Will AMD64 Install on my PC???

2010-04-22 Thread Frank Charles Gallacher
1. Here is my cpuinfo: r...@ni:/home/franx# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz stepping: 11 cpu MHz : 1998.000 cache size : 4096 KB phy

How to find out how much memory your system using "dd" command...

2009-10-13 Thread Frank Charles Gallacher
Greetings, When I was a system administrator, there was a command to find out how much real memory was on your system, logged in as root (making sure you didn't confuse the input and output!): dd if=/dev/mem of=/dev/null bs=1024 conv=noerror It would chug away for a minute or two, then give you

Upgrading from etch to lenny; root naming convertion problems on boot,,,

2009-08-02 Thread Frank Charles Gallacher
w is; if my menu.lst is: # kopt=root=/dev/sda2 ro and my fstab entry for root is: /dev/sda2 / ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 Then I probably don't need to worry about this gotcha, OR is there a "Future-proof" way of setting up the disk??? TIA, fcG. --

Problems mounting Windows NTFS partition...

2008-08-13 Thread Frank Charles Gallacher
ble error: could not execute pmount Where do I go from here??? 1. Do Nothing (Resistance is Futile!!!) 2. Wait until "Lenny" goes "Stable" next month... 3. (this line intentionally left Blank, please supply input) TIA, fcG. -- Frank Charles Gallacher <[EM

Re: Does anybody know a mailer that handles contact lists better than evolution???

2008-07-30 Thread Frank Charles Gallacher
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 12:48 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/28/08 11:38, Shachar Or wrote: > > On Monday 28 July 2008 19:34, Frank Charles Gallacher wrote: > >> Greetings, > >> > >> I am running

Does anybody know a mailer that handles contact lists better than evolution???

2008-07-28 Thread Frank Charles Gallacher
Greetings, I am running Evolution 2.6.3 on "etch" kernel 2.6.18-6-686. I trying to import a list of email adresses in .CSV format. The import works OK, but I'm having trouble creating a contact list. I can select all the emails, but doing a "drag and drop" just does not want to work... Can anyon

Problem wth Java Runtime Environment Plugin for Iceweasel/Firefox...

2008-04-09 Thread Frank Charles Gallacher
re any gotchas with the manual install of JRE 6??? TIA, fcG. -- Frank Charles Gallacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with KVM switch and Screen Res...

2008-02-28 Thread Frank Charles Gallacher
Thnx 1.0E6 Raj, it worked a treat!!! (I am amazed at the response and accuracy of debian lists; I must be learning how to suck eggs...) TA, fcG. On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 20:07 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Frank Charles Gallacher wrote: > > Greetings, > > I am running Debian G

Problem with KVM switch and Screen Res...

2008-02-28 Thread Frank Charles Gallacher
. Is there a way to force the issue, and get X to start in 1280x1024 mode with the KVM switch connected??? Thanking you, fcG. -- Frank Charles Gallacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trouble trying to find Kernel source...

2008-02-26 Thread Frank Charles Gallacher
Thankyou Dan, after installing "module assistant", nvidia-installer worked fine... On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 18:03 -0700, dann frazier wrote: > [Off-topic for debian-kernel, moving to debian-user] > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:26:56AM +1100, Frank Charles Gallacher wrote: > &