Cryptic error message from "setserial".

2003-11-05 Thread Alan Mackenzie
t line mean? What is "ttyS04"? (I haven't got a /dev/ttyS04 at all, I don't even have a /dev/ttyS4.) Is this line an indication of port 0xb000 coming into "use"? ***** Any pointers to getting my mode

Re: Woody installation: can't find my /dev/hdg to install to.

2002-10-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Barney Wrightson wrote: >Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> I'm trying to install debian 3.0 (woody) from CD to my Athlon PC. The >> installation program fails to find my hard drive (which other >> (commercial) distributions have located variously a

Woody installation: can't find my /dev/hdg to install to.

2002-10-03 Thread Alan Mackenzie
e point me towards the appropriate documentation, so that I can get my system installed. Of course, if anybody is generous enough just to tell me what the pertinent parameters are, that would be most welcome, too. :-) Many thanks in anticipation. -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
database on my system? Is there perhaps a less flexible, easier to use package manager? aptitude is about as complicated as mutt, but because I only use aptitude at most a few times a year, I'm never going to get to grips properly with it. Thanks in advance for the help! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi again, On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 08:47:35PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 06/19/2008 02:22 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >Hi, debian! > >My system: Debian Sarge, with little alteration other than a kernel > >upgrade (to 2.6.8). > >I currently have aptitude 0.2.15.9 co

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Daniel! On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:57:45PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:22:24PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > #Broken: 12 Will free 16.7MB of disk space DL Size: 6215kB > > . Using the aptitude c

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, again! On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:48:02AM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > To know what is going on with your system, we would need to see your > > /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/preferences files. > #/etc/a

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Eduardo! On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 01:40:55PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Alan Mackenzie escreveu: > >My /etc/apt/source.list now looks like this: > ># > >#deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
to lenny when it comes out rather than etch. I've tried out a few other distributions (including ubuntu), but didn't like them much. I even tried out FreeBSD, but it became obvious I'd have a lot to unlearn and relearn there. So, I'll probably be sticking with Debian,

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Daniel! On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 09:14:10PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 03:00:52PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:54:55PM -0700, Daniel Burrows > wrote: > > > > In the real wo