Re: Adding more than one IP Address

2006-11-16 Thread Amit Joshi
On Monday 13 November 2006 01:11, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 12:53:28AM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote: > > I am sort of stuck up. I need to put more than one IP address due to my > > strange requirement. I am in a situation where there are multiple > > ga

Re: Adding more than one IP Address

2006-11-16 Thread Amit Joshi
On Monday 13 November 2006 02:51, srg krn wrote: > To assign more than one ip address per physical interface you can do > things like: > ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.169.170 255.255.255.0 up > (the preceding ":1", ":2", etc... denotes "alias" interfaces) > Better than ussing aliases is to connect the ro

Re: Adding more than one IP Address

2006-11-18 Thread Amit Joshi
On Friday 17 November 2006 22:58, srg krn wrote: > ip default gateway is configured PER machine and NOT per interface. > So, if you configure your default gateway is "A" all your traffic > that does NOT match a more explicit route will go through "A". > > The question that you are asking for is ho

Re: Can't find header files.

2006-11-21 Thread Amit Joshi
On Monday 20 November 2006 21:34, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Am 2006-11-12 22:53:49, schrieb Alan Ianson: > >> Do you have the linux-kernel-headers package installed for your kernel > >> version? > > > > Wrong package! - is in "dpkg-dev". > > [EMAI

Weird Upgrade procedure - Debian Testing.

2006-11-21 Thread Amit Joshi
While trying to upgrade my Debian Testing system, it shows me a horde of packages that could be upgraded. But take a look at the bottom of this output where it mentions the size et al. The size of the _to_be_fetched_ packages is 227MB, while it is gonna use around 1.5MB of disk-space?? Kinda w

Re: xserver-xorg: recent upgrade blowed out my X server

2006-11-22 Thread Amit Joshi
On Tuesday 21 November 2006 21:56, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > mhhh... I don't have a "Savage Video Cards" section, I am compiling from > 2.6.8 sources, should I use newer ones?.. but still asking myself why it > worked.. > going crazy with this! Yep. You need to upgrade. The 2.6.8 Kernel doesn

Re: xserver-xorg: recent upgrade blowed out my X server

2006-11-22 Thread Amit Joshi
On Wednesday 22 November 2006 14:36, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > Do I have to download this kernel form kernel.org? I did a package search > on debian.org but found only 2.6.8 kernel for > Nope. I don't compile the kernel unless there's any specific need to do so. I just simply trust the Debian

Strange system behavior...KDE/GNOME Problem.

2006-11-22 Thread Amit Joshi
I don't know what is wrong with my system. I have a system running Debian Testing with the 2.6.17-2 kernel and things were just fine, unless I installed GNOME. As such, the system works absolutely fine, and both KDE and GNOME work flawlessly. But the real problem is when i try to switch users

Re: Strange system behavior...KDE/GNOME Problem.

2006-11-22 Thread Amit Joshi
Hi Kevin, Thanks for your time. On Wednesday 22 November 2006 16:31, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > Then, when I run "startx", it starts GNOME. > > > > My default runlevel is 2 and my '/etc/X11/default-display-manager' file > > has got a single line saying "kdm" . > > > > I have no clue whats's wron

Re: Strange system behavior...KDE/GNOME Problem.

2006-11-22 Thread Amit Joshi
On Wednesday 22 November 2006 16:43, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:10:13 +0530 > > Amit Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know what is wrong with my system. I have a system running > > Debian Testing with the 2.6.17-2 kernel an

Re: Weird Upgrade procedure - Debian Testing.

2006-11-22 Thread Amit Joshi
On Wednesday 22 November 2006 22:22, anson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 12:46:07PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote: > >> While trying to upgrade my Debian Testing system, it shows me a horde of > >> packages that could be upgraded. But take a

Re: Is cdimage.debian.org having trouble?

2006-11-22 Thread Amit Joshi
On Thursday 23 November 2006 01:34, Rick Thomas wrote: > For the last few days, I've had great difficulty downloading from > cdimage.debian.org (mostly daily installer images for testing). > > Bandwidth is highly erratic and overall very slow. > > I'm in New Jersey, USA. If that makes any differen

Problem with JFS

2006-11-22 Thread Amit Joshi
I recently formatted a couple of my partitions with JFS. Now, the problem is, they don't get mounted by default on boot-up even though they are in /etc/fstab. /dev/hda1 /mnt/data jfsdefaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 /mnt/stuff jfs defaults 00 I format

Re: Problem with JFS [SOLVED]

2006-11-22 Thread Amit Joshi
On Thursday 23 November 2006 12:39, Amit Joshi wrote: > I recently formatted a couple of my partitions with JFS. Now, the problem > is, they don't get mounted by default on boot-up even though they are > in /etc/fstab. > > /dev/hda1 /mnt/data jfsdefaults 0

Re: Is cdimage.debian.org having trouble?

2006-11-23 Thread Amit Joshi
On Thursday 23 November 2006 01:34, Rick Thomas wrote: > For the last few days, I've had great difficulty downloading from > cdimage.debian.org (mostly daily installer images for testing). http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ But yeah...I doubt if you can find a mirror with the weekly sna

Re: The danger of dishonest disk drives (WAS:Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist)

2006-11-24 Thread Amit Joshi
On Friday 24 November 2006 12:21, Tim Post wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 17:31 -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > The question is how does the file system know that a write has made it > > to disk. E.g. if the file system is atomic transaction oriented, how > > can the file system know that a commit

Re: Firefox icon on KDE desktop?

2006-11-24 Thread Amit Joshi
On Saturday 25 November 2006 07:44, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > I accidently deletd the firefox icon (colorful fox) > from menu bar (with Big-K). > > Is there a way to create the icon again? > > -ishwar Right click on the KMenu Button (with Big-K) and select Menu Editor. Then Select the Internet Secti

Re: xserver-xorg: recent upgrade blowed out my X server

2006-11-25 Thread Amit Joshi
On Saturday 25 November 2006 16:30, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 02:23:53PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 November 2006 21:56, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > > > > > > mhhh... I don't have a "Savage Video Cards" sect

Mounting FreeBSD Partition on Linux

2006-11-26 Thread Amit Joshi
I am trying to mount the FreeBSD Partition on my Debian Testing system with the 2.6.17-2 kernel. I tried searching the config file and did not find any reference to UFS or U2FS in that file. So maybe it is not supported by my kernel? Anyways, keeping my fingers crossed. Can anybody tell me how

Re: Mounting FreeBSD Partition on Linux

2006-11-26 Thread Amit Joshi
On Sunday 26 November 2006 21:00, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 26.11.06 20:21, Amit Joshi wrote: > > I am trying to mount the FreeBSD Partition on my Debian Testing system > > with the 2.6.17-2 kernel. > > I tried searching the config file and did not find any reference

Re: Mounting FreeBSD Partition on Linux

2006-11-26 Thread Amit Joshi
On Monday 27 November 2006 00:54, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 11:34:03PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote: > > Oh..I wasn't aware of this. How about reading / writing from/to Linux > > partitions from FreeBSD? > > IIRC, FreeBSD has read-only sup

Re: upgrading trashed my font display

2006-11-27 Thread Amit Joshi
On Monday 27 November 2006 07:16, Adam Hardy wrote: > I upgraded a whole set of packages in etch using synaptic. > > I answered several of the questions posed by the installation processses of > some of the packages but I must have answered one of them very wrongly. Were these dependency issues? F

Re: Mounting FreeBSD Partition on Linux

2006-11-27 Thread Amit Joshi
On Monday 27 November 2006 19:54, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > looking at /boot/config-2.6.8-3-686, it's allowed in debian kernels: > > CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL=y > > > > Then, you need UFS filesystem support. Luckily, UFS write support is > > > dangerous for some versions of UFS, but it's safe fo

Re: Unkown Synaptic Message

2006-11-28 Thread Amit Joshi
On Monday 27 November 2006 23:42, Wayne Topa wrote: > Peter Hillier-Brook([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I would be grateful if someone would explain the following for me: > > > > W: There are no public key available for the following key IDs: > > A70DAF536070D3A1 > > > > This app

Re: Unkown Synaptic Message

2006-11-29 Thread Amit Joshi
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 18:08, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 15:32:20 +0530, Amit Joshi wrote: > > On Monday 27 November 2006 23:42, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > Peter Hillier-Brook([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > I would be gra

Re: fs system for desktop

2006-12-11 Thread Amit Joshi
On Monday 11 December 2006 18:09, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Dec 11 06:16 -0600]: > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 04:11:21PM +0800, Jeff Zhang wrote: > > > which fs system (jfs, xfs or future ext4) will perform better for > > > desktop usage under occasional power

Re: KQemu on Debian Testing

2006-12-11 Thread Amit Joshi
On Sunday 10 December 2006 23:10, Steve Kemp wrote: > > su - > apt-get install module-assistant > module-assistant prepare > module-assistant build kqemu-source > module-assistant install kqemu-source > depmod -a > modprobe kqemu > > Steve Thanks, but I don't think that helped. This

Re: KQemu on Debian Testing

2006-12-11 Thread Amit Joshi
On Monday 11 December 2006 22:43, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello David. > > David Baron, 11.12.2006 15:21: > >> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 11:15:35PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote: > >>> I recently installed Qemu, and later found out from the documentation > >>>

Re: KQemu on Debian Testing

2006-12-14 Thread Amit Joshi
On Wednesday 13 December 2006 02:39, Daniel Baumann wrote: > David Baron wrote: > >> You need testing/non-free or unstable/non-free. > > > > Unstable non-free, I certainly have stuff listed. No kqemu > > > > I compile it manually but having it in m-a would be nice. > > there is kqemu-source which i

Re: Kernel compile the old way

2006-11-10 Thread Amit Joshi
On Saturday 11 November 2006 00:56, Ed wrote: > I went to compile a vanilla kernel from kernel.org, and so read the > directions at the Debian site. They seem to me to be needlessly > complicated. Is there something in Debian which would prevent me from > compiling a kernel the good old fashioned

Installing KDE didn't pull in all dependencies - A bug?

2006-11-10 Thread Amit Joshi
I installed Debian Sarge from my CDs and then did a dist-upgrade to Etch. I installed a very basic system with the required packages etc. Then came the time to install KDE (The GUI Interface I was dying for ;-) ) But, apt-get install kde ..i thought would pull in all the dependencies related to

Re: Installing KDE didn't pull in all dependencies - A bug?

2006-11-10 Thread Amit Joshi
On Saturday 11 November 2006 02:33, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi Amit, > No, its not a bug but a feature! You can instll xorg (the current X), by > using 'apt-get install xorg' which, just like 'kde', is a meta-packge > that makes things easier for users. I forget the exact reason, but it > has to do wit

Re: Kernel compile the old way

2006-11-11 Thread Amit Joshi
On Saturday 11 November 2006 20:00, Wackojacko wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 02:10:53PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> make menuconfig > >> make-kpkg --revision 1 kernel_image > > > > Don't you end up with an initrd that way? I admit to never wasting my > > time with

Re: List packages by releases

2006-11-11 Thread Amit Joshi
On Saturday 11 November 2006 17:56, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > 'apt-show-versions' is what you want. > Oh..I thought this one is a command..:P This is a package actually... Regards, Amit. -- Remember fellas, what we do in life echoes in eternity! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: figure out startx?

2006-11-11 Thread Amit Joshi
> "Tim Champion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > did you ever figure this out? > > http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20061005.143543.58d45fb6.en.ht > >ml > > > > I'm having about the same problem, but with 3.1 sarge. > I guess you will first have to find out whether your Graphics Driver i

Re: Kernel compile the old way

2006-11-11 Thread Amit Joshi
On Saturday 11 November 2006 22:00, John Hasler wrote: > Amit Joshi writes: > > What exactly are the advantages of using an initrd? > > For a distribution kernel it provides support for all possible permutations > and combinations of hardware. I don't know of any advantage

Re: List packages by releases

2006-11-11 Thread Amit Joshi
On Sunday 12 November 2006 09:51, T wrote: > On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:26:48 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> Is there any way to list which packages are from unstable or testing? > > > > 'apt-show-versions' is what you want. > > Thanks, I checked into it, but unfortunately I found that > apt-show-vers

Re: Etch kernel

2006-11-12 Thread Amit Joshi
On Sunday 12 November 2006 19:29, Colin wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Hope that's true and that they stay with a 2.6.17 kernel... > > Why not a 2.6.18 kernel? If the OP wants to know what kernel will be shipped with the Official Release of Debian Etch, then I think its gonna be the 2.6.17 K

Adding more than one IP Address

2006-11-12 Thread Amit Joshi
I am sort of stuck up. I need to put more than one IP address due to my strange requirement. I am in a situation where there are multiple gateways, and so I need multiple addresses for the respective gateways. Windows provides an easy way to do this. I was more of a SuSE user, so I am kinda us

Re: Etch kernel

2006-11-12 Thread Amit Joshi
On Monday 13 November 2006 02:21, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Sunday, 12.11.2006 at 23:32 +0530, Amit Joshi wrote: > > For example, the Sarge CDs provide the 2.6.8 (tagged as unstable) > > kernel. > > I didn't think the Sarge 2.6 kernel was technically 'unstable' - t

Re: Adding more than one IP Address

2006-11-12 Thread Amit Joshi
On Monday 13 November 2006 02:09, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Amit Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061112 13:26]: > > I am sort of stuck up. I need to put more than one IP address due to my > > strange requirement. I am in a situation where there are multiple > > gatew

Re: My audio doesn't start (part II)

2006-11-12 Thread Amit Joshi
On Monday 13 November 2006 07:58, Alejandro wrote: > Dear Ismael, Russell and all who can help me, > > You help me a pair of days ago on an audio problem, I can't hear nothing > at all in my Linux box, because I think I run "apt-get dist-upgrade" for > several packages I don't remember now. I reall

Can't find header files.

2006-11-12 Thread Amit Joshi
I recently installed gcc and Anjuta for C programming. All dependencies have been installed. So whenever I try to compile a program, it returns an error saying: Error: stdio.h: Can't find file or directory. Never experienced such a problem before. I am using Etch and my program versions are

Re: Can't find header files.

2006-11-12 Thread Amit Joshi
On Monday 13 November 2006 12:16, Amit Joshi wrote: > I recently installed gcc and Anjuta for C programming. > All dependencies have been installed. > > So whenever I try to compile a program, it returns an error saying: > Error: stdio.h: Can't find file or directory. > >

Re: Can't find header files.

2006-11-12 Thread Amit Joshi
On Monday 13 November 2006 12:23, Alan Ianson wrote: > > Do you have the linux-kernel-headers package installed for your kernel > version? Ok. It wasn't installed. I will install it and reply back. -- Regards, Amit. Remember fellas, what we do in life echoes in eternity! -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Can't find header files.

2006-11-13 Thread Amit Joshi
On Monday 13 November 2006 12:53, Amit Joshi wrote: > On Monday 13 November 2006 12:23, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > > Do you have the linux-kernel-headers package installed for your kernel > > version? > > Ok. It wasn't installed. I will install it and reply ba

Re: Can't find header files.

2006-11-13 Thread Amit Joshi
On Monday 13 November 2006 14:07, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 01:36:18PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote: > > On Monday 13 November 2006 12:53, Amit Joshi wrote: > > > On Monday 13 November 2006 12:23, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > > > > > > > &

Re: Can't find header files.

2006-11-13 Thread Amit Joshi
On Monday 13 November 2006 14:07, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi Amit, > when investigating a problem, do not start out with the most complex > environment but instead start with the smallest, simplest bits and build > from there to see what caused the problems. Thus: > 1) create a simple 1 line c program

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-13 Thread Amit Joshi
On Monday 13 November 2006 18:34, anonymous wrote: > I was planning to download and test install Debian for the first time. > However, when I browsed the website below: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r3/i386/iso-cd/ > > for a download, I found out that I would need to download 18 CDs: