15PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:42:23AM +0200, Sami Liedes wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Whe
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 01:28:06AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu)
> >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> >Subject: Re: dumb question about upgrading the kernel and SATA disks
> >Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:58:18 +0200
> >
> >On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 01:28 +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
>
>
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu)
> >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> >Subject: Re: dumb question about upgrading the kernel and SATA disks
> >Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:58:18 +0200
> >
> >On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:4
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 01:58:51AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 03:22:15PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:42:23AM +0200, Sami Liedes wrote:
> > >
> > > Where I can configure aptitude or something to not direct it to just
> > > continue?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu)
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: dumb question about upgrading the kernel and SATA disks
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:58:18 +0200
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:47:31AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> >First you should try installing the
El Dilluns 04 Desembre 2006 21:43, Benjamí Villoslada va escriure:
> El Dilluns 04 Desembre 2006 19:42, Joshua J. Kugler va escriure:
> > Make sure you haven't enabled KPrinter's "Hangman" mode.
> >
> :
>
> I've changed the KPrinter configuration: Fonts section > unselect «embed
> PostScrip
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 06:56:49PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 05:06:08PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >>Are you using "service" in the technical sense? Like FTP, for
> >>example? My firewall drops all packets, just like no daemon
> >
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:47:31AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> >First you should try installing the kernel available in sarge. Use
> >
> >aptitude install kernel-image-2.6.8-3-k7
>
> I did this. It worked.
> uname -a
> Linux spc1-burn4-0-0-cust262 2.6.8-3-k7 #1 Tue Dec 5 23:58:25 UTC 2
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 05:06:08PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
[snip]
Are you using "service" in the technical sense? Like FTP, for
example? My firewall drops all packets, just like no daemon
were running.
AFAIK if you have no firewall and no daemon listening there is
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:23:26PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
IP address anyway. Even if you drop *every* incoming packet, an attacker
still knows that you are there from the absence of an ICMP message from
your ISP's router that there is no computer with your IP address.
Whoops, chopped off my last paragraph; I meant:
It has many other advantages however, including those from OOP, and more
unusually, a notational power that makes certain sorts of programs
_much_ easier to write/read. [Part of this is the fact that doing so
can be done _efficiently_ -- it's very c
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu)
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: dumb question about upgrading the kernel and SATA disks
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:53:30 +0200
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:47:42PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear Debian folks,
>
> I am running Sa
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> I've yet to see the appeal of OO. Then again I've never seen Algol. I
>
> Much of the advantage of OO can be obtained by:
>* strong type checkin * garbage collection * ancillary run-time checks
Those have nothing to do with OOP (that is to say, they are orthogona
Hello all,
I got the following message from "aptitude dist-upgrade" all of a
sudden:
. . . .
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
WARNING: untrusted versions of the following packages will
be installed!
. . . .
I've never seen this message, and googling has only told me that it
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 02:09:43AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:23:26PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> > IP address anyway. Even if you drop *every* incoming packet, an attacker
> > still knows that you are there from the absence of an ICMP message from
> > your ISP's ro
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 01:53:30AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:47:42PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> > Dear Debian folks,
> >
> > I am running Sarge 3.1 r4 on a 1200MHz AMD Duron chip. I have 256MB of RAM.
> >
> > Linux spc1-burn4-0-0-cust262 2.4.27-2-386 #1 We
> As has long been recognized, the kernel is special and kernel-image packages
> should not be treated by the same rules and other 'ordinary' packages. Perhaps
> these packages that depend on the latest version of a kernel-image package
> should have a special action as the last step in the post-i
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I wonder why emacs 22 isn't in stable, since it works better than
> emacs 21 (see bug 133937 in particular, I've never had such a problem
> with emacs 22).
I suppose 'cause it isn't released yet...
Personally I think it would be better to include an u
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:48:30AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:48:18PM +, andy wrote:
>
> > Am wondering how I go about getting mplayer and adobe acrobat? Any steers?
>
> Debian has very strong rules about free software (read the DFSG) so you
> won't find these i
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:23:26PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> IP address anyway. Even if you drop *every* incoming packet, an attacker
> still knows that you are there from the absence of an ICMP message from
> your ISP's router that there is no computer with your IP address.
Interesting. If I
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 05:06:08PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 03:30:16PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> >>Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:28:16AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> >>>
> Bruce:
>
>
> >1) How wo
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 01:31:34AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 04:01:52PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > Hi fellow users of debian,
> > I read about various accounts of newbies and others asking on ocassion
> > about 'why is debian upgrading my kernel?'. After reading the s
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 03:22:15PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:42:23AM +0200, Sami Liedes wrote:
> >
> > Where I can configure aptitude or something to not direct it to just
> > continue?
>
> there is probably some dpkg-reconfigure command to nmake it ask you
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:47:42PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear Debian folks,
>
> I am running Sarge 3.1 r4 on a 1200MHz AMD Duron chip. I have 256MB of RAM.
>
> Linux spc1-burn4-0-0-cust262 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005
> i686 GNU/Linux
>
> uname says that I am runni
Hi. I have small script that supply me few data and I want draw a small
cartesian diagram, but directly into script output, without gnuplot or
similar. Same as:
5| .
4|... . .
3|. . . .
2| .. .
1|.. ..
0|---
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 04:01:52PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> Hi fellow users of debian,
> I read about various accounts of newbies and others asking on ocassion
> about 'why is debian upgrading my kernel?'. After reading the short
> description on some of the kernel image packages, I think I under
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 05:06:08PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
>
> Are you using "service" in the technical sense? Like FTP, for
> example? My firewall drops all packets, just like no daemon
> were running. Above, the word service was used with reference
> to "daemon", and I took it to mean the IP
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:42:23AM +0200, Sami Liedes wrote:
>
> Where I can configure aptitude or something to not direct it to just
> continue?
there is probably some dpkg-reconfigure command to nmake it ask you
again, but in the meantime -- go into aptitude interactive mode, find
your current
* andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Dec 11 15:50 -0600]:
> Am wondering how I go about getting mplayer and adobe acrobat? Any steers?
I've found that kpdf of KDE does a good job with PDFs. Only
infrequently does Acrobat do a better job.
I would probably expunge mplayer from my systems except for a
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 03:30:16PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:28:16AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Bruce:
1) How would I open ftp ports after doing an apt-get install proftpd?
On Debian, all ports are "open" by defau
Welcome!
I too started with Slackware some ten years ago or so and in '99
started with Debian Slink, 2.1 and quickly moved to Potato, 2.2, when
it was released. You will quickly discover the "Debian Way" to system
administration. Debconf helps a lot amd packages generally have
sensible defaults
Jochen Schulz wrote:
Mike McCarty:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
firewall are sometimes called "filtered" (by nmap) or "stealth" (by
some Windows firewalls).
A stealthed port appears not to exist to the external world,
but that does not mean that there is no service "listening"
on it.
"Stealthe
Hello,
I wondered if anyone can help me fix things. I think I might have
misconfigured something.
I clearly remember getting big warnings and a _question_ that allows
me to break off when installing a kernel that replaces the currently
running version. But nowadays when I upgrade packages (intera
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:48:18PM +, andy wrote:
Am wondering how I go about getting mplayer and adobe acrobat? Any
steers?
mplayer is in unstable, but I don't know about etch. You can also get
it, along with various codecs of questionable legality fro
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:48:18PM +, andy wrote:
> Am wondering how I go about getting mplayer and adobe acrobat? Any steers?
Debian has very strong rules about free software (read the DFSG) so you
won't find these in the official repositories. You must add this to
/etc/apt/sources.list
deb
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 16:01 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> I read about various accounts of newbies and others asking on ocassion
> about 'why is debian upgrading my kernel?'. After reading the short
> description on some of the kernel image packages, I think I understand
> why and wanted to know if ot
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:48:18PM +, andy wrote:
>
> Am wondering how I go about getting mplayer and adobe acrobat? Any
> steers?
mplayer is in unstable, but I don't know about etch. You can also get
it, along with various codecs of questionable legality from
www.debian-multimedia.org. I be
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 03:30:16PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:28:16AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> >>Bruce:
> >>
> >>>1) How would I open ftp ports after doing an apt-get install proftpd?
> >>
> >>On Debian, all ports are "open" by default (but
Mike McCarty:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
>
>> firewall are sometimes called "filtered" (by nmap) or "stealth" (by
>> some Windows firewalls).
>
> A stealthed port appears not to exist to the external world,
> but that does not mean that there is no service "listening"
> on it.
"Stealthed" almost al
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 04:01:52PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> Hi fellow users of debian,
> I read about various accounts of newbies and others asking on ocassion
> about 'why is debian upgrading my kernel?'. After reading the short
> description on some of the kernel image packages, I think I under
Hello.
Margiolas Christos, 11.12.2006 21:50:
> Hello, where I can find xgl packages? Please don't speak to me
> about aiglx my horrible ati can't elaborate with it :( .
What ATI are you talking about? My Radeon 9600 works rather well with AIGLX and
the compositor of Xfwm4.
Regards, Mathias
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:50:08PM +0200, Margiolas Christos wrote:
> Hello, where I can find xgl packages? Please don't speak to me
> about aiglx my horrible ati can't elaborate with it :( .
> Thanks in advance
> Christos
>
http://wiki.debian.org/Xgl
Basically, you need to get it yourself a
Dear Debian folks,
I am running Sarge 3.1 r4 on a 1200MHz AMD Duron chip. I have 256MB of RAM.
Linux spc1-burn4-0-0-cust262 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005
i686 GNU/Linux
uname says that I am running the 2.4.27-2 kernel. During the installation
the installer decided to use thi
Kevin Mark wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 07:08:14PM +, andy wrote:
Hi all
I'm new to Debian - having run Slackware solidly since 8.1 I have become
Hi Andy,
welcome to Debian. as of today the next stable release 'etch' has gone
into 'freeze', this is the last stage before it is re
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:28:16AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Bruce:
1) How would I open ftp ports after doing an apt-get install proftpd?
On Debian, all ports are "open" by default (but there are not many
services listening, so it doesn't matter). If a service is bei
Sven Arvidsson wrote:
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 19:08 +, andy wrote:
I am still on a very steep learning curve, so would
welcome anyone's steer in terms of learning how to optimise my system
and good documentation for a Debian-n00b.
I'm not sure what kind of docs you're looking for, b
Paul Yeatman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> Hi, I did some searching on this in the archive and found some stuff
> but nothing that fully satisfies me. When a new minor 2.6 kernel
> revision, 2.6.17, was available for Etch, an "aptitude dist-upgrade"
> wanted to install this new ke
Hi fellow users of debian,
I read about various accounts of newbies and others asking on ocassion
about 'why is debian upgrading my kernel?'. After reading the short
description on some of the kernel image packages, I think I understand
why and wanted to know if others though that my suggestion wou
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 19:08 +, andy wrote:
> I am still on a very steep learning curve, so would
> welcome anyone's steer in terms of learning how to optimise my system
> and good documentation for a Debian-n00b.
I'm not sure what kind of docs you're looking for, but I suggest you
check out
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 14:04 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
> dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so: undefined symbol:
> _glapi_Dispatch
> (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so
> (EE) Failed to load module "GLcore" (loader failed, 7)
That doesn't look good, bu
Hello, where I can find xgl packages? Please don't speak to me
about aiglx my horrible ati can't elaborate with it :( .
Thanks in advance
Christos
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Hi,
already solved the problem with Skype audio? If not, try downloading
alsa-oss (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/alsa-oss) and run
skype typing 'aoss skype'. This solved the problem for me.
Hope it helps...
Regards,
astro
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 07:08:14PM +, andy wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm new to Debian - having run Slackware solidly since 8.1 I have become
Hi Andy,
welcome to Debian. as of today the next stable release 'etch' has gone
into 'freeze', this is the last stage before it is released as 'stable'.
So,
Hello Daniel.
Daniel Baumann, 11.12.2006 21:13:
> Mathias Brodala wrote:
>> But you can build it on your own from source of course.
>
> Yes, but I did not and will not test it with old kernels. So, there
> could be some bugs, maybe..
I always did and had no problems. (I only sometimes forgot to
congrats andy and welcome!
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 07:48:13PM +, andy wrote:
> >>Debian Etch brings the user. This is *so* very cool.
word to the wise. do some reading and get a knowledge of the
differences between "etch" and "testing" and "stable" and tracking the
various flavors of deb. As
Hi,
I am running sid, and i have the standard gtk2 packages (gtk2, atk pango etc
including the development packages) except for gtkglext. I want to compile the
latest version of gtkglext and gtkglextmm from source.
when i run ./configure all is fine until
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0...
Andrei Popescu:
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:28:16AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> >
> > On Debian, all ports are "open" by default (but there are not many
> > services listening, so it doesn't matter). If a service is being
> > installed, it can be assumed that it should actually be available. FT
Mathias Brodala wrote:
> But you can build it on your own from source of course.
Yes, but I did not and will not test it with old kernels. So, there
could be some bugs, maybe..
> PS: Do you know what happened to your mailinglist on Debian-Unofficial?
> There’s
> only a 404 now …
Yes, I'm moving
->>In response to your message<<-
--received from Andrew Sackville-West--
>
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:24:44AM -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote:
> > I'm perfectly happy with the
> > package manager leaving my currently installed kernels alone while
> > simultaneously adding newer kernel versions and
Hello Daniel.
Daniel Baumann, 11.12.2006 20:56:
> Felipe Sateler wrote:
>> Here is the thing. You need to update your qemu.
>
> besides, running it on kernel previous than 2.6.18-3 is unsupported.
But you can build it on your own from source of course.
Regards, Mathias
PS: Do you know what ha
Felipe Sateler wrote:
> Here is the thing. You need to update your qemu.
besides, running it on kernel previous than 2.6.18-3 is unsupported.
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On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:24:44AM -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote:
> I'm perfectly happy with the
> package manager leaving my currently installed kernels alone while
> simultaneously adding newer kernel versions and releases. If I want to
> remove old kernels at some point, I'll do so explicitely. A
Peter Colton wrote:
hello andy,
A document that is very handy " Debian Reference "
" apt-get install debian-reference-en "
link for file brower : /usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/reference.en.html
regards : peter colton
On Monday 11 December 2006 19:08, andy wrote:
For what it's worth - I resized (twice) my XP partition - then, first
established a Debian partition, then "grew" it.
A few weeks ago, I used Qtparted via Knoppix to resize the XP partition on
my 80GB HD to allow a Debian install (25GB). Last night, I used Gparted to
further shrink the XP partit
Amit Joshi wrote:
>> debian:/usr/src# module-assistant install kqemu-source
>> Selecting previously deselected package kqemu-modules-2.6.17-2-686.
>> (Reading database ... 72137 files and directories currently installed.)
>> Unpacking kqemu-modules-2.6.17-2-686 (from
>> .../kqemu-modules-2.6.17-2-
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 06:38:30PM -, michael wrote:
>> > I'm not sure if I'm messed up here but all advice welcome:
>> >
>> > I
>> > used the WinXP setup CD to delete existing WinXP 32Gb partition,
>> > created
>> > 2 new 16Gb partitions, then made some spare space at end a new
>> > par
Sven Arvidsson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> > Took me a few days but finally got the 100+Meg update completed and
> > now find I don't have a working X anymore. Actually it 'might' be
> > working but I can't see it working because the screen is black but
> > the log shows..
>
>
hello andy,
A document that is very handy " Debian Reference "
" apt-get install debian-reference-en "
link for file brower : /usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/reference.en.html
regards : peter colton
On Monday 11 December 2006 19:08, andy wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm new to
Hi, I did some searching on this in the archive and found some stuff
but nothing that fully satisfies me. When a new minor 2.6 kernel
revision, 2.6.17, was available for Etch, an "aptitude dist-upgrade"
wanted to install this new kernel AND remove my 2.6.16 kernel revision
(which understandably wa
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:49:20PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:21:04PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > well, you answered your own question, but here's what I do.
> >
> > mostly I ignore anyhting marked as . Anything marked as
> > (or other things, are there
Hi all
I'm new to Debian - having run Slackware solidly since 8.1 I have become
used to particular ways of maintaining my machine and also became used
to a certasin belt-&-braces mentality. I loved Slackware, found
tremendous respect for the stable way Pat Volkerding put it together and
maint
Hello.
I'm trying to install a nvidia driver and have run into some issues
with getting the installer to locate my header sources.
I'm running etch if it matters.
I've installed the linux-source and linux-headers packages for my
kernel with apt-get. Yet, the installer still says it can't find
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:25:30AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have some trouble with samba together with a flaky windows NT 4.0
> Server: Quite often the server crashes and can't be reached again until it
> is rebooted. We mount some smb shares from that server and when the
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 06:38:30PM -, michael wrote:
> > I'm not sure if I'm messed up here but all advice welcome:
> >
> > I
> > used the WinXP setup CD to delete existing WinXP 32Gb partition,
> > created
> > 2 new 16Gb partitions, then made some spare space at end a new
> > partition
>
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:51:39AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >
> > why don't you boot sarge, chroot into etch and install a kernel from
> > inside the chroot? I think udev wants a kernel >= 2.6.15, IIRC.
>
> Interest
> I'm not sure if I'm messed up here but all advice welcome:
>
> I
> used the WinXP setup CD to delete existing WinXP 32Gb partition,
> created
> 2 new 16Gb partitions, then made some spare space at end a new
> partition
> too (it may have been 2 new partitions). WinXP installed okay into one
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:57:03AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >
> > why don't you boot sarge, chroot into etch and install a kernel from
> > inside the chroot? I think udev wants a kernel >= 2.6.15, IIRC.
>
> Actually
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 05:45:06PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> Hello. I installed sylpheed-claws-spamassassin, and read what I could
> find on it, and on spamassassin, on my computer. Alas, Sylpheed-claws
> is not picking up any of the spam.
>
> I tried starting spamassassin, but get this
On Monday 11 December 2006 14:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 09:04:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Unfortunately, after the mass upgrade yesterday, the system now boots
> > > without either
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 07:50:07AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> I found in the Debian archive a package named "libmail-bulkmail-perl".
The "lib" at the start means it's a library. You haven't installed a
program, you've installed a collection of predefined functions which can
be used to writ
Hello David.
David Baron, 11.12.2006 15:21:
>> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 11:15:35PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote:
>>> I recently installed Qemu, and later found out from the documentation
>>> that I need to install KQemu too..for that acceleration thingy.
>
> Did not know this was distributed on Debian.
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 05:45:06PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> I tried starting spamassassin, but get this message:
>
> debian:/home/mark# /etc/init.d/spamassassin start
> SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: disabled, see /etc/default/spamassassin
> debian:/home/mark# locate /etc/default/spamassas
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 01:00:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 12/10/06 12:41, Nate Duehr wrote:
> > Roll through any stop signs without coming to a full and complete stop
> > in your car lately? You broke the law. Anyone see it (or care)?
> >
> > Just like everything in life, the stakes may
On Monday 11 December 2006 07:57, Tim Post wrote:
> My question is , what is the correct way to calculate the physical
> extent size of a volume group relative to the size of the array?
From man vgcreate:
If the volume group metadata uses lvm1 format, extents can vary
in size from 8KB to 1
> Took me a few days but finally got the 100+Meg update completed and
> now find I don't have a working X anymore. Actually it 'might' be
> working but I can't see it working because the screen is black but
> the log shows..
Hi,
A few suggestions, apologies in advance if you already have tried
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:28:16AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Bruce:
> >
> > 1) How would I open ftp ports after doing an apt-get install proftpd?
>
> On Debian, all ports are "open" by default (but there are not many
> services listening, so it doesn't matter). If a service is being
> install
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:56:39 +0100, Andrea Ganduglia wrote
>
> pro:~# mdadm --detail --scan
> ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid5 num-devices=5 spares=1
> UUID=04a39ca8:0f07922a:5eb2e3a1:851b13b9
>devices=/dev/sda2,/dev/sdf2,/dev/sdd2,/dev/sdc2,/dev/sde2,
> /dev/sdb2
> ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-d
Hello to all,
I'm going to do some playing (and heavy testing) with LVM over MD raid.
I want to try abusing several types of arrays with several types of file
systems so I have data handy should I ever need to use it.
I want to see which types of FS's are likely to fail in this setting
under hea
Douglas Tutty wrote:
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 05:07:15PM -0500, rs wrote:
--- On Fri 12/08, Greg Folkert wrote:
If you want a USB POTS Modem, get a USB Serial Port dongle, then get a
Fully Serial Modem. It is very tough to make an External modem with a
(real) Serial port a "Winmodem" and still
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