Re: How to install Kernel 2.6.17 without /boot/initrd.img-***?

2006-08-02 Thread Alejandro Bárcena Campos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Yakushev wrote: > I experienced some difficulties to run new kernel > 2.6.17. > If I comment initrd.img-2.6.17 line in my > /boot/grub/menu.lst, and start to restart OS, I got > Kernel panic error. > Is this possible to start kernel without > init

Re: How to install Kernel 2.6.17 without /boot/initrd.img-***?

2006-08-02 Thread Matej Cepl
Alex Yakushev wrote: > I experienced some difficulties to run new kernel > 2.6.17. > If I comment initrd.img-2.6.17 line in my > /boot/grub/menu.lst, and start to restart OS, I got > Kernel panic error. > Is this possible to start kernel without > initrd.img-2.6.17? Not this kernel -- ext2fs and e

Re: Will VNC run on a laptop with 32MB? What to do with OLD laptop?

2006-08-02 Thread Adam J. Hogan
Preface: I assume in this message that you're using Linux on both computers. If not, I don't know what to tell you. Windows doesn't have the functionality required to do this. j1234f wrote: > Would that be like running an x-server on the > old laptop with very little memory and have > have fir

Re: adding a package to debian tree.

2006-08-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 07:39:55AM +0300, Jabka Atu wrote: > there is an old package known as IWIZ that is maintind by z9u2k. > i see that it is not in debian tree how can i add it ? > > i have both the source and the copmiled package. > im not the maintiner/creator of this package but it is very

Net-install CD: What it does to existing partitions and installations

2006-08-02 Thread Ian Astley
I currently run a Linux machine under Fedora Core 5. I am interested in having a look at Debian too and downloaded and burnt the Net-install CD from the main site, with a view to compiling a Debian kernel which I would then have nominated in GRUB alongside the existing FC5 kernels I have. The C

Film scoring software

2006-08-02 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
Anyone know a MIDI/audio sequencer for Linux that can score video too? -Chuckk -- "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." -Theodore Roosevelt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: OT: script languages

2006-08-02 Thread charles norwood
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 08:14 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:37:13AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I need to write several scripts for file manipulation, for example: > > change name files, read specific columns and write them in a new file, > > ca

Re: Net-install CD: What it does to existing partitions and installations

2006-08-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 10:32:01 +0900 Ian Astley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I currently run a Linux machine under Fedora Core 5. I am interested > in having a look at Debian too and downloaded and burnt the > Net-install CD from the main site, with a view to compiling a Debian > kernel which I woul

Where did the ethereal binary go?

2006-08-02 Thread Bill Moseley
$ apt-cache policy ethereal ethereal: Installed: 0.99.2-4 Candidate: 0.99.2-4 Version table: *** 0.99.2-4 0 500 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=filelist&word=ethereal&

Re: Net-install CD: What it does to existing partitions and installations

2006-08-02 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Ian Astley wrote: I currently run a Linux machine under Fedora Core 5. I am interested in having a look at Debian too and downloaded and burnt the Net-install CD from the main site, with a view to compiling a Debian kernel which I would then have nominated in GRUB alongside the existing FC5 ke

Re: How do you get vim-latexsuite to work?

2006-08-02 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 01:56:30PM EDT, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Joseph Smidt: > > > > I installed Debian's vim-latexsuite package. It seemed to install fine, > > but when I open a .tex document none of the commands seem to work. > > My guess is that you don't have filetype plugins enabled. Try th

Re: Where did the ethereal binary go?

2006-08-02 Thread Nate Duehr
Bill Moseley wrote: $ apt-cache policy ethereal ethereal: Installed: 0.99.2-4 Candidate: 0.99.2-4 Version table: *** 0.99.2-4 0 500 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=

RE: script languages

2006-08-02 Thread David Christensen
Marcelo wrote: > I wonder what scrip language is better: Perl or Phyton? I've been using Perl for 7+ years and have found it to be very useful. The key concept is Perl's slogan -- "There's more than one way to do it" -- TIMTOWTDI, pronounced "Tim Toady". Perl is a very flexible language -- the

no desktop environment

2006-08-02 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
I installed Etch on my laptop, and have cds 1 2 and 3. During the setup, it said to make sure xserver-xorg was loaded, and it is installed. Debian boots to tty terminal, though. I type "startx" and get a crosshatched desktop with a black terminal in the upper left corner. There is an X pointer

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