Re: LILO on my windows partition

2001-02-20 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:52:44AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: | The Doctor writes: | > Like an idiot, I accidentally wrote a LILO boot into my windows | > partition, so nw booting from my LILO to windows (on /dev/hda3) starts up | > another LILO that croaks with LI is there a way to be able to boot

Re: autofs example

2001-02-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi robin donno if its been answered or not... ( been away from email for a week ) -- first make sure your amn manually mount the partition you need to fix /etc/auto.master and /etc/auto.misc ( auto.misc is something that is referenced from auto.master /etc/auto.master /.autofs

Re: after 'su -', 'Can't open display'

2001-02-20 Thread James Sinnamon
Sam, SamBozo Debian User wrote: > Pardon me I'm a newbie here so this may not be what you are looking for. > > ALT-F2 (any number from 2-6) > login as root (or as user then su to root) > start x -- :1 > > > Hope that works for you. > ... not exactly, but having a second X server running seems

Re: disk duplication question

2001-02-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya > IF (and only if) the drives are geometrically the same, you can use dd: > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb you can specify only to copy the first 1Mb if that is the smaller partition to be copied to the new disk ... -- problem(??) with dd for copying it copies the good and bad block data

Re: xmps-win32-plugin

2001-02-20 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, I wanted to include my 2 cents worth on this. Since you already found avifile/aviplay then also look for his list server archives. I was subscribed for a time and that developer was archiving ALL the players for linux and trying to get co-development underway. It might produce some gre

Re: Making a Backup to a CD-RW

2001-02-20 Thread Rich Renomeron
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Phillip Deackes wrote: > Thanks, Richard. I downloaded cddump and it works well. However, I can't > seem to get it to backup multiple directories. How would I, say, get it > backup /home and /etc? I tried 'cddump 0 /etc /home' and it ignored /home. > There is nothing in the ma

Re: Tool to measure network/connection speed

2001-02-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi richard.. heres more tests... speedtest.mybc.com-- needs java www.2wire.com/services/bandwidth.asp computingcentral.msn.com/topics/bandwidth/speedtest.asp have fun linuxing alvin http://www.linux-1U.net ... 1U Raid5 .. 500Gb per system ... On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: >

MTA

2001-02-20 Thread Daniel Jones
I have a small home network. I'm in the process of configuring one box as a primary server. I have qmail installed and, I believe, fully operational on this box, including pop3. I can send and receive email from a local login on the server through pine. On a second box, my primary client, I can

Re: fonts

2001-02-20 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:00:39PM -0700, user list wrote: > I'm sure this is an old question but gv and ghostview give me the > following error when I try to load a file with an .eps graphics file > embedded What do you mean a "file" with an eps graphic embedded? This *is* a PostScript[tm] or PD

Squelching messages from the via82cxxx_audio driver.

2001-02-20 Thread Curtis Hogg
I'm running kernel 2.2.18, and the via82cxxx_audio driver prints out about 150 messages from the driver stating via82cxxx: unknown AFMT These messages are driving me nuts... can somebody please tell me a way to make these messages go away? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Curtis Hogg [

Re: lucent winmodem driver and potato/2.2.18pre21

2001-02-20 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi, I got it working under 2.2.18 from the stable dist on thinkpad A21m ... compiled my own from source 5.78e HTH, > I'm trying to get it working right now, trying some advice from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have a weird error, I'd expect it to work for other people. Make sure to > download the sou

Re: autofs example

2001-02-20 Thread Matthew Dalton
Alvin Oga wrote: > /etc/auto.master > /.autofs/etc/auto.misc --timeout 600 I found that with the debian autofs init script (/etc/init.d/autofs), the timeout option wasn't parsed properly unless it was specified like so (YMMV): /.autofs/etc/auto.misc timeout=600

All /var/lib/dpkg/status* files corrupt, how to recover?

2001-02-20 Thread Brian Servis
Some how all my /var/lib/dpkg/status* files have become corrupt. I have tried using the status.yesterday.* files but most of them won't even gunzip, or are corrupt. How can I recover from this? I searched the archives but was not able to find a solution. Any and all help will be appreciated. T

Missing C Lib man pages

2001-02-20 Thread Todd V . Rovito
It seems like I am missing my standard C man pages. Is there a way to get these installed?? I am sure its apt-get install something, what is the something? Thanks for your help :-) -- Todd V. Rovito [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carpe Aptenodytes! "Seize the Penguins!"

Re: Putting computer on standby or sleep

2001-02-20 Thread Krzys Majewski
I use a combination of 'hdparm -y' and 'apm --suspend', run via a script that sits in the background checking if the cpu is idle and there has been no typing on the console recently. Details on request. -chris Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I would like to know if

Re: Making a Backup to a CD-RW

2001-02-20 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, February 20, Rich Renomeron did write: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Phillip Deackes wrote: > > > Thanks, Richard. I downloaded cddump and it works well. However, I can't > > seem to get it to backup multiple directories. How would I, say, get it > > backup /home and /etc? I tried 'cddum

xmh gives 'errno = 2' for scan and msgchk

2001-02-20 Thread Robert Cymbala
Will xmh work without scan and msgchk? As soon as xmh comes up, two "notice" boxes appear: scan command returned: scan: (cannot execvp it) errno = 2; No such file or directory^G msgchk command returned: msgchk: (cannot execvp it) errno = 2; No such file or directory^G This is on a

Re: Missing C Lib man pages

2001-02-20 Thread Matthew Dalton
"Todd V . Rovito" wrote: > > It seems like I am missing my standard C man pages. > Is there a way to get these installed?? I am sure its > apt-get install something, what is the something? Have you tried looking for it with apt-cache search man? (That's 'apt-cache search man', not 'apt-cache sea

Re: Missing Warnings.pm => broken debconf

2001-02-20 Thread Andrew n marshall
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > Andrew n marshall wrote: > > I think I should have phrased the above as a question: > > Since I have 5.005 installed and it still doesn't work, what else can I > > try or read? > > You can trying making use that /usr/bin/perl points to some version of > p

Re: Missing Warnings.pm => broken debconf

2001-02-20 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew n marshall wrote: > Ah.. yes. perl was pointing to an old copy of 5.6. Now I have removed > 5.6 completely, verified that both perl-5.005-base and perl-5.005 are > properly installed. Now this is the error I get: > > Can't locate object method "value" via package "Debconf::Question" at

Re: All /var/lib/dpkg/status* files corrupt, how to recover?

2001-02-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:09:58PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > Some how all my /var/lib/dpkg/status* files have become corrupt. I have > tried using the status.yesterday.* files but most of them won't even > gunzip, or are corrupt. How can I recover from this? I searched the > archives but was

Re: QuarkExpress equivalent on Linux?

2001-02-20 Thread Richard Taylor
> From: "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 09:24:04PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: >> Richard Taylor wrote: >> > There's Adobe's port of Framemaker or the Corel stuff... WordPerfect >> > and so forth. >> On Linux? I didn't know. Same name? > >WordPerfect, ye

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