Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:47:05 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/16/07 21:31, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:52:29 -0600, Mike wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> > >>> O

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 07:56:18 +0100 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sure a cp would work just as well, but I like the "Auto Skip" that > Konqueror does, not to mention I can track the progress. Have a look at mc (Midnight Commander). It is text mode (so it also runs from a console), but

Re: Now working... gdm??? Re: Couldn't load XKB keymap... Can't switch to terminal mode

2007-02-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 01:09 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 07:38:26PM EST, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 18:15 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > ... > > > I've pretty much lost track but if the OP absolutely needs a GUI logon > > > screen .. did he try the alternatives t

[Debian-User] Xen

2007-02-16 Thread Admin
One of the several reasons I left a large space on the hard drive was to establish a Debian based Xen virtual machine. To do this Xen is installed on top of the Debian kernel. The Debian distribution is installed in a large partition so it can be added to in the future. Other distributions an

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-16 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:52:07 +0100 > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have a feeling this is likely to start a debate. Be that as it >> may, I set my KDE to select on one click and activate on two. >> However, if I

Re: What changed permissions of /tmp ?

2007-02-16 Thread Robert Epprecht
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 08:31:40AM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote: >> something had changed permission of /tmp to drwxr-xr-x. >> I have no idea what could be the cause of this permission change. > > did you install something or upgrade something in

Re: Now working... gdm??? Re: Couldn't load XKB keymap... Can't switch to terminal mode

2007-02-16 Thread cga2000
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 07:38:26PM EST, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 18:15 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > ... > > I've pretty much lost track but if the OP absolutely needs a GUI logon > > screen .. did he try the alternatives to gdm (xdm, kdm, wdm, ..) ?? > > > > Otherwise what's wrong

Re: Configure error: C compiler cannot create executables

2007-02-16 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:44:45PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > Now that I am using Debian Etch, I want to install the latest dosemu > version. After downloading the tarball and unpacking it, I ran > "./configure". The result was the error message quoted in the subject > line above. (I have several

Re: Help! Corrupted filesystem

2007-02-16 Thread Mankuthimma
Hi, Should I fsck from a Knopix CD or do it from my Knoppix hd install or do it from the Debian command line? Does it matter at all? Best option. Boot from knoppix and fsck the partition # fsck /dev/hdXX Am I correct in assuming that I need to mount the partition in read-write mode in orde

Re: qdvdauthor not executing commands to make dvd

2007-02-16 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: Hello, I am trying to put a few home movies onto a DVD. I have more or less made the menu and imported the videos in Qdvdauthor. However, when I try to create the DVD, qdvdauthor shows in a new windows the commands that it will execute. Upon pressing "OK", it gives a black "Execu

Re: Installing Etch onto a laptop w/out CD device

2007-02-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:38:28 +, andy wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Good day > > I have an old-ish laptop with a dodgy CD-device, onto which I want to > install Etch. I am using Etch on my desktop and the laptop is > connected to the same LAN that my desktop is on. Is there anyway

Re: Configure error: C compiler cannot create executables

2007-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 21:44, Ken Heard wrote: > For over a year, following the instructions of J. Stumpel in his very > useful "Dosemu for Dummies", I have been using dosemu in Debian Sarge, > which I installed from source. > > Now that I am using Debian Etch,

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 21:31, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:52:29 -0600, Mike wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> >>> On 02/16/07 16:22, Mike McCarty wrote: >>> especially since it can't be done. The smallest

Configure error: C compiler cannot create executables

2007-02-16 Thread Ken Heard
For over a year, following the instructions of J. Stumpel in his very useful "Dosemu for Dummies", I have been using dosemu in Debian Sarge, which I installed from source. Now that I am using Debian Etch, I want to install the latest dosemu version. After downloading the tarball and unpacking it,

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:52:29 -0600, Mike wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 02/16/07 16:22, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > > > especially since it can't be done. The smallest disc these > > > days is around 100 G

..mirror size, was: More on Network Install

2007-02-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:54:56 +0200, Andrei wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:28:25 -0700 > Archive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [huge snip] > > The entire Debian archive is ~205 GB. You do *not* want to download > that over a slow connection. ..fwiw, I have 2 mir

Sarge to Etch upgrade issues. Reporting wierdness: Any Others??

2007-02-16 Thread John W. Foster
I had Sarge installed on two drives in the same production machine for since it became stable. I use one drive to test new software and configurations. The other drive is used as a web server . I do what I am planning on the test server drive & if I have no problems I reboot & switch to the pro

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 18:39 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: [...] > > Warp 3.0 was a really great desktop OS. Yes, it was. I'll completely agree with this. As recently as 2002, I still used OS/2 to operate an IBM 3494 tape robot, with 4 additional storage cabinets, with 4 3490K tape drives in cabinet 1

Re: Etch and Sarge X-server failures on two different boxes the same day

2007-02-16 Thread Ken Heard
On Sun 11 Feb 2007 15:56:23 -0500 Ken Heard wrote: > A few weeks ago I installed Etch RC1 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 P2 laptop. > The installation itself went without hitch, and I set about customizing > it to my taste and installing various applications. For example I > replaced Gnome with KDE, as I

Re: Sarge box network connection broken

2007-02-16 Thread Ken Heard
Kent West wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: >> Kent West wrote: >> What happens when you run "/etc/init.d/networking restart"? >> Returned: >> >> Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter. >> Reconfiguring network interfaces...Failed to bring up eth0. >> done. >> >> Then a

Re: Sarge box network connection broken

2007-02-16 Thread Ken Heard
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:12:32 -0500 Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:54:24 -0500 Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > >> Ifconfig only reports the loop back IP address. The IP address >>> > >> assigned by the gateway, 192.168.0.114, was not reported by >>> > >> ifconfig, pre

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 18:13, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 16:21 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/16/07 15:55, Mike McCarty wrote: >>> Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty

Re: Now working... gdm??? Re: Couldn't load XKB keymap... Can't switch to terminal mode

2007-02-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 18:15 -0500, cga2000 wrote: ... > I've pretty much lost track but if the OP absolutely needs a GUI logon > screen .. did he try the alternatives to gdm (xdm, kdm, wdm, ..) ?? > > Otherwise what's wrong with .. > > $ startx $(which window-manager) -- 0: > > ... ? > > Is thi

Re: multicore gizmos

2007-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 17:16, pinniped wrote: > > 'Multicore' processors are pretty new - older machines have always had > an enormous number of processors. 80 cores on a single chip would take With "enormous" always changing. Relative to the number of 2x SMP

Re: dumb question about multi-core processors...

2007-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 17:57, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 16:37 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/16/07 15:58, Michael Fothergill wrote: >>> Dear Debianists, [snip] > Well, we have yet to really see. But I suspect once the final cost and > dissat

Re: Changing public IP Address

2007-02-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 05:18:00PM -0700, Travis Crook wrote: > > Excellent advice! I had not considered lowering the TTLs. > I speak with the voice of experience :-) Moved my mail server from one IP to another. I forgot to lower the TTL first and so when I shut off port 25 on the old server,

Re: Changing public IP Address

2007-02-16 Thread Travis Crook
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:09:36 -0500 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 01:43:13PM -0700, Travis Crook wrote: > > the old address traffic > > 3) Create new DNS records for all domains that I host to point to > > the new IP address > > 4) Pray it all works! > >

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 16:21 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/16/07 15:55, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote: > >> > > Why not install Linux and dosemu? > >>> > >>> On a machine with 1

Re: dumb question about multi-core processors...

2007-02-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 16:37 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/16/07 15:58, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > Dear Debianists, > > > > I read an article: > > > > > > http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=032003A1JK8W > > > > It says that

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/16/07 16:52, Mike McCarty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/16/07 16:22, Mike McCarty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] Adding a few hundred megabytes of disc is not appealing to me, You really aren't a geek, are you? I

Re: multicore gizmos

2007-02-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 12:16:58AM +0100, pinniped wrote: > > 'Multicore' processors are pretty new - older machines have always had an > enormous number of processors. 80 cores on a single chip would take up most > of the silicon wafer. (and will probably have a few defective cores and > rathe

Re: Etch is REALLY fast! :-)

2007-02-16 Thread Wim De Smet
On 2/16/07, Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ACPI is still a thorn in my side too. I've seen way too many notebooks on which fans simply don't switch on and off reliably, and suspend works but resume doesn't - surely there must be a generic way to handle these things? I'm not sure if y

multicore gizmos

2007-02-16 Thread pinniped
'Multicore' processors are pretty new - older machines have always had an enormous number of processors. 80 cores on a single chip would take up most of the silicon wafer. (and will probably have a few defective cores and rather interesting cooling problems) Problems encountered by multiple p

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 17:14, Mike McCarty wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> You really aren't a geek, are you? > > I forgot to mention another use for that machine: > I read the IR pulses from remote controls and figure out > the protocols they use. For that, I

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 16:52, Mike McCarty wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/16/07 16:22, Mike McCarty wrote: >>> Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] >>> >>> Adding a few hundred megabytes of disc is not appealing to me, >> >>

Re: Now working... gdm??? Re: Couldn't load XKB keymap... Can't switch to terminal mode

2007-02-16 Thread cga2000
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 01:21:21PM EST, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 22:18:51 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > [...] > > > I started up gdm to give myself choices on sessions (to test fully > > whether this was a problem across the board with WM's) and found things > > working

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: You really aren't a geek, are you? I forgot to mention another use for that machine: I read the IR pulses from remote controls and figure out the protocols they use. For that, I need microsecond level timing resolution, which I can get with MSDOS, but I doubt that Linux can

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 16:43, Mike McCarty wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/16/07 15:55, Mike McCarty wrote: >> >>> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote: >> Why

Re: Changing public IP Address

2007-02-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 01:43:13PM -0700, Travis Crook wrote: > the old address traffic > 3) Create new DNS records for all domains that I host to point to the > new IP address > 4) Pray it all works! > Immediately lower the TTL for all domains that are hosted on your server! If you don't, it cou

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 16:22, Mike McCarty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote: DSL and Slackware aren't that large, are they? Especially with a 2.4 kernel. [

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 16:22, Mike McCarty wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote: >> >> >> DSL and Slackware aren't that large, are they? Especially with a >> 2.4 kernel. > >

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 15:55, Mike McCarty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote: Why not install Linux and dosemu? On a machine with 16MB? It fills a need I have as is. It would let you run multiple DOS s

Re: dumb question about multi-core processors...

2007-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 15:58, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I read an article: > > > http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=032003A1JK8W > > It says that Intel has made a chip with 80 processors on it that it says > is a teraflops d

Re: [Debian-User] Re: More on Network Install

2007-02-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 01:42:18PM -0700, Admin wrote: > Andrei Popescu > > Thanks for your reply. Hope you don't have to snip too much. My yet > outstanding question is the POOL directory. I think the POOL directory > contains 'sarge' which would be the latest official release. But I am > not

Help! Corrupted filesystem

2007-02-16 Thread Elmer E. Dow
Greetings: I'm running an IBM R40 laptop with three systems: Debian Sarge (which I use primarily), Knopix 3.4 hd install, and WinXP. This morning I booted to Knoppix to look at some bookmarks on that system. I forgot to unplug the PCMCIA card modem, so it stopped there at boot. I unplugged it

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote: DSL and Slackware aren't that large, are they? Especially with a 2.4 kernel. [QUOTE MODE ON] Slackware Linux doesn't require an extremely powerful system to run (though having one is qu

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 15:55, Mike McCarty wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote: >> Why not install Linux and dosemu? >>> >>> On a machine with 16MB? It fills a need I have as is. >> >> It would let you run multiple DOS s

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:52:07 +0100 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a feeling this is likely to start a debate. Be that as it > may, I set my KDE to select on one click and activate on two. > However, if I run konqueror as root, then I get the single click > activation again. Oh wel

It's a simple question....

2007-02-16 Thread Justin Hartman
In the past few months that I've used Debian I've now successfully managed to install unstable on an Apple iBook G4, Apple mac mini (both PowerPC) and Intel Celeron PC. I've also installed testing on a server that I run which is powered by Intel P4 chips. That's now 4 machines without many proble

dumb question about multi-core processors...

2007-02-16 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, I read an article: http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=032003A1JK8W It says that Intel has made a chip with 80 processors on it that it says is a teraflops device and only uses a low power consumption. But the article suggests that it is tough to write an OS to t

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote: Why not install Linux and dosemu? On a machine with 16MB? It fills a need I have as is. It would let you run multiple DOS sessions. I repeat: It fills a need I have as is. I'd need to put more disc on it, for one thing. OS/2 is

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-16 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Lale wrote: > Chris Lale wrote: >> Nigel Henry wrote: >>> On Wednesday 14 February 2007 17:36, Michael S. Peek wrote: >>> [...] >>> Personally, if you have sufficient harddrive space, I'd keep your >>> current Etch install pointing to Etch in /

Re: What changed permissions of /tmp ?

2007-02-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 08:31:40AM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote: > This morning I had a bad surprize on my sarge system: X did not start > any more. After some time I've found the culprit: something had changed > permission of /tmp to drwxr-xr-x. > > I have no idea what could be the cause of this

Re: Debian 3.1r4 question

2007-02-16 Thread Joe Vender
On Friday 16 February 2007 12:17, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: ... > They 3.1r4 CDs are full operating system CDs. > > Regards, > > -Roberto Thanks Roberto. Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

2007-02-16 Thread Chris Lale
Michael M. wrote: [...] Basically, you need to think carefully about where you want what data, or you may find yourself rebooting multiple times throughout the day because such-and-such a file that you need is in a place where you can't get to it or can't edit it from where you happen to be.

Re: Debian 3.1r4 question

2007-02-16 Thread Joe Vender
On Friday 16 February 2007 12:50, Alan Ianson wrote: ... > > They are the full install cd's. The only change since day one is that these > images contain the fixes from security.debian.org or other important fixes, > otherwise they are the same as the original 3.1 release. It gives you an > install

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-16 Thread Chris Lale
Chris Lale wrote: Nigel Henry wrote: On Wednesday 14 February 2007 17:36, Michael S. Peek wrote: [...] Personally, if you have sufficient harddrive space, I'd keep your current Etch install pointing to Etch in /etc/apt/sources.list. then I would install another instance of Etch. I'd keep thi

Re: [Debian-User] Re: More on Network Install

2007-02-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:42:18 -0700 Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But everyone seems to get distracted about me wanting a local LAN > mirror of source and binanry. Granted that a dial up connection and Because this is the most impractical way to get Debian. And even if you do download al

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/15/07 22:20, Mike McCarty wrote: > > [snip] > But you can't be using it just for MS-DOS; what's the point of having 16MB RAM if all yo do is run non-extended DOS? >>> >>>

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Celejar wrote: In Hilbert's hotel, when all the rooms are full and a new guest arrives, the management just moves everyone down one room and places the newcomer into the first room, which is now vacant. When a countably infinite number of new guests arrive, he accomodates them by moving each c

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/07 22:20, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] But you can't be using it just for MS-DOS; what's the point of having 16MB RAM if all yo do is run non-extended DOS? I have 16MB of RAM because that's the minimum configuration fo

Re: [Debian-User] Re: More on Network Install

2007-02-16 Thread Admin
Andrei Popescu Thanks for your reply. Hope you don't have to snip too much. My yet outstanding question is the POOL directory. I think the POOL directory contains 'sarge' which would be the latest official release. But I am not sure. But everyone seems to get distracted about me wanting a l

Changing public IP Address

2007-02-16 Thread Travis Crook
Hi all, I currently have an iptables firewall for our DSL line. My ISP informed me that I need to change my public IP address by the end of month because AT&T is taking back a big block of addresses. I have all of the new information (gateway, new IP address, DNS servers, etc.). I host W

Re: How to convert files

2007-02-16 Thread Luis Ariel Lecca
John, Its a linux project (There are libs, executables, scripts, txt, sources and objects.) about 90MB. I did checkout using a svn program under Win32 and when I took a look to sources and scripts on linux, all those files have CR/LF. John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escr

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-02-16 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 07:27:22PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: > >maybe you should read about LVM [1]. It is not about file systems, but > >it can help you :) > > I'd rather deal with a case of the Clap. > > LVM is worse than useless for most installations. It makes

Re: Smells like Debian spirit

2007-02-16 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:12:32PM +0100, ciol wrote: > You seem right and I would really like to trust you, but why there are > some developers demotivated ? Why there is this weird atmosphere ? Some people like drama. It's a lot more attractive to them than actual useful work, paid or not. --

Re: Which one package serve to build debian package from CVS source?

2007-02-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 08:13:28PM +0100, csanyipal wrote: > Hello! > > There was for this pourpose the checkinstall on Sarge, but now, on > Etch, which one package serve for this pourpose out there? > It is still available in Sid, which should work OK on Etch. Or you can backport it yourself.

Re: How to convert files

2007-02-16 Thread John Hasler
Bob McGowan writes: > Given the original requirements, I'd agree that using 'file' would be a > problem, so I'd depend on 'flip' for determining the text/binary > question. That depends on what his "binary" files are, and on how important speed is. As the files he wants to convert are all "DOS" fi

Re: fglrx, kernel 2.6.20, dri and composite problem

2007-02-16 Thread Inko IA
Hi Ivan! I used one of this Howtos, I don't remember which one: http://wiki.debian.org/Compiz http://sonique54.free.fr/xgl/xgl.htm BUT, I think Compiz xgl is for gnome. I remember that once I executed it on KDE and it changed the windows schemes to a gnome ones. Maybe there are some options in

Which one package serve to build debian package from CVS source?

2007-02-16 Thread csanyipal
Hello! There was for this pourpose the checkinstall on Sarge, but now, on Etch, which one package serve for this pourpose out there? If I download some source from one CVS, then can I use dh-make to convert it into a format that will allow me to build Debian packages, right? But then, how can

Re: How to convert files

2007-02-16 Thread Bob McGowan
FuziOK wrote: John Hasler wrote: FuziOK writes: I'm not clear how to use command file to detect binaries. Use it to detect DOS files. From the man page: If the lines of a file are terminated by CR, CRLF, or NEL, instead of the Unix-standard LF, this will be reported. Or parse file's

Re: Debian 3.1r4 question

2007-02-16 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri February 16 2007 09:54, Joe Vender wrote: > Are the CD images provided for Debian 3.1r4 able to do a full, clean > install of Debian on an zero-filled HDD, or are they just for an upgrade > from 3.1r3 or earlier? I'd like to try Debian on a clean system, but I'm > not sure if I can use the 3

Re: Can't modeprobe ip_tables

2007-02-16 Thread Fabio A Mazzarino
Sure. depmod is always needed if I want to avoid a reboot. And it doesn't hurt. Fabio On 2/16/07, John L Fjellstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Fabio A Mazzarino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then I removed /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386 and renamed > /lib/modules/2.4.27 to /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-3

Re: Now working... gdm??? Re: Couldn't load XKB keymap... Can't switch to terminal mode

2007-02-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 19:21 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 22:18:51 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > [...] > > > I started up gdm to give myself choices on sessions (to test fully > > whether this was a problem across the board with WM's) and found things > > working pro

Re: How to convert files

2007-02-16 Thread Luis Ariel Lecca
Fabian, Thanks for the info. I like use scripting but I prioritize the safe way. I think that find / flip is safe, clear, easy, dificult to make a mistake (few arg) and save time. Thanks, Luis "Fabian (Lists)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: Hi Luis, Luis Ariel Lecca wrote:

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

2007-02-16 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It worked on my system. It installs the net-install snapshot of the day if I am not mistaken. Joe Paras pradhan wrote: > Haven't use this but worth checking it > > http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ > > > > Paras. > > On 2/16/07, Michael M. <[EMAIL

Re: backup/restore

2007-02-16 Thread Larry Fletcher
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I'm looking for a solution to temporarily backup then restore a Debian > install--preserving the filesystem contents and attributes. The caveat > is that the capacity of the drive I'll be restoring to is smaller (all > other hardare is unchanged). I saw

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

2007-02-16 Thread Paras pradhan
Haven't use this but worth checking it http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ Paras. On 2/16/07, Michael M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:25 -0800, rocky wrote: > 4, What if I want install FreeBSD as the third Operating system on my > laptop? What is the best partition plan? >

Re: Debian 3.1r4 question

2007-02-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 11:54:49AM -0600, Joe Vender wrote: > Are the CD images provided for Debian 3.1r4 able to do a full, clean install > of Debian on an zero-filled HDD, or are they just for an upgrade from 3.1r3 > or earlier? I'd like to try Debian on a clean system, but I'm not sure if I >

Re: Second NIC won't play

2007-02-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 17:23 +, Hans du Plooy wrote: > I have to identical Intel 100mbit network cards in my workstation. Just > one was plugged in and picked up DHCP when I installed, and configured > itself accordingly. I'm not trying to make the second one talk via a > crossover cable to m

Debian 3.1r4 question

2007-02-16 Thread Joe Vender
Are the CD images provided for Debian 3.1r4 able to do a full, clean install of Debian on an zero-filled HDD, or are they just for an upgrade from 3.1r3 or earlier? I'd like to try Debian on a clean system, but I'm not sure if I can use the 3.1r4 CDs to install it. Please RE or CC to my email ad

Re: Can't modeprobe ip_tables

2007-02-16 Thread John L Fjellstad
"Fabio A Mazzarino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then I removed /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386 and renamed > /lib/modules/2.4.27 to /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386 > > This is what happened then: > > # modprobe ip_tables > /lib/modules/2.4.27/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: > /lib/modules/2.4.27/kern

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

2007-02-16 Thread Michael M.
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:25 -0800, rocky wrote: > 4, What if I want install FreeBSD as the third Operating system on my > laptop? What is the best partition plan? > One thing to consider regarding your partitions is that you will be dealing with some file-system incompatibility. Windows, by def

How to add a kde applet in gnome

2007-02-16 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I want to add kde applets, but I am using gnome desktop thanks for help best regards bela -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installation help urgent

2007-02-16 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:53:09 +0100 > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Greg Folkert wrote: >>> On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 10:43 -0500, Celejar wrote: >>> [snip] Or 'sudo dp

Re: How to convert files

2007-02-16 Thread FuziOK
John Hasler wrote: > FuziOK writes: > > I'm not clear how to use command file to detect binaries. > > Use it to detect DOS files. From the man page: > > If the lines of a file are terminated by CR, CRLF, or NEL, instead of > the Unix-standard LF, this will be reported. > > Or parse file's

Re: How to convert files

2007-02-16 Thread Fabian (Lists)
Hi Luis, Luis Ariel Lecca wrote: > Hi all, could any body give me a hand with this stuff ? > > Im trying to find a good way to convert dos files (CR-LF) to Unix files > (LF). [snip] Instead of installing an extra application you could cat your files through sed. >From http://www.student.

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:35:23AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Modularity is one of the main reasons why I like Debian, and won't > willingly go back to an RPM system. > > Mandrake packaged Python and all the miscellaneous libraries into > one big RPM. Install Python and in comes XFree. Too s

Re: Can't modeprobe ip_tables

2007-02-16 Thread Fabio A Mazzarino
Problem solved: I'll post the solution for future references: I've reinstalled kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386: # apt-get --reinstall kenrel-image-2.4.27-2-386 And now everything is working just fine. Thanks for your help. Fabio On 2/16/07, Fabio A Mazzarino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Answers bel

Second NIC won't play

2007-02-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I have to identical Intel 100mbit network cards in my workstation. Just one was plugged in and picked up DHCP when I installed, and configured itself accordingly. I'm not trying to make the second one talk via a crossover cable to my notebook. But I cannot get the interface up. # ifc

The time has come for Christians

2007-02-16 Thread Elizabeth & Deacon Creflow Juanti
Dear In Christ, The time has come for Christians to worship God in spirit and in truth according to the book of John chapter 4:vs23-24.``But the hour cometh and now is when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him . God is a sp

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-02-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Siju George wrote: > Could some one recommend which File System is best for partitions above > 600GB? Depends on the use profile. > Hope there are no issues with this setup. please let me know if i > should be careful in any area. XFS does not take well to non-clean unmount

Re: Installing Etch onto a laptop w/out CD device

2007-02-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:38:28 + andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good day > > I have an old-ish laptop with a dodgy CD-device, onto which I want to > install Etch. I am using Etch on my desktop and the laptop is > connected to the same LAN that my desktop is on. Is there anyway that > I can

Re: Installing Etch with GUI on T20

2007-02-16 Thread john gennard
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:13:16 +, john gennard wrote: [...] This morning, I reconfigured X using the 'vesa' driver and you were perfectly right in your supposition. It now boots directly into Gnome (some tweaking will be necessary - the display is not very good d

Re: why not try lilypond

2007-02-16 Thread Kent West
debian wrote: I have not seen anyone in this thread suggest lilypond ? I cannot pretend to be an expert, but its results for me so far are really quite delightful. Documentation is very good. It does guitar TABS and all that sort of thing. Joe Mc Cool Ag! That is TOO easy! This is wond

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-16 Thread michael
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 10:44 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:06:56AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:34:14 -0500 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > > Speaking of learning, you shouldn't be running 'du' and 'dpkg -l' with > > > > sudo

Re: package dependencies

2007-02-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:22:14 -0800 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tony Heal wrote: > > > > I have a problem. If you look below you will see that webalizer is > > installed and has a dependency of either libgd2 or libgd2-noxpm. If > > you look further down neither libgd2 nor libgd

Re: [Debian-User] Re: More on Network Install

2007-02-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:28:25 -0700 Archive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [huge snip] The entire Debian archive is ~205 GB. You do *not* want to download that over a slow connection. Options: 1. Unless you have special needs it is enough to download the first two CDs. That's about 1.5 GB. If you ne

Re: How to convert files

2007-02-16 Thread John Hasler
FuziOK writes: > I'm not clear how to use command file to detect binaries. Use it to detect DOS files. From the man page: If the lines of a file are terminated by CR, CRLF, or NEL, instead of the Unix-standard LF, this will be reported. Or parse file's output for the identifier for your

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 10:06, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 09:50:10AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> If you're behind a firewall, all should be fine. >> >> The "rule" against putting X on servers is based on "don't put >> anything on a server

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