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2006-06-25 Thread Jim Smith
Probably a dumb question. I just installed a new HD on this system and wish to try the testing distribution. I will install it in a partition of the new disk (hdb1) while keaving my old srage distro on the older disk (hda2). My question then is "Will Grub see the new disrtribution and add it or

Re: OT: DVD Writers

2006-06-20 Thread Jim Smith
David E. Fox wrote: On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 18:35:38 +0200 Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I know this is off-topic, but I am using a Debian box ;-) but can anyone recommend a decent DVD writer? Not off topic at all. Mine is a dual layer that came from CompUSA made

xvmount

1997-05-30 Thread Jim Smith
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efax

1997-05-30 Thread Jim Smith
ethod and if so could someone post a correct /etc/printcap entry. Many thanks. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe&

Re: PPP doesn't like anyone but root???

1997-05-13 Thread Jim Smith
lable for ftp from ftp.ssc.com. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Printer Resolution Problem -- Solved!!

1997-05-10 Thread Jim Smith
fine now at 150 dpi. Some smaller fonts are a little ragged around the edges, but the printouts are clear and readable. Many thanks again for the help. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ --

Another Netscape Question

1997-05-09 Thread Jim Smith
5426. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Printer Resolution Problem.

1997-05-09 Thread Jim Smith
Forgot to mention that I'm using Magicfilter, maybe the resolution can be reduced to 150 dpi there somewhere. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Printer Resolution Problem.

1997-05-09 Thread Jim Smith
advance Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Colors and Packages overview

1997-04-30 Thread Jim Smith
any editor or >print out for a hard copy. > > --- > Alfred de Groot > Nog in het gelukkige bezit van een kabelmodem, nog wel. Cable Modems in Holland? I'm jealous. Luck... Jim -- ======== Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROT

Re: broken installation

1997-04-29 Thread Jim Smith
ething like ncurses or libreadline or one of those. Installing them took care of most of the problem. As your system gets more complete, you should not encounter that problem. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTE

Re: dpkg Question

1997-04-29 Thread Jim Smith
than an hour. > Thanks for the reply, I may do just that. Jim -- ======== Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: dpkg Question

1997-04-29 Thread Jim Smith
Richard Morin wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Jim Smith wrote: > > > I've just read the man for dpkg and dselect, but my question is, is > > there any way to use either of them to audit a system to find out just > >

Re: dpkg Question

1997-04-29 Thread Jim Smith
ou > Paul > Ps. Good luck. I hope this helps and let me know if i can help out > any further. > > Thanks,I'll take a look. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ --

dpkg Question

1997-04-28 Thread Jim Smith
and see what I don't need and can safely remove. Thanks, Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

Re: dselect for X?

1997-04-28 Thread Jim Smith
ou find it interesting ... > Sounds like a great idea to me. I'm not much of a programmer, but if you build it I'll sure try to break it for you. Jim -- ======== Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim

Re: Downloading Debain

1997-04-26 Thread Jim Smith
v1.8 I used CuteFTP until I had PPP working on this side of the box. I believe you can set it to treat links as files. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILI

Re: Things I miss from Slackware - Could I implement this in my Debian system?

1997-04-25 Thread Jim Smith
users including Root to have this you can do the same in their .bashrc files. I'm assuming your shell is bash. Jim -- ======== Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Where can I find rawrite.exe?

1997-04-25 Thread Jim Smith
might have the most luck there. You could >also look at ftp://ftp.ssc.com. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe&

Re: Java

1997-04-25 Thread Jim Smith
@" > > gnumalloc.so is on java.blackdown.org I believe > > this solves netscape crashing, in most cases > - liem I'll look into this. A re-install didn't work. Many thanks... Jim -- ==== Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Sm

Re: Java

1997-04-25 Thread Jim Smith
Richard Morin wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Jim Smith wrote: > > > I wish to be able to enable Java support in Netscape 3.01 without it > > crashing whenever I try a java site. Is there a patch or fix for this? > > > > > Thanks... > > >

Java

1997-04-24 Thread Jim Smith
need to change something in kernel sources? Would a non-production kernel i.e. 2.1.XX help? This is not vital as I have plenty of other things to do, but things that crash programs bother me. Thanks... Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim

xautolock

1997-04-24 Thread Jim Smith
I just installed xautolock and wish it to come up when X is started. Seems like the command should be in .xinitrc, but this dummy is having trouble even finding that file. any ideas? Thanks, Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith

Re: Xwindows manager

1997-04-06 Thread Jim Smith
ian fvwm2 dose ? I use fvwm95, haven't tried what you are asking. I'm very satisfied with thw way fvwm95 works, its my default wm. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/

Re: Help! I messed up!

1997-04-06 Thread Jim Smith
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Re: Help! I messed up!

1997-04-06 Thread Jim Smith
own every step I do, my kernel config is stored in 2 or 3 places includimg on a DOS floppy. Ya can't be too paranoid!! Thanks. Jim ======== Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/

Re: Changing bit depth on X

1997-04-04 Thread Jim Smith
nux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/

Strange ppp message

1997-03-29 Thread Jim Smith
nel compilation. Jim -- Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/

Re: Another dumb newbie question.

1997-03-29 Thread Jim Smith
to mention it. I'll look there, truthfully I forgot and was trying to work too fast. Thanks. > >3. I'm assuming you can start X with startx? I wouldn't try to get >xdm working until I could startx. Benn running well with startx for seeral days now since I got X set up. Many t

Re: Another dumb newbie question.

1997-03-29 Thread Jim Smith
At 12:42 3/28/97 -0800, you wrote: >Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: >> >> On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Jim Smith wrote: >> >> > I'm slowly getting this system to do what I want, but there are a couple > >> >> I think you need both the line "start-xdm&

Re: Another dumb newbie question.

1997-03-28 Thread Jim Smith
Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Jim Smith wrote: > > > I'm slowly getting this system to do what I want, but there are a couple > > I think you need both the line "start-xdm" and "xdm-start-server" in your > /etc/X11/config

Another dumb newbie question.

1997-03-28 Thread Jim Smith
oaded" "and PEX ext. not loaded". I have installed xext as well as PEX fonts. I'm using the SVGA Server. I'm plowing thru the man and doc pages but its taking hours I don't have. Any advice would be appreciated. Jim -- ======== Debian L

Comment

1997-03-27 Thread Jim Smith
Great Redesign!!! I really like it. So much easier to find the things one wants. Jim -- Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/

Re: problems with SounBlaster16

1997-03-27 Thread Jim Smith
is to your /etc/lilo.conf file. Itworks for me and mine loads as a module just fine. Jim -- ======== Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/