Re: initrd.img (alert the press! end-user-type compiles own kernel!)

2002-01-28 Thread James Lindenschmidt
Osamu Aoki Spoke Thusly: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 01:29:03AM -0500, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > > No, that's the point. I'm trying to do this The Debian > > Way, using apt-get install kernel-source and make-dpkg > > kernel_image. > > # dpkg -i kernel-image*

Re: initrd.img (alert the press! end-user-type compiles own kernel!)

2002-01-28 Thread James Lindenschmidt
Adam Majer Spoke Thusly: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 12:27:47AM -0500, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > > Greetings. Yet another not-newbie, not-guru > > end-user-type question here. > > > > I'm still having trouble compiling the kernel. I > > scrapped th

initrd.img (alert the press! end-user-type compiles own kernel!)

2002-01-27 Thread James Lindenschmidt
I find it? Isn't it generated during the make-kpkg kernel_image? Thanks for any help for this confused end-user who still prefers debian to windows . . . -- James Lindenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

kernel upgrade; modules not loading

2002-01-26 Thread James Lindenschmidt
x27;m missing? I expected the make-kpkg to automate the modules. Thanks for any help. -- James Lindenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

libgnomeprint dependency

2001-08-20 Thread James Lindenschmidt
Greetings, In trying to upgrade from potato/ximianGNOME/KDE2.1.1 to testing/woody, I am stumped by a libgnomeprint dependency. Apparently the new GNOME stuff coming from Debian doesn't like Ximian's version. When apt-get dist-upgrade stopped, I tried doing apt-get -f install (which I'd success

Re: problem in upgrade to testing

2001-08-20 Thread James Lindenschmidt
Thank you. This helped. I've now been able to do apt-get dist-upgrade followed by apt-get -f install several times. Each time, it gets through a handful (20-30?) packages before it bombs and I have to run the forced install. I'm down to about a hundred packages lef

Re: problem in upgrade to testing

2001-08-19 Thread James Lindenschmidt
at 11:06:55PM -0400 or thereabouts, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > > > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > > > You might want to run `apt-get -f i

Re: problem in upgrade to testing

2001-08-19 Thread James Lindenschmidt
Thanks muchly! I'm giving it a try now... James D Strandboge Spoke Thusly: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 11:06:55PM -0400 or thereabouts, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > > > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > > &

Re: problem in upgrade to testing

2001-08-19 Thread James Lindenschmidt
legal reasons. > So, you may need to add a line like this: > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib > non-free > > Nathan > > On Sunday 19 August 2001 09:57 pm, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > > Greetings, everyone. > > > > Than

problem in upgrade to testing

2001-08-19 Thread James Lindenschmidt
Greetings, everyone. Thanks to previous advice I was able to initiate the apt-get dist-upgrade (I got my sources.list configured properly), but I am still getting errors. It downloaded several hundred packages, but I got the following error messages when it came time to install: Unpac

potato to woody troubles

2001-08-18 Thread James Lindenschmidt
Greetings, I'm trying to upgrade my potato box to woody so I can run KDE 2.2. I'd also like to upgrade to Xfree86 4.x. I tried using apt-get, but I'm getting an error message and having trouble tracking it down. I added these sites to my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debi

apt-get feature question

2001-01-28 Thread James Lindenschmidt
question is, could we put a flag in apt-get that specifies whether we want stable or unstable? Something like this: apt-get install unstable foo? Does this make sense? Maybe this list isn't the place for this... -- James Lindenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

re: wish list -> My personal Debian User Manual Generator

2001-01-26 Thread James Lindenschmidt
this is a great idea... Matthias Weiser spoke thusly: >now my idea is, that there should be place, where you can just enter >your system parts, and it will return a "user manual" just covering the >parts your really need. -- James Lindenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

installation kde2 problems

2001-01-19 Thread James Lindenschmidt
roken packages Can anyone help? Thanks... -- James Lindenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://JimL.homepage.com

re: 'No spool file found' with printtool

2001-01-15 Thread James Lindenschmidt
or this printer that I know of for colors. For your device path, use /dev/lp0. Good luck! -- James Lindenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-15 Thread James Lindenschmidt
vi or ps ones? I > believe pdf is just an enhanced version of ps, but am not sure. -- James Lindenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]