Re: RAID 5 questions (software)

2005-07-07 Thread David Clymer
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 12:10 -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: > an aside: what is the command to invoke the raid software w/o using the > setup disk? mdadm is the most common raid management software nowadays. $ mdadm --run /dev/md0 will start up the first raid device that you have already config

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-07 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 19:22:23 -0400 Lorenzo Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Stephen R Laniel's comments on Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting > were as follows: # On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:52:41PM -0500, Kent West > wrote: # > # > #

Re: convert wmv video format ?

2005-07-07 Thread Anders Breindahl
On Friday 08 July 2005 03:29, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > That only works if he has the win32 codecs installed. He may not have > access from a Windows machine from which to obtain them, or he may not > be on an x86 machine. Sadly, the support for wmv and other proprietary > video formats is

windowmaker

2005-07-07 Thread Andy Streich
Hi, Based on advice on this list to maestro I'm considering switching to windowmaker: > I no longer have time to spend hours tweaking config files, and thus > prefer an integrated desktop environment, but GNOME and KDE are too > bulky for my PIII-650 / 320MB workstation I'm even resource-poorer

jEdit

2005-07-07 Thread Andy Streich
Hi again, I'm wondering if there is any awareness in the Debian community of the jEdit editor? I writing a plugin for jEdit that enables people, some of whom are non-technical, to create and maintain websites and would like to get a sense of how wide-spread jEdit usage/awareness is among Debi

Re: windowmaker

2005-07-07 Thread Anders Breindahl
On Friday 08 July 2005 04:20, Andy Streich wrote: > Hi, > > Based on advice on this list to maestro I'm considering switching to > > windowmaker: > > I no longer have time to spend hours tweaking config files, and thus > > prefer an integrated desktop environment, but GNOME and KDE are too

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-07 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:47:48PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > Ugh... and I thought HTML e-mail took a ton of disk space compared to > plain text. An inline reply would make the e-mail more than double in > size! XML is chatty. But please: a few hundred extra megabytes won't kill you. Not on hard disk

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-07 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:22:23PM -0400, Lorenzo Taylor wrote: > Wow! I really like the XML approach. But how are you going to get all the > email programs in the world to use it? It seems too late to make such a smart > new approach to email a standard now as old as email is. Then again, if H

Re: windowmaker

2005-07-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:20:04PM -0700, Andy Streich wrote: > Hi, > > Based on advice on this list to maestro I'm considering switching to > windowmaker: > > > I no longer have time to spend hours tweaking config files, and thus > > prefer an integrated desktop environment, but GNOME and KDE a

Re: convert wmv video format ?

2005-07-07 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 04:07:44AM +0200, Anders Breindahl wrote: > BTW, I suppose the thing you mention about the Windows machine would only be > a > juridical issue. Mr. Marillat packages a bunch of them. They're in general packaged as x86 executables. You'd need either an x86 box, or an emu

how to start sarge installation from DOS

2005-07-07 Thread smith
i have download 1st CD image of sarge, and boot ms-dos, and type the command below: loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/ram initrd=initrd.gz note vmlinuz and initrd.gz are from 1st CD image, but that can't start installation! Could you please help me? __ D

Re: jEdit

2005-07-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:32:08PM -0700, Andy Streich wrote: > Hi again, > > I'm wondering if there is any awareness in the Debian community of the jEdit > editor? I writing a plugin for jEdit that enables people, some of whom are > non-technical, to create and maintain websites and would lik

Re: how to start sarge installation from DOS

2005-07-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:59:08PM -0700, smith wrote: > i have download 1st CD image of sarge, and boot > ms-dos, and type the command below: > > loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/ram initrd=initrd.gz > > > note vmlinuz and initrd.gz are from 1st CD image, but > that can't start installation! > > Coul

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-07 Thread Andy Streich
On Thursday 07 July 2005 07:45 pm, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > The trouble is that everybody has different standards: some > like inline quotes, some like top-posting, and some like > bottom-posting. Rather than get exercised about others' > aesthetic choices, we should let our programs format our >

System needs repair after fsck

2005-07-07 Thread Uwe Dippel
Last night at boot the system checked (after 30 boots or so) my /usr partition. It dropped me to console; I did the suggested fsck /dev/hda8. After the lengthy check it came up; but with some errors; like screwed up XFCE configuration (some apps missing); some screwed up fonts; and "can't set the

Re: System needs repair after fsck

2005-07-07 Thread Robert Vangel
Uwe Dippel wrote: Last night at boot the system checked (after 30 boots or so) my /usr partition. It dropped me to console; I did the suggested fsck /dev/hda8. After the lengthy check it came up; but with some errors; like screwed up XFCE configuration (some apps missing); some screwed up fonts;

Re: how to start sarge installation from DOS

2005-07-07 Thread Kent West
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:59:08PM -0700, smith wrote: > > >>i have download 1st CD image of sarge, and boot >>ms-dos, and type the command below: >> >>loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/ram initrd=initrd.gz >> >> >>note vmlinuz and initrd.gz are from 1st CD image, but >>that c

How to play WMA and MP3 files on Sarge?

2005-07-07 Thread hell0 un1verse
Hi, as in the title, thanks a lot:) -- hell0 un1verse

Re: How to play WMA and MP3 files on Sarge?

2005-07-07 Thread Kent West
hell0 un1verse wrote: >Hi, as in the title, thanks a lot:) > > > MP3 is easy; xine, totem, noatun, xmms, a dozen other players WMA is a bit harder; you'll probably have to get the codecs from mplayerhq.org (I think), and even at that, there are different versions of WMA, some of which may not b

upgrade to Sarge stopped nic

2005-07-07 Thread Rick Weinbender
Hi, I recently made the mistake of upgrading to Sarge without reading up on the process. Dumb mistake, but it's just a test system. I did an apt-get update, then apt-get dist-upgrade. The update finished and I was getting internet connectivity until I rebooted the machine. Now the link light on the

Re: System needs repair after fsck

2005-07-07 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:08:05 +0800, Robert Vangel wrote: > What about `apt-get install --reinstall' Tried, been there: # apt-get install --reinstall Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Actually, I tried a

no /dev/dsp

2005-07-07 Thread Art Edwards
I have seen one thread on this, but it really didn't satisfy. I am running a system with via 8235 (Asla) onboard. This has worked very well in the past with a 2.6.8 kernel. However, I now find that I have no /dev/dsp at all. Why would this go away? Art Edwards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: what to do if package can not be removed?

2005-07-07 Thread Laurent CARON
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi list! I have a strange behaviour with openvpn. I wanted to upgrade from 1.6.0 to 2.0 by typing apt-get install openvpn after inserting the sarge entries in my sources.list. But it stopped with some strange error-codes like 143 So I tried to remove it by typing

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-07 Thread Lorenzo Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen R Laniel's comments on Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting were as follows: # I've had similar ideas recently about using XML for conf # files in /etc, but that would take a bit of elaboration. # I'll save that for another time. Wow! A good

Re: external USB acomdata drive

2005-07-07 Thread Ephemeral Root
Quoting Pete Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 04:38:55PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:52:59AM -0700, Pete Hicks wrote: > > > > > However, when I try and mount the drive, I can an error > > > saying wrong fstype: > > > > > > % sudo mount -t vfat /dev/

AWStats browser.pm issue

2005-07-07 Thread Steve Å
Just installed this on Sarge, using Debian package. On running I'm presented with the following error; Error: Not same number of records of BrowsersSearchIDOrder (96 entries) and BrowsersHashIDLib (95 entries without msie,netscape,firefox) in Browsers database. May be you updated AWSta

Re: device problem

2005-07-07 Thread ken keanon
Hi, Thanks for the reference to udev. I have managed to get hold of a web doc titled "Writing udev rules" and started grappling with writing rules. The first wall I encounter is that the default rule file mentioned in the doc is not even in my dirs. Is there a write-up more suitable for Debian?

Re: Still not fixed ipup problem.

2005-07-07 Thread Arias Hung
Okay, I've been having this exact same problem the last week or two and have had to resort to manually bringing up eth0 with dhclient. the auto ifup always assigns me that bogus 169.254.x.x address too ... very annoying. What I think this is related to though for me is a recent aborted install

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