On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:42:18 -0700
Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But everyone seems to get distracted about me wanting a local LAN
> mirror of source and binanry. Granted that a dial up connection and
Because this is the most impractical way to get Debian. And even if you
do download al
Chris Lale wrote:
Nigel Henry wrote:
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 17:36, Michael S. Peek wrote:
[...]
Personally, if you have sufficient harddrive space, I'd keep your
current Etch install pointing to Etch in /etc/apt/sources.list. then
I would install another instance of Etch. I'd keep thi
On Friday 16 February 2007 12:50, Alan Ianson wrote:
...
>
> They are the full install cd's. The only change since day one is that these
> images contain the fixes from security.debian.org or other important fixes,
> otherwise they are the same as the original 3.1 release. It gives you an
> install
Michael M. wrote:
[...]
Basically, you need to think carefully about where you want what data,
or you may find yourself rebooting multiple times throughout the day
because such-and-such a file that you need is in a place where you can't
get to it or can't edit it from where you happen to be.
On Friday 16 February 2007 12:17, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
...
> They 3.1r4 CDs are full operating system CDs.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Roberto
Thanks Roberto.
Joe
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On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 08:31:40AM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote:
> This morning I had a bad surprize on my sarge system: X did not start
> any more. After some time I've found the culprit: something had changed
> permission of /tmp to drwxr-xr-x.
>
> I have no idea what could be the cause of this
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Chris Lale wrote:
> Chris Lale wrote:
>> Nigel Henry wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 14 February 2007 17:36, Michael S. Peek wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> Personally, if you have sufficient harddrive space, I'd keep your
>>> current Etch install pointing to Etch in /
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote:
Why not install Linux and dosemu?
On a machine with 16MB? It fills a need I have as is.
It would let you run multiple DOS sessions.
I repeat: It fills a need I have as is. I'd need to
put more disc on it, for one thing.
OS/2 is
Dear Debianists,
I read an article:
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=032003A1JK8W
It says that Intel has made a chip with 80 processors on it that it says is
a teraflops device and only uses a low power consumption.
But the article suggests that it is tough to write an OS to t
In the past few months that I've used Debian I've now successfully
managed to install unstable on an Apple iBook G4, Apple mac mini (both
PowerPC) and Intel Celeron PC. I've also installed testing on a server
that I run which is powered by Intel P4 chips.
That's now 4 machines without many proble
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:52:07 +0100
Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a feeling this is likely to start a debate. Be that as it
> may, I set my KDE to select on one click and activate on two.
> However, if I run konqueror as root, then I get the single click
> activation again. Oh wel
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On 02/16/07 15:55, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote:
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Why not install Linux and dosemu?
>>>
>>> On a machine with 16MB? It fills a need I have as is.
>>
>> It would let you run multiple DOS s
Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote:
DSL and Slackware aren't that large, are they? Especially with a
2.4 kernel.
[QUOTE MODE ON]
Slackware Linux doesn't require an extremely powerful system to run
(though having one is qu
Greetings:
I'm running an IBM R40 laptop with three systems: Debian Sarge (which I
use primarily), Knopix 3.4 hd install, and WinXP. This morning I booted
to Knoppix to look at some bookmarks on that system. I forgot to unplug
the PCMCIA card modem, so it stopped there at boot. I unplugged it
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 01:42:18PM -0700, Admin wrote:
> Andrei Popescu
>
> Thanks for your reply. Hope you don't have to snip too much. My yet
> outstanding question is the POOL directory. I think the POOL directory
> contains 'sarge' which would be the latest official release. But I am
> not
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On 02/16/07 15:58, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear Debianists,
>
> I read an article:
>
>
> http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=032003A1JK8W
>
> It says that Intel has made a chip with 80 processors on it that it says
> is a teraflops d
Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 02/16/07 15:55, Mike McCarty wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote:
Why not install Linux and dosemu?
On a machine with 16MB? It fills a need I have as is.
It would let you run multiple DOS s
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On 02/16/07 16:22, Mike McCarty wrote:
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>> On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote:
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>> DSL and Slackware aren't that large, are they? Especially with a
>> 2.4 kernel.
>
>
Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 02/16/07 16:22, Mike McCarty wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
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DSL and Slackware aren't that large, are they? Especially with a
2.4 kernel.
[
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 01:43:13PM -0700, Travis Crook wrote:
> the old address traffic
> 3) Create new DNS records for all domains that I host to point to the
> new IP address
> 4) Pray it all works!
>
Immediately lower the TTL for all domains that are hosted on your
server! If you don't, it cou
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On 02/16/07 16:43, Mike McCarty wrote:
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>> On 02/16/07 15:55, Mike McCarty wrote:
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>>> Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote:
>> Why
Ron Johnson wrote:
You really aren't a geek, are you?
I forgot to mention another use for that machine:
I read the IR pulses from remote controls and figure out
the protocols they use. For that, I need microsecond
level timing resolution, which I can get with MSDOS,
but I doubt that Linux can
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 01:21:21PM EST, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 22:18:51 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
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> [...]
>
> > I started up gdm to give myself choices on sessions (to test fully
> > whether this was a problem across the board with WM's) and found things
> > working
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On 02/16/07 16:52, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 02/16/07 16:22, Mike McCarty wrote:
>>> Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote:
[snip]
>>>
>>> Adding a few hundred megabytes of disc is not appealing to me,
>>
>>
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On 02/16/07 17:14, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
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>> You really aren't a geek, are you?
>
> I forgot to mention another use for that machine:
> I read the IR pulses from remote controls and figure out
> the protocols they use. For that, I
'Multicore' processors are pretty new - older machines have always had an
enormous number of processors. 80 cores on a single chip would take up most of
the silicon wafer. (and will probably have a few defective cores and rather
interesting cooling problems)
Problems encountered by multiple p
On 2/16/07, Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ACPI is still a thorn in my side too. I've seen way too many notebooks
on which fans simply don't switch on and off reliably, and suspend works
but resume doesn't - surely there must be a generic way to handle these
things?
I'm not sure if y
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 12:16:58AM +0100, pinniped wrote:
>
> 'Multicore' processors are pretty new - older machines have always had an
> enormous number of processors. 80 cores on a single chip would take up most
> of the silicon wafer. (and will probably have a few defective cores and
> rathe
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/16/07 16:52, Mike McCarty wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/16/07 16:22, Mike McCarty wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote:
[snip]
Adding a few hundred megabytes of disc is not appealing to me,
You really aren't a geek, are you?
I
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 16:37 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 02/16/07 15:58, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> > Dear Debianists,
> >
> > I read an article:
> >
> >
> > http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=032003A1JK8W
> >
> > It says that
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 16:21 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 02/16/07 15:55, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote:
> >>
>
> Why not install Linux and dosemu?
> >>>
> >>> On a machine with 1
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:09:36 -0500
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 01:43:13PM -0700, Travis Crook wrote:
> > the old address traffic
> > 3) Create new DNS records for all domains that I host to point to
> > the new IP address
> > 4) Pray it all works!
> >
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 05:18:00PM -0700, Travis Crook wrote:
>
> Excellent advice! I had not considered lowering the TTLs.
>
I speak with the voice of experience :-)
Moved my mail server from one IP to another. I forgot to lower the TTL
first and so when I shut off port 25 on the old server,
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On 02/16/07 17:57, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 16:37 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 02/16/07 15:58, Michael Fothergill wrote:
>>> Dear Debianists,
[snip]
> Well, we have yet to really see. But I suspect once the final cost and
> dissat
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On 02/16/07 17:16, pinniped wrote:
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> 'Multicore' processors are pretty new - older machines have always had
> an enormous number of processors. 80 cores on a single chip would take
With "enormous" always changing. Relative to the number of 2x SMP
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 18:15 -0500, cga2000 wrote:
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> I've pretty much lost track but if the OP absolutely needs a GUI logon
> screen .. did he try the alternatives to gdm (xdm, kdm, wdm, ..) ??
>
> Otherwise what's wrong with ..
>
> $ startx $(which window-manager) -- 0:
>
> ... ?
>
> Is thi
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On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:12:32 -0500
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:54:24 -0500
Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> > >> Ifconfig only reports the loop back IP address. The IP address
>>> > >> assigned by the gateway, 192.168.0.114, was not reported by
>>> > >> ifconfig, pre
Kent West wrote:
> Ken Heard wrote:
>> Kent West wrote:
>>
What happens when you run "/etc/init.d/networking restart"?
>> Returned:
>>
>> Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter.
>> Reconfiguring network interfaces...Failed to bring up eth0.
>> done.
>>
>> Then a
On Sun 11 Feb 2007 15:56:23 -0500 Ken Heard wrote:
> A few weeks ago I installed Etch RC1 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 P2 laptop.
> The installation itself went without hitch, and I set about customizing
> it to my taste and installing various applications. For example I
> replaced Gnome with KDE, as I
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 18:39 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
[...]
>
> Warp 3.0 was a really great desktop OS.
Yes, it was. I'll completely agree with this. As recently as 2002, I
still used OS/2 to operate an IBM 3494 tape robot, with 4 additional
storage cabinets, with 4 3490K tape drives in cabinet 1
I had Sarge installed on two drives in the same production machine for since
it became stable. I use one drive to test new software and configurations.
The other drive is used as a web server . I do what I am planning on the
test server drive & if I have no problems I reboot & switch to the pro
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:54:56 +0200, Andrei wrote in message
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> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:28:25 -0700
> Archive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [huge snip]
>
> The entire Debian archive is ~205 GB. You do *not* want to download
> that over a slow connection.
..fwiw, I have 2 mir
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:52:29 -0600, Mike wrote in message
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> > On 02/16/07 16:22, Mike McCarty wrote:
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> > > especially since it can't be done. The smallest disc these
> > > days is around 100 G
For over a year, following the instructions of J. Stumpel in his very
useful "Dosemu for Dummies", I have been using dosemu in Debian Sarge,
which I installed from source.
Now that I am using Debian Etch, I want to install the latest dosemu
version. After downloading the tarball and unpacking it,
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> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:52:29 -0600, Mike wrote in message
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>> Ron Johnson wrote:
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>>> On 02/16/07 16:22, Mike McCarty wrote:
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especially since it can't be done. The smallest
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On 02/16/07 21:44, Ken Heard wrote:
> For over a year, following the instructions of J. Stumpel in his very
> useful "Dosemu for Dummies", I have been using dosemu in Debian Sarge,
> which I installed from source.
>
> Now that I am using Debian Etch,
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:38:28 +, andy wrote in message
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> Good day
>
> I have an old-ish laptop with a dodgy CD-device, onto which I want to
> install Etch. I am using Etch on my desktop and the laptop is
> connected to the same LAN that my desktop is on. Is there anyway
H.S. wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to put a few home movies onto a DVD. I have more or less
made the menu and imported the videos in Qdvdauthor. However, when I try
to create the DVD, qdvdauthor shows in a new windows the commands that
it will execute. Upon pressing "OK", it gives a black "Execu
Hi,
Should I fsck from a Knopix CD or do it from my Knoppix hd install or do
it from the Debian command line? Does it matter at all?
Best option. Boot from knoppix and fsck the partition
# fsck /dev/hdXX
Am I correct in assuming that I need to mount the partition in
read-write mode in orde
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:44:45PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote:
> Now that I am using Debian Etch, I want to install the latest dosemu
> version. After downloading the tarball and unpacking it, I ran
> "./configure". The result was the error message quoted in the subject
> line above. (I have several
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 07:38:26PM EST, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 18:15 -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> ...
> > I've pretty much lost track but if the OP absolutely needs a GUI logon
> > screen .. did he try the alternatives to gdm (xdm, kdm, wdm, ..) ??
> >
> > Otherwise what's wrong
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 08:31:40AM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote:
>> something had changed permission of /tmp to drwxr-xr-x.
>> I have no idea what could be the cause of this permission change.
>
> did you install something or upgrade something in
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Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:52:07 +0100
> Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> I have a feeling this is likely to start a debate. Be that as it
>> may, I set my KDE to select on one click and activate on two.
>> However, if I
One of the several reasons I left a large space on the hard drive was to
establish a Debian based Xen virtual machine. To do this Xen is
installed on top of the Debian kernel. The Debian distribution is
installed in a large partition so it can be added to in the future.
Other distributions an
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 01:09 -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 07:38:26PM EST, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 18:15 -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> > ...
> > > I've pretty much lost track but if the OP absolutely needs a GUI logon
> > > screen .. did he try the alternatives t
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 07:56:18 +0100
Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm sure a cp would work just as well, but I like the "Auto Skip" that
> Konqueror does, not to mention I can track the progress.
Have a look at mc (Midnight Commander). It is text mode (so it also
runs from a console), but
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> >
> >> Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>>
> >>> O
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