Help with missing /boot/boot.b

2002-02-28 Thread Liam Black
Hi, I posted a message to this list awhile ago because the hard drive that was mounted to /boot, and which contained boot.b, had decided to go to the big drive bay in the sky. I was told that recompiling my kernel might solve the problem, but didn't get a chance to get around to it until last nigh

How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Liam Black
I'm currently running potato 2.2.19, and looking to upgrade to Woody. Is there a simplistic way to do this with apt / dpkg? I'm a newbie, and have been spending my time learning about the desktop much moreso than tackling the meat of the system... but that's what I'm attempting to do, now. So if a

Re: Problem~~install Debian 2.2r4 xfree86 with ATI Xpert99 AGP card

2002-02-21 Thread Liam Black
What exactly happens? Is there any error message displayed? Does anything graphical in nature appear on the screen, or does it remain at the CLI? gards l

Re: AntiVirus 4 Linux

2002-02-14 Thread Liam Black
Bitdefender (www.bitdefender.com) is currently seeking Beta Testers for a Linux A/V product. Look under products/beta. It's not Free as in Speech, but it is Free as in Beer. (The Beta version at least. Would imagine they'll charge for the Ship ;) ) They're well-priced, and I find their products

Re: Printing problems

2002-02-13 Thread Liam Black
I don't know what sort of printer you're using, but some printers have an option at the printer console itself to "Print Separator Page" or "Print Separator Page After Each Job". Is it only under linux that you have this problem with this printer? If not, you may want to read your printer documen

Re: How to set a new mountpoint ?

2002-02-10 Thread Liam Black
1) Be sure to create a directory(ies) to which you will mount the partition(s) (i.e. mkdir /mnt/newdrive) and to permission it (chmod 755 /mnt/newdrive) appropriately. 2) Partition your new drive (/dev/hdb1, /dev/hdb2, /dev/hdb5 or whatever) to your liking, and then edit /etc/fstab. You will see

/boot/boot.b irretrievably gone - help?

2002-02-10 Thread Liam Black
Hi, I had my boot.b file on a second hard drive mounted to /boot. That hard drive is now thoroughly dead, and my system won't boot without the use of a rescue disk. I've gone through the LILO documentation, and while I find numerous references to the boot.b file, none of them seem to deal with how

Newbie Needing Help With Sound

2002-02-05 Thread Liam Black
t do I do now? There is no /usr/src/linux directory on my machine, and I've never dealt with reconfiguring/recompiling the kernel (which seems to be something I have to do?) Is there an "easy" way to do this? Sorry if this is a very stupid question. Thank you, Liam Black

Re: Installing Debian

2002-01-31 Thread Liam Black
'RE A LOSER", perhaps I would have elected to install from floppy images. Perhaps I still will, if you're at all representative of the helpfulness of people on this list. regards(?) liam black

Installing Debian

2002-01-31 Thread Liam Black
m just doing something utterly stupid. I will be replacing my Slackware system with Debian if this ever works out for me. Would appreciate any help that could be offered. Again, if this posting is to the wrong group, please let me know. Regards, Liam Black