Re: trying to set up a print server; installation problems. Please help

2004-10-28 Thread Chris Lale
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 15:22, linux wrote: > > aptitude update > > > > > Command not found. Aptitude is becoming preferred to apt-get, but may not be installed if you are running Woody. Install it as root: $ su # apt-get install aptitude # aptitude update should now work, updating the list o

Debian organization chart translation

2004-10-28 Thread Alejandro Rios P.
Hi. I've made a translation to spanish of Martin F. Krafft's Debian organization chart. It can be found here: http://people.debian.org/~madduck/organigram/es/ Greetings, -- Alejandro Rios P. signature.asc Description: Esta parte del mensaje =?ISO-8859-1?Q?est=E1?= firmada digitalmente

Re: Subject=Re: cdrecord --scanbus

2004-10-28 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 16:34 -0500, John Fleming wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "[KS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 2:17 PM > Subject: Subject=Re: cdrecord --scanbus > > > > Check your CD/DVD drives using > > > > $>cdrecord -scanb

Problem with keyboard while installing sarge

2004-10-28 Thread Israel Chauca
Hi everybody, I downloaded the Sarge net install CD (built 09/30/2004) to install Debian in my iMac Burgundi 333MHz. Everything starts ok, but when I get the "Chose your language" screen, I can't use the keyboard to change the selection or accept the current one or start a new shell, I don't know i

Re: Debian unstable vs Ubuntu

2004-10-28 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:07:56 -0700, Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 09:03:25PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > What exactly does modconf do other than load a module and save it's name > > to /etc/modules? If you want to manage modules on your own, add their >

Re: Yanking a USB Hard Drive/ReiserFS causes Kernel Panic

2004-10-28 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 01:18:11PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > The question about PCI hotplug was very honest, since PCI hotplug > refers to pulling PCI cards out of live systems, and that, to my > understanding, has nothing to do with USB (which is hotplug by > definition). I actually think the p

Re: Yanking a USB Hard Drive/ReiserFS causes Kernel Panic

2004-10-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 17:21 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 12:22 -0400, William Ballard wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:23:07AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > Anything promising using the PCI hotplug facili

discover vs. discover1 (was Re: Need help: How to replace NIC card with another brand)

2004-10-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 13:12 -0700, Eric Gaumer wrote: > On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 11:52 -0700, Gary wrote: > [snip] > > Make sure discover1 is installed and that will automatically find the > new card and load whatever kernel module it needs. discover is at v2.0.4, and depends on libdiscover2, while

Re: Subversion version 1.1

2004-10-28 Thread Alan Chandler
On Thursday 28 October 2004 11:00, Joost Witteveen wrote: > Alan Chandler wrote: > >I tried to find out why subversion 1.1 is still sitting in experimental > > rather than making its way into unstable, but I was unable to find out > > any reason, despite seaching development and this mailing list f

Re: discover vs. discover1 (was Re: Need help: How to replace NIC card with another brand)

2004-10-28 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 17:39 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 13:12 -0700, Eric Gaumer wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 11:52 -0700, Gary wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Make sure discover1 is installed and that will automatically find the > > new card and load whatever kernel module it

Re: High Performence SQUID Howto

2004-10-28 Thread Gautam Bakshi
I don't trust most howto's that tell me if i follow them, I will have an "high Performence" system. Most default installs are optimized for general usage, in order to optimize something you need to be able to adjust it to fit your needs. For example for apache, there's a conf file for high perfor

Re: Yanking a USB Hard Drive/ReiserFS causes Kernel Panic

2004-10-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 18:20 -0400, William Ballard wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 01:18:11PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > The question about PCI hotplug was very honest, since PCI hotplug > > refers to pulling PCI cards out of live systems, and that, to my > > understanding, has nothing to do wi

Problem with Sarge-NetInstall m68k on my Amiga (won't even start...)

2004-10-28 Thread Tobias Matschke
Hi! I downloaded the latest NetInstall ISO (http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/m68k/pre-rc2/sarge-m68k-netinst.iso) and tried to install debian on my Amiga... But I can't even start the installer, because it doesn't find the size of the ram-disk. This may be related to the f

Re: Yanking a USB Hard Drive/ReiserFS causes Kernel Panic

2004-10-28 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 06:12:18PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > / and /boot are formatted ReiserFS? Yah, so I get what I deserve I guess. > So a "shutdown -t1 -now -r" on another console TTY just sits there? Yes, as does "halt" and "reboot" and "Ctrl+Alt+Delete". Halt and reboot say they are do

Re: Debian 3.0r3 iso images?

2004-10-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Björn Johansson wrote: Hello! Is there any Debian 3.0r3 images available somewhere? I can't find it anywhere, I'm a bit early I guess :-). Björn Johansson (Not a member of the list) 3.0r3 ISOs are really not a necessity. If you have the ISOs from a previous release you can just use those and then

Re: USE flags ??

2004-10-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i use gentoo primarily now because i like the feeling that every > piece of software on my system from the bootstrap up is compiled for > my hardware aka p4, every debian binary is built for a 386 machine > to

Re: reconfiguring exim4

2004-10-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to go beyond local delivery only with a mail server. > I remember setting it at installation time, but dpg-reconfigure exim4 > does nothing. > > Anyone knows how to change the exim4 configurati

Re: cdrecord --scanbus

2004-10-28 Thread Carl Fink
What do people think: would it make sense to put in a wishlist request for "cdrecord -scanbus" to scan ALL buses, not just SCSI by default? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: i need help in my debian OS in my pc

2004-10-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Amit Poddar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the problem in my pc is that i cant get a desktop. how do i get a > desktop? Use aptitude and find the parts of the desktop environment you want and the package x-window-system and install those. -BEGIN P

Sound problem: Sorry, no mixer ...

2004-10-28 Thread Bernard Fay
I was able to load the driver snd_cs4236 for my sound card on my Thinkpad 600E laptop but when I tried to open the Volume Control under Gnome it poped an error saying: Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found I use Sarge with a custom 2.6.8.1 kernel with the following sound options: # CONFI

Re: nv vs. nvidia

2004-10-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Debian! > > Anybody knows what the differences are between the nv Xfree86 driver > (Sarge version) and the Nvidia closed source driver (I use 6111)? > > I have used both and see little difference, exce

Re: Sid: Mplayer ratio question

2004-10-28 Thread Curt Howland
Ok, Debianites, I found something that works. mplayer dvd:// -vo scale=854:480 This plays the video in the correct aspect, as well as completely filling the 854x480 x-window that mplayer opened even without the -vo command. mencoder works the same way, as I thought it would. Simply appending

udev+zip utter hack

2004-10-28 Thread j64669
Since I installed udev and hotplug a while back, the zip drive on my laptop has not worked. Eventually I made the connection: udev was not creating /dev/hdb4. Googling produced little beyond the unhelpful response closing Bug #260349. I quote: > I have a zip drive that shows up as /dev/hdb. Zip

Re: nv vs. nvidia

2004-10-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 14:06 -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 13:37 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > Hi Debian! > > > > > > Anybody knows what the differences are between the nv Xfree86 driver > > > (Sarge version) and the Nvidi

Re: Sound problem: Sorry, no mixer ...

2004-10-28 Thread Kam-Ming Siu
I saw you are using ALSA driver. I think you have to load snd-mixer-oss and snd-pcm-oss too. For the details, you can check this link < http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-howto/alsa-howto.html > Best Regards, Ming On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 08:45:51PM -0400, Bernard Fay wrote: > I was able

Threadiquette (was Re: CDRW not working on debian)

2004-10-28 Thread David Clymer
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 15:59, [KS] wrote: > Hello, > > Now that Firefox is running for me, there are a couple > of questions that have cropped up with this version. > > 1. Firefox indicates that there are updates pending. - > After checking, it tells updates are pending for > Diggler, TrackBack an

Courier-imap with Postfix: folders don't work correctly

2004-10-28 Thread Carl Fink
I've had Postfix working fine on a server I run for months now. For all that time, 100% of mail was forwarded to other SMTP servers for actual delivery. I'm trying (at user request) to create actual mail storage on the host for IMAP use. I told Postfix to use maildir, installed courier-imap, fol

Re: Kernel 2.6.8 and usb

2004-10-28 Thread JohnOfArc
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 06:04:47 -0500, Shawn Robinson wrote: > > /* On the firewire question, if you have a newer motherboard, i.e. 4 > years or so or newer, the lan port is also a firewire port. check you > bios and/or win32 install if you have one on it.*/ > nah, my lan connection is Lite-On

Re: Subject=Re: cdrecord --scanbus

2004-10-28 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Eric Gaumer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 5:02 PM Subject: Re: Subject=Re: cdrecord --scanbus >> scsidev: 'ATAPI' >> devname: 'ATAPI' >> scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 >> Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. >The

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Re: Need help: How to replace NIC card with another brand + discover1 tips?

2004-10-28 Thread David Clymer
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 16:10, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 11:52 -0700, Gary wrote: > > I need to replace my NIC card and have an Intel NIC card as a > > replacement. The system is already built and configured for the old > > card. Do I need to add the module to the kernel? I have neve

Re: Kernel 2.6.8 and usb

2004-10-28 Thread JohnOfArc
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:07:38 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > JohnOfArc wrote: > >>On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:18:50 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: >> >> >> > Hmmm... This looks like a group of Gigabyte mobo users all having the > same problem. I wonder if the bug is in the usb controller Gigab

Re: regd max file size

2004-10-28 Thread David Clymer
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 05:49, Micheal Mukherji wrote: > My apologies if you feel its not a thing related to debian. > > > Is the 'maximum file size' a constraint of a particular file system > implementation or the constraint of operating system? > Both, I believe. For example, 32bit versions of

Re: Sound problem: Sorry, no mixer ...

2004-10-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 20:45 -0400, Bernard Fay wrote: > I was able to load the driver snd_cs4236 for my sound card on my > Thinkpad 600E laptop but when I tried to open the Volume Control under > Gnome it poped an error saying: > > Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found > > I use Sarge wit

Re: Yanking a USB Hard Drive/ReiserFS causes Kernel Panic

2004-10-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 20:13 -0400, William Ballard wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 06:12:18PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > / and /boot are formatted ReiserFS? > Yah, so I get what I deserve I guess. Jeez, touchy. I was only asking for verification purposes. If / and /boot were "something else

Re: USE flags ??

2004-10-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 17:19 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > > i still like them both and still run both on servers, and i even > > compared the two on two separate mail servers, and getnoo blew > > deb

Re: nv vs. nvidia

2004-10-28 Thread Katipo
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Debian! > > Anybody knows what the differences are between the nv Xfree86 > driver (Sarge version) and the Nvidia closed source driver (I use > 6111)? > > I have used both and see li

fdisk "unable to read /dev/hdb"

2004-10-28 Thread Matt Price
I seem to have a disk problem. I want to mount a partition from hdb, but can't. At present there is one such partition mounted: g# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 2.9G 1.3G 1.5G 48% / tmpfs 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm /dev

Knoppix question

2004-10-28 Thread Lian Liming
Hi all, I wonder if i can install knoppix directly to the hard disk? I heard that the knoppix is based on debian system. So after installed the knoppix to hard disk, can i use the "apt " package tools on it? Thank you for suggestions! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

RE: cdrecord --scanbus

2004-10-28 Thread Gilbert, Joseph
Makes sense to me. -Original Message- From: Carl Fink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 5:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cdrecord --scanbus What do people think: would it make sense to put in a wishlist request for "cdrecord -scanbus" to scan ALL buse

non-serious question

2004-10-28 Thread Gilbert, Joseph
Hey guys, Anyone have any suggestions for good games available on Debian? What are some good resources for keeping abreast with what is happening in the Linux gaming world? I know this is an oh-so-frivilous of a question for me to ask. ;-) Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: :-( allocation length isn't sane

2004-10-28 Thread Rob Bogus
Wayne Topa wrote: Carsten Neumann([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, RonGroen wrote: Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: --

why my atp can not find the file?

2004-10-28 Thread Eduard Breuer
I am tryining to get my printserver to work and for that I neet to "apt-install" gs-esp package, if I understand it right. Today I did ftp to the server and indeed the files are there. How ever I did get a message yesterday : Could not find package gs-esp (or something like that). I googled on t

Re: Yanking a USB Hard Drive/ReiserFS causes Kernel Panic

2004-10-28 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:12:40PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Floppy disk, CD-Rs & flash drives are a big step down from a multi- > dozen GB-sized HDD. He's testing it on HDs, but getting a lot of feedback about how fat and ReiserFs don't support sync, and if they did support sync it would be s

Re: Knoppix question

2004-10-28 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 10:46:07AM +0800, Lian Liming wrote: > Hi all, >I wonder if i can install knoppix directly to the hard disk? >I heard that the knoppix is based on debian system. So after > installed the knoppix to hard disk, can i use the "apt " package tools > on it? >Thank y

Re: non-serious question

2004-10-28 Thread Brian Pack
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 17:46 -0700, Gilbert, Joseph wrote: > Hey guys, > > Anyone have any suggestions for good games available on Debian? What are > some good resources for keeping abreast with what is happening in the Linux > gaming world? I know this is an oh-so-frivilous of a question for me

Re: non-serious question

2004-10-28 Thread Jim Hall
Gilbert, Joseph wrote: Hey guys, Anyone have any suggestions for good games available on Debian? What are some good resources for keeping abreast with what is happening in the Linux gaming world? I know this is an oh-so-frivilous of a question for me to ask. ;-) Joe Battle for Wesnoth Good.

Re: Debian unstable vs Ubuntu

2004-10-28 Thread psychoelmo
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:42:16 +0200, Joerg Rossdeutscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Am Dienstag, den 26.10.2004, 15:17 +0200 schrieb Alex Polite: > > So what's with this Ubuntu thing? > > > > I've read some reviews but they're all geared towards Mandrake users. > > > > How does it compare

Re: why my atp can not find the file?

2004-10-28 Thread Eduard Breuer
Brett Kelly wrote: The best way would be to download the package itself so I can dowload it via ftp? Does it meather where I store it? Packages have an *.deb extentions? and install it using dpkg, like: dpkg -i packagename.deb (as root) Brett On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:40:45 -0500, Eduard Breuer <[EM

Re: Knoppix question

2004-10-28 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 11:53:49PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:08:43PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > Concerning apt: Yes, the program works, but the packages in the Debian > > repository and world-wide mirrors, are not tuned to work with Knoppix. > > They are tuned to

Re: nv vs. nvidia

2004-10-28 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Greg Folkert wrote: > > after several hours of chasing things down .. you need to make sure > > your libraries are from the nvidia-*6111 pkg > > > > the fixes and libs to check for > > # > > # ndividia's installer does NOT replace/remove all of the old > > # glu

Re: Free linux drivers for V90 Conexant modems

2004-10-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Asim Jamshed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For quite some time now, I've been searching device driver for my V90 > HCF Conexant winmodem. The linuxant site demands a fee for its > acquisation. Are there any alternative sites where its driver is > avai

Re: Debian 3.0r3 iso images?

2004-10-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Björn Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any Debian 3.0r3 images available somewhere? Not that I know of, yet. Not that this is a problem, just use apt-get on a network connection instead. Far more efficient than wasting time with dow

Re: scanning tools

2004-10-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James LeClar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking for a tool that can automate a network scan to determine > the number of hosts on a particular subnet, their ip addy, and their > hostname. Thanks for any advice. nmap can do that, just be sure

Re: USE flags ??

2004-10-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What the heck does an MTA do that would make P4-specific binaries > run so much faster than the standard 386 binaries? > > All it does it move big chunks of bytes around from sockets to > files and back again.

Re: nv vs. nvidia

2004-10-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Katipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For me, it's simple. If you're not doing design work, or gaming, > that require 3D, stay with the free option. For me, it's not quite so simple. I want to game, but I'm cursed with nVidia's semi-buggy drivers an

Re: nv vs. nvidia

2004-10-28 Thread paul wise
> Provided you have kernel-image-2.6.8-1-$YOUR_ARCH installed > > As root do the following: > > apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.8 nvidia-kernel-source > cd /usr/src > tar zxf nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz > tar jxf kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2 > cd kernel-so

Re: Knoppix question

2004-10-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lian Liming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wonder if i can install knoppix directly to the hard disk? Yes. > I heard that the knoppix is based on debian system. But Knoppix is not Debian, and you should be pestering the Knoppix mailing lis

Re: non-serious question

2004-10-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Gilbert, Joseph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone have any suggestions for good games available on Debian? What are > some good resources for keeping abreast with what is happening in the Linux > gaming world? I know this is an oh-so-frivilous

Re: Subject=Re: cdrecord --scanbus

2004-10-28 Thread Vijaya S
i have gnome installed ... kernel is 2.4.22 my /etc/fstab reads as cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/hda1 / ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda

Re: problem with sound (esound) since a few days

2004-10-28 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:50:09 +0200, Uwe Dippel wrote: > Though I didn't change anything on purpose; just the usual upgrades, I > lost my sound a few days ago. > Finally, the lspci -v gives me: > > :00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: > Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97

installing debian

2004-10-28 Thread jacob salama
Hello there I downloaded an ISO image of install cd and created the CD myself but cannot boot from it. My machine allows booting from the cd drive and I have no problem booting Red Hat9 installation cd. Any ideas? Jacob Salama __ Do you Yahoo!

Re: Knoppix question

2004-10-28 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 28 October 2004 06:46 pm, Lian Liming wrote: > Hi all, > I wonder if i can install knoppix directly to the hard disk? > I heard that the knoppix is based on debian system. So after > installed the knoppix to hard disk, can i use the "apt " package > tools on it? > Thank you

Re: I want to set-up dial-up server

2004-10-28 Thread Lourens Steenkamp
Lourens replying to askar i <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I want to set-up dial-up server for internet connection as shown > below. Could anybody tell me where I can read how-tos. > Thanks. > > Askar > > +-+ > | Debian| > | |> D

[Fwd: Subject=Re: cdrecord --scanbus]

2004-10-28 Thread Vijaya S
--- Begin Message --- i have gnome installed ... kernel is 2.4.22 my /etc/fstab reads as cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/hda1 / ext3defaults,errors=remoun

Re: non-serious question

2004-10-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 05:46:28PM -0700, Gilbert, Joseph wrote: > Hey guys, > > Anyone have any suggestions for good games available on Debian? What are > some good resources for keeping abreast with what is happening in the Linux > gaming world? I know this is an oh-so-frivilous of a question

Re: Knoppix question

2004-10-28 Thread Conrad Newton
>From Lian Liming on Friday, 2004-10-29 at 10:46:07 +0800: > Hi all, >I wonder if i can install knoppix directly to the hard disk? >I heard that the knoppix is based on debian system. So after > installed the knoppix to hard disk, can i use the "apt " package tools > on it? >Thank you

Re: [Fwd: Subject=Re: cdrecord --scanbus]

2004-10-28 Thread [KS]
Vijaya S wrote: Subject: Re: Subject=Re: cdrecord --scanbus From: Vijaya S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:42:00 +0530 To: John Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: John Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: non-serious question

2004-10-28 Thread [KS]
Kevin Mark wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 05:46:28PM -0700, Gilbert, Joseph wrote: Hey guys, Anyone have any suggestions for good games available on Debian? What are some good resources for keeping abreast with what is happening in the Linux gaming world? I know this is an oh-so-frivilous of a qu

A buglett

2004-10-28 Thread Jurzitza, Dieter
Dear listmembers, as I already found for SuSE / different distribution / different architecture: the tux screensaver runs only in the upper left quarter of the screen after updating today my debian - sarge. This is a cosmetic buglett - but nevertheless. Can anyone tell which package the tux scre

Re: faq on choosing a debian distribution - draft 1

2004-10-28 Thread Jim Hall
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Hi all I read this list regularly. I find that people who want to try Debian for the first time are often confused about the fact the there are three debian distributions and do not know which one to choose. As usual, everyone wants to do the right thing the first time

Re: Debian unstable vs Ubuntu

2004-10-28 Thread psychoelmo
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:08:48 -0500, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin Mark writes: > > DebianUbuntu > > ... > > ... > > has UNIX root userhas regular users use a SUDO-like interface > > This makes no sense. Debian provides sudo and Ubuntu must have

Re: Knoppix question

2004-10-28 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:08:43PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Concerning apt: Yes, the program works, but the packages in the Debian > repository and world-wide mirrors, are not tuned to work with Knoppix. > They are tuned to work with the real Debian. ... which is why you'd point souces.list

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