on a floppy first, but after a fair amount of
difficulty, it still couldn't boot windows. Being able to configure
it /before/ an OS is running is very crucial for inexperienced users.
It's shell is very cool
too.
-D
nel wrong for a long time and sound
was horrible -- I disabled it so I wouldn't have to suffer, then I
eventually checked all the settings and found I needed to adjust the
DMA channel now everything is beautiful)
-D
t the rtl8139
| driver is on the disk that comes with the DFE-530TX+ card.
|
Oh, ok. Thanks. I don't remember if it is the TX+ or TX version.
-D
|
| D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| : On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 08:37:42PM -0800, David Frey wrote:
| : |
| : | --- "Rick Com
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 06:17:35PM +, David Wright wrote:
| Quoting D-Man ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
| > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 05:50:54PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote:
|
| > | You could consider:
| > |
| > |#!/usr/bin/env perl
| > |
| > | as more installs will have env
irewall)
Maybe you don't have read permission, or maybe it wants to execute it?
(I don't think cygwin cares very much about execute permission ;-)
HTH,
-D
e/running OS to configure the
boot loader -- eliminates the chicken vs. egg problem you have)
HTH,
-D
I had previously ask how to get Black Box as my window
manager and was filled with more information than I
expected and was able to change from ICEWM-GNOME to
Black Box... everything was good. Well the kid came
out in me and was wondering what the other window
managers looked like, ie AfterStep, W
ata on the
disk. (AFAIK fdisk will only change the partition table itself) Then
boot again from your boot floppy. LILO/the kernel should then be able
to figure out where the root filesystem is.
HTH,
-D
oooh, this will run on my (Debian) computer right? All of Debian's
supported architectures too, right?
;-)
(just making fun of ridiculous spam)
-D
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 01:01:31PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| MS office professional 2000 FULL version for $120 !!! NEW !!
|
m. Perhaps you can wait until the next stable release,
then get CDs from somewhere? Maybe you can access a computer with a
faster/cheaper net connection and use some removable media to transfer
the new packages?
-D
Hi folks,
I have enough of mirroring every day the whole Debian-tree (i386 only
and without sources, with some sophisticated rsync-scripts). Is there a
way to mirror only potato and woody? There are just too many updates a
day for my slow 64k link, and most of them are for sid only. I think
ap
ut losing any custom changes you may have. Instead you edit
separate files that are specific to what you want, and let
update-modules combine it appropriately into modules.conf.
-D
Lars Knudsen wrote:
Have you tried adding
sid/
to your exclude file ? I am mirroring the i386 part of the debian tree
in a single rsync run using a relatively long exclude file. This seems
perfectly possible on a 64k link.
Happy hacking,
\Gandalf
Hmm.. sorry, that won't help me, since th
I downloaded a driver for the Aureal Sound Card, to a
windows drive, from somewhere and I'll be if I
can find it again. When I tried to install it, it
complained about the added junk.. It was named
au88xx-kernel-source-1.1.2_i386.deb has anyone
seen this driver??
Also the Debian based
the "+=" operator, the intro message doesn't
bother me so I have never RTFM'd shortmess)
-D
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 10:42:23AM +0100, Martin Würtele wrote:
| On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 06:08:12PM -0500, James Moody wrote:
|
| i thought that the dlink 530 tx cards have a via rhine chip as cat
Just to summarize what I have recently learned regarding the D-Link
cards :
DE-530TXtulip
DFE
houldn't be too hard to read ;-).
-D
You need to edit the /etc/fstab for your hd? and your
cdrom it probably has msdos it need to be vfat.
--- Horburapa Mongkol-Q13382
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I mount Windows partition or cdrom, I receive a
> short file name.
> How could I get the long file name supported for
> this?
>
> Tha
always use the floppy to boot, but you can
forget about changing floppies since this one will handle all the
systems.
Also, make a backup boot floppy, just in case . . . ;-)
HTH,
-D
rpreters are the best since PS is quite a
standard format in *nix. Windows drives can deal with it. PCL
(version 5 at least) is supported and in my experience usually prints
faster. I had it set up to use PCL by default on a RH system using
printtool.
-D
hine).
Grub is now on the MBR and is quite happy with both OSes.
HTH,
-D
s of Sparc and Alpha designs?
What about ARM? I don't know much (anything realy) about ARM and
where it came from or who made it. I'm really more of a software guy,
but I find the hardware to be interesting as well.
| -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --
Nice.
-D
o to chainload windows. Then I
tried grub and it took no time at all. Much easier.
-D
If you have Windozze on this machine, select start -->
Settings --> Control Panel --> System --> Devices The
sound card is probably listed in under the others
icon, Press the + and that might show you the name of
the sound card, or highlight the sound card and then
select properties. That should
I have used Slackware, Mandrake, and Corel Linux and
the modem was set to 115200, and no problem with
downloads. Now that I have graduated to Debian, and
to be truthful, have done a couple of reinstalls, I
was getting timed out on apt-get. I posted to this
list and it was suggested to lower my se
Performance??? Architecture, no
performance there!)
A PCL printer is just fine (PCL5 and PCL3 from experience) and much
faster than PostScript.
-D
I did this at work and there is a error in this email
the archive said to try echo 0 >
/proc/sys/net/ipt4/tcp_sck not what I had sorry for
the confusion.
Don
--- "D. Hoyem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have used Slackware, Mandrake, and Corel Linux and
> the modem
Last night after reading this thread I went and did a
apt-get of xmms and it was like falling off a log. As
root I cd to /usr/local did the apt-get and within 4
minutes I was playing mp3's on my system no pain, no
extra files to get nutting.
Thanks
--- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EM
I want to update xchat to 1.6.4 so I did a apt-get
update ; apt-get source -b xchat 1.6.4 and I get this
error, Could not open file
/var/state/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-us_dists_stable_non-us_source_Sources
-open(2 No such file or directory. This is what my
sources.list is ...
# See so
on how this actually works (or
just ask ;-)).
Also, there is a cl option "--rv" or "--reverse-video" to reverse the
colors from their normal. gvim will actually check to make sure that
it is light-on-dark rather than just blindly switching fg & bg.
HTH,
-D
t you use to dial. On my system it is
/etc/wvdial.conf
-D
syntax is "apt-get -b source " not
> "apt-get source -b "
>
> Bob
>
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 05:53:56PM -0800, D. Hoyem
> wrote:
> > I want to update xchat to 1.6.4 so I did a apt-get
> > update ; apt-get source -b xchat 1.6.4 and I get
>
rub able to boot linux when I
installed it on the MBR (lilo couldn't). I haven't had any trouble
with it, but I don't have plain DOS installed. Also, at home it is 2
separate disks. The hide/unhide didn't seem to have any effect.
(Better, IMO than simply failing to boot since apparently my BIOS
doesn't support it)
-D
dn't find any terms
in /etc/termcap that supported color except for a few special ones
that didn't work at all with my emulator.
-D
I got this message in private e-mail today. Melvin needs help
configuring a Yamaha sound card. Can anyone help? (cc replies to him
since his subscription was rejected (see below))
-D
- Forwarded message from Melvin Sebastian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
From: Melvin Sebastian &
variable
"textwidth" must be set, not "wraplen")
Someone else said to set it to "t", mine is set to "tcq".
Also, gqip or gqap will rewrap the current paragraph. gqG will
reqwrap from here to the end of the buffer, gq} will rewrap from
here to the end of the current paragraph.
-D
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 12:50:31AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote:
| On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 06:52:42PM -0500, D-Man wrote:
| > I saw different symptons when I tried hiding the linux partitions from
| > win2k, then not unhiding them from linux. The partition table wasn't
| > messe
ce, I recommend the python
language. The language is very nice, high-level, and easy to grasp.
The python community is also very friendly and helpful and has a nice
tutor list, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTH,
-D
ten don't work quite right. It's really a pain when it gets a bit
or two off and give a different number. Or just ignores the first
couple of decimal digits in the code. The "real" scanners are on the
cash registers at the front end. I haven't worked front-end, but they
don't have nearly as much trouble as video has.
-D
, the card is transfering data right not.
-D
I'm using 2.2r2 and kernel2.2.18pre21 on a PII 350.
Works great now after many reinstalls. I have a Supra
Express 56K modem and when I initially set it up using
pppconfig I used the 115200 setting. With that
setting I was getting time outs a lot with apt-get. I
was advised to change it to 57600
I'm using 2.2r2 and kernel2.2.18pre21 on a PII 350.
Works great now after many reinstalls. I have a Supra
Express 56K modem and when I initially set it up using
pppconfig I used the 115200 setting. With that
setting I was getting time outs a lot with apt-get. I
was advised to change it to 57600
ot;upgrage"
(don't!) your system to use gcc 2.96 it will be binary compatible with other
executables made with 2.96. Of course, then things made with the stable 2.95.2
won't work.
(also, the c++ optimizer has a bug that gives an internal compiler error and
quits when compiling certai
Apple IIe who can tell me
how I can get the listing to be redirected to the printer port. Also if it is
possible to get a copy of the program file onto a disk for an IBM compatible
comptuer (Windows or Linux) that would be great.
Thanks in advance for all the gurus out there who can help me.
-D
A solution (though not ideal) :
configure procmail to dump all messages for debian-user to /dev/null
:-)
-D
On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 16:45:20 Ringo De Smet wrote:
| On Monday 04 December 2000 22:20, you wrote:
| > I can't understand all this dump stuff about failing to uns
il can accept requests to delete particular messages form the
server, another more experienced person will have to comment on that)
-D
On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 22:54:14 Ignasi Tura wrote:
| But, as an example for my situation:
|
| I download the mail. The mail is kept with the 'keep' option.
I had the problem of LILO stopping at "LI" when booting from the MBR on my
machine. Upon further research I found that my BIOS is too cheap to boot from
/dev/hdc. (Using LILO to boot from floppy worked, but couldn't find /dev/hda).
My solution is to use loadlin.exe (from AUTOEXEC.BAT).
-D
someone else
said, you might want PHP instead of CGI scripting.
-D
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 04:27:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| hi. sorry for the off-topic post. i'm embarking on a journey to be a web
| developer and would like to know if i should use mod.perl or mod.php for cgi?
| i'v
You've got a PhD. If you can't figure out how to get off the list, make a
filter that dumps it to /dev/null.
( hint: $ man procmail )
On Fri, 08 Dec 2000 22:17:09 Jim Kroger wrote:
|
| UNSUBSCRIBE UNSUBSCRIBE UNSUBSCRIBE
|
| _
| Jame
I don't know what Tomcat is, but I did notice the references to threads in the
ps output. AFAIK using threads causes ps (and top) to report more processes
than really exist : each thread is reported as a process.
-D
On Sat, 09 Dec 2000 05:50:38 Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
| I just inst
di opl3
options opl3 io=0x388
===
BTW, this is for RH7 (copied from my RH6.1 setup). I don't think the distro
would matter here since it is at the kernel level
HTH,
-D
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 17:18:54 Tiarnan O Corrain wrote:
| Hello...
|
| I recently installed Debian on a Compaq Armada 7770
Agent : used to deliver mail to local users
MUA : Mail User Agent : the program you use to read the mail
HTH,
-D
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 19:38:38 Debian User wrote:
| Can someone explain what's the relation between exim, fetchmail
| and mutt or any other reader? If fetchmail fetches it, then
I had this problem too. Not sure what changed on my system to correct it.
Actually, since I rarely use it I'm not even sure if it still works. Zip drives
are kind of buggy with respect to ejecting.
Sorry I can't be of help.
-D
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 23:28:08 Dan Griswold wrote:
incompatible with everything?)
I haven't yet installed Debian, just looking for the time.
:-)
-D
PS. I am in school too, so that may have had an effect
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 03:43:07 Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
|
| Damon,
|
| I think it's the redhat upgrade to 7.0! heeheehee.
|
I think you should browse the archives now. I recall seeing a subject similar
to "Re es1371 PROBLEM SOLVED" yesterday.
-D
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 22:26:03 Clayton Stapleton wrote:
| It is a Sound Blaster 16 PCI sound card. The system BIOS is set to recognize
| PnP cards and is used
ess for us." and it's counterpart : "Dissatisfied customers
tell others, thus hurting our business."
-D
and world executable.
(When discussing directories, executable means that you can cd to it, if it is
readable, but not executable you can ls it but not cd, if it is executable but
not readable you can cd but not ls -- this is what you want ( rwx-x
$HOME ) and ( rwx---r-x $HOME/public
aking the appropriate
config file and then building the package (which would require a Debian system).
HTH,
-D
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 01:22:17PM +, Simon Broad wrote:
> I'm pretty new to Linux, but have been asked by a customer to port a Unix
> product to Debian.
>
> This m
You could try kaffe or gcj. Kaffe is a free JVM implementation and gcj is a
Java compiler that can output .class files or native object code.
-D
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 19:38:35 Dale Morris wrote:
| I downloaded the j2sdk1.3 package from Blackdown, it installed fine, but
| doesn't work w
anning on installing
Debian Potato early next week.
I wonder why your BIOS got flashed. You probably should have installed a better
BIOS ;-). My BIOS can't boot from the second IDE bus, thus I can't use LILO and
must first boot DOS and run loadlin.
-D
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 13:51:09 Tom S
pen a new window with "blank"
page. I do have to hit the "Enter" key to make it go to the new URL
though.
Now I recall having a button, but I think it was called "Go", on older
versions of Netsape. (this was before I had my own computer and
before I knew about Unix)
-D
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 03:04:09 Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
| d-man, you might want to set your wrapmargin a bit shorter.
What is the preferred size? I had it at 80, this time it's 70. :-)
| as for lilo, you can have two devices on each ide chain. i assume
| you have
| windows on one h
il address to send the
message to. (BTW, '#' starts a comment like python and bash)
HTH,
-D
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 06:41:26PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I can´t get mailagent to forward or bounce any mail. My latest try
> looks like:
>
> Cont
Hi,
during the installation i was asked if i want world-readable home
directories. Where can I change that behaviour? So when I add a new user
(adduser), it's home-dir should get automagically world-readable instead
of non-readable.
Thanx
(it's not in /etc/adduser.conf)
Andreas Reuleaux wrote:
Hi,
I just installed the mozilla (M18) pkg on a fresh Debian 2.2r2 box.
One has to install PSM (Personal Security Manager, see Mozilla homepage)
I would expect such a package in the non-free area of debian,
can any of the netscape packages there be used as a replacem
machine, it should only take a
couple of minutes.
HTH,
-D
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 11:52:32AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> Is this possible? I need to install an IDE Zip 250 drive in the server here
> at
> work to make available on the LAN. I seem to recall th
only mail the list (so people don't get multiple copies of
each reply) and set a header option so that you don't get put in the
"To" or "CC" of replies (since you are on the list).
HTH,
-D
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 11:47:07AM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote:
> Is ther
the network. As a result I had to su to root one
time when the card couldn't DHCP boot (some external problems) to
bring the interface back up when the network was fixed.
HTH,
-D
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 09:21:02PM +0100, Gary Jones wrote:
> Okay, stupid question time.
>
> What is
An alternate solution, since I assume you want the mail once you get
back from your trip, is to use a filter program to send all mail to
this list to /dev/null.
procmail, mailagent, and filter can do the job.
HTH,
-D
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 10:28:50AM -0500, Eileen Orbell wrote:
> Hi
figuration questions, but
that's all that's on my mind for now.
-D
Sometimes, however, people ask a question, but aren't on the list. In
that case they need the extra cc.
-D
for all involved if a
uniform description file was to be used for all (major) packaging
systems. This would allow developers to maintain only 1 file and
allow users/packagers to build any sort of package (debian or rpm)
from the source.
Just my $0.02.
-D
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 06:15:40AM +0800
uld be the same as a network install except that instead
of specifying a network interface and a host to get packages from you
would specify a disk.
HTH,
-D
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 05:24:15PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble figuring out how to install Debian 2.2 w
ve no proof)
-D
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 05:46:48PM -0800, Denzil Kelly wrote:
> When I partitioned my hard drive, I noticed that I was
> unable to make a swap partition of 128 MB. For
> whatever reason, the largest partition I was able to
> make was 122 MB. Why is this? Also I've no
2.2.16 kernel but
was able to use all 244MB available.
-D
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:41:33AM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote:
> did you install this on debian 2.1? or anything using the 2.0 kernel?
> from what i remember this was a kernel 2.0 limitation. 124MB
> reported by the system is normal.
s 800 & ESC/P 2 printers" and "Epson Stylus Color (UP)". If
either of these are close enough to your printer I could set it up on
my system and send you the config files. (it might help you figure
what you need on your system for it to work)
-D
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:23:34
vertantly break other parts of your
system.
I think it would be best for you to try and find a source package and
build it on your system. If gnucash itself (not the prebuilt package)
doesn't require newer libs this is the best route.
-D
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:35:28PM -0600, Richard Cobb
I haven't done this yet, but I have a feeling that when I finish
installing Debian I will be playing with the rc?.d scripts.
The scripts are actually symlinks to the real scripts. The symlinks
have a name like
[KS][0-9][0-9][a-zA-Z]+
The symlinks that start with S are for startup and the
Maybe there isn't a separate mouse driver file but it is in some other
file instead?
-D
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:31:45PM -0600, John Foster wrote:
> Thanks guys for all of the pointers. I am really not a newbie and have
> covered all of the areas responded to. I do not find a mous
If you really like plain vi features, vim has a compatibility mode:
:set compatible
to set all options at values that are (approximately) equivalent to
vi's features.
-D
(vim has a lot of nice features that vi doesn't have, and it's cool to
take advantage of them)
tt tries to exec sendmail it
will succeed, but actually exec exim instead.
Hope this helps.
:-)
-D
PS. I would guess that english isn't your native language, and I
don't want to you feel insulted after reading my message, I just don't
want to assume anything since that results
. Then ld
just uses it's config to find the library when it needs to.
I'm not really too clear on the exact details here, but the gist of it
should be correct. (If not please let me know so that I can correct
my understanding!)
HTH,
-D
:-)
c. I bought a much cheaper
LinkSys card instead and have been very happy with it.
-D
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 09:46:03AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 07:12:36PM +0530, M K Saravanan wrote:
> >
> > I have been using RH linux. after reading several success stories of
r you. It was a few years ago that I recall
reading on the web sites that it didn't work. In any case I am glad
that I thought it didn't since the Linksys card was many times
cheaper! (the Linksys was ~$20 while the 3Com was about ~90)
:-)
-D
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 06:18:16PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> I thought that the JRE was depricated. That's what I read on the Java
> homepage anyway.
I highly doubt that. The JRE is just the VM without the compiler.
You can't deprecate the VM for an interpreted language :-).
-D
Are you trying to boot from the second IDE bus? My Linux disk is on
the second IDE bus in my computer, and my BIOS is too crappy to boot
from it. It would always hang with "LI". I had to use loadlin.exe
instead. If you want more info about loadlin, jusk ask.
HTH,
-D
On Sat, Dec 3
Try:
$ cat > /dev/ttySxx
If you don't give any args to cat, it reads stdin. (aka, "interactive")
HTH,
-D
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 07:15:47PM +0100, Matthieu Paindavoine wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a device connected to a serial port. There is no protocol, I just
Rob wrote:
Hello,
Occasionally I install a Debian package that I
do not want to start everytime I boot. In this
situation, I usually use update-rc.d and either
stick the init script into a specific runlevel
or just remove it from all runlevels.
This works fine, however, when I do an upgrade
This thread has invoked some curiosity in me. If I use ssh to forward
X connections, does that mean I can use X through an IP masquerading
router? I cannot use X in the normal way right now (by setting
DISPLAY to my IP address) because my IP doesn't really exist beyond
the router.
Thanks,
-D
instead of g++ for compiling C++ code
make sure you specify the options -Xc++ and -lstdc++ on the command
line. The g++ wrapper does this for you.
HTH,
-D
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 06:09:56PM -0800, Xucaen wrote:
> huh??? it doesn't mention anything about this in
> the man pages (man gcc)
his once. It said
"This virus works on the honor system. The subject said "This is a
virus". Please send this to everyone you know, then delete all the
files on your HD".
:-)
-D
mmend waiting a
while and getting Woody instead. (though I doubt you would find a
book with woody bundled in it, an older book should work just fine ;
also there's this list :-))
HTH,
-D
> $ cat /dev/null > bigfile # "empty" the file
> $ rm bigfile
>
> In general, you want to *empty* a file (cat /dev/null > file) before you
> delete it, and you don't want to delete an open file.
>
Why would you cat /dev/null into the file before removing it?
-D
the idepci kernel to do a
network install) and if I can I want to upgrade to 2.2.18.
Thanks,
-D
Hey, everytime I try run sendmail, I get this error ->
May 17 15:39:22 skynet sendmail[8272]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): Cannot open hash
database /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument
If tried removing aliases.db, aliases, putting in new ones, simpler ones,
leaving them blank. I tried running makedb
ency I've
noticed as well. Your 56k modem is 56 kb == 56 kilobits.
-D
nyone know what I need installed here? Thanks.
I don't know what you need for a debian system, but the Solaris
system's in the lab have cc1. It is part of Sun's C++ compiler.
-D
www.linux.com/hardware/newsitem.phtml?sid=26&aid=11457
Very interesting article. Shows why working together and free updates
are important to quality systems.
-D
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:37:39PM -0700, Ray Percival wrote:
| I can't get to linux.com just now to find the article but
Does nobody have any suggestions? I see lots of helpful suggestions
on the list daily, but no comments on my problem yet.
Should I forget about Debian and continue with RedHat?
Please offer suggestions, even if it is a wild guess. Anything would
be helpful.
-D
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:40
ent around the same time as me
(even after!).
This is just to avoid any flames about being behind schedule and just
mimicking other peoples messages. (I have already received such a
message)
-D
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