Re: Can't mount partition on slave drive

2004-11-13 Thread Ali Alphan Bayazit
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 15:36 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 01:07:31AM -0500, Ali Alphan Bayazit wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 21:06 -0600, downtime null wrote: > > > > > > mount: /dev/hdb1 already mounted or /other busy > > > > > > It also does not show up in dmesg. What co

Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?

2004-11-13 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 12:13:05AM +, Brian Nelson wrote: > This is another good example of why apt-get should be avoided, since it > gave absolutely no indication as to the problem you correctly diagnosed. Funny, I was able to easily diagnose what was going on. :) It's not like it was hard t

Re: [OT] Printing hardcopy from an application

2004-11-13 Thread David
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 04:33:52PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > David wrote: > >I know this has nothing to do with Debian, but, really, I don't know > >exactly where to ask this question anyway. > > > >I have a program for my personal use, written in C. It's a > >records-keeping application. S

Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-13 Thread ken keanon
Hi,   I',m impress. The responses to 'why debian' show that it has won some strong converts and it is supported by some staunch loyalists. I need to know more. There was mention about  "never for profit", "protected non-profit". It is compared to US democracy and monasteries in medieval England.  

Re: why debian

2004-11-13 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 12 November 2004 05:53 pm, Tim Kelley wrote: > On Friday 12 November 2004 02:11, ken keanon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > There are so many distros out there its confusing. Any reason(s) > > why Debian should be the preferred choice? > > > > Any statistics from any source(s) to proof the popular

Keyboard, X, lockups, and other hardware oddities . . .

2004-11-13 Thread Justin Rosander
Hey all, Just wanted to get some thoughts on a few probs. I'm still Googling, but not finding anything certain. I want to lay out a few things I've experienced on my system, and maybe someone can provide confirmation of what I'm thinking 1) I have, using Linux From Scratch, experienced the followi

Re: why debian - longer

2004-11-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jeremy - not to be nit picky .. but just a comment On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Jeremy Turner wrote: > Too many extra hoops? > > $ fakeroot make-kpkg -rev `hostname`.1 kernel_image > $ sudo dpkg -i ../kernel-imagedeb > update lilo/grub [if needed] assuming that the /usr/src/linux/.config

Re: create GRUB boot disk (sarge)

2004-11-13 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Wayne Topa wrote: > I have also had a problem making either a boot floppy or a boot CD > with menu.lst. If the grub documentation isn't wron, it is at least, > confusing. or incomplete or the assumptions is not obvious for the first time readers ... ( i've read that thi

Re: recover date after rm -rf

2004-11-13 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:10:51 +0200, bing yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > where to find docs to recover my data if there is a way go get my data > back. and is the process too hard to master by newbie like me? I have done it on ext2 file systems, but never 1 gig's worth of stuff. Ignore the morons

Re: why debian - longer

2004-11-13 Thread William Ballard
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 09:03:25PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > stock kernel problems ... which is next to impossible to work for > "everybody for every combination of hardware" What would happen if you just went through "make menuconfig" and answered "y" / builtin for everything possible. Would th

Sprint PCS phones

2004-11-13 Thread Chad Davis
Greetings, Anyone have experience with Sprint PCS phones and linux? Using the Vision service as internet connection. As those who have or do know the way it works is the connection disconnects on phone and reconnects when data is requested. This can cause some considerable lag times while it recon

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-13 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 13 November 2004 07:08 pm, ken keanon wrote: > Hi, > > I',m impress. The responses to 'why debian' show that it has won some > strong converts and it is supported by some staunch loyalists. I need > to know more. There was mention about "never for profit", "protected > non-profit". It

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-13 Thread cr
On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 17:08, ken keanon wrote: (snip) > I roughly know that the US and non-US version got to do with encryption. > But what is the restriction? People in US or outside US can download either > version, right? In very general terms - as I understand it the restriction is the US ban

Re: fullscreen with mplayer

2004-11-13 Thread Erik Jakobsen
Ron Johnson wrote: deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat unstable main Hi Ron. Thanks for the information. Erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why debian - longer - kernels

2004-11-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, William Ballard wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 09:03:25PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > stock kernel problems ... which is next to impossible to work for > > "everybody for every combination of hardware" > > What would happen if you just went through "make menuconfig"

boot failure

2004-11-13 Thread Dan Davison
Any help with the following would be much appreciated: I was attempting to update a kernel from 2.2.20 to 2.6.8 and it seems now that neither of the kernel links in the lilo menu will boot. Both exit with the same kernel panic message and the output up to that point appears to be identical. This ou

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