Re: diskless

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:05:54PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 12:07:26AM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > | On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 11:08:16AM -0300, Marcelo Leal wrote: > | > i have one FreeBSD box running diskless fine. > | > now, i wanna one linux box, and... > | > the bootp, tf

Re: OT: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 10:54:09AM -0700, Noah Sombrero wrote: > Conservatives would be funny, if they weren't so tragic. Thankfully we have liberals around to pass laws to tell the rest of us what to do. -- Nathan Norman - Micromuse Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gil-galad was an Elven-king.

Re: X 4.1.0 (woody) stuck in 640x480

"Ryan" == Ryan Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ryan> oh whoops. here it is... stopping gpm worked, now my mouse Ryan> is sane! yay. If you want both gpm and X working, try using /dev/gpmdata as the mouse device in the XF86Config-4 file, and run gpm in repeat mode (look in /etc/gp

ATI Rage128 fb console in kernel 2.2

Hello, Subject line refers to my weekend-long efforts to build a custom kernel (first time for me) that incorporates all the hardware support I need that standard 2.2.20-compact doesn't OOB. For me that means support for my SCSI card (Initio 9100U) and especially for the ATI Rage Fury Pro 128 DVI

Installing packages from unstable version

How can I install packages from the unstable version of the distribution with apt-get? For instance, if I type "apt-get install libgtk2.0-0" or "apt-get install libgtk2.0-0/unstable", I get an error E: Couldn't find package libgtk2.0-0 -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web:

Re: where to install openoffice

martin f krafft wrote: > > hi folks, > > i've always installed OpenOffice or StarOffice or whatever into > /usr/local/apps/{open,s}office or /usr/local/lib/{open,s}office, > depending on whether the day was even or odd -- as in, there was no > pattern. now i am installing a couple of new systems

Archiving of big mailboxes

Hello! I thought some of You can have a problem which is similar to mine. I am subscribed to many, many lists and I get more than 200 emails every day (maybe more, I didn't check exactly). I use procmail to automaticly sort this mail to different files. Then I use IMAP server and various clients (

Re: X 4.1.0 (woody) stuck in 640x480

OK, mouse works in X and i don't really care about console so I'm leaving gpm out.I still can't change my resolution even though it's defined in XF86Config-4, so that's what I need help with now :(. I'm attaching my config file again, I couldn't find any problems with it but somebody else might. F

scripting

first, send replies to me...not the list... i'm no script guru...what i would like to do is become familiar with piping output to a file and perhaps a little formatting.. for this example, i would like the output of 'dpkg -l' to be redirected to a file called dpkg.html. at the end of every packa

Re: Installing packages from unstable version

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 07:01:28PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >How can I install packages from the unstable version of the >distribution with apt-get? > Rather than a verbose answer, just look at my sources.list and apt.conf To install Galeon from unstable the command is: apt-get install galeo

Re: java

On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Ted wrote: > Bob Underwood wrote: > > > > On Saturday 13 April 2002 09:38, Ted wrote: > > > Hi.. > > > Could anyone let me have the sources lis address for the blackdown > > > java and is there a file anywhere of preferred sources ??? > > > Regards > > > Ted Wager > > > >

Re: diskless

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 09:46:59PM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > If you use etherboot to boot, you also have to compile in "IP: kernel > level autoconfiguration". To clarify, any solution which involves giving IP, hostname, and network information as boot arguments to the kernel (in contrast to hav

Re: ATI Rage128 fb console in kernel 2.2

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 08:07:07PM +, Soren Andersen wrote: >Hello, > Can't help with your problem but I know how you feel, as do most of us who have had some blasted bit of kit refuse to work, wasted aeons on out of date howto's etc. To be fair to Linux, it starts from a nearly hopeless posit

Re: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

Shawn McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > begin Nathan E Norman quotation: > > > > Wal-Mart sells Chinese crap which is cheaper in price and quality than > > goods produced elsewhere (like, here). > > And as a result, gives Chinese people employment that they otherwise > might not have. > >

Re: scripting

also sprach jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.14.2235 +0200]: > for this example, i would like the output of 'dpkg -l' to be redirected > to a file called dpkg.html. at the end of every package decription, i > would like to add the tag so it looks nice on the page. dpkg -l | sed -e 's/$//' > dpkg

Re: My woody machine has gnome-gv stuck in it's craw, and it's chocking to death

I have not read your mail totally but I am sure that your real problem is libxml2. Doing : apt-get update apt-get install libxml2 Should solve your problem. Christophe On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 02:22:41PM -0400, stan wrote: > Yeseterday I made the mistake of copying over /etc/apt/sources.list

Printing Problems

hii, Umm my printer has been messed up. It says it has to be on and online which is all the time but it keeps going back to the same message. Help me.

Re: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 09:59:47AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > begin Shawn McMahon quotation: > > > Meanwhile, a few less girl babies get drowned because their parents > > can't feed them. > > As I understand it, Chinese families that drown their baby daughters do > so because the Chinese gov

Re: Archiving of big mailboxes

Grzegorz Prokopski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! > > I thought some of You can have a problem which is similar to mine. > I am subscribed to many, many lists and I get more than 200 emails > every day (maybe more, I didn't check exactly). > I use procmail to automaticly sort this mail to d

Re: Installing packages from unstable version

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 07:01:28PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > How can I install packages from the unstable version of the > distribution with apt-get? > > For instance, if I type "apt-get install libgtk2.0-0" or > "apt-get install libgtk2.0-0/unstable", I get an error > > E: Couldn't find pa

Re: X 4.1.0 (woody) stuck in 640x480

On Sun Apr 14, 2002 at 01:32:39PM -0700, Ryan Jordan wrote: > OK, mouse works in X and i don't really care about > console so I'm leaving gpm out.I still can't change my > resolution even though it's defined in XF86Config-4, > so that's what I need help with now :(. > > I'm attaching my config fil

Re: My woody machine has gnome-gv stuck in it's craw, and it's chocking to death

stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [libxml2 breakage snipped] http://bugs.debian.org/142596 The fixed version should be in sid by now... -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 03:01:34PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 10:54:09AM -0700, Noah Sombrero wrote: > > Conservatives would be funny, if they weren't so tragic. > > Thankfully we have liberals around to pass laws to tell the rest of us > what to do. "Conservatives" a

Re: My woody machine has gnome-gv stuck in it's craw, and it's chocking to death

Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [libxml2 breakage snipped] > > http://bugs.debian.org/142596 > > The fixed version should be in sid by now... Oh, and since you're trying to downgrade to testing, either get the new libxml2 from unstable, or manual

Debian limits on file system sizes and etc..question

I am looking at Debian to install on a new box I put together for some testing. I looked thru the docs and can't find the info I need. #1 Will Debian (current) create a xfs partition of 1.1TB on a 3ware 7850 controller? #2 Will Debian (current) be able to access all of my 2G memory? #3 Wil

Re: Re: OT: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 14:35:01 -0700, you wrote: >On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 03:01:34PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 10:54:09AM -0700, Noah Sombrero wrote: >> > Conservatives would be funny, if they weren't so tragic. >> >> Thankfully we have liberals around to pass laws to

Re: X 4.1.0 (woody) stuck in 640x480

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 01:32:39PM -0700, Ryan Jordan wrote: > OK, mouse works in X and i don't really care about > console so I'm leaving gpm out.I still can't change my > resolution even though it's defined in XF86Config-4, > so that's what I need help with now :(. > > I'm attaching my config fi

Re: mail rules

On Friday 12 April 2002 09:49 am, Craig Dickson wrote: > begin Karsten M. Self quotation: > > OTOH, those who are most likely to have this beef are also more likely > > to have the tools to handle the problem largely transparently. Procmail > > fits the bill perfectly here with its cache and set

Re: where to install openoffice

> martin f krafft wrote: > > > > hi folks, > > > > i've always installed OpenOffice or StarOffice or whatever into > > /usr/local/apps/{open,s}office or /usr/local/lib/{open,s}office, > > depending on whether the day was even or odd -- as in, there was no > > pattern. now i am installing a couple

Re: Printing Problems

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 05:10:42PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hii, Umm my printer has been messed up. It says it has to be on and online > which is all the time but it keeps going back to the same message. Help me. What is your print system? What kind of printer do you have? A few more de

Re: can't ping, etc. between 2 pc network that used to work!

on Thu, Apr 11, 2002, Martin Edward John Waller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I have win95PC (yuck - sorry.) (192.168.201.2) and > a woody debian box. (192.168.201.1). Trouble is, > even though the ethernet cards are up OK I can't > communicate between them (ping, anything, using > nume

HP 722C Printer working?

Has anyone gotten the HP 722C Printer working with Debian. I switched over to Debian from Mandrake and that so far is the only thing that I have failed to get working yet. It takes the pnm2ppa driver, but not sure how to make cups use it. Any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Help geting galeon re-installed

I'm in the process of recovering from a stupid mistake I made yesterday, thanks to several helpful list memeberes who have used part of thier weekend to help me. At the moment I'm in pretty good sahpe, except that I can't seem to get any veraion of galeon installed :-(. Now since I use it as my

Gnumeric graphs doesn't work

Does anyone know how to get the Graph feature to work in gnumeric? I have debian packages gnumeric and libguppi16 installed on my machine, and I still don't get ant graphs. Nothing happens when I click the graph icon, or go to "Insert graph". Thanks, Lars.

apt-get update problem

Hello, did an apt-get update & upgrade on my sid box (after two weeks) and I got an error. When I redo the upgrade part I get this: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back gettext links scrollkeeper 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly

Re: scripting

On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 13:35, jeff wrote: > first, send replies to me...not the list... > > > i'm no script guru...what i would like to do is become familiar with > piping output to a file and perhaps a little formatting.. > > for this example, i would like the output of 'dpkg -l' to be redirecte

Re: HP 722C Printer working?

On Sunday 14 April 2002 05:20 am, Decibels wrote: > Has anyone gotten the HP 722C Printer working with Debian. I switched > over to Debian from Mandrake > and that so far is the only thing that I have failed to get working yet. > It takes the pnm2ppa driver, but > not sure how to make cups use it.

Re: HP 722C Printer working?

On Sunday 14 April 2002 03:45 pm, ben wrote: > On Sunday 14 April 2002 05:20 am, Decibels wrote: > > Has anyone gotten the HP 722C Printer working with Debian. I switched > > over to Debian from Mandrake > > and that so far is the only thing that I have failed to get working yet. > > It takes the p

Re: Help geting galeon re-installed

I installed galeon a couple weeks ago. With the preferences file apt-get will not install dependencies from unstable. What I did might scare you, I know it did me. Rename preferences to preferences.bak and apt-get install galeon -s just to see what it will do. For me it wanted to upgrade some p

Re: OT: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

(snip) > Anyone have a reply to the original question? Has anyone successfully installed Debian on a Walmart OSless computer? Brian Registered Linux User #22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get update problem

On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 12:41:36AM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Hello, > > did an apt-get update & upgrade on my sid box (after two weeks) and I > got an error. When I redo the upgrade part I get this: > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages

Re: Help geting galeon re-installed

On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 18:37:47 -0400 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > smokey:~# apt-get install mozilla/unstable > ... > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > ... > Depends: mozilla-mailnews (= 2:0.9.9-6) but 2:0.9.8-2 is to be > installed... > What can I do to get

Re: MPEG Player?

On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 22:23:40 -0700 (PDT) Dennis Krinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems like smpeg-gtv is no longer a woody package? > What mpeg player is recommended? xine: It comes in two basic parts xine-ui and xine-lib. apt-get install xine-ui should do the trick. If you're content wit

Re: OT: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

On Sunday 14 April 2002 04:18 pm, Brian P.D. Smyth wrote: > (snip) > > > Anyone have a reply to the original question? > > Has anyone successfully installed Debian on a Walmart OSless computer? > > Brian > > Registered Linux User #22 not personally, but there was an article in the uk

Re: Ethernet problem

I have a different ethernet card than you in my laptop (it's a DEC Tulip - 21143) but I have found that I have to power off when switching between linux and windows. It doesn't work to do a reboot. If I stay in linux, or stay in windows, I can do a warm reboot, but to switch from one OS to the

Re: mail rules

I totally agree, dude! Mail totally rules! Right on, man! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scripting

begin jeff quotation: > first, send replies to me...not the list... Then set a Reply-To: header. Don't expect everybody else to work harder so that you don't have to. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than

Re: Re: OT: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

begin Noah Sombrero quotation: > > I was waiting for somebody to say that. This is what happens when you > have a democratic government. The majority tells the minority how things > will be. Mostly we are willing to live with that, unless a conservative is > the minority. Which it doesn't see

Re: OT: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 06:18:56PM -0500, Brian P.D. Smyth wrote: | (snip) | > | | Anyone have a reply to the original question? | | Has anyone successfully installed Debian on a Walmart OSless computer? I'd also like to know where such a package can be found. The nearest Wal-Mart here only h

Re: OT: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

On Sun Apr 14, 2002 at 04:33:43PM -0700, ben wrote: > On Sunday 14 April 2002 04:18 pm, Brian P.D. Smyth wrote: > > (snip) > > > > > > Anyone have a reply to the original question? > > > > Has anyone successfully installed Debian on a Walmart OSless computer? > > > > Brian > > > > Register

Re: Installing packages from unstable version

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 14:25:54 -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > Leave off the hyphenated version number which is not part of the > "proper" package name. > > $ apt-get install libgtk2.0 It doesn't work. I've now modified the sources.list as I've been told (I've *added* unstable versions of the l

Re: where to install openoffice

begin craigw quotation: > > The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when > installing software locally > > /opt is reserved for the installation of add-on application software > packages. > > > Hmmm I'm not seeing much of a distinction. As someone else has mentione

share a connection ?

Hi , Please help me to share a modem Internet connection using bridge. I did like this : brctl addbr br0 //OK brcrl addif br0 eth0 //OK brctl addif br0 ppp0 -> result : br_add_interface: Invalid argument ?? Any ideas ? Thank you , Florentin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: upgrade to ext3 ?

On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here's a related question: when will those .journal files go away? > I have a RH7.2 system which was installed with ext3 and a Debian > system which I upgraded to ext3. The RH7.2 has no .journal files, > but the Debian machine still has them, even aft

Re: Installing packages from unstable version

* Vincent Lefevre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020414 20:12]: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 14:25:54 -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > Leave off the hyphenated version number which is not part of the > > "proper" package name. > > > > $ apt-get install libgtk2.0 > > It doesn't work. > > I've now modified the

Re: Installing packages from unstable version

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 21:33:58 +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Rather than a verbose answer, just look at my sources.list and > apt.conf Thanks, this is what I wanted. This is strange that apt.conf hadn't been set when I installed the Debian/testing distribution. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Installing packages from unstable version

On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 02:05:29AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 14:25:54 -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > Leave off the hyphenated version number which is not part of the > > "proper" package name. > > > > $ apt-get install libgtk2.0 > > It doesn't work. ? > I've now

Re: OT: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020414 20:07]: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 06:18:56PM -0500, Brian P.D. Smyth wrote: > | (snip) > | > > | > | Anyone have a reply to the original question? > | > | Has anyone successfully installed Debian on a Walmart OSless computer? > > I'd also like to know where s

Re: OT: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Noah Sombrero wrote: > I am sure that intel chips are designed here, not far from the Burlingame > district of Portland where I live, but when I go to the local computer parts > store and buy a chip, it says made in Mexico, Malaysia, etc. Go out TV Highway near SW 209th. For

Re: OT: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Thankfully we have liberals around to pass laws to tell the rest of us > what to do. As opposed to conservatives who can't seem to keep laws out of the bedroom or off women's bodies. -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: upgrade to ext3 ?

* Paul 'Baloo' Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020414 20:27]: > On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Here's a related question: when will those .journal files go away? > > I have a RH7.2 system which was installed with ext3 and a Debian > > system which I upgraded to ext3. The RH7.2 has

Re: scripting

On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 19:47, Shawn McMahon wrote: > begin jeff quotation: > > first, send replies to me...not the list... > > Then set a Reply-To: header. Don't expect everybody else to work harder > so that you don't have to. > > > -- > Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Li

Re: upgrade to ext3 ?

On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Isn't the .journal file rather important ?? I thought it was some sort > of "record" of your filesystem. What happens if you revert back to ext2, > delete the .journal file, and then convert it to ext3 again ?? You get the .journal again. You have to

Re: Installing packages from unstable version

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 20:26:09 -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Try doing "apt-get -d install libgtk2.0" only. Don't do "upgrade"; > that's for updating all/most of your installed packages. I know that. But as I sometimes to an upgrade, I wanted to see if modifying sources.list didn't break things

Hiding a process

Is it possible to make a process come up with a different name in ps? If so, how? -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hiding a process

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 05:52:11PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > Is it possible to make a process come up with a different name in ps? > If so, how? exec -a $NAME $COMMAND $ARGS -- Eric G. Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Hiding a process

On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 05:52:11PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > Is it possible to make a process come up with a different name in ps? > > If so, how? > > exec -a $NAME $COMMAND $ARGS Thanks! -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: upgrade to ext3 ?

> "Shawn" == Shawn McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shawn> If you want it to go away, back up the data, blow away the Shawn> filesystem, and recreate it as ext3. Or, mount it as ext2, Shawn> blow away the .journal file, umount it, and convert it. In a semi-related question, is

Re: Hiding a process

> exec -a $NAME $COMMAND $ARGS exec -a /sbin/getty 31337r007k17 -destroyeverything ;-> Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.goingware.com/ Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: OT: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

On Sunday 14 April 2002 05:09 pm, dman wrote: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 06:18:56PM -0500, Brian P.D. Smyth wrote: > | (snip) > | > | > | Anyone have a reply to the original question? > | > | Has anyone successfully installed Debian on a Walmart OSless computer? > > I'd also like to know where such

Re: upgrade to ext3 ?

begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation: > > In a semi-related question, is there a way to change the / partition > to ext3 and keep the .journal file hidden? Without booting from a > book disk, since I don't have a bootable disk drive, nor a CD burner. > (Running a Mac PowerBook.) To the best of my

Re: Ethernet problem

On Sunday 14 April 2002 04:41 pm, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I have a different ethernet card than you in my laptop (it's a DEC Tulip - > 21143) but I have found that I have to power off when switching between > linux and windows. It doesn't work to do a reboot. If I stay in linux, or > stay in

superdisk

I need to carry very large files from one location to another location where I need to access the files on either a Mac or a PC.  I think that SuperDisk might be the technical solution.  Can an external Superdisk drive port from a PC to a Mac?  If so, using what kind of connection?     Thank you Ro

Re: superdisk

On Sunday 14 April 2002 08:26 pm, ROBERT OLBROT wrote: > I need to carry very large files from one location to another location > where I need to access the files on either a Mac or a PC. I think that > SuperDisk might be the technical solution. Can an external Superdisk drive > port from a PC to

Re: Hiding a process

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 05:52:11PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: | Is it possible to make a process come up with a different name in ps? | If so, how? Install a trojaned 'ps' ;-). (I see a real answer, which I didn't know either, has already been given) -D -- Whoever gives heed to instru

Re: OT: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 08:30:44PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: | * dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020414 20:07]: | > On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 06:18:56PM -0500, Brian P.D. Smyth wrote: | > | (snip) | > | > | > | | > | Anyone have a reply to the original question? | > | | > | Has anyone successfully i

Re: upgrade to ext3 ?

Lo, on Sunday, April 14, Lars Jensen did write: > Robin, > > How do I place the module on the initrd? On woody, at least, make sure it's listed in /etc/mkinitrd/modules. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

CD/DVD mounting:

OK, I actually have 2 questions: 1.) When I mount a DVD in my DVD-ROM, it claims that it's ISO9660, rather than UDF (this is with multipe DVD-ROM drives). The only difference I've seen (cursory glance) was UDF has all uppercase filenames. Is this really a problem? Anyway to correct this b

Re: upgrade to ext3 ?

On 15 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a semi-related question, is there a way to change the / partition > to ext3 and keep the .journal file hidden? Without booting from a > book disk, since I don't have a bootable disk drive, nor a CD burner. > (Running a Mac PowerBook.) Files whose name

Re: Archiving of big mailboxes

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 02:16:31PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > Grzegorz Prokopski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello! > > > > I thought some of You can have a problem which is similar to mine. > > I am subscribed to many, many lists and I get more than 200 emails > > every day (maybe more,

IDE-SCSI, CD-RW, ZIP drive weirdness

I have an ATAPI CD-RW installed as the second slave (/dev/hdd). According to the documentation I've read, to use the CD-RW in Linux, I have to use IDE-SCSI (kernel) and have 'hdd=scsi' in the boot parameters. I've done this, and I have no problems using the drive, but I have discovered somthi

Re: Ethernet problem

>given that windoze requires that any new hardware installation be >acknowledged by a cold boot, regardless of claims made by that os, i'm >willing to bet that the lack of recognition is one-sided, i.e., soft-booting >into windoze, rather that in linux. is that the case? it would surprise me to >h

Re: The Direction of Debian

On 0, Niall Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > bah... I get dozy if I get up too early :-) > > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 07:48:42PM +0100, Niall Brady wrote: > > > > The problem is (and I'm not too hot on apt, so forgive me if I'm > > wrong :-) that by default you can do 'apt upgrade' (or whatever

Re: scripting

martin f krafft wrote: [snip] > ... to get into scripting, i suggest you play around with > bash scripts and learn all the tools that come with UNIX, such as: > sed, tr, cut, grep, cat, tac, sort, uniq to name just a few. then you > might want to start looking at awk, or you might want to head fo

Re: OT: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020414 21:55]: > I kinda hope walmart does well in this venture, just to show the > industry that we don't want windows pre-installed. Otherwise the local > shop is just as good, if not better. You know, that was most people's biggest point when Walmart first started do

Re: OT: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

begin Paul 'Baloo' Johnson quotation: > On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > Thankfully we have liberals around to pass laws to tell the rest of us > > what to do. > > As opposed to conservatives who can't seem to keep laws out of the > bedroom or off women's bodies. You know, mo

Re: Archiving of big mailboxes

On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 21:46, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > Sounds like he wants to keep the old mail, which is what I do. This is a nice tool that I have used for some time now: http://digilander.iol.it/yellowjester/archmbox/archmbox.html -- Eric d'Alibut I am not a looney! Why should I be at

Re: freeswan on testing/2.4.18 kernel

Noah Meyerhans wrote: On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 06:40:22PM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote: The two mahcines have an IP address of 192.168.51 and 192.168.0.52. My /etc/ipsec.conf looks like this (see end of message). I've tried with and without the leftsubnet and rightsubnet settings but I can

Re: scripting

> > begin jeff quotation: > > > first, send replies to me...not the list... > > > > Then set a Reply-To: header. Don't expect everybody else to work > > harder so that you don't have to. > > all i did was ask...and i got like 20 replies...thank you very much.. > > thanks to ALL you COOL peeps on

Re: Archiving of big mailboxes

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 11:53:25PM -0400, Eric d'Alibut wrote: > On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 21:46, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > > Sounds like he wants to keep the old mail, which is what I do. > > This is a nice tool that I have used for some time now: > > http://digilander.iol.it/yellowjester/archmbo

Radeonfb problem

I have an intresting problem concerning the radeon frame buffer on a brand-new 2.4.19-pre5-ac3 kernel. When I start up the screen blanks at the normal time when the frame buffer starts, except it never comes back. X does however come up because it doesnt use the frame buffer. Im pretty sure this

Re: Hiding a process

On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 20:15, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > > exec -a $NAME $COMMAND $ARGS > > exec -a /sbin/getty 31337r007k17 -destroyeverything > > ;-> Note that this is a shell specific thing (doesn't work in zsh, and I can't find the equivalent in the zsh man pages). Works fine in bash tho

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