FTP only with Windows? Why not Linux?

to ftp to other sites... Thanks for any suggestions you may have on this... Peter Christensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing WordPerfect 8.0 in woody

tructions here and it worked. (I bought Corel Linux on Ebay to get Wordperfect 8.) Peter Christensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Use a Firewall, Go to Jail?

or is misinterpreting the law... Peter Christensen "The states of MA,TX, SC, FL, GA, AK, CO, & TN are preparing to consider bills that apparently are intended to extend the national Digital Millennium Copyright Act...bills would flatly ban the possession, sale, or use of technologies that

Thanks! (was Re: buy or build computer?)

ile I decide which way to go with a new computer... Thanks again, Peter Christensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

buy or build computer?

e much cheaper than buying one from Dell or Gateway, but if the result was a better quality machine it might be worthwhile. So far I've only had to replace broken components in my Gateway, such as the hard drive and CDrom, also added memory. Building a computer would be a challenge, but I t

Re: Debian and APM

id the apt-get install, but am having difficulty finding documentation on how to configure it. I've searched in Google, newbie websites, reference manuals, but am getting nowhere. I have a suspicion that the answer is so obvious that there is no need to document it. (Like: check the man

Re: PPP Internet Connection Not Working

Don and John, Thanks for the info! I used dpkg to purge diald and wwwoffle. Now I don't get that default route 0.0.0.0, so PON connects without a problem. Thanks, Peter Christensen On Thursday 05 September 2002 08:38 pm, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > You can safely remove diald with

Re: PPP Internet Connection Not Working

"pon," and would prefer not to have any program dial in automatically. If, as you suggested, diald is causing this problem, I would like to remove it safely, but do not know how. Would this be through apt-get remove? I am very new to Linux, so have not done this before. Thanks, Peter

Re: PPP Internet Connection Not Working

;pon." Rather than automate the "route del default" command by putting it in rc.local, I'd like to know why it keeps coming back. Is it possible to prevent the default route from going back to 0.0.0.0? Thanks, Peter Christensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: safe emergency shutdown?

Kent, Thanks for the advice. It worked perfectly. My KDE panel is back to normal! Peter Kent West wrote: > And finally, to get back to a usable KDE, the easiest way (albeit you'll > lose preferences, etc) would be to rename (or more drastically delete) > any files/directories in your home dir

re: added memory, increase swap?

the letters. Very disconcerting! I end up making lots of mistakes! I'll have to check out other email programs as well. Thanks, Peter Christensen

added memory, should I increase swap?

me for 2.1...) What I'd like to do is just get internet access going, upgrade to Potato, then pick and choose applications with apt-get. Thanks, Peter Christensen

Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

ious, easily fixed problem. Otherwise, I'll just re-install from a new set of disks. By the way, my computer is a Pentium 200 MHz, with 32 MB of RAM. Is this too antiquated to run Mozilla, or perhaps Gnome or Galeon eventually??? Thanks, Peter Christensen

Re: Which CDs to buy? (Did apt-get, nervous about kernel compile)

Thanks, everyone. I've printed out all the replies and will try compiling the kernel. Peter

Which CDs to buy? (Did apt-get, nervous about kernel compile)

I'm still learning Debian-Linux, was so pleased that apt-get worked. It took 12 hours (!), but afterward Mozilla was finally working, so now I have internet access. After the apt-get dist-upgrade I got a message saying that I must upgrade the kernel. Current is 2.0.36, need at least 2.2.12. Com

apt-get interrupted, file locked

d not open lockfile /var/cache/apt/lock, open (13 permission denied) Couldn't lock the cache dir, /var/cache/apt, another process is using it Is this fixable? What should I do if I lose the connection next time? Thanks, Peter Christensen (note new email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with communicator v4.77

Eric, I was interested to see your email about Netscape. I'm using Debian 2.1, had the same problem, posted a question here very similar to yours, and got many responses. Here's one from Dman: | (my query, when I tried to start Netscape) | I got the following: | | error in loading shared lib

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

upported by device I use a dial-up connection with an external US Robotics 56K v.90 modem. Peter Christensen P.S. Karsten and Dman, thanks for the info on apt. Once I get past this internet problem I realize that updates off the internet are the best way to go.

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

buy a new set of Debian CDs (from Cheapbytes, where I bought the last set), would it come with a working browser? I do appreciate all the help that this mailing list provides! Peter Christensen

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

option because I never got my internet access working properly with the packages that came on the 2.1 release from Cheapbytes. This has been a frustrating experience, but I do want to get away from Windows if I possible can! Thanks, Peter Christensen

Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

What is the correct way to start it? Thanks, Peter Christensen

Re: cdrom not valid block device?

e. Now I can get to the CD, install Netscape, and get on-line without having to bring up Windows. Thanks again! Peter Christensen

cdrom not valid block device?

onder if my cdrom drive is not compatible? I think what I have is just a standard drive, IDE. Peter Christensen

mounting CDs? and emacs under SU?

nd, or is there a shortcut for this? And how can I get emacs to work under Superuser? Thanks, Peter Christensen

new to linux, trying to get netscape to work

as it a mistake to buy Debian from Cheap*Bytes? Do I just need a newer release? Is Netscape normally included with the Debian release? Thanks, Peter Christensen

Re: access beyond end of device

t yet because of this problem. Someone in this user group some time ago suggested that my partitions might be overlapping. I re-installed everything, going back to fdisk twice, to no avail. Any other thoughts on what I might do to solve this problem??? Peter Christensen

frustrated with "kernel panic" message

I have no idea what to do. It's so tantalizing because I really liked the little that I saw of Debian Linux. Maybe LILO just won't work on my computer. And unfortunately I just can't do without Windows yet because I need access to the internet for this discussion group. Help!!! Peter Christensen

basic question on splitting partitions

rtition table showing partition 1 consisting of 2047 MB and partition 2 consisting of 1047 MB. It asked which partition to split, and I chose "2." The resulting error message said: "Can't split extended partitions. FIPS can not yet split extended DOS partitions." What s