moving /usr, /var, and /etc

I have a Debian system on really small Flash memory like an embed system. A hard drive is mounted onto the system. I want to add more processes to the system like mail server. But the problem is /usr, /var, /etc are running out of space on the Flash memory. I'm planning to do the following: - make

Re: Media player

Brian Durant wrote: > So, now that this problem is solved, I still need to deal with the > original issue I posted about, which succinctly put is that I am a > newbie mucking around trying to get all of the multimedia goodies > installed. I have Helix and I have installed the w32codex, gstreamer,

ipsec and dns

erver. Down, I want it to use whatever DHCP suggests. Antony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make thinkpad Fn-F12 work in sid

Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > I went back to debian sid after using ubuntu for a few months. So far, > i've been able to configure my thinkpad t42p to resemble some ubuntu > goodies except for fn-f12: nothing happens when i hit it, as supposed > to hibernate using ubuntu. I have verified that echo

Re: Can't login... need help

Paul Ravish wrote: > Hi Antony, > > I logged in as root and typed "startx". This seemed to work as it took > me to roots desktop. > > When I logged in as me (paul) and I typed "startx" I received the error > message > > xauth: timeout in locking

Re: Audio i/o

Roger Creasy wrote: Hello: I am trying to use an audio editing/recording program named Audacity. When I start the program, I an error saying that it failed to initialise the audio i/o error. I changed the ownership of /dev/dsp to the user and set permissions to 666. Now if I first run 'killal

Re: x-window startup and other problems

? -Original Message- From: Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:38:28 To:Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: x-window startup and other problems Antony Gelberg wrote: > I think that whenever somebody installs an OS, he

Re: configuring muttrc

Sam Rosenfeld wrote: Precisely what information do I need to get a working mutt for Debian 3.1? Once I get it working I think I can tailor it for my needs. I think the best thing to do is google. There's a lot of good muttrcs out there, ready for adaptation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: device file permissions the debian way

Haines Brown wrote: I'm trying to set up a new installation of debian so that user can play DVDs. I have debian sarge 2.6.8-2-686, an IDE dvd drive, gxine 0.4.1-1, libdvdread3-0.9.4-5. I can play .mp3 files OK with gzine. I created a dvd symlink: $ ls -l /dev/dvd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 S

Re: Font selection with XFCE

Patrick Wiseman wrote: On 9/17/05, *Patrick Wiseman* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On 9/17/05, *Otto Wyss* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: With XFCE3 it was possible to select the current default font but since I upg

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

Clive Menzies wrote: On (17/09/05 12:45), Antony Gelberg wrote: My understanding is that Debian welcomes patches from anybody who can improve the documentation situation on the www.debian.org. The Debian Reference is a good start but could be so much better. Perhaps those of you who have

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

Steve Lamb wrote: Katipo wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: He's also trying to install Opera and yet noone's jumped on the 3 people that are shoving him towards Firefox and Thunderbird. I don't know if they are doing that. Sure are. It's far easier for a newbie to install from main, w

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

Steve Lamb wrote: Antony Gelberg wrote: See my previous post. He's trying to install Debian, let's help him install Debian. However hard people think it is, choosing Desktop from the dreaded tasksel gets most people on their way. He's also trying to install Opera

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

Steve Lamb wrote: Antony Gelberg wrote: I really don't think that this is the kind of thing to recommend on d-u without a very good reason. The amazingly simple install is a very good reason. Hell, I've used Debian since the libc5 days and *I* preferred Ubuntu's setup

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

Angelo Bertolli wrote: Andy Streich wrote: On Friday 16 September 2005 12:55 pm, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: Most importantly, this is _debian_-user. If you want to advocate other distributions willy-nilly, it's not the place. That kind of isolationism is something I think you will find

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

Andy Streich wrote: On Friday 16 September 2005 12:55 pm, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: Most importantly, this is _debian_-user. If you want to advocate other distributions willy-nilly, it's not the place. That kind of isolationism is something I think you will find very little support for in the

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On fredag 16 september 2005, 21:09, Antony Gelberg wrote: Please reply onlist. Errr, well, I don't consider this an important topic for the list, and it is also rather rude to respond to a off-list message on-list. Please refrain from that in the future. I su

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 07:26:19PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On fredag 16 september 2005, 14:20, Fritz Brown wrote: Help! I have recently begun an attempt to install Debian on a Sony laptop (Mobile AMD K6-2 550MHz, 64MB RAM), and am

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On fredag 16 september 2005, 20:26, you wrote: I really don't think that this is the kind of thing to recommend on d-u without a very good reason. Why is that? I've seen many newbies burn themselves badly on trying to maintain a full Debian install, and like this user

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On fredag 16 september 2005, 14:20, Fritz Brown wrote: Help! I have recently begun an attempt to install Debian on a Sony laptop (Mobile AMD K6-2 550MHz, 64MB RAM), and am thoroughly overwhelmed with choices about which I know nothing! Yeah, I can really see that. It

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

Angelo Bertolli wrote: Kent West wrote: Fritz Brown wrote: , surf the internet (I have Opera for Linux ready to install), Once you have an Internet connection, you're good to go. Most applications you want are available from the official Debian repositories, and it's generally these v

Re: ffmpeg won't install

Rodney D. Myers wrote: afraid that was the answer. :-( I was a little short. The other alternative is to wait until testing is unbroken again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

Fritz Brown wrote: Well, I don't have any idea what's what when I begin the install. I have 7 CDs (booting from the CD), and get through the partitioning OK, but am utterly without a clue when it starts asking about packages with cryptic names and cryptic descriptions on the second bootup (or

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

Fritz Brown wrote: Help! I have recently begun an attempt to install Debian on a Sony laptop (Mobile AMD K6-2 550MHz, 64MB RAM), and am thoroughly overwhelmed with choices about which I know nothing! I only need the ability to dial-up and network, surf the internet (I have Opera for Linux re

Re: Problem whith fluxbox

Álvaro Eixea wrote: Hello everybody: I instaled the new version of Debian called Woody and when I try to install my window manager, fluxbox the fonts on the menus and on the windows title bar appears "smoothy", don´t look wheel and I can´t read It. The new version is Sarge. Please install tha

Re: distinguishing USB device from non-USB

Pavol Gono wrote: Hi I need to distinguish what kind of device is /dev/hda, hdb ..., /dev/sda, sdb, ... Generally it can be IDE disk, SCSI disk, flash card, USB stick, USB disk, hardware RAID, etc. I looked to /proc file system and didn't find any safe method to find it out. Is in debian any use

Re: gview and viewing .gz text files

John Talbut wrote: Once upon a time I could view various types of file from Nautilus using gview. Now it offers to open files using gview but comes up with an error when I try. And gview does not seem to exist anywhere any more, not on my system nor in Debian. What has happened to it and wha

Re: I got random freeze in my KDE......

yasker wrote: It is the completely FREEZE. The mouse point can't move. Any key include num lock response none. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and Ctrl-Alt-Fx can't work too. I have no choice except press the reset button. I got AC97(intel 810 or 810E, I can't remember.), and install this version(Debian S

Re: can not edit XF86Config-4

dale schleyer wrote: for some reason i am unable to edit the XF86Config file even though i am logged in as "root" any help greatly appericated You need to give us more information - the above is far too vague. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: ffmpeg won't install

Rodney D. Myers wrote: I'm running etch right now, and trying to get ffmpeg installed, via aptitude, but I keep getting this error message; sudo aptitude install ffmpeg Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done R

Re: Routine upgrade of packages tracking etch has hosed gnome

Chuck Williams wrote: Hi all, I'm tracking etch and installed all upgradable packages on two systems today, including current etch upgrades to version 6.8.2 of some X packages. During the upgrade of one of the systems, but not the other, I was asked for the default xserver in a configuration qu

Re: X won't start having upgraded from xsever to xorg

Tong Sun wrote: Hi, This is a real emergency. My X won't start now, having upgraded from xsever to xorg. Is there any way I can have my X back? I saw in thread Routine upgrade of packages tracking etch has hosed gnome http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2005-09/1631.html tha

Re: apt-get upgrade fails after updating

Tong wrote: Hi, Today, I did my routine apt-get upgrade and noticed that the libc has been updated. However, now apt-get upgrade fails to configure the updated package. The error message is: How about a google search? http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2005/08/msg00637.html http://bugs.deb

Re: Unidentified subject!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi:) I have wanted to try Debian Linux for a while now and so i downloaded the dvd images.Problem is,i tried installing it following the instructions(i am a linux noobie i'm afraid:))but i got stuck early on in the installation at the bit where it inspects your hardware,b

Re: Clear selections in Aptitude

Joseph H. Fry wrote: Due to the broken gnome issue, I cannot use CTRL+U to upgrade my system, unless I want gnome to be installed. Unfortunately, aptitude has all of the upgrades and such selected for installation (from a previous time that I forgot to CTRL+C out of aptitude) and I cannot simp

RE: Problem with apache 1.3 and php5

>> > Well, >> > If I try to access a website which contains php scripts like >> > http://phpsysinfo.warezmaster.ath.cx/ the browser just asks >> me to download >> >> Perhaps you should get the "warezmaster" to fix his broken website. > Very funny^^ > What's the prob about my domain? I got it back

Re: Rotating mail.log

Sam Watkins wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 02:42:36PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: My server just ran out of space due to mail.log and mail.info getting massive. I have run syslogd-listfiles --weekly, and both files are listed in the output. Any ideas on how I can debug this? (Please CC me

Re: Rotating mail.log

Antony Gelberg wrote: Hi all, My server just ran out of space due to mail.log and mail.info getting massive. I have run syslogd-listfiles --weekly, and both files are listed in the output. Any ideas on how I can debug this? (Please CC me, I'm not subscribed.) Antony Anyone able to

Rotating mail.log

Hi all, My server just ran out of space due to mail.log and mail.info getting massive. I have run syslogd-listfiles --weekly, and both files are listed in the output. Any ideas on how I can debug this? (Please CC me, I'm not subscribed.) Antony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Radeon 9200 issues

Dominique Dumont wrote: Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nope, file is attached. I have also tried inserting the amd64_agp module instead of via_agp, and disabling all the X extensions - no joy. Again - this config works great with my Radeon 9000 card. I can see that when the

Re: Radeon 9200 issues

Dominique Dumont wrote: Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have just gotten a Radeon 9250, which is really just a Radeon 9200 in disguise. When I try to start X, the display goes between power on / off every couple of seconds or so. The analogue cable works ok, but I resent hav

Re: Radeon 9200 issues

Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 17:08:51 +, Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I have just gotten a Radeon 9250, which is really just a Radeon 9200 in disguise. When I try to start X, the display goes between power on / off every couple of seconds or so

Radeon 9200 issues

, and 2.6.9. I take the liberty of attaching my XF86Config-4. Any ideas? The same config works fine if I replace the card with my old Radeon 9000 Pro. I actually have two of the 9200 cards and neither works. Antony # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 X Window System server configuration file) # # This

ssh mystery

Hi all, I'm having an odd problem ssh'ing into a box. It has a public IP address, and is behind an ADSL router (Amigo CA8XR). Here's the odd bit: hotbox:~# netstat -a Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State t

Port forwarding on a NAT firewall

Hi all, If I have a router running iptables with NAT for a private IP network, there are two options if I want to have a public email server on the private network... 1) Set up an email server on the router that relays all mail to the private server.2) Port forward (DNAT) port 25 to the private se

Re: Visual C++?????

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 02:02:28PM -0500, cecil wrote: > Ok, yet again, my prof wants us to use Visual C++. I have not yet talked > to him about this. I have decided that I will HAVE to use X, so I guess > I'm looking for a IDE that will approximate this. I know of anjuta, > kdevelop, and motor(

Re: clamav

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 06:34:40AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Can someone present an example of how to run clamav from the procmail files? > > I've only seen it run as a daemon with amavisd-new. I use a script called trashscan, set it up then put: |# 1. Run TrashScan |:0 |* !^X-Virus-Scan: || /

Re: How do I make my linux machine a dialin server

On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 10:56:06PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Johnny wrote: > > >Hi > >I am interested in makeing my Debian linux machine a > >dialin server. So that when I am at my sister house > >she has a win95 box. I want to dial up my linux box > >from her computer to get connected to

Re: X session

On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 12:44:08AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 04:50:44PM +0200, Chris wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 15:25, Antony wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 07:25:40AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > > Antony wrote: > > >

Re: can not compile kde, some xmkmf problem

On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 09:54:21AM +0200, LeVA wrote: > 2004. június 25. 08:48, > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -> Debian-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:13:23PM +0200, LeVA said > > > > > 2004. június 24. 04:31, > > > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > -> Debian-Us

Re: rick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 11:19:51AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > Install dfsbuild (in sid). dfs = debian from scratch What a cool tool. It amazed me how much useful stuff is out there that I never hear of! A -- Please don't CC me. Also _please_ read the following before posting: Documentation

Re: X session

On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 07:25:40AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Antony wrote: > > >When I log into X, my saved session comes back with Mozilla proper > >instead of Firefox. If it matters, I'm using windowmaker in unstable... > > > > > I don't know how

X session

When I log into X, my saved session comes back with Mozilla proper instead of Firefox. If it matters, I'm using windowmaker in unstable... A -- Please don't CC me. Also _please_ read the following before posting: Documentation - http://www.debian.org/doc/ FAQ - http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ In

Re: network working one way only?

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 12:47:54PM -0400, richard lyons wrote: > On Monday 21 June 2004 11:42, John Summerfield wrote: > > richard lyons wrote: > > >I must be in an exceptionally dim mood today. I just noticed that > > > my laptop, on which I am writing this, is not accessible from other > > > box

mgetty - no carrier

Hi all, When I try to send a fax with mgetty and sendfax, I get a "no carrier" error - see below... F01 $ sudo faxrunq processing F01/JOB... /usr/sbin/sendfax -v 82022729 f1.g3 Trying fax device '/dev/modem'... OK. Dialing 82022729... /usr/sbin/sendfax: dial 82022729 failed (ERROR / NO

Re: SA going downhill

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 01:00:21PM +0100, Siraj 'Sid' Rakhada wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 06:27:36 -0400, richard lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 16 June 2004 06:45, Antony wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm

SA going downhill

Hi all, I'm using spamassassin 2.63 in unstable. In the last month or two, much more spam seems to get through. Here's an example: >From fetchmail Wed Jun 16 11:36:56 2004 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from 66.179.181.35 [66.179.181.35] by lo

Re: desktop Linux for a debian user?

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 07:47:30PM -0400, Ignatz Sol wrote: > I'm fairly new at Linux, but I really enjoy using Debian. I'm looking > to install a desktop Linux at home in a dual-boot mode. As the Debian > desktop still has a ways to go, can ya'll recommend a distro for me? > It needs to be slic

Re: Debian downgrade from unstable to testing

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 10:57:00AM -0600, Joseph wrote: > I did change in source.list unstable to testing: apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade but it didn't do anything. I still can not > reinstall the evolution nor samba. > > They are experimenting with unstable too much, it is not for me. Yo

root-tail in unstable

Hi all, After my latest upgrade, root-tail didn't start with X. I have the following in my .xsession: |root-tail -f -g 80x9+67+0 -color gray procmail/pmlog |root-tail -f -g 80x9+1055+1065 -color gray /var/log/messages I tried to run it manually, and got: |antgel $ root-tail -f -g 80x9+67+0 -co

last test, sorry people

qwer -- Please don't CC me. Also _please_ read the following before posting: Documentation - http://www.debian.org/doc/ FAQ - http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ Install manual (i386) - http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

test, please ignore

asdf -- Please don't CC me. Also _please_ read the following before posting: Documentation - http://www.debian.org/doc/ FAQ - http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ Install manual (i386) - http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

mutt in xterm fun

Hi all, I think there is a bug in mutt 1.5.6 (and shortly before, but I upgraded to try and correct it). Simply, when I resize my rxvt, mutt goes to a 20-ish line display - the rest of the window is blank. Also happens with xterm, so it's not an rxvt bug. Before I report the bug, Is anyone else

Re: raid on bootup

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 05:24:50PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Hmm, typing > > mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb1 > > lets me access the array. Why isn't it being discovered on boot? > > A Sorry to keep on replying to my own posts, but I have just gott

Re: raid on bootup

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 05:24:48PM +0100, Ciaran Johnston wrote: > Antony Gelberg said: > > Hi all, > > > > I've got a system booting off /dev/hdc. I've just created a RAID-1 with > > /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb1. But on reboot, the RAID array is not > >

Re: raid on bootup

Hmm, typing mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb1 lets me access the array. Why isn't it being discovered on boot? A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

raid on bootup

Hi all, I've got a system booting off /dev/hdc. I've just created a RAID-1 with /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb1. But on reboot, the RAID array is not recognised. Partition types are fd. Any ideas? large:~# mount /dev/md0 /mnt mount: error while guessing filesystem type mount: you must specify the fil

disks are hot hot hot

Hi all, I've recently built my first ever server with a pre-compiled kernel (2.6.4 from backports.org). I had two 160GB SATA disks which both failed after only a couple of months. I found this extremely strange, unless they were from a bad batch (not likely in this day and age). They've gone ba

RAID failure

Hi all, I have two disks in a RAID1. An interesting thing occurred today. The machine stopped responding, and upone reboot, I got a kernel panic. Sadly, I had to act quickly and don't have the exact messages to hand. I think it was trying to rebuild the RAID array, due to a superblock modi

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 09:14:20AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > For ordinairy desktop use I use Testing. Most packages are relatively > up-to-date (although some packages are out for a year but not in testing). > If I need an up-to-date package, I found it's always relatively easy to > recompile it y

Re: branding debian releases

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 02:18:37PM +0200, Simmel wrote: > Hi Pete :-) > > > > > Personally I like the current Woody installer :-) > > I dislike the old and miserable/poor look of it, reminds me of old dos boxes > or a blue screen :-) > I dislike the poor information you sometimes get out of it (n

Re: branding debian releases

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 11:22:22AM -0400, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 07:59:49 -0600 > "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > My understanding of the 'testing' distribution is in conflict with your > > description. Testing is the last to receive security updates, and

Re: Re: Debian has turned unusable.

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 06:04:33PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 04:39:22PM -0500, Kevin Ruml wrote: > | This topic/suggestion that desktop users should use "unstable" rather than > | "stable", since it's no more unstable than other distros latest releases, > | com

Re: kernel 2.6 and memtester

On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 10:19:21PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > I have a weird problem here: A machine with an XP 2200 downgraded to > 1800 MHz, 256 Mb RAM and an nForce2 chipset. 512Mb swapspace exist. Try turning APIC off. It's in the archives - nForce chipsets have issues with APIC. A --

Re: debian source for gaim 0.76 in debian?

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 11:59:21AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Mon, 05 Apr 2004 10:26:07AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen insinuated: > > hey all, > > > > i notice that gaim 0.76 was released on april 1st. does anyone have > > a debian source for it up yet? > > yay! it's in unstable now, for those

Re: hangs on Nforce2 & kernel 2.6.4

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 09:48:44AM +0200, Pim Bliek wrote: > Hello, > > I am experiencing total freezes of my system when stressing my hard disk. When > I normally use it, no problems. But when I move big files around, or do a > find / -name somefile for instance, my system freezes after some se

Re: AMD vs. Intel

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 08:11:55PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Antony Gelberg wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 05:17:08PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > >>There are current known issues with nForce2/AMD combo. It > >>has to do with a race condition

Re: AMD vs. Intel

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 05:17:08PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > There are current known issues with nForce2/AMD combo. It > has to do with a race condition during the C1 disconnect. > The solution is to disable APIC, either in the kernel config > or by passing apic=off (or noapic, I can't remem

Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 02:50:45PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > This is an English-speaking mailing list. English is read from the > top, down by the flow of context, not random order. Even first-year, > non-native speakers pick up on this. It's not what you say, so much as how you say it. *PLO

Re: SATA RAID Question - New to linux

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 01:45:00PM -, A Dehaney-Steven wrote: > > Hello. > > I am looking to install linux on a machine at home (AMD XP +2400) My > motherboard(MSI K7N2G-LISR) supports SATA RAID with a Promise chip. > > I want to install and run from the RAID array. > > Will Debian work f

Re: "The filesystem was not created" during installation

On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 02:21:49PM -0800, k christ wrote: > also disabled. Unfortunately, I don't have another hard drive or > motherboard to try, so I'm looking for a little insight into the > problem before I spend money on new hardware that may not fix the > problem. Unfortunately, I think t

Re: how to... (newbie questions)

Jeremy C B Nicoll wrote: I've a HP B132L which someone else put woody on for me, but I'm nearly totally ignorant of how things work in linux. Can anyone tell me how to: a) find out precisely which version of woody it is (if there are different versions or patch levels or whatever)? I don't kno

Re: Mail and Telnet time out specially under Linux

On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 12:16:33AM +0100, Ulrich Sucker wrote: > Hi folks! > > During debugging a mail problem, I found a very interesting problem. > My mail server says "connection timed out" if he tries to connect to > some specific systems which are properly run under windows. > I tried to con

Re: how to do/repair a raid1 missing disk install (was: Re: lilo + raid = disaster (again))

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 01:05:06PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > Fatal: map file must be on the boot RAID partition > Well, /boot (or wherever your map file AND kernel happens to live) must be > in /dev/md0 for boot=/

Re: how to do/repair a raid1 missing disk install (was: Re: lilo + raid = disaster (again))

Awesome post Henrique. This is worth structuring into a howto. This is the third time I've tried this, and the third time I've hosed the boot sector, and I'm tired of it. If you don't have time to make it into a howto, let me know and I'll do it. At this point, I have managed to recover to the

lilo + raid = disaster (again)

Ok, this is very annoying. I was converting a server to RAID-1. The drives are SATA and use the siimage driver. They are hda and hdc. I had a nice Woody system up and running on hda. I created /dev/md0 with hdc, and a missing drive. I did a cp -ax to copy everything on hda to md0. All I need

Re: exim - automatic signature

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:13:29AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 03:20:18PM +0000, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > I'm deploying exim for a customer. Is there any way to automatically > > add a signature to all outgoing mail? I've read the docs but as u

Re: OT: marking email territory? (was: Re: exim - automatic signature)

On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:37:09PM +0100, Nicolas Kratz wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 12:06:32PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > Incoming from Antony Gelberg: > > > > > > I'm deploying exim for a customer. Is there any way to automatically > > > add a s

exim - automatic signature

Hi all, I'm deploying exim for a customer. Is there any way to automatically add a signature to all outgoing mail? I've read the docs but as usual, can't make head nor tail of them. A -- Please don't CC me. Also _please_ read the following before posting: Documentation - http://www.debian.org

Sony AIT ATAPI in 2.4.24

d could help me with what those hex values and other errors mean, and even whether there is a chance that this drive is not supported. I'm going to upgrade to 2.6.3, but need to wait for an outage. Please CC me as I'm not subscribed. Antony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 10:07:28AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > If you think I've got myself into a right muddle with this business, > you're correct. Not a case of failing to rtfm, rather of too much rtfm > (or the wrong fm, perhaps). I think a good book or other guide on IP networking wouldn

Re: default destination in exim?

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 05:20:15PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > I get horribly uncomfortable reading exim documentation, but you have > found exactly the bit I needed. Thank you *so* much. Ain't that the truth. I would have thought after so long with Linux, I'd be hardened to all the excell

XFree86 4.3 in unstable

Saw this baby in unstable, hence removed my experimental line from sources.list. An aptitude upgrade followed by aptitude upgrade showed quite a few packages to upgrade: The following packages will be upgraded: acpid apt apt-utils aptitude armagetron armagetron-common aspell aspell-bin base-

Re: "dch -I" command

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:51:53PM -0600, Dave's List Addy wrote: > We are attempting to run a command and getting an error > > Trying to run dch -i > > But get the following > > su: dch : command not found > > Do we need to install a certain package for this? antgel $ apt-file search dch |gre

Re: CLI (was "Re: cdparanoia & a song in negative space")

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 10:17:15AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-02-16, Ken Gilmour penned: > > On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 16:38, David T-G wrote: > > > >> What?!? A girl who uses the command line? That's even rarer than a > >> guy who uses the command line (hard enough to find these day

Re: mailto in mozilla-firebird

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 03:52:13PM +0100, Olle Eriksson wrote: > On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 08:02, Micha Feigin wrote: > > Is it possible to tell mozilla-firebird how to handle mailto links? > > I am using exim4 + mutt for mail. > > A quick Google search tells me you need the Mozex extension to get it

Re: How to install Debian with Promise FastTrak 376 chip onboard?

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 06:43:16PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:07:54AM +0000, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > All correct, what a plum I am. Except for this. I asked not to be CC'd. > > You CC'd me. The fact that your MUA uses Mail-Followup-To:

Re: How to install Debian with Promise FastTrak 376 chip onboard?

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 11:35:12AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 06:42:56PM +0000, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > Please don't CC me. It's in my sig and it's list policy. > > It's your fault. Your mail includes the header: > > Mail-Foll

Re: How to install Debian with Promise FastTrak 376 chip onboard?

On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 05:17:39PM +0100, Danny wrote: > Hi Antony, > > you are the man, which saved me! Install with the help of your webpage was > easy and fast and the installer detected my harddisk (no raid). But now > after reboot, I can't boot. Grub crashes and showed

Re: How to install Debian with Promise FastTrak 376 chip onboard?

Please don't CC me. It's in my sig and it's list policy. On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:21:40PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 02:24:28AM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > I came in a bit late here. Have a look on my site - > > http://

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