In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm a debian newbie. Last night I've download the debian-installer beta.
> With a litle luck I got it to install the base system. Now comes the
> problem. I have 3 HDs the boot HD has Grub and XP on it. The 2nd HD has
> Debian on it. With LILO install on
In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> being real new to Debian, and fairly new to Linux, I have the following
> questions -
>
> I have 3.0r1 Woody installed with ext3 file systems and would like to
> periodically check, and then defrag, the file system(s).
>
> 1. How (and what is
In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote:
>
> After a power outage, my system (sarge) is not booting properly.
>
> Once it starts to boot, it no longer boots from /boot, but "/" instead,
> which leads to /usr, & /home not being mounted.
>
> I can log in as root, mount the partitions, but it still is
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> I'm trying to shift to mutt full time, and I'm amazed at how little it
> sucks (!). I do have one question though, how do I add people to the
> 'To', 'Cc' and 'Bcc' fields from my address book? I know how to do one,
> I hit Q, search, and enter. I know I can app
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hi, After getting grub to work and booting with the k7 kernel rather
> than the bf2.4 the DNS problem returned..or that's what I think I'm
> seeing-basically a conection that doesn't work. So I ran plog, I got an
> exit status 1; I put exit 0 in the 6 scripts in /
>
> You are using the same kernel and initrd.img for Debian as you are for
> Mandrake. I guess the boot fails because it can't find the modules it needs
> to boot. It is looking for Mandrake stuff on your Debian partition. (Right
> partition - wrong kernel and initrd.img)
>
> The way I do this
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I installed some days ago a Debian r3.0r1 next to Mandrake 9.1. The
> installation went ok, but I can't boot on Debian! If I select the "Debian"
> item in lilo, it boots on Mandrake!?!
>
> Here's the partitions details of the hard drive on which Debia
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
>
> Well, after several attempts at re-running LILO, it still didn't get any
> further. So, needing my PC in some kind of working order I set about
> repairing the Win2000 boot sector... And got exactly the same as my
> post-Linux install boot attempts. In th
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed debain (woody) next to my current dist (mandrake 9.1).
> I added entries to mandrakes lilo.conf so that I could boot both debian
> and mandrake, I am sick of mandrake and want to completely switch to
> debian.
>
> I get the following err
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> I'm using icewm. There is a nifty little icon that shows the mail status on
> the toolbar. The problem is that I have procmail deliver all my mail to
> folders - much of it to separate folders, and what's left goes in mbox. The
> reason for this is that I have
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
>
> man 5 muttrc. Look for "mailboxes"
After you make the entries in .muttrc with mailboxes, you can type 'c' to
change mailboxes and you will get the name of the next mailbox in the list
that has mail. If use the TAB key after 'c' you will get a list of the
mai
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
>
> After having tracked some of the KDE updates I would not recommend it
> for the faint of heart. There is no clear update path at this moment.
> The most reliable method I have found is to completely remove kde
> first then install the new kde packages second.
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hello
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
>
>> In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
>>>
>>> There is a KDE 3.1.3 backport available for Woody from KDE.org. Add
>>> this to your sources.list:
>>>
>>> deb ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
>
> There is a KDE 3.1.3 backport available for Woody from KDE.org. Add this
> to your sources.list:
>
> deb ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian woody main
>
> Then do apt-get update and apt-get upgrade.
Is there anyway to do this for Sarge as well?
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to (sys)log a filesystem? I.e,
> to log files that has been modified in a certain
> area such like a partition or directory.
>
> thank you,
>
> --dullatip.
tripwire checks for modified files. I'm not sure on the configuration, but
I im
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Sorry I mis-typed the rescue line. My root is /dev/sda3 and I type
> "rescure root=/dev/sda3". Below is my lilo.conf file with comments
> removed. In addition I've included my /etc/fstab file and the output of
> df -h to show my /boot partition is small and at the
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> mv /home/* /mnt/home2
> get rid of old home directory with
> rmdir /home
I would not remove /home, because you will need it for a mount point. You
have moved everything out of it; so it should be empty.
Anita
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> mkdir /b2
> mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb2 /b2
>
> # Drop to single user; kills any pesky daemons writing stuff in background.
> telinit 1
>
> # Anything here we don't understand? If not, proceed.
> cd /home && ls -la
>
> # Copy everything whose name does not start with a dot.
> cp -a * /b2 &&
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
>>
>> Alan, I think you posted this to the newsfeed only, so people on the
>> debian-user mailing list would never see it (at least it isn't showing
>> up in the archives). I notice
>>
>> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.3 (Linux)
>>
>> in your headers. linux.debian.u
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
>
> 1. try: http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r10735/unixcomm.html
> Google will be a useful resource here. Also try snooping around in the
> Debian documentation pages.
>
> 2. Assuming you have installed and configured X11, type 'startx' at the
> prompt.
>
>
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I have used wvdial to access my work dial-up for
> several years with no problems. I am now trying to
> connect via an alternative dial-up account (new job),
> using exactly same wvdial parameters, apart from the
> phone number, username and password
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hi
>
> I remember beeing asked about where should be able to start X and its nice
> level from debconf... I reconfigured many packs now i did't find the right
> one... Can someone tell me the correct package?
>
> Is there in general a method to find out wich p
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Anita Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
>>># apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-powerpc
> [...]
>> ls /boot (see if that new kernel is in there)
>> ls /lib/modules (see if it gave you any modules to go with it)
>
> No no.. This is not intel. It's a Macintosh.
>
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
>
> I have /boot on /dev/hda1 and root on /dev/hda5
> Grub when installed and booted gives the following:
>
> GRUB Loading Stage 1.5
> GRUB Loading, please wait...
> Error 2(and that's as far as it gets)
>
> Error 2 means " Bad file or directory type
> T
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> I'm still booting off floppy and trying to get GRUB sorted.
>
> I have /boot on /dev/hda1 and root on /dev/hda5
>
> (At first, LILO was just hanging with 'LI 99 99 99' and GRub, when I
> installed it gave an Error 5 - 'partition table bad'.Eventually
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> I'm archiving my mail inWindoze and as I'll be switching to Debian soon I
> would like to ask if there's any converter that would convert my Outlook
> mail to the format used by kmail or some other linux mail client.
>
> Thank you again.
>
> jernej
>
Your subj
hen I've got 'cr2' properly set up and everything
> works, delete user 'cr' (with UID 1000) and rename user 'cr2' to 'cr'.
>
> And, more importantly, are there any hidden snags in any of the above which
> will crash my whole syste
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> hey all,
>
> in trying to partition this machine up and install various OSes on it,
> i've managed to screw up a lot. there's a redhat install on a
> different partition, and though i can mount it, i can't boot into it.
>
> more specifically, if i add a stanza
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> I've just managed (on my second attempt) to install Debian 3.0 and get PPP
> working (so this time the RedHat 7.2 hard drive doesn't go straight back in)
>
> However, there are a number of things that need sorting, including a couple
> of what may be fundamenta
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am installing a dual-boot Linux/Win2K machine for a graduate student
> at the University I work at and I am having a major problem with LILO.
> The machine is a Gateway2000 E-4200. I have woody installed on
> /dev/hdb with /dev/hdb2 as the
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
>
>> What type of mouse do you have? Is it a PS/2 mouse?
>> Serial? USB?
>
> PS/2
>
>> Post the contents of the mouse section of
>> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
>
> Here they are:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Serial Mouse"
> Driver
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
>
> --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Disposition: inline
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> I destroyed my partition table with parted. I tried the command mklabel
>:( .. damn...
>
> I tried the rescue comma
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> As I want scsi emulation, and I'm missing the sr_mod
> module, I think I'll have to compile a new kernel.
>
> What do I need to do for this, exactly? I'll have to
> get the source, ofcourse, but next to that ?
>
> I know allready before the
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> can anybody tell me for sure whether lynx-ssl in debian has
> exp_persistent_cookies
> compiled in or not. If so, can anybody tell me where my problem might lie.
> right now, in the lynx.cfg, I have it configured to accept all cookies,
> set_cookies is TRUE, and s
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> I just compiled and installed linux-2.4.20. I had been running
>> linux-2.2.22 without network problems. The new kernel does not
>> configure the network. At startup, the new kernel says it can't find
>> module 3c59x, the driver for
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've posted a couple of times on this issue... does no one know the
> solution to this problem? Or, does no one use the 3dfx Voodoo 5000 card
> wih Debian at all?
>
> I'm running Debian Woody 3.0r1 on a powerpc and get this error when
> trying to sta
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Quoting Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 08:02:59PM -0600, Jeffrey Taylor wrote:
>> > I have an old VLB video card (ATI Graphics Ultra Pro). It does not
>> > appear to be supported in xfree86 4.x. How do I downgrade to xfree86
>> > 3.x
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 11:32:52AM +0100, Calber Chainy wrote:
>> I have example.tar.gz, and I know in it there is a file named
>> document.text, a plain text file that I want to edit.
>>
>> So I wondered if there is such an application that I can edit
>> documen
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was installing a new kernel and accidentally pressed "return" when
> asked if I wanted to have lilo rewrite the boot sector of my disk.
> The install failed, and I want to figure out whether the boot sector
> was ACTUALLY rewritten. I use GRUB, so
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hi All,
> I know that this has been discussed before so I
> apologize for asking again. I believe that my hard
> drive is on its last leg. Can I do a quick and dirty
> bzip2 / and will that bzip2 by drive so that I can
> copy it to another, then do the bunzip2
Jonathan Brandmeyer said:
>
> Done. I should have recognized the size discrepancy. My new partitions for
> hdb4 and hdb5 are:
> /dev/hdb43922 - 7299type5Extended
> /dev/hdb53922 - 4180type83Linux (unformatted)
>
> Also re-ran Lilo, and this did not solve the problem. As t
Jonathan Brandmeyer said:
> The drive is 60GB. You are saying that the extended partition should
> consume all of the space that may be parceled out as logical partitions,
> Right? I am going to try it and see.
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
Yes, if you do not have the extended consume all the remaining
Jonathan Brandmeyer said:
> The drive is 60GB. You are saying that the extended partition should
> consume all of the space that may be parceled out as logical partitions,
> Right? I am going to try it and see.
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
Yes, if you do not have the extended consume all the remaining
Quoted -
Here is the information from fdisk -l
device boot Start EndBlocks IDSystem
/dev/hda1*1243419551073+ 7HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb1*162497983+ 83Linux
/dev/hdb2638699603
"I would first try booting from the emergency boot floppy. See if you can
access any of the partitions. If you can, then you still have a partition
table there. In that case, I would try running fsck on the / partition -
when it is NOT mounted."
Forget this! I was thinking of booting with a re
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Something VERY BAD has happened. When I attempted to format the disk, with
> mkfs.ext3, it reported that the partition table for that partition said 0
> size, and I should reboot the computer to re-read the partion table. When I
> rebooted, instead of LILO, I sa
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> I'm trying to turn on dma on my dvd drive so that when I play dvds the
> movie plays real smooth. When I run 'hdparm -d1 /dev/dvd' I get this
> output:
>
> /dev/dvd:
> setting using_dma to 1 (on)
> HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
> using_dma
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> it worked!! thanks loads,
> matt
Good!! Now I can put that in my good-to-know info file. It was nice having
that backup, though, wasn't it!
Anita
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In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> I am taking care of my big sister's farm here in western Canada
> while she is visiting her daughter at UC Davis in Davis
> California. My brother in law phoned and asked me if there was a
> book I would like from the ucdavis book store.
> Oh fellow debian-use
> I have remade a partition table before from a printout after losing it. The
> data was still there.
Something is nagging me about this remaking the partition table. I'm not
positive, but I think it is important to reboot before writing to the
partitions. So just to be safe, be sure that you r
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
>Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 1 373 2996091 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 374 871 4000185 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 872 1120 292+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda4 1121 51
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hello Debian user,
>
> I am planning to install Debian woody as second linux on my computer
> beside Suse 8.1. I would like to know if debian will recognize the spare
> 50 GB on my /home directory (in Suse) and create a partition by it own
> without infering wi
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
>
> When I modprobe NVdriver, I get the following message:
>
> Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver will
> taint the kernel: non-GPL license - NVIDIA
> See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about
> ta
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
>
> I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is
> why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking
> all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so
> long that you have advanced your knowledge of Linux/Deb
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Op zo 12-01-2003, om 03:25 schreef Benedict Verheyen:
>> When i do groups benedict as benedict, it doesn't show me as member of
>> the group windows. When i issue the same command as root, it shows that
>> i'm member of the group windows.
>> Why is there this dif
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
>
>
> Quick question. I have been slowly (but surely) fine tuning my install
> of Debian (Woody stock--not the upgrade...yet). I finally redid my
> kernel to 2.4.18 to enable various things (like sound). But I have an
> nvidia card (yea, here we go again)
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> thanks to all who responded -- this has been immensely useful. right
> now i'm thinking:
>
> / 100M
> /usr 3G
> /tmp 100M
> /var 3G
> swap 384M
> /home rest
>
> a couple questions more:
>
> - i need to make / bootable, right?
>
> - i don't think i
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> I'm still having problems with my ATI card. I know it's worked fine under
> XFree86 4.2, but Woody has X 4.1. How can I upgrade to X 4.2 w/out upgrading
> anything else or moving to unstable?
>
> Hal
>
>
This is not generally a good idea, but I just did th
> Can someone tell me where the agpgart mod is located in Debian, and if
> I don't have it, how I go about getting it. I am trying to use X and
> I can't start it without it.
> Thanks all.
I noticed that my kernel has it installed in the kernel instead of by module.
I was just looking for the mo
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> under potato i had X (and kde2 thanks to some unofficial
> sources.list items) up and running like a champ. occasionally
> konqueror would die colorfully (hit alt-left to go back a few
> pages and boom, only one desktop, no window borders...)
>
> and X windows wo
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> I have a problem with Lilo:
>
> I wanted to make a test installing Lilo on a floppy first.
> But all I get is a screen full of '01 01 01'.
>
> I have found on the net that many people had this problem
> when trying to boot a partition on the second IDE controlle
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Ive almost got my system 100% the way I want it !!!
>
> However APM.
>
> I have configured the kernel with the modules
> Y General setup/power management support
> Y General setup/advanced power management BIOS support
>
> I have dselected and loaded
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed Debian - Woody - stable on an x86 machine
> and then installed the package XServer-Xfree86 and
> walked through all the configuration steps. At the end
> when I executed startx it couldn't find the command!
> What else do I need to install?
>
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
>
> I use crontab -e to edit my personal crontab. The format that you are
> looking for is:
>
>
> * * * * * \n
>
> The first star is the minutes: every 5 minutes would be 0-59/5 or
> 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55
>
> The second star is the hours: ever
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> --0-1690367834-1034174371=:44987
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
>
> Hi fellow debian users.
>
> I recently compiled Linux 2.4.19 on my linux workstation. But when I try to connect
>to my ISP i encounter prob
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Recently I installed the latest version of Debian (Woody). After the
> base system was installed and I selected my packages were installed I
> went through the x-window configuration. When that process was completed
> the operating system attempted to start X-
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 11:30:15 +0100, Dougie Nisbet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I've just discovered I can get this list as a newsgroup. I tried this about
>> a
>> year ago when I first started using Debian, but it didn't work, so since
>> then
>> I've been get
> On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 11:47:54AM -0800, Steve Juranich wrote:
>> I'm having trouble getting my screen resolution set correctly. The relevant
>> part of my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file says:
>>
>>
>> DefaultDepth 24
>> SubSection "Display"
>> Depth 24
>>
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do I remove frozen messages from the exim queue, messages like :
>
> (output from 'exim -bp')
>
> 14d 1.7K 16gLfk-0001Ka-00 <> *** frozen ***
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> 13d 1.8K 16gmi6-0001Fb-00 <> *** frozen ***
> [EMAIL PROTECT
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
>
> Okay, so the potato rescue disk seems to kick in alright, at the boot
> prompt I type 'rescue root=/dev/hda1'.
> I get a whole string messages as it locates some things and fails to
> find others - seems alright to me - but ends with the line 'Kernel
> panic: V
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> i came to try Debian because i have heard soo many good things about this
> distro.
> Well i have come to find that it is FALSE!
>
> r. Potato is the most broken release i have ever seen
> the most simple packages are broken all to hell.
> I get this when startx
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hi ,
> I have installed Debian on my system and now want to install windows.
> While installing I made a separate 7 GB FAT32 Partition.
>
> When I put the windows bootable disk , Linux does not reckognize it. What
> shall I do ..thanks
> Kapil
>
I don't underst
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Starting wvdial it dial in, commences ppp negotiation, and then the following
> message comes up. Can anybody give me a solution or tell me where to look
> as I can find nothing relevant.
>
> --> ppp negotiation detected
> --> Warning: Could not modif
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Has anyone configured linux serial terminals.
> I have a specialix ISA card and some terminals.
> How do I configure them.
>
> Tt
I'm reading your post on the newsgroup and haven't seen an answer yet; so
I'll offer what little I know. I've never
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Now that I have my printer running properly, I'm trying to tackle the
> problem of mail delivery. I've installed fetchmail, procmail, and exim, but
> I have yet to make them interact properly. For the moment I am using
> ~getmail~ (a fetchmail repl
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Thanks, Shaya. I did that and that's when it told me that lilo.conf didn't
> exist. At this point I suspected that the absence of lilo.conf might
> indicated that the problems with my filesystem were more severe than I
> thought so I did a reinstall ... however, i
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Message Index in Mutt. I see everyone elses mail fine. It is only
> mail from myself that shows up as the To: Header. I tried changing %L
> to %F. No difference. What is L and F? F=From L=?List?
>
> Lance
I came in late on this. For some reason I didn'
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> I've got a system where I've recently installed potato and then
> upgraded to testing. (Current as of a couple of days ago.) I never
> had X working on potato, but I suspect the bits of it remaining may be
> part of the problem.
>
> When I try to install xserve
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Christian Eckert wrote:
>
>>- Original Message -
>>From: Mike Alborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: Christian Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Cc: Debian-User-List
>>Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 7:04 PM
>>Subject: Re: some questions about lilo
>>
>>Thank yo
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> I have a new kind of doubt ..
> Could those in the know of things , please outline how you would compile a
> kernel
> (the steps) on a RedHat 7.0 system ?
> Mr.Bish had done so for a Debian system as a footer on one of his mails .
>
> I am having a current requi
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> >on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 05:03:08PM +0200, Stephan Hachinger
>> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> >> Hello!
>> >>
>> >> Below you see a copy of the last thread I'm referring to. My HDD and
>> >> especially the superblock no.1 is heavily demaged - but I now have
>> man
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Since i use exim as MTA there is a very strange thing: Everytime if i make
> with Balsa a reply to all i get the following mail into my mailbox. It is
> eaqual which mail address of yours i reply. There cames everytime the same
> message. Only the subje
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
>> >> We strongly advice against make the server SUID!
>
> So, I won't.. But thanks for your workaround. Does anybody know were
> Xwrapper can be found for a Debian potato installation?
apropos Xwrapper yeilds: Xwrapper.config
man Xwrapper.config has this:
/e
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a machine I just built to run Debian. It installs fine,
> but LILO says it cannot install itself on the hard disk due to an error, (I
> forgot what it says precisely, but it says this is a common problem with
> disks over 500mb.) It suggest
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Hmm, the subject says almost everything... my almost new (!) IBM hard disk
> suddenly had some bad sectors and one was the superblock of my linux
> partition. So, I cannot boot into linux any more, and if I try to e2fsck
> the partition, e2fsck doesn't
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
>Hello
>How can I boot my system with dual boot like having
>windows in one harddisk and linux on another harddisk.
>How to configure my lilo. please help me to solve this problem.
>Thankz
>V.Suryanarayan
Install windows first. Install Debian on the other drive
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> hello:
>
> i have managed to insert a bullet in my poda courtesy of tar and my
> ineptness! that is, i did:
>
> tar -cvIf --remove-files /tmp/foo.tz /opt/tmp
>
> silly me filled up my current directory with a file called "--remove-files".
> my question
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> I updated from the testing tree 2 days ago and after all the packages
> were installed the keyboard appeared to go dead. The system was still
> running fine as I could telnet to it and all services appeared to be
> running correctly but it would not accept any
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
>
> I made the plunge and completely turned my Dell Inspiron 3000 into a
> Debian box. I installed using the CD's (that is installed multiple
> times).
>
> After a few false starts I have a working Debian computer using the
> Enlightened desktop. I'm unfortunat
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> You wrote:
>>The manual says this:
>>() No part of LILO has been loaded. LILO either isn't installed
>>or the partition on which its boot sector is located isn't active
>>
>>I don't know what it means by that except that it sounds like it would
>>be important
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Yes, i ran /sbin/lilo after changing lilo.conf and it prints the
> message that Linux was added, the master boot record was written. In
> particular, the settings i tried playing with were the lba32/linear
> options, and adding the hard drive geometry to the file
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hi, i have a problem booting from my hard drive after installation.
>
> I've installed the stable release on a clean hard drive, no problems
> with installation. If i boot from a floppy or a cd, the filesystem is
> intact on the hard drive partitions. The hard
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hi...
>
> Is it possible to setup the display in linux to shut off
> after some time of inactivity, just like (gasp) Windows?
> I've been converting my machines to linux-only and I'd
> like to have the monitor auto-shutoff after some time.
>
> Does such a thing
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Miaoling,
>
> I'm using a Dell GX110 with the latest A07 BIOS which surprisingly enough
> does not have any anti-virus options. So any MBR issues are not being caused
> by the BIOS. Please keep in mind that RedHat 7.1 can and does install LILO
> just fine on this
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On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 20:30:11 +0200, Michael Heldebrant wrote:
> On 15 Aug 2001 22:19:21 +, bboy boy wrote:
>> To whom it may concern,
>>
>> Whenever I try to instal debian linux 2.2r3 off the cd (bootable) it
>> installs the basehurd.tgz archive but then I
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On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 02:50:05 +0200, Slaven Peles wrote:
> You should also check out GNU Parted. It comes on a single boot floppy, and
> can do almost anything you might need to install Linux and keep Windoze9x on
> your computer. I used it myself. Have look at
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