Problem installing Debian woody

2002-11-27 Thread D.H
Hi all,     I have tried to install Debian woody on my box for about 3 times(I downloaded all the 7 ISO image files and burn them on CD), but every time i got the same error when installing "diald" package, luckly, it doesn't interrupt the whole installation process. The error message

Update to latest XFree86 -> keyboard misfunctioning

2002-11-27 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, running Debian unstable, I update regularly. Yesterday, I run an update which resultated in an update of several X packages. Among others, dpkg -l ... ii xserver-xfree8 4.2.1-4the XFree86 X server I am using a Swiss German keyboard and therefore, I do need to make use

Re: Problem installing Debian woody

2002-11-27 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:07:22PM +0800, D.H wrote: > Hi all, > I have tried to install Debian woody on my box for about 3 times(I downloaded >all the 7 ISO image files and burn them on CD), but every time i got the same error >when installing "diald" package, luckly, it doesn't interrupt th

ES 1370 not functioning (should never have been es1371 not functioning - sorry)

2002-11-27 Thread Andrew R Reid
This has been bugging me for months - so I want to fix it. I have an ES1370 on my server that I would really like to get going so that when I work on it on weekends I can have nice sounds when I an in gnome ;-) This is the result of lspci -v 02:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1370 [A

RE: ES1371 not functioning

2002-11-27 Thread nate
Andrew R Reid said: > Can you lease send me your modules.conf so that I can compare. I'd be > very gratefull. Will send mp3s? I've never used modules.conf. Another poster reccomends trying the es1370 module instead of the 1371, In the past for me at least loading the wrong module didn't work(th

Autoload Modules

2002-11-27 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, I've just installed woody on my laptop and all is fine apart from the sis900 module for LAN isn't being autoloaded. If I do a manal modprobe I can then do ifup eth0 with no problems. What file do I have to edit to autoload the module? Rgds rus -- http://www.fsck.me.uk - My blog http://s

Re: Update to latest XFree86 -> keyboard misfunctioning

2002-11-27 Thread Lukas Ruf
* Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-27 09:14]: > > I am using a Swiss German keyboard and therefore, I do need to make > use of AltGr to get the "@" or the pipe. > > Yesterday night, suddendly my computer crashed when removing a PCMCIA > card. After rebooting today, the AltGR key has not th

cannot open /dev/dsp (permission denied)??

2002-11-27 Thread D.H
I don't know if it is appropriate to send this email here. Every time I start the KDE environment, it tells me that "cannot open /dev/dsp(permission denied)", so I login with root account and give all the users read permission to that file, but this time, it tells me that "cannot not

RE: ES1371 not functioning

2002-11-27 Thread Andrew R Reid
> -Original Message- > From: Donald R. Spoon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 27 November 2002 6:38 PM > To: Andrew R Reid > Subject: Re: ES1371 not functioning > > I thought it was too obvious ... > > I don't use any additional settings! Since it is a PCI card (Sound > Blas

Re: Testing; openoffice installed but I can not find the setup program in any menu.(solved)

2002-11-27 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:20:36AM -0600, John Foster wrote: > Well go figure this I restarted the system and the entire batch of > OpenOffice applications are now working. Is this something new?? I have > never noticed this as a requirement before on ANY Linux system with he > exception of up

Re: cannot open /dev/dsp (permission denied)??

2002-11-27 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * D.H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021127 19:51]: > I don't know if it is appropriate to send this email here. Every time > I start the KDE environment, it tells me that "cannot open > /dev/dsp(permission denied)", so I login with root account and give > all the users read permission to that file, but

Invitation to e-attend an NYU e-business seminar!

2002-11-27 Thread nyu
Dear Debian: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY's Director of Graduate Programs in Management & Systems at the School of Continuing and Professional Studies, Prof. Anthony R. Davidson PhD EDP, invites you to e-attend the next SYNCHRONOUS VoiceOverIP lecture in the "DISTINGUISHED e-LECTURER ON e-BUSINESS" series.

Re: ES 1370 not functioning (should never have been es1371 not functioning- sorry)

2002-11-27 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Andrew R Reid wrote: > This has been bugging me for months - so I want to fix it. > > I have an ES1370 on my server that I would really like to get going so that > when I work on it on weekends I can have nice sounds when I an in gnome ;-) > > This is the result of lspci -v > > 02:07.0 Multimedia

Re: Autoload Modules

2002-11-27 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Rus Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021127 19:41]: > Hi All, I've just installed woody on my laptop and all is fine apart > from the sis900 module for LAN isn't being autoloaded. Congrats. > If I do a manal modprobe I can then do ifup eth0 with no problems. > What file do I have to edit to aut

Re: ES1371 not functioning

2002-11-27 Thread daves debian
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 07:26, Andrew R Reid wrote: > This has been bugging me for months - so I want to fix it. > > I have an ES1371 on my server that I would really like to get going so that > when I work on it on weekends I can have nice sounds when I an in gnome ;-) > > This is the result

Re: Modem IRQs, password & mail problems

2002-11-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:13:06AM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 22:35:42 +, "Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 07:42:18PM +, Pigeon wrote: [...] > > > 2) I have a dead file somewhere that is interfering with some userid > > > stuff.

Re: ES1371 not functioning

2002-11-27 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Andrew R Reid wrote: -SNIP- < Yes, I have a Intel Lancewood mainboard with two Pentium III 450s on it. The board uses IO APIC to remap IRQ or something like that (I don't understand exactly) Do you mean PnP OS=yes? I could try it? I mean PnP OS=no. BUT, I just found the reference earlier

RE: How do you recover a long filename that Wndows squashed?

2002-11-27 Thread ernst
Wierd yes..mabye it's that simple that you are only missing Joliet support in the kernel. /ernst On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > well here's the weird thing, > if i look at the files on my windows pc using filemanager the filenames are > long, if i use mc on my debian machine t

Pentium 4/SIS650 chipset

2002-11-27 Thread Gary Maxwell
Happy holidays! Does anyone know whether or not the latest Debian release has support for the Pentium 4 SIS650 chipset? I haven't found one distribution yet that does. Thanks! GM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Pentium 4/SIS650 chipset

2002-11-27 Thread Olivier Esser
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 10:29, Gary Maxwell wrote: > Happy holidays! > > Does anyone know whether or not the latest Debian release has support > for the Pentium 4 SIS650 chipset? I haven't found one distribution yet > that does. > > Thanks! > > GM What do you mean vy "Pentium 4 SIS650" ?. I

How to downgrade a single set of packets (was Re: Update to latest..)

2002-11-27 Thread Lukas Ruf
* Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-27 09:46]: > > > > I am using a Swiss German keyboard and therefore, I do need to make > > use of AltGr to get the "@" or the pipe. > > > > Since the restart of X11/reboot of the station, the German Umlauts do > not function either. > Dear all, is th

RE: How do you recover a long filename that Wndows squashed?

2002-11-27 Thread ernst
Hi Take a look at these links. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.html http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en.html#s-kernel-compile /ernst On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > that sounds good cause youre absolutely right when i started setti

apt-get error message

2002-11-27 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, I have the following problem: when updating the package database (apt-get update) I get the following error message: Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing libqt3-mt-odbc (NewVersi

Re: cannot open /dev/dsp (permission denied)??

2002-11-27 Thread Olivier Esser
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 09:51, D.H wrote: > I don't know if it is appropriate to send this email here. > Every time I start the KDE environment, it tells me that "cannot open > /dev/dsp(permission denied)", so I login with root account and give all the > users read permission to that file, bu

Applications started via KDE Kicker in wrong language (via shell ok)

2002-11-27 Thread Manegold
Hallo, After updating to woody and KDE 3 non-kde-applications started via kicker start with the wrong language setting. If I start them via kconsole they start up with the right setting (except galeon, which then hangs). My guess is that the language environment variables are not set correctly

Re: Pentium 4/SIS650 chipset

2002-11-27 Thread klaus imgrund
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 07:29, Gary Maxwell wrote: > Happy holidays! > > Does anyone know whether or not the latest Debian release has support > for the Pentium 4 SIS650 chipset? I haven't found one distribution > yet that does. > > Thanks! > > GM You can try http://www.winischhofer.net for

系统集成解决方案大全

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Re: [OT] Debian vs Gentoo (discussed in newsletter)

2002-11-27 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:39, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Hi, > For instance, a lot of man pages for me don't really > help me. They give me a clue yes, but do not provide > all the help i need. > I'm using Woody and there seems to be an info page for most commands which generally is more helpful than

sawfish won't start from gnome2 session

2002-11-27 Thread Micha Feigin
I am running woody, and updated my system to gnome2. When I first started gnome2 it came up using twm, also after removing the old setup files. I removed the twm entry and changed gnome-wm to point to sawfish, I also tried killing twm and starting sawfish to try to let the session manager get the p

edit menus under gnome2

2002-11-27 Thread Micha Feigin
How do I edit the menus, or create a custom menu under gnome2? I am running a woody system. It seems like the control panel under gnome 2 is completly anemic and is restricted to desktop settings, is there something missing from it? Also the desktop pager won't show viewports, only workspaces under

Re: Lilio 01 01 01

2002-11-27 Thread ajlewis2
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

What is .udeb ?

2002-11-27 Thread Abdul Latip
May I know what a ".udeb" file is ? (New files in the pool directory?!) regards, -- Abdul Latip -- Angkasa Internet Junior Staff -- ANGIN.com http://people.WebIndonesia.com/dullatip/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: What is .udeb ?

2002-11-27 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 06:29:30AM -0500, Abdul Latip wrote: > May I know what a ".udeb" file is ? > (New files in the pool directory?!) I don't know the details, but they are some kind of minimalistic .deb for use by the future debian installer. Frank > > regards, > > -- > Abdul Latip -- Angk

Re: ext2 vs ext3 vs xfs vs reiserfs

2002-11-27 Thread Micha Feigin
I had some problems with it actually, although I am not sure if they were reiserfs specific. I tried using automount to mount cdrom under /cdrom (which means the root is / and stub or watever its called was cdrom). Had some problems with disabling it, and when I reboot the computer crashed and when

Re: ext2 vs ext3 vs xfs vs reiserfs

2002-11-27 Thread Qian Gong
It's hard to say the following is related to reiserfs. I used reiserfs for half a year on two computers. It works perfectly. Qian On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 03:52:36AM -0800, Micha Feigin wrote: > I had some problems with it actually, although I am not sure if they > were reiserfs specific. > I tried

Re: laptop questions

2002-11-27 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Jamin W. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, 26 November 2002, 04:15 PM -0600): > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 04:39:59PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > > 1) PCMCIA cards. We have a linksys ethernet card that is recognized as > > an NE2000 compatible ethernet card. When I did t

xkbcomp -- missing symbol ( was: How to downgrade a single set)

2002-11-27 Thread Lukas Ruf
strange enough but obviously, I am the only one on this thread ,-) > I do not want to downgrade from unstable to woody, just a version > downgrade of the X system. > The problem was the keyboard layout (symbol) changed: Previous defintion was Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Gen

Re: unsubscribe

2002-11-27 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Christian L?pez wrote: > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > obviously, the Debian User Base disposes of some people that st

Re: upgraded kernel, lost eth0

2002-11-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:09:03AM -0500, Tim Verry wrote: [...] > Now where exactly is the log of the boot process? I'm looking in > /var/log/messages and /var/log/kern.log based on timestamps, but I can't tell > what is different between the two and I DON'T see everything I see flash up > the

Re: inetd: discard?

2002-11-27 Thread Qian Gong
Thanks a lot. Now it's clear. Qian On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:16:57PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:32:26AM +1100, Matthias Szupryczynski wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 23:41, Qian Gong wrote: > > > It is said that the service discard in inetd is just for testing a

RE: How do you recover a long filename that Wndows squashed?

2002-11-27 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Hi, when i use dpkg -i with the shortened name, dpkg returns no such file error. so that's why i have to go back to the windows machine and get the long name. it's like mc or the system knows the correct name it just doesnt display it. kinda weird, huh. thanks, mw (still reading responses) -O

RE: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?

2002-11-27 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Hi and thanks for your help, The machine that i want to install the packages onto does not have an internet connection, my internet is 56k modem dialup through aol/compuserve -nothing against them, its free for a year!- but i prolly wouldnt want to d/l anything of any real size that way, you know l

Re: Use many graphics in LaTeX document. Configuration files ofLaTeX.

2002-11-27 Thread Victor Munoz
This post is rather old, but I thought there was one further point that could be addressed and was not discussed, and in case the original poster has not solved his problem yet: Besides using [!h] in the figure environment, and besides getting rid of the figure environment if not really needed

RE: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?

2002-11-27 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Hi, well, i have real fast internet connection from work, so its easier to download there than at home. what i really need to do is get a laptop and install debian on it and then tie into the connection at work and ... (maybe one day) thanks for your help i going to make sure i have alien installe

RE: How do you recover a long filename that Wndows squashed?

2002-11-27 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 02:48, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > Hi, > when i use dpkg -i with the shortened name, dpkg returns no such file error. > so that's why i have to go back to the windows machine and get the long > name. it's like mc or the system knows the correct name it just doesnt > display it.

Re: computer dead; help!

2002-11-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > has anyone had a monitor just up and die on them before? did anything > trigger it, do you think, or was it just random? Yes, I have. And it was even at Swarthmore! 'Course back then it was an IBM green-screen monitor connected to my XT compatible.

RE: How do you recover a long filename that Wndows squashed?

2002-11-27 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Hi, i havent tried ls, thanks for the tip, both the file on the cd and the one copied to the hd of my linux box have a filename that is shortened when read from midnight commander. thanks again, i'll try ls (i'll be on holiday for awhile before i can post results) mw -Original Message- Fr

changes to 'useradd' and related ???

2002-11-27 Thread Peter Galbavy
Firstly, let me apologies for not appearing to have RTFM. I have. I have searched web sites, mailing list archives and I have had no luck. I am by background a BSD type person - sorry - but now I find myself managing a 50/50 BSD/Linux environment. We have been migrating every Linux system to Debia

RE: computer dead; help!

2002-11-27 Thread Wathen, Metherion
I've had a monitor die on me, it was after years of distinguished service our family, we knew its time was getting short, purple haze filled its once bright display, random inexplicable color shifts. then one day -nothing. it was gone. then i went out bought a honkin 17" wonder and a raging video

Re: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?

2002-11-27 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 27, 2002 09:02 am, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > Hi, > well, i have real fast internet connection from work, so its easier to > download there than at home. > what i really need to do is get a laptop and install debian on it and then > tie into the connection at work and ... > (maybe one d

RE: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?

2002-11-27 Thread Wathen, Metherion
hey thanks that's a good idea, im planning on upgrading soon anyway, other than the install discs (7 for woody), you say that the other software is available as a downloadable iso or something? thanks, mw. -Original Message- From: Levi Waldron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, N

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2002-11-27 Thread posao
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A mixed stable/testing system

2002-11-27 Thread Olivier Esser
Hello, Does anyone have succeed to use the APT::Default-Release option in /etc/apt/apt.conf? I would like to keep a mixed system stable/testing. The documentation tell to add an entry to both stable and testing in /etc/sources.list and to add APT::Default-Release "stable"; in /etc/apt/apt.conf

Re: ext2 vs ext3 vs xfs vs reiserfs

2002-11-27 Thread Micha Feigin
It was a mixup betwin reiserfs and automount, I am not sure which one is responsible or if it is a joint venture, it seemed to just remove the link to the root folder somehow. I am afraid I don't feel like debugging it though, other then that, I am running reiserfs for some time now on to computer

Re: Package deity no more available?

2002-11-27 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 04:29, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 07:49:39PM +0800, Stephan Broennimann wrote: > > I can't find the package deity anymore? Does it no more exist? > > It was far too buggy and wasn't getting fixed, so it was removed. > Consider using aptitude instead. > I

Re: changes to 'useradd' and related ???

2002-11-27 Thread Peter Galbavy
> Firstly, let me apologies for not appearing to have RTFM. I have. I have > searched web sites, mailing list archives and I have had no luck. And remember to add: /etc/issue: Debian GNU/\s testing/unstable \n \l uname -a: Linux anthrax 2.4.19-pre2 #3 SMP Mon Mar 11 03:26:36 GMT 2002 i686 unknow

CD-RW requirements?

2002-11-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
I posted this yesterday, and have not seen it in any succeeding digests, so I am posting again. Sorry if you get two copies of this. --- This is not specifically a Debian question, or even, really, a Linux question, but I don't know where e

Re: CD-RW requirements?

2002-11-27 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Why do CD-RWs have such ungodly system requirements? > > I was just looking at a CD-RW (24/10/40) that actually specified Linux > compatability (Slackware, but a Linux driver is a Linux driver, I would > guess). The box says that it requires a PII 350 MH

sound card weirdness? newbie question

2002-11-27 Thread Rohan Nicholls
Hi all, I have finally made the full switch to linux, with windows running in an emulator for company oriented stuff, and I was very impressed with the improvements from potato as far as installing on my laptop, but as always I have questions.:) I have my soundcard supported but when I start t

Please Confirm Your $10,000 Entries!

2002-11-27 Thread contest
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Re: CD-RW Requirements?

2002-11-27 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 21:20:16 -0500, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This is not specifically a Debian question, or even, really, a Linux >question, but I don't know where else to ask. > >Why do CD-RWs have such ungodly system requirements? > >I was just looking at a CD-RW (24/10/40) that

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-27 Thread Pigeon
On 26 Nov 2002 19:21:53 -0600, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Stephen Gran writes: >> In /etc/ppp/peers/ukonline, make sure you have 'usepeerdns' somewhere >> towards the bottom of the file (at least, that's always been it's place < >> in my experience, don't know if it really matters). >

compiling 2.4.20-rc4 on woody

2002-11-27 Thread Robert Epprecht
I need some advice on compiling kernel 2.4.20-rc4 on woody. I have got kernel-source-2.4.18 (from woody) and would like to use it, as I am on a slow modem connection. I tried to apply the official patch-2.4.19 first, but it fails on a few items, probably because my source is patched by Debian (?)

Sending mail as a particular user

2002-11-27 Thread McRae, Darren A
Hello, Is the a way of mail being sent as a particular user no matter what the linux username is? So if I log in as root or daz or pete it sends mail signed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] This needs to be done via sendmail, as that is what I'm using. regards Darren *

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 03:25:30PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On 26 Nov 2002 19:21:53 -0600, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Stephen Gran writes: > >> In /etc/ppp/peers/ukonline, make sure you have 'usepeerdns' somewhere > >> towards the bottom of the file (at least, that's always been it'

Re: CD-RW requirements?

2002-11-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
Mike Dresser wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > Why do CD-RWs have such ungodly system requirements? > > > > I was just looking at a CD-RW (24/10/40) that actually specified Linux > > compatability (Slackware, but a Linux driver is a Linux driver, I would > > guess). The b

Re: CD-RW requirements?

2002-11-27 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Marc Shapiro wrote: > It did not specify seperate requirements for the varying OSs. I'd have to go with the fact that system requirements are never accurate. Always either triple the requirement, or cut in half. Reminds me of a Tom's Hardware guide video, the one where they

Re: Lilio 01 01 01

2002-11-27 Thread Robert Epprecht
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > In linux.debian.user, you wrote: >> I have a problem with Lilo: > [ ... ] If not, switch to grub which I'm sure will take care of it. As I was unable to have it working with LILO on this peculiar machine I have switched to GRUB and like it very much. Thank you, Rob

two different netenvs (work and home)

2002-11-27 Thread Rohan Nicholls
Netenv cannot deal with my adsl connection, so I would like to disable it and make a script that calls dhcp (work) or calls my pptp script. The problem is in init.d there is netenv, but I can find nothing in the rcX.d dirs that is connected to networking, unless it is inetd, but I always thoug

Re: Partition size

2002-11-27 Thread Chris Lale
Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On my 40 GB drive, I went with: > > / 1 GB > swap 1/2 GB > /opt 2 GB > /usr 8 GB > /var 4 GB > /home 24 GB I read in the Debian installation manual (v.3.0.24, 24th May 2002 section 6.4) that partitions greater than about 6Gb should be avoided. Does anyone know if this true?

Re: Partition size

2002-11-27 Thread Lukas Ruf
* Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-27 17:12]: > > I read in the Debian installation manual (v.3.0.24, 24th May 2002 > section 6.4) that partitions greater than about 6Gb should be avoided. > Does anyone know if this true? If so, why? > My partition sizes are: FilesystemSize

Re: two different netenvs (work and home)

2002-11-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 17:15:02 +0100, Rohan Nicholls wrote: > Netenv cannot deal with my adsl connection, so I would like to disable > it and make a script that calls dhcp (work) or calls my pptp script. Keep netenv and configure /etc/network/interfaces to use different configurations. For ins

Re: Partition size

2002-11-27 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mer 27/11/2002 à 17:10, Chris Lale a écrit : > Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > On my 40 GB drive, I went with: > > > > / 1 GB > > swap 1/2 GB > > /opt 2 GB > > /usr 8 GB > > /var 4 GB > > /home 24 GB > > I read in the Debian installation manual (v.3.0.24, 24th

pppd radius authentication

2002-11-27 Thread Alexey Chetroi
Hello All, I want to setup a dial-in ppp server. But I want to auth. incoming users via our radius server. Is there patch for Debian pppd? We have already workin freeradius server authenticating against ldap database. Is there better way than patching pppd for radius support? -- Best regar

Problems setting GTK applications fonts.

2002-11-27 Thread chainy
Hello list: I wanted to change the font of my GTK applications. For that isue i downloaded gtkfontsel, but using this i am not able to do it, no results after I quit this application. Any Idea? Thanks a lot. Chainy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: apt-get error message

2002-11-27 Thread Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka
Extracted from: http://katspace.net/computers/linux_tips.txt "This happened because Debian is so big now, that once I started listing multiple sources, it couldn't cope with them all with its default settings for its Dynamic MMap (which stands for Dynamic Memory Map I think). The way this gets fix

Re: upgraded kernel, lost eth0

2002-11-27 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Tim" == Tim Verry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tim> I ran apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-386 (not sure about Tim> that tsc crap on this pentium 200) and it went pretty well. Tim> However, when I rebooted I saw a message flash by that said Tim> "eth0 device not found" or so

problem unsubscribing

2002-11-27 Thread Hell.Surfers
i can recieve confirmation requests but I cant seem to get their codes to work, I want off this bloody list. Regards, Dean. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Debian vs Gentoo (discussed in newsletter)

2002-11-27 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:19:20 +1100, bob parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:39, Benedict Verheyen wrote: >> Hi, >> For instance, a lot of man pages for me don't really >> help me. They give me a clue yes, but do not provide >> all the help i need. >> >I'm using Woody and the

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-27 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 07:00:21 +, Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Pigeon wrote: > >> Read the line in my original post immediately after "every time it >> logs on"... :-) >> >> Thanks, anyway! > >Sorry! I had deleted previous messages in the thread before your post >caught my eye. > >He

Re: computer dead; help!

2002-11-27 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 00:36:13 -0500, Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >on Wed, 27 Nov 2002 05:55:11AM +0100, Robert Ian Smit insinuated: >> * Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [27-11-2002 05:39]: >> > > the screen goes off, totally black, as if it had lost power. >> > okay, i can now ge

Re: Modem IRQs, password & mail problems

2002-11-27 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:08:33 +, "Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:13:06AM +, Pigeon wrote: >> On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 22:35:42 +, "Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 07:42:18PM +, Pigeon wrote: > >[...]

Re: How to enable DMA at boot time

2002-11-27 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Wed 27 Nov 2002 04:13:08 +(+), Pigeon wrote: 4:13am! Is Pigeon really an owl? > Try ide0=ata66 (for UDMA66; change as appropriate) > > Works for me. I tried both ide0=ata66 and ide0=ata100 but neither worked. The parameters went onto the kernel command line reported by dmesg and ker

upgrade to sid?

2002-11-27 Thread Tim Verry
If one were to put "deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free" in my sources.list, uh, I mean one's sources.list, then ran apt-get upgrade and watched about 200 packages get upgraded, what exactly would the result be on so and so's previously woody Debian installation?

joy!

2002-11-27 Thread Tim Verry
I really should have subscribed to this list a long time ago. Thanks again everyone for the help. I've been playing with this Debian box for a little over a month now. I have really gotten frusterated at times, but feel like I'm on top of the world today. Not only did I get my eth0 loading a

Re: How do you recover a long filename that Wndows squashed?

2002-11-27 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 08:48:25AM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > name. it's like mc or the system knows the correct name it just doesnt > display it. kinda weird, huh. I haven't used mc in quite a while, but as I recall that's exactly what it does - if the filename is too long to fit in the di

binary files

2002-11-27 Thread David and Dana Evans
I know now how to install a "whatever.tar.gz" file but how do I install a "whatever.bin" file? Please help I've been reading and reading and can't find the answer. Thanks Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: binary files

2002-11-27 Thread Robert L. Harris
.bin? Isn't that a mac format generally? what does "file whatever.bin" say? Thus spake David and Dana Evans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > From: "David and Dana Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: binary files > Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:09:05 -0800 > X-Mailer: Microsoft O

Re: joy!

2002-11-27 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 17:51, Tim Verry wrote: > I really should have subscribed to this list a long time ago. Thanks again > everyone for the help. I've been playing with this Debian box for a little > over a month now. I have really gotten frusterated at times, but feel like > I'm on to

a couple of install questions

2002-11-27 Thread Meredith Richmond
hi, i have an old Acer 486 notebook computer that is currently using win95. i would like to start using debian but i didn't see it in your list of compatible computer types... is it still possible to install it? also my notebook isn't highspeed, but i have a computer that is, would there be any

Re: upgrade to sid?

2002-11-27 Thread Steve Juranich
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 12:43:06 -0500, Tim Verry wrote: > If one were to put "deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable > main contrib non-free" in my sources.list, uh, I mean one's > sources.list, then ran apt-get upgrade and watched about 200 packages > get upgraded, what exactly would the res

RE: binary files

2002-11-27 Thread deFreese, Barry
David, .bin is usually the Macintosh binhex archiving format. Might need to make sure you pulled down the right file if you downloaded it? Barry deFreese NTS Technology Services Manager Nike Team Sports (949)-616-4005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Technology doesn't make you less stupid; it just makes you

Re: binary files

2002-11-27 Thread Qian Gong
Most likely the .bin file itself is an installer. You just run it and it will start the installation. For example, staroffice and acrobat reader use .bin as an installer. Qian On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:09:05AM -0800, David and Dana Evans wrote: > I know now how to install a "whatever.tar.gz" file

Re: binary files

2002-11-27 Thread pierre
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 11:09, David and Dana Evans wrote: Hello! Make sure the bin file has execute permissions set. chmod +x Run the bin file by typing its name at the linux prompt Agree to the displayed license information Pierre > I know now how to install a "whatever.tar.gz" file b

xmms not openinng its windows

2002-11-27 Thread Ben Hartshorne
Hi there, I've got a strange problem that I'm having trouble tracking down. The symptom: I run xmms (either from the command line or my gnome taskbar) and nothing happens. I run ps -auwx and i can see 4 or so instances of xmms running. I notice that the xmms gnome-applet has changed it's face (

Re: binary files

2002-11-27 Thread pierre
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 11:25, deFreese, Barry wrote: Hello! I beg to defer on your assumption it a mac file as red hat as a few bin files in there OS for updates. > David, > > .bin is usually the Macintosh binhex archiving format. Might need to make > sure you pulled down the right file

Re: binary files

2002-11-27 Thread Travis Crump
Robert L. Harris wrote: .bin? Isn't that a mac format generally? what does "file whatever.bin" say? Thus spake David and Dana Evans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I know now how to install a "whatever.tar.gz" file but how do I install a "whatever.bin" file? Sun distributes their java installer as a

Re: binary files

2002-11-27 Thread Robert L. Harris
Good point, I'd forgotten a few guys distro'd like this. making it executable and ./whatever.bin would alow you to run it and it'll untar/rar/shar after license agreement and possibly some configuration options. Thus spake Travis Crump ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:37:36 -05

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2002-11-27 Thread Sergey A. Ovchar
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Re: binary files

2002-11-27 Thread Rodrigo Agerri
in short, there are two steps: chmod +x whatever.bin ./whatever.bin On Wednesday 27 November 2002 18:09, David and Dana Evans wrote: > I know now how to install a "whatever.tar.gz" file but how do I install a > "whatever.bin" file? > Please help I've been reading and reading and can't find t

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