The Debian installer

2003-12-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
staller, or how can I fix this problem with the cvs script? TIA -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The Debian installer

2003-12-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Joey Hess wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: Failed to fetch http://non-us.debian.org/dists/unstable/main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found It should not be trying to use non-us. What does your /etc/apt/sources.list look like? # See sources.list(5) for more

Re: The Debian installer

2003-12-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Joey Hess wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: Failed to fetch http://non-us.debian.org/dists/unstable/main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found It should not be trying to use non-us. What does your /etc/apt/sources.list look like? So: where can I find the Installer, or

Re: Grub problems

2003-12-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
a floppy? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Grub problems

2003-12-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
I blew up my grub with the debian installer, and it (the installer) does not rigth lilo to hda. How do I repair my grub? I know the drive lay-outs, I can load knoppix chroot and do a grub-floppy. But with the floppy then what do I tell grub? the home of the grub config file is hda6 (or hd0,

Re: Grub problems

2003-12-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Anita Lewis wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 10:53:40 + (UTC), Anita Lewis wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:58:25 -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: I blew up my grub with the debian installer, and it (the installer) does not rigth lilo to hda. How do I repair my grub? I know the drive lay

Re: Trying to boot after Debian installer ran

2003-12-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
csj wrote: On 14. December 2003 at 4:16PM -0600, "Damon L. Chesser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snipped: grub menu entries, etc] Given the above, how can I get Debian to boot? cd into the Debain / (while running Libranet) and run lilo? Modify in some unknown to me way the

Trying to boot after Debian installer ran

2003-12-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
to my new shiny base system!!! Talk about security! The distro was sarge, ext3 was chosen for file systems, hdb6 /, hdb7 /home, hdb5 /var (as reiserfs). All partitions seem written to with out errors (as checked out from Libranet). -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Trying to boot after Debian installer ran

2003-12-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 16:16, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Snip This got it going: (grub menu.lst of Libranet) title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.22-1-386 root(hd1,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1-386 root=/dev/hdb6 ro hdc=scsi hdd=scsi initrd=/boot

Re: Grub problems

2003-12-15 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Anita Lewis wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 12:27:04 -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Not at all! I will try something like that to be able to boot Debain. As of now I have no way to boot the Debian install. since lilo did not write to the drive. In fact, the installer, might not have correctly

Re: email client (OT)

2003-12-15 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Gruessle wrote: I have some problems and what I have learned so far is that I need to send you guys more info so you can help me. First think I should do I guess is setup an email client on the Debian box otherwise I will have to type all the errors in to my email. How do I do that and which ema

Re: distro for novices

2004-12-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
uest really belongs on? I would recommend kanotix http://kanotix.com/info/index.php HTH > > > -- > .''`. Matt Price > : :' : Debian User > `. `'` & hemi-geek > `- > -- Damon L. Ches

Re: xorg

2004-12-24 Thread Damon L. Chesser
id not check it before I sent it. > > -- > Rise Again! > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: question about kernel 2.6

2004-07-09 Thread Damon L. Chesser
an image, install it, configure your boot loader, update your package system so your system knows what kernel you have. If you use synaptic, you can "see" your kernel listed in the packages and you can remove it if you want. You can also transport the kernel to a new machine if th

Re: courier-imap-ssl "server disconnect" error behind firewall

2004-07-15 Thread Damon L. Chesser
wants to make 5 (performance), so you need to tell courier to allow larger number of connections. Please turn off your requst for a return receipt. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-17 Thread Damon L. Chesser
reads your post, when posting to debian-user list. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Menu maker

2003-12-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Is Menu maker part of deb? I can't seem to find it. I searched for menumaker, menu-maker, mmaker, menmaker. Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Webcam

2003-12-26 Thread Damon L. Chesser
I would like to buy a digital cam that can also be a web cam. Nothing to fancy, just a decent camera. Any sugestions? I use Libranet (deb based) and debian, testing. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

usb pendrive strangness

2004-01-01 Thread Damon L. Chesser
is not an issue. In addition, on the problem box (Libranet 2.8.1) I have an USB-2 pci card, eliminating the possibility of an onboard usb problem. This has me scratching my head. Where do I look and what do I do? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: USB 2 Sony Microvault Problems

2004-01-02 Thread Damon L. Chesser
nd all this, it is close to magic. I guess this is why Linus does not like this system and a new one is out with 2.6.0 kernels. Hope this helps -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: usb pendrive strangness

2004-01-02 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Edward Murrell wrote: On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 06:48, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Snip Given that I just woke up, I may be difficult to understand... :) snip Regards Edward Edward, Thank you for responding. #usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfsrw,devmode=0660,devgid=432 0 0

Re: USB 2 Sony Microvault Problems

2004-01-03 Thread Damon L. Chesser
puzzlement to me and I really think it is how the disk is set up by Sony. Ed Lawson Did you shake the chicken bone and sprinkle the blood when you ran cfdisk? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

viewing multi-page .tiff: how to in linux

2004-01-17 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Anybody got any ideas how to view a multi-page .tiff file? The only thing I use windows for anymore is to view .tiff's I get from work and Linux does not (that I have found) have a way to view the other pages after page one. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: viewing multi-page .tiff: how to in linux

2004-01-17 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Stephen wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:50:58PM -0600 or thereabouts, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Anybody got any ideas how to view a multi-page .tiff file? The only thing I use windows for anymore is to view .tiff's I get from work and Linux does not (that I have found) have a way to

Re: viewing multi-page .tiff: how to in linux

2004-01-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Richard Lyons wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2004 04:01, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Stephen wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:50:58PM -0600 or thereabouts, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Anybody got any ideas how to view a multi-page .tiff file? The only thing I use windows for anymore is

Re: viewing multi-page .tiff: how to in linux

2004-01-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Brian Potkin wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:01:37PM -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Stephen wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:50:58PM -0600 or thereabouts, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Anybody got any ideas how to view a multi-page .tiff file? The only thing I use windows for

Re: viewing multi-page .tiff: how to in linux

2004-01-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Brian Potkin wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 09:28:32AM -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Brian Potkin wrote: Installing the mgetty-viewfax package takes only a minute or two and gets you 'viewfax', which is capable of viewing multipage tiffs. It would be useful to know whether it

Re: viewing multi-page .tiff: how to in linux

2004-01-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:50:58PM -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Anybody got any ideas how to view a multi-page .tiff file? The only thing I use windows for anymore is to view .tiff's I get from work and Linux does not (that I have found) have a way to view the

Re: viewing multi-page .tiff: how to in linux

2004-01-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:49:44PM +, Brian Potkin wrote: You cannot print from within viewfax. 'lpr file.tif' should work. Assuming that you're using some variety of printing support that understands what to do when somethin

Re: Can rpm packages from other linux distribution be used on Debian?

2004-05-15 Thread Damon L. Chesser
egard for ease of use or superior methods. We simply can not compromise! -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

/cdrom0 and /dev/cdrom*

2004-05-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
I realy want to know this answer! Why is it re-writing an entry in / to make /cdrom0 and a symling in /cdrom ?? Thanks for the help. Google for me did not help. No joy on irc channels. I tried to make this as clear and concise as I could. Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNS

Re: /cdrom & /cdrom0

2004-06-06 Thread Damon L. Chesser
r. I concluded it was a result of discover. Don't know if it is true or not. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SMC wireless woes, need advise

2004-02-29 Thread Damon L. Chesser
ote: Windows died, linux just has no network. Hm so much for the "easy" install in windows XP. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Asking for help: installing debian on Athlon needing nvidia driver

2004-03-03 Thread Damon L. Chesser
a new message and insert the debian user list address for "to:" Actually, it's not. To start your own thread, you need to mail the list directly, rather than replying. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Gnome Desktop Configuration

2004-03-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
e this guy, that ability was broken to reset. Enough of my rant on gnome. Aside from that, I realy kinda like it now. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using Debian Installer

2004-03-12 Thread Damon L. Chesser
feature of Knoppix. Your response to S. Keeling has me very confused over what you hope to get done. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-09 Thread Damon L. Chesser
is no choice in the matter, not yet. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-09 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Nate Duehr wrote: On Feb 9, 2004, at 2:25 PM, Damon L. Chesser wrote: This is the first time I have to disagree with you S. Keeling. Users of CAD (espe. AutoCad) realy have to use windose. No maker of professional CAD is porting to linux. I know a shop here that builds buildings and they

Re: CLI (was "Re: cdparanoia & a song in negative space")

2004-02-16 Thread Damon L. Chesser
or someone to make out with her. :-P Which doesn't imply marriage... Which is even better, isn't it? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Are there any known problems when using apt-get dist-upgrade

2004-02-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
it does not work for you. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Prism2 driver

2004-04-06 Thread Damon L. Chesser
t is how I understand it. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: udev: how to do it right?

2004-04-10 Thread Damon L. Chesser
docs/HOWTO/other-formats/pdf/Flash-Memory-HOWTO.pdf+usb+memory+stick+linux+howto&hl=en&ie=UTF-8#24 Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-16 Thread Damon L. Chesser
roduce a stabel distro, let us deal with it. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-02 Thread Damon L. Chesser
act, it looks like nothing ever happened. What about the overall state of the installed packages? $ aptitude search '~i' | md5sum 06f9da945e91f95eb2913ed081809159 - I rest my case. My hands are clapping! Bravo! Bravo! -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Brief question as to the Linux kernel in use in the Stable version of Etch

2008-01-27 Thread Damon L. Chesser
id=instructions -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: su doesn't work "Authentication failure"

2008-01-31 Thread Damon L. Chesser
to root "sudo su" 2. As I had a BadCRC reported on a HD, I had to re-configure my hardware setup and re-install. The first is a bandaide. The 2nd is a shotgun to kill a bug. Both worked. The source was never found. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Tbird kb shortcuts (was Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?)

2008-02-03 Thread Damon L. Chesser
TURE- "the GNOME people have their heads stuck up MSFT's ass." Say what? What did I miss? What do you mean Ron? BTW try XFCE4. I like it. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tbird kb shortcuts (was Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?)

2008-02-03 Thread Damon L. Chesser
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Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
clear up. And the entire time we had an official Linux desktop, just IT policy said no. I share your pain. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-03 Thread Damon L. Chesser
files (from work mates, sent from work, made in windows, using a password (to keep IT off of it?) I could not uncompress in Linux. I had to use windows, then transfer the files back to myself on Linux. Perhaps this is the problem? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UN

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
it was not that important to me. However, your question implies you can stream video from/to the tivo from Linux. How? What am I missing? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Kevin Monceaux wrote: Damon, On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Damon L. Chesser wrote: I was under (it would seem falsely) that streaming from/to a tivo was limited to windows. I can access the tivo from Linux by IP, but I get no menu to do anything with it, just a webpage. I never looked into it as it

Viewing Tivo from Linux

2008-03-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Anybody know of a way to view Tivo on a Linux box? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-06 Thread Damon L. Chesser
d I am happy to have been a part of Dell at that time (though not involved with that program). Just my 2c worth. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Personal backup of copy-protected DVDs

2008-03-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
is illegal. How would one make a bit copy of a CD using dd? dd if=/dev/whatever of=/file/name.iso ? I never tried to dd a CD. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing own packages with aptitude

2008-03-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
to install skype (ony 32bit version available) and a few things which it depends on (also 32bit versions) HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Restore apache help

2008-03-08 Thread Damon L. Chesser
t just goes and goes and when I receive them back, again, does not seem like it is 72 char/line. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Personal backup of copy-protected DVDs

2008-03-08 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Celejar wrote: On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:38:59 -0500 "Damon L. Chesser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AFAIK (<<--see the disclaimer?) in the USA, you are allowed to make personal copies of media you own for your own use (not to install on multiple machines). This has bee

Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?

2008-03-09 Thread Damon L. Chesser
lvent that will not take off runs, dissolve the MB, etc. Just find an "acid brush" to paint and scrub with and all the gunk should also come up. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Personal backup of copy-protected DVDs

2008-03-09 Thread Damon L. Chesser
T o n g wrote: On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:53:19 +1100, Owen Townend wrote: On 3/8/08, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My daughter want to make some backups of her games on copy-protected DVDs. Anybody knows how to do that with Linux? Have a loo

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
irtualized capable hardware (I think your CPU has it ). If the game will run off of "any" windows video card and your system is fast enough, yes you can play. If you need advanced 3d graphics, probably you can not as the virtual video card will not support it. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAI

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
ing nature of that legacy platform... As for myself, I was just answering the question. BTW, the newest game I have "Sins of a Solar Empire" is pretty high spec and works out of the box with wine. I just tested it today. Works with out flaws. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-12 Thread Damon L. Chesser
m, but if you do, please let me know. That will be news to me. HTH! -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lvm root partition was full, deleted data -but still reports it is full.HELP!!

2008-03-12 Thread Damon L. Chesser
G 0 100% / but that should be about 37G as per your df -h posting (half of 10% of 728G) I suspect that is your issue. HTH. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lvm root partition was full, deleted data -but still reports it is full.HELP!!

2008-03-12 Thread Damon L. Chesser
over looked! Something is not correct on that box. Here on my home box I filled up all of 3.5G of / with everything installed I can think of with only /home and swap on a diff. partition. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Thanks for the great system / installation successfull report

2008-03-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
w of anybody personally in the USA who has done this, I do personally know of a Dutch who did it: http://blog.danieldk.org/ -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Problem restricting user privileges in ubuntu 7.10

2008-03-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
out it. Thank you, Raj Kiran Grandhi Raj, I think it has to do with /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi I am not sure how to edit it, but I believe that holds the key to the actions allowed. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: [OT] Problem restricting user privileges in ubuntu 7.10

2008-03-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
ys you can make a rule that overrides an earlier rule. Rules start at 00 and to up to 99, they are read in order. 50 series is for user rules. beyond that, I can not help with out much googleing as I don't know the syntax. I have seen this come up on this very list from time to time, bu

Re: [OT] Problem restricting user privileges in ubuntu 7.10

2008-03-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/13/08 22:58, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] This "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# rgrep floppy *" led me to /etc/udev/permissions.rules which has these 2 lines in them: # all block device

Re: i'm having some problems, I am a fairly novice user, such as just getting to my /etc/apt/sources.list ( can you help)

2008-03-16 Thread Damon L. Chesser
) this is a friendly mail list and most will be willing to help you. HTH! -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

2008-03-17 Thread Damon L. Chesser
uPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH3oA9S9HxQb37XmcRAt7+AKDrG8qVGyrJzGg/8pjReIyVY5vDCACghX2F eSFCQrgYMgaRbdUdyHD19Qk= =rNNm -END PGP SIGNATURE- Well, That explains why people use MS. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

2008-03-17 Thread Damon L. Chesser
6lEjFkeApNxGMjNpJK8wMxQCcDSwy 3/kXWbtyW/NC1RyX6/2RK6M= =EB3Y -END PGP SIGNATURE- No, See my MS entry, 1st reply, I believe. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

2008-03-17 Thread Damon L. Chesser
6lEjFkeApNxGMjNpJK8wMxQCcDSwy 3/kXWbtyW/NC1RyX6/2RK6M= =EB3Y -END PGP SIGNATURE- How much did your link cost? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

2008-03-17 Thread Damon L. Chesser
which I failed to comprehend Why Red Hat is the "business" distro. Send me $2500 US and I will explain it to you. You know it has to be good! -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: vmware-server with 2.6.24

2008-03-17 Thread Damon L. Chesser
is Ubuntu, but until a week ago, I had Sid and it worked there). -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vmware-server with 2.6.24

2008-03-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
7.10 this method has worked for VMworkstation and VMserver and you don't have to muck with mod assistant. Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RAID suggestions?

2008-03-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
he matter! -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RAID suggestions?

2008-03-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/08 15:41, Damon L. Chesser wrote: [snip] changes in HD tech). 6. I have seen dozens of catastrophic hardware controller failures with complete data lost and not one mdadm failure. That just means you&#x

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
sometimes locks up. Currently updated to the latest patch for the game, that might have something to do with it. Very playable, if annoying. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RAID suggestions?

2008-03-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
inux I know the most about and are on the outside of my knowledge base. All I know of this subject is from that one customer I could not effectively help other then to say use EMC's application, even after extensive research by me. Even after going through all the howto's I could fin

Re: RAID suggestions?

2008-03-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
day window you can "ignore" the out of warranty issue. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RAID suggestions?

2008-03-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Michael S. Peek wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: Having done support for a tier1 OEM, I found many of our customers (running Linux) ignored the raid controllers and used them as disk controllers and then used software raid. This would be fine, I don't really care if it's a hardware o

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Steve Lamb wrote: On Wed, March 19, 2008 8:27 am, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Sins of a Solar Empire does NOT run flawlessly, it sometimes locks up. Currently updated to the latest patch for the game, that might have something to do with it. Very playable, if annoying. You say this

Re: RAID suggestions?

2008-03-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
e. mdadm can then tell you if sda has failed or not. I don't know if this is feasible for you, but I offer it up as the only solution I do know about outside of Dell hardware. HTH Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DELL Inspiron 530N

2008-03-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Ubuntu installed, as Dell certifies it works with it. What ever Ubuntu does, Debian can do and of course, vise versa. Linux is Linux and those two are close relatives. You stand a very good chance of THE Linux Architect for Dell to respond to you. HTH. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian on Dell R900

2008-03-27 Thread Damon L. Chesser
22 kernel(non-bigmem)! Can anyone help to figure the cause? Thanx Again, I have to recommend Dell's Linux mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] see http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-desktops to subscribe. Very active list about Linux on Dell dealing with servers and workstat

Re: dpkg error

2008-03-27 Thread Damon L. Chesser
to issues doing a dist-upgrade and dpkg gets stuck Note to Ron Johnson: is this happening a lot? I did not see any posts on this. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg error

2008-03-27 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Michael Marsh wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is one dpkg failed to recover from; just the relevant lines of the script file follow: Selecting previously deselected package libdjvulibre21. Unp

Re: dpkg error

2008-03-28 Thread Damon L. Chesser
his, just use the dpkg -i --force-overwrite /path/in/error/message/packagename.deb OR wait until some one releases a newer version of the package. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg error

2008-03-28 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Bob Cox wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:18:00 -0400, Damon L. Chesser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I hate to ask this, this is so stupid! I gave up using the bug search function long ago. I can't ever find anything! If I go to http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ and put in libjvulibre

Re: clarification regarding icons seen during a Debian installation.

2006-07-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
this partition and all data will be lost" the smiley icon means "we will not format this partition, but we will use it" IIRC. HTH Thanks in advance. -- Vivek Varghese Cherian -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: clarification regarding icons seen during a Debian installation.

2006-07-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
well, I did say IIRC, I don't exactly install Debian every day. Maybe someone else has more concrete info for you? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using remote apps on local X server

2006-07-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
address of the desired server (such as 192.168.2.4: 0,0. I have just exhausted my knowledge of the matter as I don't play with exporting displays, but I hope that helps, and at the very least, get you on the right track. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNS

Re: Sarge and Athlon 64

2006-07-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
the extra facilities which 64-bit systems give you, you will find the whole setup much simpler just doing this. No faffing about with chroots either :-) Dave. Dave, by "just install a 2.6.x-series amd64 kernel" do you mean that if you boot a 64bit kernel, you can run a 32bit

Re: HP Pavilion serrie DV6700

2008-06-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
say this is not the case. Just pick your hd to install to, install grub on the MBR and away you go. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: latest aptitude upgrade fails

2008-06-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
r/cache/apt/archives/libswscale0_0.svn20080206-8_i386.deb from the above output. Then do (as root): dpkg -i --force-overwrite /path/to/something/.deb This does not fix anything, rather it allows *bad*, *poorly written* packages to install. In this case, debian mulitmedia knows about the issue and clearly says what to do about it (remove the above line and it will uninstall all multimedia packages). HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: latest aptitude upgrade fails

2008-06-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sunday 22 June 2008 01:49:37 pm you wrote: > On Sun June 22 2008, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > Paul, > > > > See this line: > > > > >  processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libswscale0_0.svn20080206-8_i386.deb > >  (--unpack): > >   trying to overwri

Thanks to all the devs and maintainers of Debian

2008-06-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
. Just wanted to say that. Sincerely, -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: latest aptitude upgrade fails

2008-06-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sunday 22 June 2008 02:54:03 pm you wrote: > On Sun June 22 2008, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > Glad to do it.  In this case, it is NOT badly written packages, but > > rather a design choice of Debian Multimedia to go with a lib that is > > newer then stable or testing.  Y

Re: iceweasel 3: favicon while tab is loading

2008-06-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
, but in version 3 it stays stuck at the beginning. > > > > Searching bugzilla.mozilla.org I find nothing under "favicon", but it > > clearly is a visible but minor bug. > > > > Anybody else notice this behavior? > > BTW, it's called the 

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