On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:07:01PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I did not intentionally set DMA on /dev/hdd and I don't know how to turn
> it off. Could you tell me how you did this?
man hdparm
hugh
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On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 12:38:03PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
> I'm currently downloading Opera 6 to my linux machine and would like to
> install it
> It's a deb file, downloading to /home/david (which is where I'm logged
> in and running Mozilla)
dpkg -i foo.deb
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On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:49:39PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
> T'would be elegant, I suppose, if I could address this without
> getting an intellectual hernia... and how might I go about
> adding
> 'Opera' to my Gnome window (Program, icon, etc)
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook,
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 03:29:57PM +, Keith O'Connell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could anyone supply me with a site I can get hold of a copy of the ISO for
> a CD of Woody (Binary 1 - Non US) please?
mirror.ac.uk is quick if your anywhere near janet...
hugh
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On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 07:39:08AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:30:55PM +, Dave Selby wrote:
> > I need an application to remind me when certain events are due, ie
> > wifes birthday etc !!,
>
> I think you're a bit beyond what a desktop-based PIM is going to do
> f
how would one bind a key to
:.,$d [or a named function to delete from current position to eof] ?
basically just want to start simple! have gasped in amazement at the vim
maze solving macro and looked at /usr/share/doc/vim/html but cant see
anything simple for binding stuff.
thanks
hugh
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 07:55:27PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> The command
> dG
> will do that. "G" is a cursor movement command that moves the cursor
> to the end of the buffer.
ahh, i knew you could use G to move, but not as a range for d,
thanks.
> Look at the "map" commands. F
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 05:05:16PM +0100, Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote:
> anybody having the debian-user mailinglist as mbox format file?
I do!
> I'd like to have the discussions in threads where I can keep
> the useful ones and delete the useless.
yep, mutt does this nicely
> So far I haven't been ab
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:28:46AM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> Can I please have some suggestions on a small, simple, and secure IRC
> server. I don't need anything major, but would like some basic
> functionality...
how about a 386 running ircd behind a well configured firewall?
hugh
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:02:23PM -0500, Rowland Darbin wrote:
>
> I installed XFree86 -configure and it tells me that it can't find my mouse.
> So I installed gpm. When gpm is running and I move around the mouse, I
> don't get a curser, I get a white line on the top of the screen and a bunch
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:21:12PM -0500, Rowland Darbin wrote:
>
> Thanks, it gets into X but says:
> (EE) Mouse0: cannot determine the mouse protocol
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Opt
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:07:16PM -0600, Ray wrote:
> > (I'm sure there are more then a few Evolution and OE users on the list).
>
> what are people on the debian-user list using for there primary machine(s)?
>
> the last few messages i see are from users of (going by User-Agent or
> X-Mailer h
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:05:05PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> A middle-aged (~4 years old -- so, not old, not new) laptop is about
> to become available to me, and I'd like to install debian on it.
> The system is an HP Omnibook A4100,
> P-II 300
> 96 meg ram
> 20 gig hard drive
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 07:41:23PM +0100, Tom wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Since my reinstall of Debian last weekend, I'm having problems with my
> monitor (as the subject already suggested :-/). Thing is, X starts up
> gracefully (nVidia; gdm), when I exit my WM however, my monitor yields
> an "out of ra
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 06:22:04PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote:
> Hello for the 3rd time today,
>
> I've downloaded the nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glc-src and read the
> documentation. You have to give a command wich gives this result:
>
> We do not seem to be in a top level linux kernel so
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:10:13PM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote:
> I set my printer ablaze, and did not get this message.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
yes: arson
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hello,
I dont like telnet. But i have a very old mac which i like to use as a
terminal, I cant pursuade it to run macSSH [macssh.com] so i am running
Niftytelnet this necessitates the running of telnetd on another machine.
So, in hosts.deny i put in.telnetd : ALL
and in hosts.allow i put in.telne
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:43:34AM -0800, nate wrote:
> Hugh Saunders said:
>
> > But i thought it would be more secure to put ALL : ALL in hosts.deny and
> > then in.sshd : ALL in hosts.allow. This dosnt work[ssh connections are
> > refused], how do i specify that i want
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:57:25PM -0800, nate wrote:
> Hugh Saunders said:
>
> > There is no reference to ssh at all in daemon.log
> > But.. I changed in.sshd to sshd and it now works.
>
> it may be in /var/log/auth.log been a while since I used tcp wrappers :)
for th
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:55:12PM -0600, Will Trillich wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:01:14PM +0000, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:43:34AM -0800, nate wrote:
> > > Hugh Saunders said:
> > > another reason I don't use it is I prefer fir
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 11:26:50AM -0800, CM Miller wrote:
>
>
> Did a clean install of Debian Woody w/kernel
> 2.4.18-bf2.4 yesterday and when it came time to load
> modules for my NIC, which is a 3Com Fast Etherlink XL
> 10/100 Base TX, it was giving me errors. Since I
> can't get this machine
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 04:41:36PM -0800, Carla Schroder wrote:
> Well here's a good one, is there a way to get into a system when
> you've lost the root password? Without a CD or boot floppy? Used to be
> you could pass in "init=/bin/sh" from LILO, and work some /etc/shadow
> magic. (like copy the
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 05:57:24PM -0800, Carla Schroder wrote:
> > I just tried that from GRUB [selected the menu item hit 'e' to edit on
> > the kernel line appened init=/bin/sh then 'b' to boot] hey-presto no
> > flippin password needed! and there was me thinking my laptop was almost
> > secure!
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:01:48AM -0600, Ian Melnick wrote:
> > > Now when you log in as root, it will not ask for a password.
> > excuse my rudeness but isnt that a Bad Thing?
> >
> > what about ssh? does that leave the box totaly open?
>
> Well, you could edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and not allo
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 06:10:07PM +0100, J. Lambrecht wrote:
> // I am not on the list so please, reply to all
>
>
> Sigh, and now i now why Debian's not for kids
>
> ---
> "From : Linux Administrator Handbook p.35 (Prentice Hall,2002) "
>
> Debian startup scripts
>
> If SuSE is the ultimate
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 04:58:39PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
> I have a modem and a NIC. The modem is a PCI WinModem (forget brand
> atm), the NIC is a LinkSys Fast Ethernet 10/100 Network Anywhere, model
> number NC100U. I know it works as I was able to use it under RedHat. I
> cannot for
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:48:30AM -0700, Glenn English wrote:
> I've got to agree with David Krider's complaints about the Debian
> install process. This isn't rocket science; it's just a hardware prober.
> If the 'lesser' distros can install in one try (and without rebooting
> several times), sur
IIRC potato had a base system which was a tar, so if you wanted to
setup a new root [ie for nfs mount by a diskless workstation] then you
could expand that archive and you would have a basic system. I think it
was about 15MB [excuse the subjectiveness!]
anyway, i was looking on the woody cd:
[EMAI
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 06:01:01PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 02:44:26PM -0700, Glenn English wrote:
> > The main reason I'm beating my head against this wall is because Debian
> > *doesn't* do things like replace LILO with GRUB. Things take a while;
> > possibly be
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:02:53AM +0200, Birzan George Cristian wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 08:22:11PM +0000, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> > so then, how do i install a minimal system to a dir for a
> > diskless terminal to use?
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 02:56:15PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote:
> Sorry for this newbie type of questions, but how do you move mail messages to
> another folder when in mutt?
's' in mutt index, then specify the target mbox/maildir
prob more usefull to do
t
~O
;s
this does:
1. prompt for tag patte
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:50:29PM +0200, Birzan George Cristian wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:06:54AM +0000, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> > that is the file i was looking for, thanks. The thing that confuses me
> > is that if debootstrap is the officially way to install debian an
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:00:46PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote:
> > So, is there a more modern way to "hotwire" two boxes without the
> > use of routers or extra file systems? Is it possible to do a
> > straight USB to USB or NIC to NIC connection?
>
> There's something called an ethernet crossover
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:59:23PM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote:
> It's somewhat pointless to have an adapter I would think since you are still
> going to need the male RJ-45 end on both ends. If you going to carry and
> adapter and a cable isn't just as easy to carry two cables? If you really
>
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 06:29:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 22:34:02 +
> Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > on the subject of crossover cables, do you know where you can get
> > adapters that go on the end of normal patch ca
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 04:50:16PM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote:
> > Hey, that gives me an idea. How about a cable with two heads
> > on one end,
> > one being a crossover? Or would that introduce noise?
> >
>
> It will work but it won't be "certified" for 100Mbit... :-)
now thats an even better
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 06:58:22PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Alan Shutko wrote:
>
> >Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >
> >
> >>im sure i have seen one of these somewhere, just cant remember where!
> >>
> >>
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 08:43:54PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > If i lived in the US ;-)
> > Delivery would be a bit of a prob.
> >
> > im in the uk, so as suggested already i think this will be a diy
> >
hello,
I have a hdd which i suspect id dieing [yes i have burnt cds of any
important stuf] this drive is in a windows box, so stuck in knoppix cd
for diagnostics.
cat /dev/hda >/dev/null
gives no output [no errors?] -me thought that would be a good indication
that all sectors of the disk are read
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 02:58:19AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.14.0221 +0100]:
> > can anyone explain why the cat worked?
>
> it is entirely possible that reads work fine, just that writes don't
> stick. so
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 06:39:32PM -0500, Metnetsky wrote:
> I also have a PCMCIA wireless card,
> suggestions or links on how I might go about installing that?
what is it?
linux-wlan-ng, is a good place to start.
[http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/]
wlan is fun:-)
hugh
ps: this isnt for ins
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 01:52:46PM +, Richard Kimber wrote:
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having fun with RH?
hugh
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ps x gives a list of xine's which i would like to kill
1609 ?S 0:01 xine /dev/hdc
1610 ?S 0:00 xine /dev/hdc
1618 ?S 0:00 xine /dev/hdc
1619 ?S 0:00 xine /dev/hdc
1620 ?S 0:00 xine /dev/hdc
tried
kill 16[1234567890]*
which returne
hello, have been having problems getting kismet to play audio -this
would be usefull so can have laptop closed and listen with
headphones for available networks [ie walking through town]
in my kismet.conf i have the lines:
sound=true
# Path to sound player
soundplay=/usr/bin/wavp
# Optional param
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:35:36PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> 'pkill xine' is better if you have a new enough version of procps, since
> 'killall' does ... let's say surprising things on System V-ish variants
> of Unix.
will that kill any process with xine in its name? or just processes
called 'x
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:22:13AM +1100, Michael Wardle wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 02:40, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> > ps x gives a list of xine's which i would like to kill
>
> My preferred method is:
> $ kill `ps -C xine -o pid=`
> OR
> $ ps -C xine -o pid= | x
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 06:08:13AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 06:30:24PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney
>([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > I had my *newest* computer's motherboard crap out on me Friday night,
> > and I'm trying to grab the data from its hard drive. I've t
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:11:29AM +1100, Michael Wardle wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 10:41, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:22:13AM +1100, Michael Wardle wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 02:40, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> > > > ps x gives a list o
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:35:08PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:18:39PM +0000, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> > so now we have the understanding, why dont they die?
> >
> > anni:~# ps -C xine -o pid=
> > 1609
> > 1610
> > 1618
> >
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:06:35AM -0800, anthony baldwin wrote:
> I have several old Apple Powerbooks (140, 145)
> They don;t have CD drives and I can't connect them to my dsl, because they have no
> ethernet ports.
is it that they really dont have any ethernet or that they have thicknet
rather th
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:20:25PM +, iain d broadfoot wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:57:15 +0000
> From: Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: iain d broadfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:35:18PM +0100, Michael Schlottke wrote:
[lots of stuff about kernel compilation]
> Can anyone give me a hint what I could try else?
1. did you select the correct arch? try 386 if its failing.
2. use make-kpkg -shouldnt make any difference but is [i find] a better
way of
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 08:22:32PM +, Soren A wrote:
> One thing I need to achive, that is failing apparently, is assigning a
> different MAC address to my NIC than the one 'hard-coded' in or
> automatic to, that card. The reason being of course that my cable
> provider tracks MACs and won't al
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 04:28:45PM +1100, James Buchanan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I run `startx' I would like afterstep to run, and I would like a menu
> giving me a list of all the window managers/desktop environments that I can
> run. How do I tell startx to run afterstep by default? I have done
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 11:51:51PM -0500, Ramsay D. Seielstad wrote:
>I have not seen (or found an answer for) is an option for
> installation into the directories using the version revision.
once you have used make-kpkg kernel_image and make-kpkg modules_image
then you can install the resulting pa
Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 02:22:46PM +0100, Jernej Zidar wrote:
> After a Windows reinstall, I have lost lilo. How do I install lilo or any
> bootloader, so I will be able to access my linux system?
boot from cd, with cmd line "rescue root=/dev/hd??" then run lilo.
[or better, instead of running lilo, a
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 05:21:31AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> Is there some tool that you can use to autoscan your hardware?
not sure what you mean by 'autoscan' but lspci [-vv] or cat /proc/pci
will give you info about installed pci devices.
hugh
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On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:54:29AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
> 'chsh /bin/zsh', then ls() { /bin/ls --color=auto --classify "$@"; }
please explain...
hugh
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On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:06:23PM +0700, Mouammer H. Rayes wrote:
> kata Hugh Saunders
> > On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 05:21:31AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> >> Is there some tool that you can use to autoscan your hardware?
> > not sure what you mean by 'autoscan'
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:46:41PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> # aptitude install bleh
Yeah, i figured that but then i thought why not apt-get!!
Would still be good to be able to sync the aptitude package status with
the actual package status, is this possible?
hugh
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On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 08:31:50PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> What does this mean?
not sure but if my comp said that, id get some coffee or go to bed [is 1:58
localtime]
-im sure some kernel-hackers will come up with some more helpful
suggestions!
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Hello, i am attempting to build a serial cable so i can use an old mac
laptop [powerbook510] to boot a sun sparc ipc and start it network booting.
Google reveals the following pinouts:
AppleMac [1]
DIN8Signal Description
Pin
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On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:05:18PM +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 06:12:10PM +0000, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> > Hello, i am attempting to build a serial cable so i can use an old mac
> > laptop [powerbook510] to boot a sun sparc ipc and start it network booti
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 01:13:12PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> Greetings-
>
> I'd like to use kernel 2.4.20 because (apparently) it drives my machine's
> built-in sound
> ref:
>http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=20021218232653.45c6eac7.cgrimland%40yahoo.com.luck
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:11:51PM -0800, nate wrote:
> Mike M said:
>
> > What email clients and browsers do you use?
>
> my mail client is squirrelmail(webmail). at work I started with
> netscape 4 for mail then moved to mozilla once it got stable enough
> for use. console email clients don't see
think this was supposed to be a list reply... but came to me only
hugh
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On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:34:04PM +, Dave Selby wrote:
> OK Ive had a brainstorming session on how to do this, what I need to know is,
>
> 1. Is there a downloader for debian that will handle broken downloads ? If
> not can anyone recommend one ?
apt-get ;-)
> 2. How do I sent an 'ATZ' rese
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:32:22AM -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
> When I manually try to mount them, for example, 'mount -a', I get mount
> point /c does not exist and same for /d and /e
does the directory /c exist?
test -d /c || mkdir /c
hugh
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hello,
to use WiFi@uni, need to have a registered mac address. It costs to
register mac addresses so if i have the wrong WiFi card with me i want
to change the address to the registered one.
My method is as follows:
ifconfig wlan0 hw ether xx:xx:...
the response is:
cannot assign the specified add
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 04:29:52AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
> What this has to do with user issues of implementing and maintaining a
> Debian GNU/Linux system, on whatever platform is selected, I would say
> has long been lost. From my days on Usenet, there are numerous areas
> where this discus
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 09:57:04AM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote:
> Thanks for the tips. If something breaks, I can dual-boot back to RH, but I
> haven't been spending much time there lately...
i havent read all of this thread, but why not just using testing or
stable, why use all three?
I find stable
hello, i use vim to weed out large chunks of email so can quote
[hopefully] the relevant bits. My method is :x,yd this is fine until i
get one of the values wrong, then i may have deleted 10 more lines than
expected. In the vim documentation i have found how to undo edits to one
line but how can i
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:41:54PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 the mental interface of
> Hugh Saunders told:
>
> > hello, i use vim to weed out large chunks of email so can quote
> > [hopefully] the relevant bits. My method is :x,yd this is fine u
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:06:48PM -0800, A.J. Rossini wrote:
> (yes, I can do it myself; done that about 20+ times, at this point,
> and have FAI running at home BUT, I'd really like to save time at this
> point...).
will customisng each of the stock installations take less time than a
clean insta
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:25:14AM -0800, Rowland Fellows wrote:
> However, once installed, the system goes
> directly into a login screen from which I cannot login into root.
What happens when you try and login as root? [on console]
by default you can login as root on console or by ssh [as long a
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 05:02:05PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:03:08PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote:
> > FWIW I'm running X4.2, with a 15" CRT and a K6-III/550Mhz. I'd be
> > looking to try Quake I/II/III (or as far as the K6 will let me go),
> > and general desktoppy
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:54:02AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote:
> I've just compiled and installed a new kernel, using make-kpkg. However,
> I'm not sure it's actually running. uname -a still gives me 2.4.18-586tsc,
> which is the old one - my new kernel doesn't have the 586tsc bit on the
> end of
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 04:57:53PM -0500, John Mitchell wrote:
Content-Description: signed data
> I was wondering if anyone knew of a package of VMWare workstation. I've been
> having trouble making my own and was hoping that someone else on this list
> knew better than I.
surely vmware couldnt b
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 09:07:13PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> I'm running out of memory and am unable to complete the installation.
>
> I thought this could still be done on 16MB of RAM.
yeah should be possible but slow... cheat; put the disk in another
machine for installation then put it back.
>Tom Cook wrote:
> Can it SMS me the DHCP'd address too?
You could just use dyndns, then you dont kneed to know the ip address as you can use
the hostname.
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24/10/2002 23:31:59, "C. Brewer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>First, I know that to see the boot-menu I have to hit shift, which I
>did not have to do in mandrake, as long as I had either
>install=/boot/boot-menu.b in lilo, or I had it linked (boot -> boot-menu.b).
>Can I get it to go to the menu wi
25/10/2002 17:03:19, Chip Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 400w power supply versus standard 300w. Benefits?
Only thing i can think of is possibly better stabillity when overclocking
but you will only notice the differnce if the alternative is seriously insufficient.
I have a 250w psu powering 2
26/10/2002 07:11:14, "C. Brewer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I found the a few site on setting up te true-type windows fonts, but this
>covers only .ttf. Is it any different to do .fon fonts?
i thought .fon werent true type? could be wrong,
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30/12/2002 19:24:15, "cobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can anyone explain it, or point me to a document SPECIFIC to Debian?
install ncurses-dev
im not an expert but if i were to build a new kernel, this is how i would do it...
1. apt-get install libncurses5
2. apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.
>Benedict Verheyen said:
>>[snip]
>>When i tried to reboot
>> the system it would suddenly shutdown at various points in the
>> startup procedure.
02/11/2002 00:57:14, "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>if the system is powering down on it's own during bootup and you
>do not see the lights flicker
03/11/2002 18:29:56, "Thomas H. George" wrote:
> Before purchasing a DSL Gateway Router I would appreciate
>benefiting from the experience of other debian users.
I have just researched wireless networking, and have decided upon a linksys
setup [befw11s4 for ap/router, wmp11 for laptops and wpc11
04/11/2002 13:12:57, "Emanuele Boieri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> then I copied the new image in the boot location of the old one /boot/
> bzImage.(I saved the old one). So I edit the lilo.conf
if you copied the new image to the same place as the old one, you shouldnt
need to edit lilo.conf
>
05/11/2002 03:50:08, Aaron David Vose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Is there a boot image that's around 64k?
>> > netBSD has a two stage system where a 64k boot image is
>> > loaded. This image then loads the kernel/rootfs over
>> > NFS.
I have a sun-sparc 4c IPC which boots via the network [tft
06/11/2002 09:24:04, "W.D.McKinney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a dual PIII server I need to get both processors working.
compile a kernel with SMP enabled
hugh
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hello, i have had major hassle attemting to use diald
[wvdial works fine but diald does not]
so, i want to create a simple html page to serve with apache so that machines on my
network can click on one of two links
1: dialup -execute wvdial
2: hangup -kill pppd
is this possible to do simply?
tha
11/11/02 21:37:55, infotechsys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>So, myquestion is how-come I have to go thru
>freshmeat to do a search on debian ?
freshmeat prob referred to the debian package search [which works]
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages
hugh
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On Tuesday 12 November 2002 12:40 am, sean finney wrote:
> just to chime in on this, you should think of the security implications
> of what you're doing. if you're putting a button on a webpage that
> re-initializes your net connection, then anyone feeling particularly
> riley could keep you with
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 3:37 pm, infotechsys wrote:
>What do most people use to get a dial-up connection
> working? Will wvdial be a good choice?
I have tried lots of things, and wvdial was the only one that worked! im sure
that was just due to malconfiguration on behalf but wvdial was v easy
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 1:15 pm, andrej hocevar wrote:
> #! /bin/bash
> pon provider
>
> echo -e "Location: http://thehost/conpage.html \n\n"
thanks, interstingly pon btopenworld works but wvdial doesnt -must be to do
with users and permissions [lots of "Permission denied" errrors in
/var/log
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 6:40 am, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> Unfortunately, I'm not very familiar with what BOOTP is.
> All I know is that it allows a computer to get an IP address and some
> basic network information.
in my understanding, bootp is mostly usefull for giving a machine an ip
addres
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 2:23 am, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> Fix your dang clock already! I'm quite sure this month is November not
> January ;-)
that better?
have messed around with date -s so should be correct now!
sorry if i messed up msg order,
hugh
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hello, i use woody with an Abit BP6 [dual cele500] but recently have started
getting theses errors on the console and in sys log, any ideas?
Nov 14 06:33:41 nomessin kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 08(02)
Nov 14 06:34:14 nomessin kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 04(08)
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On Thursday 14 November 2002 7:13 am, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> hello, i use woody with an Abit BP6 [dual cele500] but recently have
> started getting theses errors on the console and in sys log, any ideas?
> Nov 14 06:33:41 nomessin kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 08(02)
> Nov 14 06:34
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:12:26PM -0400, james leclair wrote:
> Hello, what server and channel should I join to talk with other debian
> users? Thanks in advance!
irc.debian.org #debian
is a good start!
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> P.S. Does anyone knows how do I put a result from command line into
> mutt/vi when sending mail?
could use the gpm buffer? [select the text then when in insert mode in
vi, middle click to 'paste'] -this works in vim, havent tryed with
pure vi
hugh
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