Re: new Debian FAQs

2002-02-02 Thread Rob Bradford
On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 12:52, Josip Rodin wrote: > Hi guys, > > If anyone has some time to go through Debian Planet, Debian Help and other > similar sites and make a list of frequently asked questions, preferably with > answers, please do, and send me the results. :) > > I think it's (way past) ti

Re: emergency shutdown?

2002-01-11 Thread Rob Bradford
Maybe in the future you should use make-kpkg from kernel-package when doing kernel upgrades, please see http://www.debianplanet.org/article.php?sid=164 :) -- Rob 'robster' Bradford Chief Editor/Lead developer DebianPlanet.org pgpOL2fveaJNL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: detection of laptop video card

2001-10-28 Thread Rob Bradford
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 10:25:56PM -0700, Cary Cherng wrote: > The installation of debian can't detect my video card but I know "where" > it is as in I can point it out after a "cat /proc/pci". Do I need to tell > X where to find it or something? > Is the card supported by the version of xfree86

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-10-28 Thread Rob Bradford
> 1. The old machine had a sound card after all. How can I > configure that without another reinstall? Depends. Modconf should let you look at the modules available for the kernel, one of those may support your card. lspci will show what th card is if it is pci. Isa cards a pain. Look at the s

Re: Netgear FA311

2001-10-28 Thread Rob Bradford
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 01:24:00AM -0400, Banshee wrote: > Just today I decided that it would be a good idea to remove headrat 7.1 > from my friends computer and install debian. Well he has two netgear > fa311 cards (this computer acts as a router) and I can't get them > working at all so I can

Re: Mozilla package (was Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes)

2001-10-28 Thread Rob Bradford
> As an aside, does there exist an up-to-date Mozilla debian package? > The one I can currently apt-get is the milestone 18 (!) release, so > I've been installing the recent builds by hand. Is there a better way > to do this? > > You are running testing or stable. In unstable it is 0.9.5. If you

Re: Install potato & woody from floppy disk

2001-10-28 Thread Rob Bradford
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 01:37:39PM +0800, Liu Tao wrote: > I want to install woody from floppy, so I downloaded > rescue.bin and root.bin. > After booting up computer using rescue disk, installer > ask me insert root disk, when I insert the root disk and > press enter, a kernel panic occured: > Ker