Re: very limited mirror needed

2004-07-21 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 15:37, Steve Glines wrote: > I am building an install lab (i386) that is intended to mimic a full > network install. I'd like to mirror just enough to give a student the > experience of having installed Debian without mirroring everything. > > The lab has to be disconnecte

Re: very limited mirror needed

2004-07-21 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 08:37:43 -0400 Steve Glines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am building an install lab (i386) that is intended to mimic a full > network install. I'd like to mirror just enough to give a student the > experience of having installed Debian without mirroring everything. > > The l

Re: DVD Writing HOW TO

2004-07-21 Thread UnKnown
Thx to u all for the help,though I read the the page http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ which is more or less the same as the readme for the dvdplusrw debian package I have some doubts and was looking for a more simple low level howto. Well guess that not allways is posible so ill put some

ALSA Troubles...

2004-07-21 Thread Alex Derkach
Hello, I have been trying to set up my sound card (CMedia CM8738) to work with alsa. All of the appropreate modules for the device are loaded (see below) but alsamixer shows that their is no such device. /proc/asound/cards shows no soundcards, I am using a stock 2.6.7-k7 kernel image. Thanks! -

Re: ALSA Troubles...

2004-07-21 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:13:50 -0400 Alex Derkach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, I have been trying to set up my sound card (CMedia CM8738) to > work with alsa. All of the appropreate modules for the device are > loaded (see below) but alsamixer shows that their is no such device. > /proc/aso

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-21 Thread Alan Shutko
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 08:53:23PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: >> There's one CCD cell per image pixel, with the exception of the D1x, >> which has a strange layout[1]. > There is no way that this can be true physically. Of course there is, since that's t

Fwd: Hello Justin

2004-07-21 Thread Justin Guerin
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Hello Justin Date: Wednesday 21 July 2004 07:02 From: tapan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Justin, Cud you able to make pppd uphere is what I am facing I am using linux 2.0.x and want to test the existing pppd application. I h

Re: Re: ZIP drive question..

2004-07-21 Thread Forinash, Kyle
Hi; I’m having a problem mounting a 250Mb internal zip.a.    dmesg shows me hdd:IOMEGA ZIP 250 ATAPI FLOPPYb.    standard mount procedures (edit ‘/dev/sda4  /mnt/zip auto   user,noauto 0 0’ into /etc/fstab followed by  mount /mnt/zip) gives: “the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block

Re: ZIP drive question..

2004-07-21 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:44:53 -0500 "Forinash, Kyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi; > > I'm having a problem mounting a 250Mb internal zip. > a.dmesg shows me hdd:IOMEGA ZIP 250 ATAPI FLOPPY ^^^ > b.standard mount procedures (edit '/dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto > user,

Re: modules not found after kernel recompile

2004-07-21 Thread blackwings
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:47:28 +0200, "Wim De Smet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, > > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:34:52 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I have recently upgraded my Debian system (running testing) > > from kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 to 2.7.1 by following

Re: Thunderbird URL Won't Work

2004-07-21 Thread Alexander Sack
Ed Sutherland wrote: How do I renable URLs within Thunderbird and Gnome? (It is preventing me from using Linux.) Thanks. There are three solutions for your problem :) See the FAQ: http://www.jwsdot.com/debian/faq.html#q9 -- GPG messages preferred. | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Alexander Sack

Re: Ximian Connector for Debian Sid

2004-07-21 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 04:54:13PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 12:40, Andy Firman wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:36:36AM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > > > On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 10:35 -0400, Andy Firman wrote: > > > > Running Sid on my laptop with Evolution 1.4.6-3 and I w

Re: swapping master & slave HDs: what to change?

2004-07-21 Thread SpamHog
John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... >> Grub is Grand And I thought that "Grand Unified Bootloader" was hubristic! Until recently I used automatically installed lilo or grub rather indifferently, both as bootloaders and bootselectors. This way I could

Re: modules not found after kernel recompile

2004-07-21 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, First of all sorry to the list that I replied directly to the poster. On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:27:21 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:47:28 +0200, "Wim De Smet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:34:52 +0200,

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-21 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Ralph Katz-- > >I'm fairly sure the system is using esd with OSS drivers so this > >could be the difference. Well, actually, how do I confirm OSS > >drivers? > > While I'm no expert, I can see mine here on this stock kernel: > > ~$ grep -i os

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-21 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Jacob S.-- > > On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:20:20 -0400 > Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 07/20/04 18:40, Paul Yeatman wrote: > > > > > I'm fairly sure the system is using esd with OSS drivers so this > > > could be the difference. W

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-21 Thread Wim De Smet
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:04:27 -0700, Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi again. I'm responding to my own post. It wasn't until today, weeks > after my original post, that I got more clues as to is going on > concerning flash causing Mozilla to freeze on my Debian Sarge system. > The probl

ssl-certificate does not generate a cert with a unique ID

2004-07-21 Thread Alec Berryman
I'd like to generate a SSL certificate for apache-ssl and have tried using the tool 'ssl-certificate'. I have invoked it as 'ssl-certificate --force --days 1000', and it appears to generate a valid certificate. However, when I restart apache and try to browse the site (with both Firefox and Galeo

pppd - only 7 bit chars

2004-07-21 Thread Kenneth Jacker
[sarge with vmlinuz-2.4.26-1-686] I am in the process of switching from RH9 to Debian/sarge on my home machine (yes!). Under RH, I use 'kppp' successfully to login to my ISP (university) modem pool ... no problems. However, no matter how I create the PPP connection under 'sarge' (/usr/sbin/pppd,

Re: modules not found after kernel recompile

2004-07-21 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 07:55:27PM +0200, Wim De Smet wrote: > Hi, > [...] > > You normally don't need a modprobe.conf, everything should be in > /etc/modprobe.d. modprobe.conf is just an empty file on my system. I'm Is this true? Mine (a most

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-21 Thread Sylvain Vedrenne
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 01:04, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 05:06:38PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 13:39, Paul Tsai wrote: > > > Niels L. Ellegaard wrote: > > > >John L Fjellstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:> > > > > GNU == GNU is Not Unix, GNU was sy

Re: modules not found after kernel recompile

2004-07-21 Thread Wim De Smet
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:17:40 -0600, CW Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 07:55:27PM +0200, Wim De Smet wrote: > > Hi, > > > [...] > > > > You normally don't need a modprobe.conf, everything should be in > > /etc/modprobe.d. modprobe.conf is just an empty file on my system.

Re: Confounded by Firestarter "Issues"...

2004-07-21 Thread Ralph Katz
On 07/21/04 03:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to configure Firestarter (0.8xx) as a "Personal Firewall" (I know that's heresy in some quarters) and seem to be missing some fundamental information. Heresy? Why? I have it set up and running and I can get data through it. The problem is tha

Installing on Compaq Presario SN1020SX (acpi problem?)

2004-07-21 Thread sebastian heath
Hi, Firstly, if this is the wrong forum I apologize. I am installing 'testing' from the network install cd on a Compaq Presario SN1020SX and I think I might be having power management problems... When I first booted from the CD, the machine would uncompress linux and the restart. So I boo

Fwd: Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-21 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Wim De Smet-- > > On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:04:27 -0700, Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi again. I'm responding to my own post. It wasn't until today, weeks > > after my original post, that I got more clues as to is going on > > conce

Re: Fwd: Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-21 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:58:50 -0700 Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > H. Thanks for the suggestion. I did as you said and changed > my initial selection "esddsp" to "auto". Start esd, 'esd &'. > Start mozilla. Go to a flash site; Freezes. I then set it back > to esddsp just to tes

Re: Re: Still no sound in Flash

2004-07-21 Thread Paul Yeatman
Are you running esd? I'm guessing no. If not, I wonder if using esd with ALSA would help (package libesd-alsa0?). I'm dealing with a similar problem but where accessing a flash kills my browser if esd is already running. If esd is not running (and isn't automatically started by the flash plugin

Re: ALSA Troubles...

2004-07-21 Thread Alex Derkach
* Jacob S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I had the same problem when I recently switched from 2.4.18 to > 2.6.6-2-k7. Check to make sure alsa-base is installed (apt-get install > alsa-base). You may also want to install alsa-utils and alsa-oss, if > they're not already installed. I have all of t

newsML

2004-07-21 Thread Paul Maser
Anyone have experience setting up a newsML server using Debian? Thanks; -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Apt-get hangs

2004-07-21 Thread David
I have some additional information to add to my previously reported problem which is that "apt-get install whatever" often hangs. I have now experienced this problem on three different computers and it makes upgrading packages nearly impossible so I must find a solution. I believe the problem is

Re: ZIP drive question..

2004-07-21 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-21, Jacob S. penned: > --Signature=_Wed__21_Jul_2004_12_11_08_-0500_wz0Lp0Pqv4IaNzYy > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:44:53 -0500 "Forinash, Kyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Hi; >>

Re: Re: via82cxxx

2004-07-21 Thread Frank Mulder
>> FATAL: Error inserting snd_seq_oss >> (/lib/modules/2.6.3-1-386/kernel/sound/core/seq/oss/snd-seq-oss.ko): >> Device or resource busy > >I dohn't know about the error. But I think you need to fire up >timidity (or maybe fluidsynth) ALSA will then direct the midi >events to timidity for software

Re: Fwd: Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-21 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Jacob S.-- > > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:58:50 -0700 > Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > H. Thanks for the suggestion. I did as you said and changed > > my initial selection "esddsp" to "auto". Start esd, 'esd &'. > > Start mozill

RE: Installing on Compaq Presario SN1020SX (acpi problem?)

2004-07-21 Thread frizzgrig
sebastian heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If anybody has any ideas of other boot-time options I can pass to the >kernel or any other ideas, I am all ears at this point. Try going to the compaq web site and getting the most current BIOS on your system. It may help. Pat __

kismet and WG511

2004-07-21 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I have a Netgear WG511 WLAN card with Prism chipset. The card is runnig fine. Now I'm trying to run Kismet 2004.04.R. But the execution of the program fails with this error message: Will drop privs to XXX (XXX) gid XXX No specific sources given to be enabled, all will be enabled. Enabling ch

Re: ALSA Troubles...

2004-07-21 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 11:13:50AM -0400, Alex Derkach wrote: > Hello, I have been trying to set up my sound card (CMedia CM8738) to > work with alsa. All of the appropreate modules for the device are loaded I had simmilar problems with several soundcards and 2.6 kernels. But loading the prime

Re: Confounded by Firestarter "Issues"...

2004-07-21 Thread listcomm
> Heresy? Why? There is a consensus of some sort among some security people that (a) personal firewalls are useless, (b) using ipchains, iptables, or anything layered thereupon (like Firestarter)to attempt to construct one is a waste of time. (Obviously I don't care what they think, or I wouldn'

Re: ZIP drive question..

2004-07-21 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 12:11:08PM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:44:53 -0500 > "Forinash, Kyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi; > > > > I'm having a problem mounting a 250Mb internal zip. > > a.dmesg shows me hdd:IOMEGA ZIP 250 ATAPI FLOPPY >^^^

Re: Confounded by Firestarter "Issues"...

2004-07-21 Thread listcomm
> Heresy? Why? There is a consensus of some sort among some security people that (a) personal firewalls are useless, (b) using ipchains, iptables, or anything layered thereupon (like Firestarter)to attempt to construct one is a waste of time. (Obviously I don't care what they think, or I wouldn'

Re: Fwd: Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-21 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:49:46 -0700 Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ->>In response to your message<<- > --received from Jacob S.-- > > > > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:58:50 -0700 > > Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > H. Thanks for the suggestion. I did as you said and

Re: Confounded by Firestarter "Issues"...

2004-07-21 Thread listcomm
> Heresy? Why? There is a consensus of some sort among some security people that (a) personal firewalls are useless, (b) using ipchains, iptables, or anything layered thereupon (like Firestarter)to attempt to construct one is a waste of time. (Obviously I don't care what they think, or I wouldn'

Re: Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-21 Thread Wim De Smet
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:58:50 -0700, Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ->>In response to your message<<- > --received from Wim De Smet-- > > > > On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:04:27 -0700, Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi again. I'm responding to my own post. It wasn't until toda

Re: ALSA Troubles...

2004-07-21 Thread Alex Derkach
* Carel Fellinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 11:13:50AM -0400, Alex Derkach wrote: > > Hello, I have been trying to set up my sound card (CMedia CM8738) to > > work with alsa. All of the appropreate modules for the device are loaded > > I had simmilar problems with sev

Re: Confounded by Firestarter "Issues"...

2004-07-21 Thread listcomm
> Heresy? Why? There is a consensus of some sort among some security people that (a) personal firewalls are useless, (b) using ipchains, iptables, or anything layered thereupon (like Firestarter)to attempt to construct one is a waste of time. (Obviously I don't care what they think, or I wouldn'

Re: Confounded by Firestarter "Issues"...

2004-07-21 Thread listcomm
> Heresy? Why? There is a consensus of some sort among some security people that (a) personal firewalls are useless, (b) using ipchains, iptables, or anything layered thereupon (like Firestarter)to attempt to construct one is a waste of time. (Obviously I don't care what they think, or I wouldn'

Re: Confounded by Firestarter "Issues"...

2004-07-21 Thread listcomm
> Heresy? Why? There is a consensus of some sort among some security people that (a) personal firewalls are useless, (b) using ipchains, iptables, or anything layered thereupon (like Firestarter)to attempt to construct one is a waste of time. (Obviously I don't care what they think, or I wouldn'

Re: Confounded by Firestarter "Issues"...

2004-07-21 Thread listcomm
> Heresy? Why? There is a consensus of some sort among some security people that (a) personal firewalls are useless, (b) using ipchains, iptables, or anything layered thereupon (like Firestarter)to attempt to construct one is a waste of time. (Obviously I don't care what they think, or I wouldn'

sorry...

2004-07-21 Thread listcomm
I see the multiple messages. this web mailer is really, really, REALLY screwed up. fortunately, I think I know what the bug is and can avoid triggering it from here on... just damn. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Confounded by Firestarter "Issues"...

2004-07-21 Thread listcomm
> Heresy? Why? There is a consensus of some sort among some security people that (a) personal firewalls are useless, (b) using ipchains, iptables, or anything layered thereupon (like Firestarter)to attempt to construct one is a waste of time. (Obviously I don't care what they think, or I wouldn'

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2004 #653Subject: Re: ZIP drive question..

2004-07-21 Thread Forinash, Kyle
Hi Jacob, thanks for trying to help me out. Here is what I tried (to no avail). How do I know what fs types are available (I tried repartitioning the zip as Extended but got the same not supported error)? Am I doing something stupid here? /home/kyle# /bin/mount /dev/hdd /mnt/zip mount: you must

Re: ZIP drive question..

2004-07-21 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:20:22 -0500 "Forinash, Kyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jacob, thanks for trying to help me out. Here is what I tried (to > no avail). How do I know what fs types are available (I tried > repartitioning the zip as Extended but got the same not supported > error)? Am I

Re: Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-21 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Wim De Smet-- > > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:58:50 -0700, Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ->>In response to your message<<- > > --received from Wim De Smet-- > > > > > > On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:04:27 -0700, Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: very limited mirror needed

2004-07-21 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 17:58, Steve Glines wrote: > Thanks but that doesn't help - The lab I'm building has to be off > line so I need to create the mirror first. With Redhat and SUSE all I > had to do was copy the CD's to an http able location and use a > network install. I can't seem to do tha

Upgrade to 2.6.7: missing IDE drives

2004-07-21 Thread Vadim Vinichenko
Hi, I have a system with Intel 865 chipset (ICH5 'south bridge' controller), one Serial ATA hard disk and three normal (parallel) IDE drives - CDRW, DVD and Iomega Zip. With 2.6.3 pre-built kernel (I'm using Debian Unstable, dist-upgraded often) all the drives were available: SATA one, which wa

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-21 Thread Paul Yeatman
I just noticed something I didn't notice before. Since I have learned I need to kill esd before going to a flash-enabled web site to see the flash correctly (and not have my browser die), I assumed the flash was spawning its own esd process. Actually, I just noticed that, while flash is playing c

Re: kismet and WG511

2004-07-21 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya christian On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Christian Christmann wrote: > FATAL: Dump file error: Unable to open wtap dump file: Kismet-Jul-21-2004-1.dump > (Permission denied) what user are you running kismet as ?? - you define christian in kismet conf file /usr/local/etc/kismet.conf - yo

Question: How do I recover /var/lib/dpkg/info/

2004-07-21 Thread Stephan Witoszynskyj
Hi, I've got a problem: somehow my /var/lib/dpkg/info/ got corrupted (it seems that there were some file system problems). Now I need to restore the files that were in there. I know which debs were installed, so in principle I just need to extract them from the deb files. My question is how do I d

KVM (kernel memory interface)

2004-07-21 Thread Stewart Flood
Greetings... I'm starting a project to port a very large application from FreeBSD to Debian. I've gotten past some of the initial porting issues, but I'm stuck on this one: under FreeBSD we used the kernel memory interface (KVM), but Debian doesn't seem to have kvm.h and I can't find a man page

Re: How can I make sure that Linux have initialized all CPUs?

2004-07-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 09:25, Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: > I am running Debian stable with kernel 2.4.26-2-686 on a HP DL 140 with > 2 CPUs. > > How can I make sure that Linux have initialized all CPUs? > > # dmesg | grep "Initializing CPU" > Initializing CPU#0 > > Shouldn't there be at least 2,

Re: modules not found after kernel recompile

2004-07-21 Thread Wayne Topa
Wim De Smet([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:17:40 -0600, CW Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 07:55:27PM +0200, Wim De Smet wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > [...] > > > > > > You normally don't need a modprobe.conf, everything should be in

Re: How can I make sure that Linux have initialized all CPUs?

2004-07-21 Thread Jacob Friis Larsen
Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 09:25, Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: I am running Debian stable with kernel 2.4.26-2-686 on a HP DL 140 with 2 CPUs. How can I make sure that Linux have initialized all CPUs? # dmesg | grep "Initializing CPU" Initializing CPU#0 Shouldn't there be at least 2,

Re: How can I make sure that Linux have initialized all CPUs?

2004-07-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 18:19, Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: > I still only see 1 CPU. > On Redhat I can see all 4 CPUs. > Would that be possible? Please do a: uname -a Copy and paste the result please. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux signature.as

Re: Question: How do I recover /var/lib/dpkg/info/

2004-07-21 Thread Doug Holland
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 3:35 pm, Stephan Witoszynskyj wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a problem: somehow my /var/lib/dpkg/info/ got corrupted (it > seems that there were some file system problems). Now I need to restore > the files that were in there. I know which debs were installed, so in > principle

Sarge_Install : Partition_Concern

2004-07-21 Thread Cousin Stanley
Greetings Using a 5 year old 250 MHz Compaq Presario desktop with 192 MB of memory and 2 hard drives, I've been experimenting for a couple of months with a hard-disk installation of Knoppix and now would like to move on up to Debian Sarge Knoppix runs well on this machine

Woody precompiled modules

2004-07-21 Thread awais
Hi, I've compiled all the 2.4.18-bf2.4 modules and made them available at http://www.li.nux.org.uk/debianmodules.html . Hope this is useful. Awais -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How can I make sure that Linux have initialized all CPUs?

2004-07-21 Thread Jacob Friis Larsen
Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 18:19, Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: I still only see 1 CPU. On Redhat I can see all 4 CPUs. Would that be possible? Please do a: uname -a Copy and paste the result please. react1:~# uname -a Linux react1 2.4.26-2-686 #1 Mon May 17 22:19:48 EST 2004 i686 unknow

RE: How can I make sure that Linux have initialized all CPUs?

2004-07-21 Thread Steven Jones
cat /proc/cpuinfo should show all 4 cpus? regards Thing -Original Message- From: Jacob Friis Larsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 July 2004 10:56 a.m. To: Greg Folkert Cc: DebianUser List Subject: Re: How can I make sure that Linux have initialized all CPUs? Greg Folke

Re: How can I make sure that Linux have initialized all CPUs?

2004-07-21 Thread Erçin EKER
On Prş, 2004-07-22 at 00:55 +0200, Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 18:19, Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: > > > >>I still only see 1 CPU. > >>On Redhat I can see all 4 CPUs. > >>Would that be possible? > > > > Please do a: > > > > uname -a > > > > Copy and pa

Re: How can I make sure that Linux have initialized all CPUs?

2004-07-21 Thread Jacob Friis Larsen
Steven Jones wrote: cat /proc/cpuinfo should show all 4 cpus? I see only one. The kernel is "Linux react1 2.4.26-2-686 #1 Mon May 17 22:19:48 EST 2004 i686 unknown". # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 2 model name :

RE: How can I make sure that Linux have initialized all CPUs?

2004-07-21 Thread Steven Jones
Then I believe you do not have a smp kernel, because that command should show all 4. regards Steven -Original Message- From: Jacob Friis Larsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 July 2004 11:07 a.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: Greg Folkert; DebianUser List Subject: Re: How can I make

Serial help - minicom?

2004-07-21 Thread Bill Moseley
I've got an Access Point that has a serial port. The AP runs Linux (it's an Netgear WG302). I can't connect to it from Linux using minicom. After messing with it for an hour I brought out an old Win95 machine with hyperterm and was able to connect no problem. So, AP and cable are working fine.

How to de-Grub?

2004-07-21 Thread Stephen Cradock
Well, it's a long story!!! I started trying to install Woody (see "Starting up.." thread a couple of weeks ago) - found Woody wouldn't recognize my Intel 845 video chipset. Switched to "vesa" but that would only give me 640x480 display. So I decided to upgrade to Sarge - set up another Linux par

Re: How can I make sure that Linux have initialized all CPUs?

2004-07-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 18:55, Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 18:19, Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: > > > >>I still only see 1 CPU. > >>On Redhat I can see all 4 CPUs. > >>Would that be possible? > > > > Please do a: > > > > uname -a > > > > Copy and paste th

Re: How to de-Grub?

2004-07-21 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 12:47, Stephen Cradock wrote: > Then, as one does when playing with Linux, I went stark staring bonkers, and > decide to try Gentoo - a friend told me it was much easier to install. > Rather than make yet another partition, I wiped the Sarge partition and > installed Gentoo

Re: How can I make sure that Linux have initialized all CPUs?

2004-07-21 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 13:07, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 18:55, Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: > > Greg Folkert wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 18:19, Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: > > > > > >>I still only see 1 CPU. > > >>On Redhat I can see all 4 CPUs. > > >>Would that be possible? > >

Re: How to de-Grub?

2004-07-21 Thread Robert William Hutton
Stephen Cradock wrote: Then, as one does when playing with Linux, I went stark staring bonkers, and decide to try Gentoo - a friend told me it was much easier to install. Rather than make yet another partition, I wiped the Sarge partition and installed Gentoo there, from a CD. That went OK, but

Re: Don't buy Sony (was: Re: sony vaio desktop)

2004-07-21 Thread Silvan
> I can hardly believe that this was by accident since everything they > do just shows so obviously what they aim at - ripping you off very > thoroughly. You'd think they'd have learned something from betamax by now. :) -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and

RE: Don't buy Sony (was: Re: sony vaio desktop)

2004-07-21 Thread Steven Jones
suits never learnthey only think in one term...dollarsand how to make more. Betamax was actually good, pity VHS won regards Thing -Original Message- From: Silvan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 July 2004 1:39 p.m. To: Debian-user Subject: Re: Don't buy Sony (was

Re: How to de-Grub?

2004-07-21 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 13:35, Robert William Hutton wrote: > Stephen Cradock wrote: > > > I'd recommend that you install LILO using the first woody CD. LILO, unlike > GRUB, installs itself exclusively in the MBR, so you don't need some other > partition for the stage 2 loader which GRUB requires.

USB disk drive

2004-07-21 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm trying out a FireLite USB drive. It's been used on Windows (from what the owner tells me and has data on it). I'm running kernel 2.6.6. When I plug it in I see this in syslog: Jul 21 17:18:50 bumby kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 2 Jul 21 17:18:51 bumby kernel: SCSI

RE: USB disk drive

2004-07-21 Thread Steven Jones
Try fdisk /dev/sda and see if it has partition data, ie do a "p" look and then "q" to quit. ? Otherwise leave the "drive" in and reboot, see if its seeable then(crude I know) regards Steven -Original Message- From: Bill Moseley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 July 200

Re: USB disk drive

2004-07-21 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:39:36PM +1200, Steven Jones wrote: > Try fdisk /dev/sda and see if it has partition data, ie do a "p" look and then "q" > to quit. I tried that: fdisk /dev/sda didn't return anything - just back to the prompt. Which made me wonder if the device was being bound to /dev

Re: USB disk drive

2004-07-21 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 14:33, Bill Moseley wrote: > I'm trying out a FireLite USB drive. It's been used on Windows (from > what the owner tells me and has data on it). > > I'm running kernel 2.6.6. > > When I plug it in I see this in syslog: > > Jul 21 17:18:50 bumby kernel: usb 1-2: new full sp

Re: smbmount freezes ls only the first time

2004-07-21 Thread Ernie McCracken
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:37:35 +1000, Robert William Hutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been having problems with smbmount. I've noticed this on both my desktop > and laptop computers. Both are running sid, updated regularly. The symptoms of > the problem are: > > - mount a share (either fr

Re: How to de-Grub?

2004-07-21 Thread Robert William Hutton
Simon Kitching wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 13:35, Robert William Hutton wrote: Stephen Cradock wrote: I'd recommend that you install LILO using the first woody CD. LILO, unlike GRUB, installs itself exclusively in the MBR, so you don't need some other partition for the stage 2 loader which GRUB

Re: USB disk drive

2004-07-21 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:50:40PM +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: > I have to do this on my Sarge install with kernel 2.4: > modprobe usb-storage > mount /proc/bus/usb > before the "mount -t vfat /dev/sda ..." works. That's allready done: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount | grep usb usbfs on /proc/b

Re: problems using JACK

2004-07-21 Thread Silvan
On Monday 19 July 2004 10:54 am, Raphaël Berbain wrote: > rich lott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > then some comments seemed to hint otherwise. It certainly doesn't seem to > > work that way. > > http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=AlsaSharing basically says that > ALSA allows sound mixing, wi

Re: apm problems after sid upgrade

2004-07-21 Thread David Zelinsky
Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are as many opinions on this list on ways to do things are there > are options ;) > > However, FWIW I would recommend installing aptitude and apt-listbugs to > maintain your sid system. It takes a while to get used to aptitude's > interface (pa

2.6.7 + Palm problems

2004-07-21 Thread Bradley Alexander
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Having problems with 2.6.7, hopefully someone can help. I have USB1.1 on the motherboard, but I bought a Belkin USB2.0 card a month ago. USB2.0 hub plugged into the USB2 card. Upgraded to 2.6.7 a week ago. My problem is that my Palm Tungsten E doesn

Re: how to edit a pdf file in linux

2004-07-21 Thread Dave Thayer
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 12:36:37PM +0530, J.S.Sahambi wrote: > I just now saw that in windows the pdf files can be edited very nicely > and it can be used to add comments for revision. I found this feature > very interesting and useful for adding comments while reviewing research > papers. I wou

Re: Need a Traffic Shaping Crash Course Please

2004-07-21 Thread Scarletdown
For some reason, this isn't showing up on lists.debian.user, so I will go ahead and repost it here... David Purton wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 04:29:06PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: -bash-2.05b# ifup eth1 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument RTNETLINK answers:

Re: USB disk drive

2004-07-21 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 07:45:21PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:39:36PM +1200, Steven Jones wrote: > > Try fdisk /dev/sda and see if it has partition data, ie do a "p" look and then "q" > > to quit. > > I tried that: fdisk /dev/sda didn't return anything - just back to

Debian installer beta 4 can't mount ext3 partitions

2004-07-21 Thread Jason Rennie
Hello, I just did a Debian Sarge install using the beta 4 installer. I had an existing ext3 paritition that I wanted to mount as /home, but after "manually partitioning" and telling Debian to use the existing format, Debian complained that the ext2 filesystem had something wrong with it. I don't

Re: USB disk drive

2004-07-21 Thread Daniel J. Bodony
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 04:50:06 +0200, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:39:36PM +1200, Steven Jones wrote: >> Try fdisk /dev/sda and see if it has partition data, ie do a "p" look and then "q" >> to quit. > > I tried that: fdisk /dev/sda didn't return anything - just back to > the

Continue asking about RSH on Linux?

2004-07-21 Thread Hai Nguyen
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dear AlphaLinux!   I tried doing as you told me about "RSH on Linux" but it still has not OK yet. Some messages occur when I type as following:#ps -ax| grep portmap 355 ?  S 0:00 portmap766 tty1 S 0:00 grep portmap   I have inserted 2 lines into /etc/hosts

Do kernel-image-2.4.26-2-686-smp at least support the same drivers as kernel-image-2.4.26-2-686?

2004-07-21 Thread Jacob Friis Larsen
Do kernel-image-2.4.26-2-686-smp at least support the same drivers as kernel-image-2.4.26-2-686? I need a smp kernel and support for tg3 and 3ware, which is supported in kernel-image-2.4.26-2-686. What is the difference between kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686-smp and kernel-image-2.4.26-2-686-smp 1

6 ip route add

2004-07-21 Thread Umar Draz
Hi Dear Members!     i have a 1MB DSL connection. from my DSL ISP i got 6 IP with ip addresses   202.147.170.130202.147.170.132 202.147.170.133 202.147.170.134 202.147.170.135 202.147.170.136   with netmask 255.255.255.224 with gateway 202.147.170.129.     now i have 6 machines of Debian (Cache, We