Re: Wheezy: Ctrl+F (find file) doesn't work in Konqueror?

2011-07-06 Thread Preston Boyington
lee wrote: T Elcor writes: KDE 4.x.x looks like a horrible disaster that never ends. Time to start looking for another desktop. fvwm-crystal is pretty awesome I used fvwm-crystal a good bit a few years back: http://prestonboyington.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/crystal-clear/ I still play wi

Re: Game for toddlers

2011-07-06 Thread Preston Boyington
Ralf Mardorf wrote: P.S. Be sure to give the kids their own accounts, because they will drag panels all over the screen, add countless "Untitled Folder"s to the desktop, etc. My kids also liked the idea of having a secret password to log in. I used our last name, so they could practice spelli

Re: Game for toddlers

2011-07-05 Thread Preston Boyington
T o n g wrote: Hi, Do you have any *first hand experiences* of games available in Debian that toddlers of 2 to 4 can enjoy? while not exactly a game, my daughter enjoyed playing with TuxPaint. there are plenty of stamps, colors, and sounds that kept her entertained while getting her used

Re: Copying a bootable CD

2011-06-28 Thread Preston Boyington
William Hopkins wrote: On 06/28/11 at 08:39am, Martin McCormick wrote: I have a bootable live CD of an out-dated version of a specialized distribution of Debian called Vinux. I never saved the ISO image and I now want to copy from the CDRW it is on to a CDR to use as a rescue disk on systems tha

Re: QCAD Pro in Squeeze

2011-06-21 Thread Preston Boyington
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 10:45:33 -0800, peasthope wrote: RibbonSoft notes that QCAD Pro worked in Debian 3.1 and 4.0. Is anyone using it in 6, Squeeze? I'm wondering whether to stick with Generic CADD 6.1 purchased years ago or switch to QCAD Pro 2.2. Recommendations appreciated.

Re: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-07 Thread Preston Boyington
Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:49:03 -0800, Mike wrote: "update-rc.d network-manager remove" I don't have this service, but generally I'd expect to disable a service through its /etc/default/ settings. I agree this is the most common place to set the desired variable values for the

Re: can't read asus support dvd

2010-11-16 Thread Preston Boyington
teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: I'm assuming you checked this already; But is the disk filthy or scratched to heck and back?? as an aside, most people flip the CD over to keep from scratching the bottom when it's laying around out of the jewel case/sleeve not realizing that the top has a

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-14 Thread Preston Boyington
Mark wrote: None of this matters if you use Clonezilla. So why even fiddle with it when there's a great alternative? I use Clonezilla a great deal, but most people don't think to make an image of the machine before they start Windows for the first time. What I'm talking about is having t

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Preston Boyington
Ogya Chief wrote: At this stage there is no data to backup. If there is any other thing I can backup, please let me know. Since most newer computers don't come with a Restore disc, I would suggest burning the Restore partition and any associated "utility" partition to a DVD. Usually it fi

Re: [OT] spam-tagging

2010-05-05 Thread Preston Boyington
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: SPAM deb...@list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4be1dde2.7020...@gmail.com

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

2010-04-30 Thread Preston Boyington
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In my case you probably wouldn't. Mixed Lenny+security+volatile/lenny- backports/testing+volatile/Sid/experimental systems with debian-multimedia added in don't fall on your support list do they? ;) I thought this was normal... :D -- Arrant Drivel - really, i

Re: Problem in Debian 5 Installation

2009-12-10 Thread Preston Boyington
Anirban Patra wrote: > HiI 've tried to install Debian 5 version but the problem is that* > DVD is not detected by my PC.* I 've tried in other PCs , there it is > running ok. But in my PC, other linux version (*SUSE 10,FEDORA 10) are > running fine*.What should I do? My PC configuration is : I

Re: Giving a user root priveleges?

2009-11-17 Thread Preston Boyington
Zachary Uram wrote: > But when I try to sudo as that user to root I get error: > > $ sudo su root I think there is some confusion. I don't know of any reason to use both 'su' and 'sudo' in a command. either you would 'su' to root or you would 'sudo' to run a singular command. 'su' is to chang

Re: Network Manager wants to access default keyring

2009-10-27 Thread Preston Boyington
Michael Biebl wrote: > As already said, setting gdm to autologin will of course not work. you > actually > have to type your password once. > If you are using autologin, you might just as well use a blank password for > your > gnome-keyring (not that i recommend that). > hmm, haven't thought

Re: Network Manager wants to access default keyring

2009-10-27 Thread Preston Boyington
Mr. Wang Long wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:05, Preston Boyington > wrote: >> (commented in-line) >> >> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: >> >> >> I've re-created my keyring and made sure that the libpam files are >

Re: Network Manager wants to access default keyring

2009-10-26 Thread Preston Boyington
(commented in-line) On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > You are using Debian testing, so I guess you use NM 0.7. specifically 0.7.1-1 > If so, you have two options: > > Mark the connection as system connection in nm-connection-editor ("Available > to > all users"). This wa

Network Manager wants to access default keyring

2009-10-26 Thread Preston Boyington
I have Debian Testing with the Gnome environment setup on a friends' laptop. In an effort to make things easier to use I'm trying to stick with Network Manager because of the PPP support for the USB cellular broadband. Each time the computer is started (GDM auto logins to user) NM asks to access

Re: Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-29 Thread Preston Boyington
Kevin Ross wrote: > If you want auto-login, and fast startup with minimal dependencies, then > skip the display manager, change your getty to rungetty and configure it to > autologin, and add startx to your ~/.bash_profile. Then of course you put > whatever window manager you want into ~/.xinitrc

pinning question

2009-09-17 Thread Preston Boyington
I have a laptop that functions 'just right' hardware wise so I have no interest in upgrading the compiled kernel (2.6.26 I believe), xorg, or rhythmbox (11.6). Newer kernels seem to break my fglrx and madwifi setups along with the newer rhythmbox giving me grief. I am looking into apt pinning for

Re: Starting MTA:

2009-09-17 Thread Preston Boyington
Dale wrote: > 2009/9/17 K. Jantzen : >> Hello >> >> in the booting sequence of Debian lenny I see a line saying >> >> Starting MTA: >> >> It "takes ages" until Debian comes up with "exim4". Thus booting takes >> quite some time. >> >> What does that mean? >> Do I have to have that? >> If not, ho

Re: install problem

2009-09-16 Thread Preston Boyington
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > This is really an embarrassing question for an old Debian hand to > ask, but how do I install Debian? > > I just bought a "netbook" which has no CDROM drive, but which can > boot from a USB stick. I could dd an Ubuntu image to the stick and > then boot from it. But I pr

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-08-31 Thread Preston Boyington
Lisi Reisz wrote: > XFCE is currently looking like the front runner, but I fear that it may be en > route to getting bloated. Opinions, please. well, it's going to be a little bit of a trade off since I'm seeing more GNOME libs and such. still it will be faster and less bloated than GNOME. >

Re: about a feature which I found in Gnome

2009-08-07 Thread Preston Boyington
Paul E Condon wrote: > I like the way I can plug a USB device into a USB socket and have it > mounted automatically within a few seconds. I expecially like the way > a device that has a label given to it is mounted on a mount-point that > is named with that label, and when I un-mount the device t

Re: wi-fi security?

2009-08-06 Thread Preston Boyington
Manon Metten wrote: > ...when I tried this, aptitude asked if it should remove > 'network-manager-kde'. As I'm using that app and don't have wireless, > I cancelled the installation. > yes, this will also happen if you are running the gnome network manager. it's sort of 'all or nothing'. anoth

Re: wi-fi security?

2009-08-05 Thread Preston Boyington
Paul E Condon wrote: > I am having some difficulty with network-manager. Aptitude says it is > installed on my Acer Aspire one... Paul, seriously take a look at wicd. network-manager is now the second thing I uninstall on my Debian/Ubuntu machines (the first being the update-manager because I

Re: [SOLVED] Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-30 Thread Preston Boyington
Mark wrote: > Thanks J. Found an 8 GB drive for $16 so I'm moving forward with this, > I figure it's worth a try. > Just curious but have you tried UNetbootin? http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ it's also available in Debian: http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=all&keywords=unetbootin --

rhythmbox issue

2009-07-23 Thread Preston Boyington
Hello all, I did an upgrade the other day and now rhythmbox throws an error when it opens an mp3 (can't find codec?) then WILL eventually play. Also it takes quite a while for it to start a new song after the previous is finished. All other system sounds, videos, game sounds play just fine. I'm

Re: no sound

2009-06-10 Thread Preston Boyington
abdelkader belahcene wrote: > HI, > on my new laptop HP, > I tryed debian 5.0, ubuntu 9.04 , linuxMint 7, > > the sound is not running on all, while the hardware is detected , the > sound indicator is green correct, When I play a sound file, it plays > normally, but no* sound is heard.* > > here

Re: Anyone using the CAD packages?

2009-04-30 Thread Preston Boyington
Paul Johnson wrote: > Preston Boyington wrote: > >> IF there were more of a push for Linux at the workplace (desktops not >> just server room) then the "money factor" would help bring the >> businesses around. As it is, there's no real incentive to prod

Re: Anyone using the CAD packages?

2009-04-28 Thread Preston Boyington
ine anyway. The last I saw was someone getting an old (ACAD 2000?) working on Linux through WINE. The other option is running it in a Virtual Machine, but then you have a performance hit on top of running a Microsoft OS since the software is not native. That just is not good enough. Preston

Want to work with a Linux Group

2009-04-14 Thread Roger Preston
appreciate it though if you could point me in the direction of some Linux groups seeking development assistance. best regards Roger Preston _ Beyond Hotmail — see what else you can do with Windows Live. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go

Re: Cloning methods

2009-02-10 Thread Preston Boyington
Kelly Harding wrote: > 2009/2/8 Stefan Monnier: >>> What's the best method for cloning a partition? [searching for an >>> open-source software alternateive for it :P] > > If you use XFS the xfsdump/xfsrestore programs are very good. > > Theres also clonezilla which should do the job. > I've had

Re: I don't need an MTA

2009-02-02 Thread Preston Boyington
Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Can i have a regular desktop Debian without an MTA? > yes. install 'nullmailer' via aptitude. i use it on my laptops. (haven't read all the posts yet, so someone might have already suggested this) Preston -- Arrant Drivel - really, it

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-19 Thread Preston Boyington
Micha Feigin wrote: > > My two problems with wicd (one of them is not an issue at the moment, but it > was) > > 1. the memory overhead of the client (why python? it's very good for daemons > and such, not very memory efficient) > root 4634 0.2 0.3 89776 7776 ?S00:51 3:23 py

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-12 Thread Preston Boyington
Dean Chester wrote: > Hi > Is there anyway i can speed up debians boot time. Its embarrassing that > Vista boots up quicker than debian. > Dean I use nullmailer instead of Exim since I don't need/want to run a mail server and I bring up my networks (wi-fi, lan) manually when I want them. I used b

Re: Mounting an old external USB drive

2008-10-30 Thread Preston Boyington
S D wrote: > > Am trying to mount an old BusLink USB drive but can't determine what device > the USB drive is connected to, that is, the device that I'd pass to the mount > command. I tried "fdisk -l" but it only appears to show my other internal HDs. > check your dmesg output also. -- To

Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?

2008-10-15 Thread Preston Boyington
H.S. wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >>> >> Right up until it doesn't. And when it doesn't, it's a severe pain to fix. > > I noticed that in FC9, the sound was working quite smoothly even when > the processor was quite busy (updating and installing stuff using yum). > This was a surprise to me

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-08 Thread Preston Boyington
Bob Cox wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 12:11:06 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Preston Boyington wrote: As it stands, I press "/" enter my search criteria and then press "enter" to access the packages. Then I press "/" again and "

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-08 Thread Preston Boyington
Daniel Burrows wrote: If you just mean that you have to learn the keystrokes ... that's probably not going to change; with the limited screen real estate on a terminal, I can't afford to put in buttons on everything. Although I haven't delved into aptitude as deeply as I probably should, I wou

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-08 Thread Preston Boyington
Damon L. Chesser wrote: I think I will once more look it over, if for no other reason then Ron Johnson will not snicker at me. well i don't "know" Ron but given what i have read i wouldn't bet on that. :D I moved from apt-get to aptitude and now I don't even think about it anymore. This

Re: --

2008-08-01 Thread Preston Boyington
Frank McCormick wrote: well said, Frank. well said... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: compiled madwifi module, how to 'reload' without rebooting

2008-08-01 Thread Preston Boyington
H.S. wrote: On a Debian Testing I just compiled the new module from madwifi-source. I've got to where I am using Module Assistant for this stuff. It is super easy and if you open a terminal and type "sudo m-a" you will be able to do everything you need in just a few minutes. check it ou

Re: ping

2008-07-22 Thread Preston Boyington
Ron Johnson wrote: It appears that something blocked my l.d.o email for about 16 hours. It's all flowing now, though. maybe you need a gmail account... :D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian/unstable: iceweasel segmentation fault

2008-07-22 Thread Preston Boyington
Bruno Voigt wrote: I just found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# cat /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc # which /dev/dsp wrapper to use ICEWEASEL_DSP="auto" I changed it to none and everything is fine now :-) lol, mine was different. for me i had to use: ICEWEASEL_SDP="auto" i think my problem was that Icewe

auto update headers

2008-07-16 Thread Preston Boyington
). if the headers were automatically installed i could open a terminal, run m-a, and then have my network up in just a minute or so. thanks all, Preston -- Arrant Drivel - really, it's just trash... http://www.arrantdrivel.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: [Solved] Re: Unable to remove trousers (package!!!)

2008-07-09 Thread Preston Boyington
jpk wrote: I really hate this thread... Now I am sitting in a corner, crying like a little girl... ;) -- Julian Knauer yes, but it has brought so much joy to others. i even forwarded it to people not on list. :D Preston -- Arrant Drivel - really, it's just trash...

Re: How to install a small graphic manager

2008-06-10 Thread Preston Boyington
abelahcene wrote: Hi, I have a miniPc, can't install the heavy gnome or kde on it . I want to install a just graphic , in fact I want to use it , just to display a window . Any small WM will be OK. i have Fluxbox running on a 133mhz/16mb compaq laptop. with gKrellm and a few scripts i us

Re: Sliding OT

2008-06-05 Thread Preston Boyington
Marc Shapiro wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/04/08 11:24, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 09:40:20AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:13:09AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote

Re: Sliding OT

2008-06-04 Thread Preston Boyington
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:13:09AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/02/08 23:28, Marc Shapiro wrote: [snip] Wine is fermented from fruit. Distilled wine is brandy. Beer is fermented from grain. Distilled beer is whiskey. Corn beer? Technical

Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?

2008-05-20 Thread Preston Boyington
Javier Vasquez wrote: I have an old laptop with a 10G HD...and changing the HD on the only IDE slot is getting less fun each time i really like using a livecd for these things and my current favorite is the gparted-clonezilla livecd. couple that with a usb laptop drive enclosure and things

Re: Assumed bug in Debian Sid: monitor cannot be reconfigured with dpkg-reconfigure

2008-05-19 Thread Preston Boyington
Uwe Bugla wrote: I am running the latest Debian Lenny / Sid combination and wanted to adjust a workstation to another monitor. Traditionallly that works by the following command: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. If I run that command, the script ends up with the question whether to emulate a 3-

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

2008-05-16 Thread Preston Boyington
Manu Hack wrote: Hi, I decided to upgrade my etch box to lenny/sid but an apt-get dist-upgrade got stuck. Please let me know what could be done here. Thanks a lot. Manu i wonder if you could do this: dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libbonobo2-common_2.22.0-1_all.deb

Re: difficulties updating Etch

2008-05-16 Thread Preston Boyington
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:31:21AM -0500, Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: actually you can do: apt-get --dry-run and it will show you exactly what will happen. since i have started using aptitude for my package manager i now try

Re: difficulties updating Etch

2008-05-16 Thread Preston Boyington
Mumia W.. wrote: On 05/15/2008 07:29 PM, Celejar wrote: Nitpick - the apt-get command doesn't need to be run as superuser if it's just printing uris. :-O Why you're right! Now I might be able to use apt-get to experiment with potential changes without damaging the system. Thanks. actu

Re: how th generate like oficial site from packages (or CD's)

2008-04-11 Thread Preston Boyington
can I get more information? Preston -- Arrant Drivel - really, it's just trash... http://www.arrantdrivel.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: want to speed up laptop

2008-03-31 Thread Preston Boyington
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: xfce used to use gtk1. It now uses gtk2 which is far more bloated which makes it slower. It also uses more memory... Icewm does not, and OpenBox may not either. You could try those. currently i use FVWM-Crystal as my default desktop environment with Fluxbox as

Re: Debian Installation Process ?s

2008-03-19 Thread Preston Boyington
Rick Kalkowski wrote: I've got an old WinXP lap-top I'd like to resurrect for my son to use What is the brand and model of the laptop? places like: http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ are usually a good place to start. > When I crank up the PC now, it's asking me for an admin password (that's

Re: Inspiron b120 wireless

2008-03-07 Thread Preston Boyington
Celejar wrote: What's the chipset (appropriate excerpt of 'lspci')?... If nothing shows with 'lspci' then also try 'lsusb'. I have found that some cards show up as a USB device (Realtek nics on some Toshiba laptops comes to mind). -- Arrant Drivel - really, it's just trash... http://www.a

indefinitely hold a package

2008-01-23 Thread Preston Boyington
to be upgraded as well? I am using the "hold" feature currently, but it seems that I am having to go through several steps when I open or update aptitude because I have to reapply the hold feature each time. (There is an example of the issue I am having on my website) Thanks al

external drive as partial mirror

2008-01-16 Thread Preston Boyington
, Preston -- Arrant Drivel - really, it's just trash... http://www.arrantdrivel.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

acidrip not showing status

2007-11-27 Thread Preston Boyington
i run debian testing and noticed today that acidrip is not showing any status / progress in either the "full" or "compact" views. since it seems to work very well otherwise i am wondering if it is a permission issue or something relatively simple to fix. any help will be appreciated. -- Arrant

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-26 Thread Preston Boyington
Serena Cantor wrote: I have used Linux for 8 years. I have not found any suitable file manager(FM). I use twm. I don't use KDE or GNOME. so don't recommend any FM based on KDE or GNOME I still use command line. I will prefer GUI FM so my life can be a little easier. I use s

Re: recommended webcam?

2007-11-21 Thread Preston Boyington
Bruno Boettcher wrote: > so what webcam are > there that are easy to get working under debian with more appropriate > resolution and framerate? as a quick update i have just got a Logitech QuickCam Pro for Notebooks working with ekiga and luvcview. the beta of Skype is giving me some video error

Re: recommended webcam?

2007-11-21 Thread Preston Boyington
steve wrote: > Bruno Boettcher wrote: >> i want to play around with ip-telephony and thus need a webcam... >> so what webcam are there that are easy to get working under debian? > > http://qce-ga.sourceforge.net/ > > drivers for logitech, well known, well supported, and widely available > hardwa

Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude

2007-10-29 Thread Preston Boyington
Daniel Burrows wrote: > > Identical behavior to apt-get has never been a goal for me, so the > answer is almost certainly "yes". (not that I gratuitously break > apt-get compatibility; it's just not something I track one way or the > other unless I get bug reports) > one thing i noticed from

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-28 Thread Preston Boyington
Kent West wrote: > > Girl-Friend. (I used to understand the concept of girlfriends better > before Debian came along ) > ...that lives in another town and can't come to dance (prom, graduation, party) because she always seems to get sick or help her parents. :D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-28 Thread Preston Boyington
didier gaumet wrote: > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:59:56 -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: > > [...] >> and fyi, i use debian with fluxbox on my P133, 16mb, compaq laptop. :D > > Hello Preston, > > what version of debian are you talking about? On a P133, 32MB, Dell Laptop

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-27 Thread Preston Boyington
Javier Vasquez wrote: > > Don't know about windowMaker, but you might try: > > fluxbox > icewm > pekwm > fvwm2 > > You might find some pretty light, and some besides offering lots of > fun and good looking features... I use fluxbox and a machine with > 512M main, and 64M ati-rage is performing

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

2007-07-30 Thread Preston Boyington
Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > What changed is the name and logo in compilation time, nothing else also be aware that some extensions don't like Iceweasel as opposed to FireFox or SwiftFox. this will hopefully change in the near future since i suspect that it is looking for some type of "sig

Re: odd apt error

2006-01-30 Thread Preston Boyington
On 1/25/06, Stephen Cormier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 25 January 2006 21:52, Stephen Cormier wrote: > That would be dpkg -i > --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libiec61883-0_1.0.0-0.1_i386.deb > > Stephen > -- thanks to all. had to do it a couple of times but no problems

odd apt error

2006-01-25 Thread Preston Boyington
Would someone mind helping me with this? I was doing an update/upgrade and it keeps dying with this error message: Unpacking libiec61883-0 (from .../libiec61883-0_1.0.0-0.1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libiec61883-0_1.0.0-0.1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwri

Re: Debian "install server" setup

2005-09-13 Thread Preston Boyington
ll machines. Thanks to everyone that helped. Preston

Re: Debian "install server" setup

2005-09-12 Thread Preston Boyington
ow them to install/update from my LAN? It won't happen for a while (two months at least) so I will have plenty of time to study up on what is needed. (seriously, I am not trying to be difficult. I just don't have anyone else to ask) Preston

Re: Debian "install server" setup

2005-09-12 Thread Preston Boyington
local network mirrors? Preston

Re: Debian "install server" setup

2005-09-12 Thread Preston Boyington
On 9/12/05, Mark Lijftogt wrote: > I would start with FAI if I would be doing 1 installs a week. Anything > below that would need some carefull thought, simply because it is a lot > of work to set it up and to maintain your profiles that you create. I am > not sure if that is what you want. > > N

Debian "install server" setup

2005-09-12 Thread Preston Boyington
private network, is low powered (PII 266), and will only serve about 8 machines update needs. As I have no experience with this, any information would be appreciated. Thanks, Preston

Gnome panel already running - error message

2005-09-01 Thread Preston Boyington
figuration? Thanks, Preston

Re: woody netinst

2005-08-10 Thread Preston Boyington
member that it is a "tweaked" Woody net-install cd. Google should turn up something on Bonzai. Good luck, Preston

Re: Personal Debian mirror

2005-08-09 Thread Preston Boyington
or would I need to do some type of "smbmount" for apt to install/update my packages? (Still looking at my options for the simplest way of accessing the mirror from our network. Suggestions very much appreciated.) Thanks, Preston

Re: External USB and dirvish -- getting error

2005-08-04 Thread Preston Boyington
replace the drive and try it again. I wouldn't think that the software is your problem unless the USB "timed out" somehow. Preston

Personal Debian mirror

2005-08-04 Thread Preston Boyington
se and where are there some good howto's on doing it as efficiently as possible? Also, since I don't want to mirror the ISO files I was wondering how difficult it would be to use something like jigdo to create the disks from my own mirror? Thanks, Preston

Re: Your The Economist Customer Service Request

2005-06-27 Thread Samuel B Preston
I want to renew my subscription.  How do I do it?   Sam Preston +1 973 986 2909 (mobile) +1 973 635 5113 (home)    

Subscription renewal

2005-06-27 Thread Samuel B Preston
I am trying to renew my subscription.  Is this the place?  How / why did the renewal process go wrong?   Sam Preston +1 973 986 2909 (mobile) +1 973 635 5113 (home)    

fwd: teen playground.

2005-05-24 Thread Preston
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RE: Sarge with lilo?

2004-10-15 Thread Preston Boyington
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Preston Boyington wrote: >> Andreas Janssen wrote: >> >> >> It happens when Grub starts to boot my system. I see the following: >> >> root (hd0,0) >> kernel /boot/vmlinz-2.6.8-1-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro >> initrd

RE: Sarge with lilo?

2004-10-14 Thread Preston Boyington
Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Preston Boyington (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > >> I've been trying off and on to install Sarge onto a Gateway Solo 1150 >> laptop without great success. Each time I would complete the >> install, the computer w

Sarge with lilo?

2004-10-14 Thread Preston Boyington
RUB. If this is the case how would I go about finding out why GRUB doesn't seem to work? Thanks all, Preston

RE: USB Generic Drive Storage

2004-10-04 Thread Preston Boyington
Ryan Waye wrote: > Hello, > > I am attempting to use a USB Flash drive on my 2.6.7 Linux box. > Debian seems to detect it, here is the entry from > /proc/bus/usb/devices file: > So it appears to have been detected, but how do I access it? > > Sincerely, > Ryan Waye maybe try as root: mount /dev

Sarge install hangs on reboot

2004-09-07 Thread Preston Boyington
tial base install or hardware detection. I have Librenet (2.7?) installed on the machine currently, but was planning on a re-partition and a fresh Sarge install. Anyone have a guess as to what I can try? Thanks, Preston

RE: Real Debian LiveCD?

2004-09-01 Thread Preston Boyington
Paul Johnson wrote: > > Since when is Debian based on Morphix? not Debian. Debian-NP. it's a Custom Debian Distribution (CCD) for non-profits. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-nonprofit/ information on the Bootable CD is here: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-nonprofit/News/2003/20031129

Real Debian LiveCD?

2004-09-01 Thread Preston Boyington
ed on) and that there are several tutorials on converting Knoppix/Morphix into a Debian system, but is there a better "variant" out there? Thanks, Preston

RE: LAN APT-GET ?

2004-08-23 Thread Preston Boyington
thing like: deb http://192.138.1.1/cd1/ stable main contrib deb http://192.168.1.1/cd2/ stable main contrib also check out www.apt-got.com, debmirror, anonftpsync, and of course http://www.debian.org/mirror/ as they will be able to answer most questions. Preston

RE: Best iso image for unstable

2004-08-23 Thread Preston Boyington
d agree. The latest Net-Installer is great if you have a fast connection (it's also manageable on dialup if you are patient) and install it that way. Preston

Home Debian "Mirror"

2004-08-17 Thread Preston Boyington
is something I would use apt-mirror for, or is there another program? This is new territory for me, so if someone could point to a good howto I would appreciate it very much. Thanks for the time. Preston

RE: Resize partitions urgent help

2004-08-03 Thread Preston Boyington
David Baron wrote: > When I bought a big disk, I put in several Windows paritions and a > Linux one. No sweat, installed Knoppix and onwards. If I get around > to dividing Linux things up, I will probably use it again. I have moved to using QTParted. It's on the Knoppix cdrom and works very well

RE: dpkg/apt question

2004-07-23 Thread Preston Boyington
er 15-20 machines in two satellite offices. thanks all, Preston

dpkg/apt question

2004-07-22 Thread Preston Boyington
this from a existing setup. would someone shed some light on this for me? thanks, Preston

sources url wanted

2004-06-18 Thread Preston Boyington
posting this address again so i can update my bookmarks? thanks, preston

RE: Console only box?

2004-06-11 Thread Preston Boyington
David Haughton wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > >> David Haughton wrote: >> >>> Then you have "elm" and "lynx" for email and web and that's pretty >>> much all you need, eh? >> >> >> s/elmg/mutt/ >> s/lynx/links/ >> > > I still prefer lynx over links (or links2 or whatever). agreed. and

RE: PPP config with external modem

2004-03-22 Thread Preston Boyington
John Hasler wrote: : Preston writes: :: This weekend I installed a base Debian system using the new :: installer. My only "problem" is after using pppconfig to setup my :: external modem it will activate the modem (dial and apparently :: connect) but I can't get apt-setup to connect

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