lost arks haircuts backups etc

1999-06-22 Thread claydona
Hi there, Raid1 the RAid documentation reccomends regular scheduled backups, so I was thinking that though disk mirroring sounds cool its maybe just a little system resource heavy for your basic twin ide desktop pc. Backups Can anyone share a simple cron.weekly shell script that will copy

Re: wannabe newbie

1999-02-16 Thread claydona
On 15 Feb 1999, Spencer Marks wrote: I'm writing to you from my second installation on an i586. I didn't have the cd so I downloaded everything and copied to an msdos partition. I got all the *1440.bin files but I booted successfully both times having the base2_0.tgz file on a msdos partition.

please help re:creating more disk space

1999-02-14 Thread claydona
When I installed Debian I alotted about 200mb of hd space on hda5 for /usr. I've installed so much that I've started to run out of space. What I was planning to do was to move the bulky linux source packages to a temp directory somewhere under /var and use ln to create links to them. What p

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread claydona
I have a 'not brilliant" floppy that will sometimes give an error message with mdir a: or mcopy a: . It will often work on the second attempt ie. when the green light is still on and the disk still spinning from the first attempt; good luck angus claydon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installazione su HD secondario?

1999-02-12 Thread claydona
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Daniele Rossi wrote: > Vorrei sapere se รจ possibile installare Linux su un HD secondary master con I would like to know if it is possible to install linux on a secondary master hard disk with > WIN98 sul primary master e realizzare una configurazione dual boot. WIN98 as

Re: ghostscript 5.10-1 chokes on A4

1999-02-11 Thread claydona
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Robert King wrote: > Following an upgrade from hamm to slink, gv (and ghostview) complain about > opening my postscript files with the following error message. > > Unknown paper size: (A4). > Unrecoverable error: stackunderflow > > Downgrading gs to 3.33-7 fixed this proble

Re: Which text editor is compatible with crxvt?

1999-02-07 Thread claydona
On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Yi-ping Chang wrote: There is nothing wrong with vi for big-5 compatibility. I have found you have to be clever how you place your mouse to get the input ok. The other thing was to open crxvt first but not to open xcin with the crxvt window but to do a ctrl-z bg and then

Re: Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?

1999-02-07 Thread claydona
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, wb2oyc wrote: > > > >I would suggest you tell the bios to auto-detect your disk, and then > >cfdisk it, and make the free space into another partition. This should > >avoid eating your data. > > > If you've installed Lilo, the system will not boot, I don't believe. > Any change

please help! recovery from e2fsck

1999-02-07 Thread claydona
If computers get viruses, this seems to be leprosy. typing mc for midnight commander in x windows brought the system crashing down to an automatic reboot; Lilo did reboot this time but in the last 24hrs has given: error loading linux error 0x01 #and also later: crc error Is this a hard drive

Re: KDE cannot execute the games and the screensaver...

1999-02-07 Thread claydona
On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, ente wrote: KDE ? why? don't you think the games in the games section are pretty nifty? xasteroids? pacman? pente? enjoy ac > Hello, > yes I wanna play with Linux. After installing the KDE I tried the games which > are especially in the KDE packages. But when I start so

Re: Soundcard under LInux ?

1999-02-07 Thread claydona
On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, ente wrote: mail to germany from angus claydon I'm replying to this as I am online now too, and have spent many hours trying to configure my soundcard , awe soundblaster 16. There is a soundblaster HOWTO in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini which you should probably read as wellas in

Re: Printing with Linux

1999-01-12 Thread claydona
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, David BELANGER wrote: > I've a Lexmark 2050 InkJet Printer. > > Do I need drivers like in MS-DOS/Win. You need print spooling software like lprng and a printer demon, lpr/lpd > If so, where can I get them. these packages are in /main/stable/network of the ftp sites > And

Phillips PCA20TV TV card

1998-12-06 Thread claydona
This is still kind of hypothetical at this stage as I think I need isapnptools installed even to get my soundcard working , but the hardware HOWTO had a link to PCA10TV which no longer works; the ftp site is down or no longer existant. Does anyone know if I was able to find this package whether

printing

1998-11-21 Thread claydona
sure this ranks as a newbie question so let me know if it is misplaced, My printer hp deskjet portable has started to work using the default printcap file. (foolishly not saved as printcap.old) After editing it as suggested in 't printing HOW-To to give carriage returns: lp|dj|deskjet:\ :sd