Swapping /usr and /

2001-07-06 Thread Andrew Overholt
Hi, After install potato on my laptop, I realize that I would like to swap the partitions for /usr and / .. any idea how I can do this safely? I managed to swap /home and /usr with little hassle but I'm kinda more concerned about / and /usr. Any suggestions appreciated. Andrew -- A

Re: Shutdown -h now FIXED (finally)

2001-07-06 Thread Andrew Overholt
wer-off" into your lilo append line. Thanks for everyone's suggestions -- Andrew Overholt EngSci 0T3 Junior Bnad Leedur of the Lady Godiva Memorial Bnad ERTW

Re: Fetchmail + Exim + Other system

2001-06-22 Thread Andrew Overholt
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 06:30:43PM -0400, Andrew Overholt wrote: > > If I have to log into my school's server via telnet or ssh and then run a > > mail program like pine or mutt to access my mail, is there any way I can > > get t

Fetchmail + Exim + Other system

2001-06-22 Thread Andrew Overholt
AP doesn't work. The school server is running Solaris. Any suggestions greatly appreciated, Andrew -- Andrew Overholt EngSci 0T3 Junior Bnad Leedur of the Lady Godiva Memorial Bnad ERTW

Re: Shutdown -h now

2001-06-22 Thread Andrew Overholt
lay=20 message=/boot/bootmess.txt prompt timeout=50 vga=normal append="apm=on mem=224M" default=l image=/vmlinuz label=l read-only image=/vmlinuz-mostrecent label=old read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=w -- Andrew Overholt EngSci 0T3 Ju

Shutdown -h now

2001-06-20 Thread Andrew Overholt
Hello again all, Does anyone else have a problem with proper soft power off? I realize it's a faq but I've never actually seen a clear-cut answer. -- Andrew Overholt EngSci 0T3 Junior Bnad Leedur of the Lady Godiva Memorial Bnad ERTW

Re: Windows-like crashes!

2001-06-20 Thread Andrew Overholt
Well thanks to all for the suggestions and help! It turns out that it was a kernel problem 'cause I tried a different kernel and now it's working fine! Thanks again, Andrew -- Andrew Overholt EngSci 0T3 Junior Bnad Leedur of the Lady Godiva Memorial Bnad ERTW

Re: help: can't print

2001-06-18 Thread Andrew Overholt
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Norbert Froese wrote: > I don't know how to proceed. Any suggestions would be appreciated. > I'm far from being an expert but have you tried something like magicfilterconfig? It worked for me. Good luck, Andrew -- Andrew Overholt EngSci 0T3 Junior Bn

Re: Windows-like crashes!

2001-06-18 Thread Andrew Overholt
On 18 Jun 2001, W. Paul Mills wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Overholt) writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I have been successfully using Debian Woody for about 8 months now and I > > am proud to say that it's not my defau

Getting Rid of Gnome

2001-06-17 Thread Andrew Overholt
lf without getting rid of the rest of the programs, etc. like Gnumeric? I guess I really want to know if I'm losing anything without Gnome (other than the taskbar, etc)? And if I get rid of Gnome, can I still use gdm but with just enlightenment? Thanks, Andrew -- Andrew Overholt EngSci 0

Re: Windows-like crashes!

2001-06-17 Thread Andrew Overholt
/etc/modules. This never happenecd before (ie. the crasing - usually I'd just get errors like "Cannot access /dev/dsp" or something like that) and mpg123 does it too (the crashing)! I find the general performance of my system is suffering as well from this recent mysterious prob

Windows-like crashes!

2001-06-17 Thread Andrew Overholt
bian Woody 2.4.2 Kernel XFree86 4.0.2 (with Nvidia server 1.0? from last week) Thanks very much in advance, Andrew -- Andrew Overholt EngSci 0T3 Junior Bnad Leedur of the Lady Godiva Memorial Bnad ERTW