Re: How to power off the PC after shutdown

2002-03-14 Thread Nick Sanders
On Thursday 14 March 2002 6:41 pm, Panuganty, Ramesh wrote: > On my system (Intel815), the APM doesn't work with any of these options. > I also tried the "real mode APM Bios call" option. No use. > > I had to use ACPI to have the system powered off. APM doesn't work for > me. > Using a standard deb

Re: ext3 on Debian woody

2002-01-31 Thread Nick Sanders
> You can use ext3 as a module if ext2 is also a module, I believe. > That's why the stock 2.4.17-686 kernel works with ext3 out of the box, > whereas 2.4.17-386 and 2.4.17-k7 and probably all others don't--they > have ext2 built into the kernel. 2.4.17-k7 boots my ext3 root partition fine it has

Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

2002-01-25 Thread Nick Sanders
> Hmmm... I must have missed the easy way to set up my sound card in > Debian. In Windows, it was automatically recognised and configured and > just worked. Is there really an easier way in Debian? Apparently (I > haven't tried it) I have to actually either recompile my kernel, or at > least a

Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:41

2002-01-16 Thread Nick Sanders
Sorry, I've found the problem my fault I was playing with ext3 about the time it came in the kernel and for some reason the filesystem was identified as ext3 but was ext2. Sorry again Nick

Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:41

2002-01-16 Thread Nick Sanders
Hi, I tried using a stock debian 2.4 kernel (kernel-image-2.4.17-k7) for the first time before now I've been compiling vanilla kernels. I get the following message while booting (after the LVM probing devices message) cramfs: wrong message Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:41 I

Re: Alcatel SpeedTouch USB Modem Setup...

2001-12-03 Thread Nick Sanders
Check out /var/log/syslog that's the important one (When I changed from Redhat to Debian that was one of the most annoying mistakes I made) If you need any more help I'd be happy to help. Nick On Monday 03 December 2001 1:45 pm, Ben Hill wrote: > Hi, > > As a few of you will know ;), I have be

Re: arc archiver - where can I find it?

2001-11-30 Thread Nick Sanders
On Friday 30 November 2001 11:53 am, Dragos wrote: > I'm trying to compile amavisd and complains about not having found the arc > archiver; an apt-search reveals nothing (or it is named different)?! > > thanks, dragos ark

Re: Getting Linux to start a few daemons , I want , at startup

2001-11-25 Thread Nick Sanders
On Sunday 25 November 2001 3:58 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wish to run /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start , at a run-level , > say run-level 5 (so far , it has not been assossiated with any run-level) > ., and /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb stop , while shutting down . > Check out update-rc.d

Re: ADSL & USB

2001-11-22 Thread Nick Sanders
On Thursday 22 November 2001 1:34 pm, Vittorio wrote: > I'd like to use an ADSL modem via USB. > > Is there anyone out there having experience of such ADSL modems under > woody? > > Suggestions about particular makes? > > Thanks > Vittorio Hi, I'm connecting using ADSL and a Alcatel Speedtouch US

Re: which package contains file domainname ?

2001-11-14 Thread Nick Sanders
On Wednesday 14 November 2001 1:33 pm, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > Shaul Karl wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>I am using debian testing and i am wondering how i can find out which > >> package contains 'domainname' package hostname contains dnsdomainname

Re: I need some advice on :

2001-11-02 Thread Nick Sanders
> I have heard about something called TDS (not Tax Deducted / Stolen > at Source) .I presume that it is a database (an RDBMS) . Please correct me > if I am wrong . TDS is used by Sybase and Microsoft for client to database server communications. See - http://www.freetds.org/ Nick

Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes

2001-10-16 Thread Nick Sanders
> > http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/test_css.html > > > > It has font styles with 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, and 20 point fonts. > > On my display 8 - 14 are exactly the same, 16 is a bit larger, and > > 20 is a bit larger than that. > > no problems here at all! all fonts showed properly, w

Re: ASDL with potato? FreeSWAN with potato?

2001-10-15 Thread Nick Sanders
> Can I get ASDL with British Telecom to work under potato, and if so how? The short answer is no, you need a 2.4 kernel to get the USB Alcatel Speedtouch modem to work for more info check out the url below. http://www.linuxdude.co.uk/docs/Alcatel-Speedtouch-USB-mini-HOWTO/speedtouchusb.html

Re: New to debain

2001-10-11 Thread Nick Sanders
On Thursday 11 October 2001 3:42 pm, you wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 03:07:42PM +0100, Nick Sanders wrote: > > How do I change the keymap for the console (permanently) ? Should I edit > > /etc/init.d/keymap.sh directly ? I have to do 'loadkeys uk' after every >

New to debain

2001-10-11 Thread Nick Sanders
nvolved in Debian for a stunning distribution and I don't know why I didn't change sooner. Thanks for any help. Nick Sanders