[newbie] Cannot login as root (not a passwd issue)

be important.. the system seems to work well AFAICT but I haven't yet tried, say, printing, etc... should I post to log here to let you folks analyze it, or should I just ingore it until I can make any sense out of it? P.S.: To what debian does knoopix 3.8.1 installed on hd corresponds to?

Re: [newbie] Cannot login as root (not a passwd issue)

Jochen Schulz wrote: Fernando Cacciola: I'm new to debian (knoppix 3.8.1 on HDD) and to linux in general. Welcome. :-) So far everything works like a charm, except for one thing, the system is configured to disallow root login... Where? You are trying to login as root via your di

Re: [newbie] Cannot login as root (not a passwd issue)

Kent West wrote: Jochen Schulz wrote: Fernando Cacciola: P.S.: To what debian does knoopix 3.8.1 installed on hd corresponds to? Knoppix is always a mixture of stable, testing and unstable. You can only tell that for each single package. Some of them are patched versions, which you

Re: [newbie] Cannot login as root (not a passwd issue)

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 10:40:50PM +0200, Fernando Cacciola wrote: Hi people, I'm new to debian (knoppix 3.8.1 on HDD) and to linux in general. I installed it on HD without troubles (well, only after I realized that my dev/hda1 was mounted from startup becasue I

knoppix -> sarge possible?

Hi people, Is it possible to "upgrade" my Knoppix 3.8.1 (on CD) to sarge without a clean install? TIA Fernando Cacciola -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Newly installed Sarge: (1) halts at 8529A IRQ 7 (2) cannot start gdm: X server is missing.

r is missing. Effectively, xinit is trying to execute "/usr/bin/X11R6/X" but I don't have that X on my system. Any clues? TIA Fernando Cacciola -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newly installed Sarge: (1) halts at 8529A IRQ 7 (2) cannot start gdm: X server is missing.

"Bill Marcum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió en el mensaje news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 04:06:55PM -0300, Fernando Cacciola wrote: >> Hello People, >> >> I had Knoppix 3.8.1 intalled on an old AMD K7 Duron 700 with 128Mb RAM, >>

packages.debian.org down? (June 14 2005)

? Are there alternative mirrors? (trying the get kdevelop3) TIA Fernando Cacciola -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: packages.debian.org down? (June 14 2005)

running Windows XP and the other Debian Sarge) Both PCs are behind a Linksys Wireless router were the actual cablemodem is connected (acting as the gateway IIUC). TIA Fernando Cacciola -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recommended laptop for Sarge

a decent performance)? TIA Fernando Cacciola -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

sarge + dist-upgrade = ?

Hi All I just installed Debian Sarge from a 1-year old netinst CD on a HP Pavillion 1125LA notebook. Then I run apt-get dist-upgrade. What do I have now then? Still Sarge? 3.0, 3.1? TIA Fernando Cacciola -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: sarge + dist-upgrade = ?

igured that if I need to do something drastic (like re-installing) I better take the oportunity to move ahead to Etch. TIA Fernando Cacciola -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

global enviroment var. etc/profile or where?

not there when compiling from KDevelop. So I've moved it to /etc/profile, but now is nowhere (echo $var shows nothing) Where should I put it? TIA Fernando Cacciola -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Migrating system to new PC

#x27;s not as easy to just boot it up there, as most modules would mismatch. TIA Fernando Cacciola -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Trasnfering an intalled system to another hd

Hi, I have Debian Sarge, full of stuff, installed on a HD, but it's running out of space. What's the simplest way to transfer the entire system to a bigger HD? TIA Fernando Cacciola -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Trasnfering an intalled system to another hd

Chris Lale wrote: > Fernando Cacciola wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have Debian Sarge, full of stuff, installed on a HD, but it's >> running out of space. >> What's the simplest way to transfer the entire system to a bigger HD? >> >> > http:

URGENT: slamr.ko for Sarge (2.6.8-2-386)

nybody please just send me a compiled slamr.ko for Debian Sarge kernel 2.6.8-2-386 (arch i686)? (I got lots of modules precompiled for other kernels/distros but insmod refuses to install any of them) TIA Fernando Cacciola -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ISO Images from fully installed hd?

Hi, I have Sarge successfully installed in a machine, using just the netinst CD. Now I want it on another machine... I can of course use the netinst CD once again and wait for all the packages to download, but I was wondering if I can somehow create a set of ISO images using the machine were debia

Re: ISO Images from fully installed hd?

kages. (They sum-up about 593Mb which fits 1 CD, and that's unexpected because the "official" distribution has lots of CDs) Anyway, how do I use jigdo to build an ISO? I've never used jidgo before so I've _scanned_ the jigsaw site, the faqs and the list archives but found

Re: ISO Images from fully installed hd?

Punkt wrote: > "Fernando Cacciola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im > Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Hi, >> >> I have Sarge successfully installed in a machine, using just the >> netinst CD. >> Now I want it on another machine... I can of

Re: ISO Images from fully installed hd?

>Try reading http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-Jigdo/ Ha OK, I'll read it through this time :-) Fernando Cacciola -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ISO Images from fully installed hd?

Bryan Donlan wrote: > On 8/3/05, Fernando Cacciola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dave Ewart wrote: >> >>>> I have Sarge successfully installed in a machine, using just the >>>> netinst CD. >>>> Now I want it on another machine... I can of co

Re: Using apt-move to create a partial mirror of packages (was Re: ISO Images from fully installed hd?)

Rogério Brito wrote: > On Aug 03 2005, Fernando Cacciola wrote: >> I have Sarge successfully installed in a machine, using just the >> netinst CD. > > Fine, that's what most people do. > >> Now I want it on another machine... I can of course use the netinst &g

Re: ISO Images from fully installed hd?

Bryan Donlan wrote: > On 8/3/05, Fernando Cacciola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Bryan Donlan wrote: >>> On 8/3/05, Fernando Cacciola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Dave Ewart wrote: >>>> >>>>>> I have Sarge successfully ins

Can't get more than 1024x768 even with the on-board card properly detected (XFree86+KDE 3.3)

ink in gdm too) (in fact, the pulldown menu shows just up to this resolution) How can I fix this? Related note: I see I have both XF86Config and XF86Config-4.. which one is my system using? How can I tell? Why are there both? TIA Fernando Cacciola -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Can't get more than 1024x768 even with the on-board card properly detected (XFree86+KDE 3.3)

S 107T5PHL" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen&

Re: Can't get more than 1024x768 even with the on-board card properly detected (XFree86+KDE 3.3)

ing > similar): > Thanks! That worked... The i810 VESA driver was indeed not supporting 1152x864, but I could see in that log that it handled 1280x1024, so I used that (putting it in the config file) Fernando Cacciola SciSoft -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]