man

Hello All,   I have the base of linux installed on my pc.  Typing man at shell gives me " bad comand or file name" eorror.  What am I missing here?     Cong 

Re: man

On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 14:20, fti International wrote: > Hello All, > > I have the base of linux installed on my pc. Typing man at > shell gives me > " bad comand or file name" > eorror. What am I missing here? apt-get install man-db Kind Regards Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Logitech Quickcam

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > I am running woody with kernel 2.4.18. I could get the above camera to > work under linux fairly easily by compiling the 3rd party kernel module > mod_quickcam.o. I can see the image either with gqcam or xawtv, but the > colours are not correct. I tried ch

Re: Disk rescue tools?

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Re: package installing

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 12:42:02AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 23:57, fti International wrote: > > What is the command that you can type at shell to invoke > > the program that presents you the option of choosing > > Simple and Advanced installation methods for packages? > >

Re: unsubsribe!!!

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:39:01AM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > [[ snip ]] > > Methinks I must implement a filter on my debian-users mail box. I tried that. But if they mis-spell unsubscribe, then it doesn't work... -- Karl E. Jørgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.karl.jorgensen.com Today'

Re: kcalc math bug?

On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 10:00:20PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > begin Adam Majer quotation: > > > No!! There can't be an option. If a calculator does not follow > > precedence then there should be a grave bug against it. Why? Well, for > > starters, it would mean > > > > 2+3 != 3+2 > > Hardly.

Re: 802.11b

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Can't resolve DNS after potato to woody upgrade

I tried an upgrade from potato 2.2r3 to woody and all seemed to go well except that after connecting to my ISP with ppp via phone dialup I can't resolve any names. This use to work fine under potato. I can ping the numerical addresses fine, but for example a ping to debian.org fails. I did a rout

How to set up apt-get to use connect through a proxy

Hi,I've just succeeded installing woody on my new Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop (it took me 4 days!!! because i've just switched to debian). I often bring my laptop to work in the library, but i don't know how to make debian connect to the Internet through a proxy (although i have username and password

Re: How to set up apt-get to use connect through a proxy

On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 11:17, James D. wrote: > Hi, > I've just succeeded installing woody on my new Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop (it > took me 4 days!!! because i've just switched to debian). I often bring my > laptop to work in the library, but i don't know how to make debian connect to > the Inte

Re: How to set up apt-get to use connect through a proxy

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:24:06AM +0200, Mark Janssen wrote: > On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 11:17, James D. wrote: > > Hi, > > I've just succeeded installing woody on my new Dell Inspiron 4100 > > laptop (it took me 4 days!!! because i've just switched to debian). > > I often bring my laptop to work in t

Re: Logitech Quickcam

On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > Is this one of the USB quickcams? If so, how'd you get it working? I've been using mine on a 2.4.17 kernel for a few weeks now with no problems. Just compile your kernel with Video4Linux and USB support, and then get the appropriate drivers fro

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Re: X resources the Debian way

on Sun, Mar 31, 2002, Balazs Javor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > How does one set some individual application properties the Debian > way? Systemwide: /etc/X11/Xresources/ User: ~/.Xdefaults or the directory that was supposed to replace it -- ~/.app_defaults/ or something like that. >

update-rc.d not found in PATH during upgrade

I'm trying to install a fresh woody system. What I did was a base install of potato on a Pentium II PC. I used the compact 1.44 floppies for i386, and installed the base via NFS from a Mac that's running debian unstable. I didn't select any software packages to install, but I let the potato

Re: debian

on Wed, Apr 03, 2002, fti International ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello All, > > A basic question, what is the right pronunciation of "Debian"? > dee-bean? da-bean? or something else. "The one true way". -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don

Re: unsubsribe!!!

on Thu, Apr 04, 2002, Karl E. Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:39:01AM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > > [[ snip ]] > > > > Methinks I must implement a filter on my debian-users mail box. > > I tried that. But if they mis-spell unsubscribe, then it doesn't work

RFC & FR2nd - New debian3-user & debian3-user-hardware mail lists

Hey, everybody, Life sure would be better (*1) if there were a few more mailing lists here! But, rather than just asking the mailing list gods to create some new (specific) ones, I'm posting this here so that y'all can provide some INPUT! (GuhROOvy, ain't it?!) The definitely cool new lists tha

limits.conf problem

Hello list, This is my limits.conf for testing Debian GNU/Linux server: * hardcore0 * hardnofile 1024 * hardrss 1 * hardnproc 100 * hardstack 102400 ro

Re: [solved] newly installed "addressbook" problem

Tomasz Kosinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > tk>: addressbook & > [1] 4357 > tk>: Error in startup script: can't read "index": no such variable > (reading value of variable to increment) > invoked from within > "incr index" > (file "/usr/bin/addressbook" line 2236) > > [1]+ E

Duplex printing problems

Hello. We have a Brother HL-1670N printer here attached to a Debian sid box. The printer supports duplex printing. I can't find out what is the correct way to control the duplex printing by software (not by printer control panel). In past, I used to use lpd + magicfilter. But I don't know how

Framebuffer ati mach64 laptop

Hi all, Do X apps work faster if you enable the framebuffer in the kernel? I see references to things like directfb and fbset from time to time but I have no idea whether or not they are worth doing. Comments appreciated! Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: limits.conf problem

Hello Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Have to use ulimit -aH to read the hard limit. ^_^ My problems: 1. What's the difference btween soft and hard limit? What will happen if I exceed the soft limit but in the hard limit? 2. How to tune the stack size, max locked memory and max memory size

Re: CDROM: hdc: lost interrupt (how to troubleshoot?)

On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 11:49:44AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > [[ snip ]] > > I can copy the whole data CD, no problems (fast, no errors, no > messages in syslog). However when I run either of the following: > > cat /dev/hdc |od > hdparam -t /dev/hdc > > the program (cat or hdparm) runs

Re: Help Problems with mga_hal

begin quoting what icewolf said on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 04:09:24AM +0100: > Hello can some one plz reply to this asap thx, Same reply I gave you last time; if you don't post your errors, we can't tell you why you're getting them. If you don't post your configs, we can't tell you what to change i

Re: unsubsribe!!!

begin quoting what Karl E. Jorgensen said on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 09:30:29AM +0100: > > I tried that. But if they mis-spell unsubscribe, then it doesn't work... What we need is a Mutt macro that bounces fifty copies of their email back at them. pgpim9OHqoH8w.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: unsubsribe!!!

Exim does that...but it gets very tiresome. I suspect that the huge amount of Korean spam I get is down to doing that to someone. Patrick On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 09:03:11AM -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote: >begin quoting what Karl E. Jorgensen said on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 09:30:29AM >+0100: >> >>

Re: new installation from /var/cache/apt/archives

hi, Do you know, how can i install ten machines with the same installed softwares? I have installed one, did run tasksel for install the software, and the machine is ready! then, i did use the same iso that i had created and did install i new one over the network. I wanna use the same config file t

Re: Help Problems with mga_hal

Nobody can help you unless you provide more info. Specifically: The exact model of matrox card you have. And these 2 files: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /var/log/XFree86.0.log Preferably as attachments rather than pasted. icewolf wrote: > Hello can some one plz reply to this asap thx, > > ok i have pr

remote printing problem

Hello, Recently I upgraded my pc from Redhat to Debian ;-) However since then I have a problem with remote printing. I used to type 'lpr -P [EMAIL PROTECTED]' on the redhat machine. However when I try this on the debian box, I get an error 'lpr: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unknown printer' I configured th

Re: new installation from /var/cache/apt/archives

I think the simplest solution would be disk imaging software or a backup program designed for bare-metal recovery. mondo was featured in LJ recently and there are .deb's available in sid. It can be done using package management. See the man page for dpkg. Specifically the --get-selections opti

Re: Logitech Quickcam

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 03:04:38AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I've been using mine on a 2.4.17 kernel for a few weeks now with no > problems. Just compile your kernel with Video4Linux and USB support, and > then get the appropriate drivers from http://qce-ga.sourceforge.net .

Re: Logitech Quickcam

Paul 'Baloo' Johnson writes: > On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > Is this one of the USB quickcams? If so, how'd you get it working? Before downloading anything, I'd look into the pwc module, which is already in 2.4.18. Add in the hotplug scripts (which may or may not be necessary), mak

Gaim trouble

Hi, Since yesterday I have noticed a peculiar problem. When I try to log on to Yahoo Messenger service with gaim, it aborts with a cannot connect message. But, ari-yahoo and ymessenger (from yahoo site), work well. Similarly, kyahoo complains that it cannot get enough pager data (?) and aborts. I

Shell Nigeria Tender

Title: Shell Nigeria Tender Dear Sirs, I am looking for someone that would able to quick me a quote.   CGG has been invited to tender for Shell Nigeria for supply and maintenance of the following software: QuickPlot We need a quotation which has two sets of prices, one for the cost based on

Re: debian

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 03:31:32AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Apr 03, 2002, fti International ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > A basic question, what is the right pronunciation of "Debian"? > > dee-bean? da-bean? or something else. > > "The one true way". "I use The

Re: Gaim trouble

Sridhar M.A. wrote: Hi, Since yesterday I have noticed a peculiar problem. When I try to log on to Yahoo Messenger service with gaim, it aborts with a cannot connect message. But, ari-yahoo and ymessenger (from yahoo site), work well. Similarly, kyahoo complains that it cannot get enough pager d

Re: Logitech Quickcam

On Thursday 04 April 2002 02:22, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > Hi, > > I am running woody with kernel 2.4.18. I could get the above camera to > work under linux fairly easily by compiling the 3rd party kernel module > mod_quickcam.o. I can see the image either with gqcam or xawtv, but the > colours are not

Re: Shell Nigeria Tender

[snippage] ROTFL. I thought this was a call for armed response to 419 scams. Dima -- One distinguishing characteristic of BOFHen is attention deficit disorder. Put me in front of something boring and I can find a near-infinite number of really creative ways to bugger off.

Re: Shell Nigeria Tender

Forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Sirs, > > I am looking for someone that would able to quick me a quote. CGG has > been invited to tender for Shell Nigeria for supply and maintenance of the > following software: QuickPlot > > We need a quotation which has two sets

Raising the bar on inetd's looping check

My network contains a handful of NCD X terminals of a model which downloads a large number of small files (mostly fonts) during startup. inetd sees this and says inetd[14721]: tftp/udp server failing (looping), service terminated If it's just one starting up, it gets far enough to be functional b

Re: Shell Nigeria Tender

begin quoting what Simon Hepburn said on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 05:10:53PM +0100: > Forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, what's worse; the guy who spams the list, or the guy who quotes the goddamn spam BACK to the list? I have my opinion... pgpLYfkKwL4UI.pgp Descri

Re: kcalc math bug?

begin Adam Majer quotation: > On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 10:00:20PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > begin Adam Majer quotation: > > > > > No!! There can't be an option. If a calculator does not follow > > > precedence then there should be a grave bug against it. Why? Well, for > > > starters, it

unsubscribe -all

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Re: unsubscribe -all

begin quoting what Dennis Doeve said on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 06:39:54PM +0200: > No, thanks, I don't want to unsubscribe. But I agree that you should. While you're at it, you should probably remove Debian, too. In fact, sell your PC and buy a Mac. pgpTTr1U2qdfz.pgp Description: PGP signat

Re: Gaim trouble

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 09:53:55AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > GAIM from Sid works fine for me. You might try unloading/reloading the > libyahoo plugin. > No luck. It is still the same way. -- Sridhar M.A.mas at uomphysics dot net "So, will the And

Re: package / java / swing /

François Chenais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've downloaded it and appletviewer works fine; thanks ! > > But now, I have a pb un Netscape. > > > a simple says me "can't find javax/swing/JTabPanne > ..." > > I've tried Htmlconverter on my html code. The swing are found but now, I have >

GL4Java installation's problem

Hi all, I've installed all packages required for GL4Java but when I try to launch the demo I've got this error message (see above) I'm using jdk1.3.1 from Sun and I'm under debian Sid with the Nvidia's drivers. How can fix this ? Best regards R.Pac -

cdburning and dos compatability

Hi all! If I use mkisofs and cdrecord to burn a cd of my /dos idrectory or of DOS files in general, will the resulting cd be DOS compatible or do I have to do something else in order to ensure this? TIA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: X resources the Debian way

Hi, Thanks for the info! In the meantime I managed to avoid the problem by editing the menu entry for mc replaceing it with something like this: xterm -font insert-font-descriptor-here -e mc -c This worked fairly well. Balazs On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 02:08:40AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: >on

Re: unsubscribe -all

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:47:41AM -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote: > begin quoting what Dennis Doeve said on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at > 06:39:54PM +0200: > > > > No, thanks, I don't want to unsubscribe. > > But I agree that you should. While you're at it, you should probably > remove Debian, too. >

Re: unsubscribe -all

begin quoting what Colin Watson said on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:16:19AM -0600: > > > > In fact, sell your PC and buy a Mac. > > Hey, even one of our candidates for Project Leader has made the same > mistake. It's easy enough to do. Dennis thought it was funny. And he has a Mac. :-) pgpjWQA

Re: Shell Nigeria Tender

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 04:30:41PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am looking for someone that would able to quick me a quote. CGG has been > invited to tender for Shell Nigeria for supply and maintenance of the > following software: QuickPlot > > We need a quotation which has two sets of pr

Re: RFC & FR2nd - New debian3-user & debian3-user-hardware mail lists

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 04:24:00AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The definitely cool new lists that every k3M1 c1b will enjoy are: > > debian3-user > debian3-user-hardware > > These lists will be devoted to, Debian3! (AKA Woody.) And, not long after woody's released, anybody asking question

sendmail?

Hi everyone I seem to be running into problems.. I posted here recently about how I lost the command, "mail" and someone was kind enough to let me know how to reinstall it. That worked great. But since then, "root" hasn't been getting any mail on the system. I'm used to seeing errors and stuff se

Re: Shell Nigeria Tender

Shawn McMahon wrote: > Ok, what's worse; the guy who spams the list, or the guy who quotes > the goddamn spam BACK to the list? Tell me something, how many spammers do you know who advertise their address and telephone #. The telephone # is genuine as is the company. Whether or not this present

Re: cdburning and dos compatability

On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 08:07, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Hi all! > If I use mkisofs and cdrecord to burn a cd of my /dos idrectory or of DOS > files > in general, will the resulting cd be DOS compatible or do I have to do > something > else in order to ensure this? > TIA. 'man mkisofs' - create an

Re: sendmail?

begin Alan Poulton quotation: > Should I use sendmail? zmailer? something else? > > I am running a router/firewall and don't have any need for it to send > mail over the internet. But I DO want to know about errors that happen > when I'm not looking. So, I understand I need some sort of mail pr

xfree86 4.1.0-15 broke my display

I sidegraded to 4.1.0-15 of xfree86 this morning via apt-get, and now my display is hosed up (again). I have an ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder with a Samsung SymcMaster 210T LCD display connected via the DVI connector. Before my upgrade, this was working perfectly. I didn't need any modelines or anyth

Re: cdburning and dos compatability

Hi Greg and all! Well, I just did a cd of my dos partition with mkisofs -r -J -o cd_image /dos and used cdrecord to burn it. I used the -J becaue this was supposed to make it more windows-friendly using Joliet. I was able to access it in dOS and even played monopoly off of the cdrom. -- To UNSUB

Re: Shell Nigeria Tender

begin quoting what Simon Hepburn said on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 07:02:04PM +0100: > > Tell me something, how many spammers do you know who advertise their address > and telephone #. Quite a few. Mostly stupid ones. How many spammers do you know who *DON'T* give you some method of actually conta

linker problem

Hi, I am trying to install SOurce Navigator and am getting stuck in some linker error i think THe error when I get when compiling is /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [wish] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/soft/Sourcenavigator/tk8.1/unix' m

Re: xfree86 4.1.0-15 broke my display

begin Jeffrey W. Baker quotation: > Since my setup was working perfectly well before, I would like to simply > return to 4.1.0-14. This appears to not be possible, because apt-get > says that version 4.1.0-14 of xserver-xfree86 is not available. And you empty /var/cache/apt/archives immediatel

Re: Shell Nigeria Tender

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:35:15PM -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote: >begin quoting what Simon Hepburn said on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 07:02:04PM >+0100: > Bad day in the office? Too much coffee? Not enough of the wild thang? Surely there must be some such reason for this aggression? Someone sent a si

Re: Shell Nigeria Tender

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:35:15PM -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote: > begin quoting what Simon Hepburn said on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 07:02:04PM > +0100: > > Tell me something, how many spammers do you know who advertise their > > address and telephone #. > > Quite a few. Mostly stupid ones. > > How

Re: Shell Nigeria Tender

begin quoting what Patrick Kirk said on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 07:45:01PM +0100: > > nanosecond by snipping the original. Meanwhile, people are being > blown to bits in Jerusulem. Lets not flame over trivia... But, but, if we don't fight quoting abuse, the terrorists have already won! :-) Poin

Menuing system

Is there a package for a utility that will allow me to make custom menu screens for utilities? I am setting up a server for a user that is not linux savvy and I want to create a menu to run commands like adduser, userdel, etc etc. It would be best if each menu item would allow me to customize ea

Re: Shell Nigeria Tender

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:35:15PM -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote: > begin quoting what Simon Hepburn said on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 07:02:04PM > +0100: > > > > Tell me something, how many spammers do you know who advertise their > > address > > and telephone #. > > Quite a few. Mostly stupid ones

Re: remote printing problem

On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 05:47, Jeroen Valcke wrote: > Hello, > > Recently I upgraded my pc from Redhat to Debian ;-) > However since then I have a problem with remote printing. I used to type > 'lpr -P [EMAIL PROTECTED]' on the redhat machine. However when I try > this on the debian box, I get an er

Re: remote printing problem

> On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 05:47, Jeroen Valcke wrote: > > > > Recently I upgraded my pc from Redhat to Debian ;-) > > However since then I have a problem with remote printing. I used to type > > 'lpr -P [EMAIL PROTECTED]' on the redhat machine. However when I try > > this on the debian box, I get an

Re: Menuing system

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:48:34PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > Is there a package for a utility that will allow me to make custom menu > screens for utilities? I am setting up a server for a user that is not linux > savvy and I want to create a menu to run commands like adduser, userdel,

condemn a Debian distributor!!!

Hi All:   I recently purchased a 3-cd set of Official Debain Linux 2.2r5 i386 from Tuxcds.com.  Unfortunately, the disc1 is bad: apt cannot build the index of packages from it.  Since disc1 contains the most important packages for linux,  and the Tuxcds.com won't send me a new cd (you cannot

Re: xfree86 4.1.0-15 broke my display

On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 10:43, Craig Dickson wrote: > begin Jeffrey W. Baker quotation: > > > Since my setup was working perfectly well before, I would like to simply > > return to 4.1.0-14. This appears to not be possible, because apt-get > > says that version 4.1.0-14 of xserver-xfree86 is not

Re: unsubsribe!!!

on Thu, Apr 04, 2002, Shawn McMahon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > begin quoting what Karl E. Jorgensen said on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 09:30:29AM > +0100: > > > > I tried that. But if they mis-spell unsubscribe, then it doesn't work... > > What we need is a Mutt macro that bounces fifty copies of t

Re: xfree86 4.1.0-15 broke my display

begin quoting what Jeffrey W. Baker said on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:10:19AM -0800: > > And you empty /var/cache/apt/archives immediately after every upgrade? > > Not a good idea. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, look in that > > directory and see if the required packages are there.) >

Re: Menuing system

check out fresmeat for bash menu builder -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: condemn a Debian distributor!!!

I do have a cable modem connection on aother machine. Just tell me the instructions and I'll do it. Thanks man. Cong - Original Message - From: "Max Salviejo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "fti International" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 1:20 PM Subject: Re: condemn a D

Re: xfree86 4.1.0-15 broke my display

On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 13:09, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > I sidegraded to 4.1.0-15 of xfree86 this morning via apt-get, and now my > display is hosed up (again). I have an ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder with a Did you file a bug? Maybe you should do that to make sure that branden knows about it and can

Re: xfree86 4.1.0-15 broke my display

On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 11:10, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 10:43, Craig Dickson wrote: > > begin Jeffrey W. Baker quotation: > > > > > Since my setup was working perfectly well before, I would like to simply > > > return to 4.1.0-14. This appears to not be possible, because ap

Re: new installation from /var/cache/apt/archives

thanks!!! very much... but i did not see this apt-move there are apt-get apt-cache apt-config apt-setup apt-sortpkgs... apt-move??? On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 12:18, Simon Hepburn wrote: > I think the simplest solution would be disk imaging software or a backup > program designed for bare-metal re

Re: XFree86 problems

On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Bob Underwood wrote: > On Wednesday 03 April 2002 16:53, Fanch wrote: > > I have now tried to install Debian 3 times without succes on an i586 > > which has run RedHat6.2 until I began my Debian experiments... > > What version of debian were you trying to install? i.e., stabl

Re: condemn a Debian distributor!!!

On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 14:04, fti International wrote: > I do have a cable modem connection on aother machine. > Just tell me the instructions and I'll do it. Thanks man. If you have a fast connection I would say just use the install floppies. They are fast and simple. All you need are two goo

RE: debian

| On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 03:31:32AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: | > on Wed, Apr 03, 2002, fti International ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > > Hello All, | > > | > > A basic question, what is the right pronunciation of "Debian"? | > > dee-bean? da-bean? or something else. | > | > "The one true w

MPEG video recorder

I'm looking for a software mpeg encoder that can produce synced audio/video from a bttv-compatible capture card. I'm presently using NVrec to record DivX ;-) movies from my VCR. But since DivX is largely a PC-based video format, I lose the bragging rights to sa

Woody & intel compilers

Hi All, I have a woody system, kernel 2.2.20, glibc 2.2.5, onto which I am trying to install the Intel Ver 5.0 FORTRAN and C/C++ compilers. ( I need some of the extensions to FORTRAN that Intel offers.) The best I have been able to do is to get the Fortran compiler to burn cpu cycles but it doesn

where do answers go [was Re: XFree86 problems]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 10:04:28PM +0200, Fañch wrote: > Another question by the way: I'm not used to this list and I'm a > bit confused about where my answers go to, do they get sendt to > the list or to your personal address? That is up to you, your MUA and (if you have a decent MUA) the Mail

Re: How to set up apt-get to use connect through a proxy

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, [iso-8859-1] James D. wrote: > Hi, > I've just succeeded installing woody on my new Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop (it > took me 4 days!!! because i've just switched to debian). I often bring my > laptop to work in the library, but i don't know how to make debian connect to > the

security updates for testing distibution

Can one get security updates for the testing distribution? I have deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free in sources.list. Or sould it be deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib

Re: security updates for testing distibution

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 10:53:52PM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > Can one get security updates for the testing distribution? No. There is no such thing. -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux emac140 2.4.17 #1 sön feb 10 20:21:22 CET 2002 i686 unknown Hans Ekbrand pgp0sfSbtZ3Nj.pgp Descri

Re: new installation from /var/cache/apt/archives

Marcelo Leal wrote: > but i did not see this apt-move > there are apt-get apt-cache apt-config apt-setup apt-sortpkgs... > apt-move??? apt-move is a seperate package. -- Simon Hepburn. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: Shell Nigeria Tender

Shawn McMahon wrote: > begin quoting what Simon Hepburn said on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 07:02:04PM +0100: > > Tell me something, how many spammers do you know who advertise their > > address and telephone #. > > Quite a few. Speaks volumes... > Mostly stupid ones. I guess you're in good company

conflicting Icewm menus items

I have installed Icewm 1.0.9.2-4 after upgrading from Progeny to Debian testing distribution. Now the startmenu has `Window managers' and `Windows' submenues both with W as the mnemonic. Likewise the systemmenu has `limit Workarea' and `Window list' entries both with W as the mnemonic. This require

Re: security updates for testing distibution

On Apr 04 at 22:57, Hans Ekbrand spoke: > On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 10:53:52PM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > Can one get security updates for the testing distribution? > > No. There is no such thing. Can one switch back to stable without reinstalling the whole? -Hanspeter -- To UNSUBSCRIB

cdrecord glitch

hi i wonder if anyone recognizes this: bilbo:/home/dmallery>> cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,6,0 cd_image Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM cdrecord: Invalid argument. Cannot get mmap for 4198400 Bytes on /dev/zero. i get it on two differen

Re: xfree86 4.1.0-15 broke my display

Jeffrey W. Baker writes: > Well, I use apt-get clean on occasion. The -14 release of XFree86 was > several months ago. Would be nice if there was apt-get > clean-except-last-version i supposed. apt-get autoclean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

dpkg -l long-package-names

Hello, the command `dpkg -l ...' prints a name colunm which length is limited. As a result long package names are cut and may be displayed ambigiously. Is there an option to habe the name colunm wider? -Hanspeter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

dhcpd.conf

Hi, I've scoured the web, read the man page, and don't get it. If several people posted or sent me their dhcpd.conf files with explanations of why each name/address goes in each spot I would greatly appreciate it. Here's what I'm trying to do: I use a CharterPipeline cable modem to connect to t

Re: security updates for testing distibution

* Hanspeter Roth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Apr 04 at 22:57, Hans Ekbrand spoke: > > > On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 10:53:52PM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > > Can one get security updates for the testing distribution? > > > > No. There is no such thing. > > Can one switch back to sta

Re: xfree86 4.1.0-15 broke my display

Jeffrey W. Baker writes: > Well, I use apt-get clean on occasion. The -14 release of XFree86 was > several months ago. Would be nice if there was apt-get > clean-except-last-version i supposed. apt-get autoclean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

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