On November 19, 2002 03:01 pm, mess-mate wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have an old P330 (IBM) installed as ISDN router.
> Now I want to install other applications from a CD (bootable)
> but the machine won't boot on the cd.
> I did a try with several other bootable cd's without success :-(
> What's wrong ab
I'm having a few problems installing Debian on an older Compaq Presario 1020
P120 with 48MB RAM. (Yes I just read the thread on Compaqs - I agree that
after I get everything working it'll probably be great)
1) The worst one is that after apm -s, apm -S, or alt-F3 the system acts all
weird afte
On November 22, 2002 11:05 am, Doug MacFarlane wrote:
> > >
> > >when i typ in startx i get fatal screen error, no screens found
> > >
In 2 recent woody installs, I've gotten this error each time after finishing
the dbootstrap setup. In one case (an old laptop) the autoconfigure didn't
work, an
On November 24, 2002 11:44 am, wouter (xlocal) wrote:
> I could install the kernel and other parts, but with the Base System i got
> this message:
>
> "file:/instmnt/pool/main/m/manpages/manpages_1.39-1.1-all.deb was corrupt"
> and afterwards this one: "couldn't download manpages."
>
> I've got var
On November 24, 2002 01:50 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
> That's "md5sum".
>
> I've been seeing quite a few of these reports lately; perhaps there's
> some deeper problem ...
Oops, thanks Colin - a little mind slip, minor keyboard dyslexia maybe?
I made a set of Woody discs a little while ago and burn
Just curious, why did you make up a CD of .debs and other programs, as
opposing to installing directly from a debian online source using apt (ie,
apt-get install package-name? If you don't know what I'm talking about, fess
up and we'll point you in the right direction. The easiest way to insta
On November 26, 2002 04:10 pm, Wathen, Metherion wrote:
> well here's the weird thing,
> if i look at the files on my windows pc using filemanager the filenames are
> long, if i use mc on my debian machine the filenames are shortened with a
> tilde filling in the missing parts.
> so what ive been
On November 27, 2002 09:02 am, Wathen, Metherion wrote:
> Hi,
> well, i have real fast internet connection from work, so its easier to
> download there than at home.
> what i really need to do is get a laptop and install debian on it and then
> tie into the connection at work and ...
> (maybe one d
On November 27, 2002 03:07 am, D.H wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have tried to install Debian woody on my box for about 3 times(I
> downloaded all the 7 ISO image files and burn them on CD), but every time i
> got the same error when installing "diald" package, luckly, it doesn't
> interrupt the whole i
Specifically, add the line
NVdriver
to /etc/modules. Add it manually or type
echo "NVdriver" >> /etc/modules
to add it without editing the file.
On November 27, 2002 03:00 pm, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> Put it in /etc/modules
>
> -
On November 27, 2002 01:18 pm, Meredith Richmond wrote:
> hi,
> i have an old Acer 486 notebook computer that is currently using win95.
> i would like to start using debian but i didn't see it in your list of
> compatible computer types... is it still possible to install it?
Check the hardware req
On November 27, 2002 09:32 am, Wathen, Metherion wrote:
> hey thanks that's a good idea,
> im planning on upgrading soon anyway,
> other than the install discs (7 for woody), you say that the other software
> is available as a downloadable iso or something?
No jigdo iso, just download the program
On November 27, 2002 01:22 pm, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> ???
> Very interesting... How do you use dselect while installing the BASE ???
Good point - I just saw it was manpages and assumed it was post-base.
Anyways, manpages are not essential, won't it allow you to continue after the
error? If s
I have debian installed on /dev/hda, how can I switch this hard drive to
become /dev/hdb?
What I know:
edit lilo.conf, run lilo
edit fstab
What about the partition table though?
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On November 29, 2002 11:11 am, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> On Saturday 30 November 2002 01:39, damar thapa wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am now trying to recompile kernel for the first time in Debian. I
> > do not have a floppy to boot the system in case the kernel panics.
> > How can I do that in Debian?
mk
> > I have debian installed on /dev/hda, how can I switch this hard drive
> > to
> > become /dev/hdb?
> >
> > What I know:
> >
> > edit lilo.conf, run lilo
> > edit fstab
> >
> > What about the partition table though?
Apologies for my vague question. I know how to do the physical switch, but
On November 29, 2002 05:12 pm, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> I dont know much about the windows bootloader, but it wouldn't suprise
> me if it didn't have the capability to chain boot to another MBR. It may
> expect to have the secondary boot loader inside a partition.
I also don't know, but it would
I'm running Woody right now, but am tempted to dselect-upgrade KDE to the
3.10 in unstable (because of the improvements to kmail). Any thoughts
on the potential pain/painlessness of this upgrade, before I try it? If
there's a fair chance of having to spend a lot of time fixing a broken
system
On April 1, 2003 06:11 pm, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> You'll probably have much better luck using the unofficial native woody
> packages of KDE 3.1. See http://www.apt-get.org/, which will refer you
> to:
> deb http://download.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian/ woody main
Thanks everyone for t
I am trying to convert a .tif scanned image of text to something readable by
web browsers, ie png or jpg.
Using xv there is a bad loss in image quality, so that the text becomes
unreadable. I tried adjusting all the xv dials, but couldn't achieve
acceptable quality.
tifftopnm from the net
On June 24, 2003 01:58 am, Jon Haugsand wrote:
> * Levi Waldron
>
> > I am trying to convert a .tif scanned image of text to something readable
> > by web browsers, ie png or jpg.
>
> Have you tried convert?
convert (part of the imagemagick package) worked perf
I've successfully upgraded to Woody and am now just trying to install Mozilla
and its components. dselect gives the following output and fails to install.
Any ideas?
cedar:/home/lwaldron# dselect
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will b
IOn September 17, 2002 08:41 pm, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 04:39:03PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote:
> > I've successfully upgraded to Woody and am now just trying to install
> > Mozilla and its components. dselect gives the following output and fails
>
On September 18, 2002 07:57 pm, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 12:17:31PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote:
> > IOn September 17, 2002 08:41 pm, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 04:39:03PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote:
[snip]
> This list o
On September 19, 2002 08:44 pm, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 01:07:51PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote:
[snip]
> To get more info on what is happening, put "set -x" on the second line of
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-browser.postinst and on second line
>
On September 20, 2002 08:28 pm, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 06:17:22PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote:
>
> I think your debconf database is broke in someway. Running the script
> "/usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl" may help.
>
> You could ask debconf packag
On November 27, 2003 04:38 pm, mighty sword wrote:
> So how do I reply to a particular message when I get a
> digest so that it appeas as a thread on
> linux.debian.user or gmane.linux.debian.user?
I think (?) the mailto: links from the archives provide the proper
in-reply-to header so your mes
I am using CUPS with the hpijs driver to print on an HP Deskjet 710C,
on a Sarge/KDE workstation. I am out of colour ink and don't intend
to replace it, as I only want to print in black & white.
Unfortunately,
whenever I print something with colour, the colour portions come out
blank as it tries
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:19:32 -0700, Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I also have a Deskjet, different model though. Even when I pick Greyscale in
> the Printout Mode under Resolution it still says something like:
>
> 300 dpi, greyscale, Black and Color Cart.
>
> This leads me to believe
I just tried to install sarge, using the pre-rc2 debian-installer, on
an eMachines T1742 Celeron 1.7 GHz desktop system (82845G/GL
[Brookdale-G] mainboard chipset). After installing the base system,
the floppy drive, network card, and sound card do not work. Although
they are supported hardware,
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:37:18 +, Ben Hutchings
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Try putting "pci=noacpi" on the boot command line. If you do that then
> the kernel will use the older PCI BIOS interface to find out the PCI
> configuration and is more likely to get correct answers. I'm afraid I
> h
I have an elderly Compaq Presario 1020 P120 laptop running Woody with icewm
window manager, tetex, emacs, gnumeric, and not much else. One day, out of
the blue as far as I can tell, it hangs during the boot process at:
Initializing random number generator
so I boot from a rescue CD and put exi
On June 26, 2003 02:26 pm, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I seem to have lost the ability to post to this
> list. This is a test to see if I have.
I seem to have as well, and I'm not receiving much from it either. Server
problems perhaps?
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I'm transferring a web page from a wintoes webserver to Debian, and all the
capitalizations are inconsistent between the hyperrefs and actual directories
and filenames. And of course all the filename extensions are .HTM. Does
anyone know of a script to clean this up?
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On July 8, 2003 03:26 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> We're thinking about starting to use Debian instead of RH on our Linux
> boxes and I have a question concerning this. RH offers to check servers and
> optimizing these for maximum security, does Debian offer this? Or is there
> a guide on how to
On July 8, 2003 11:24 pm, K S Sreeram wrote:
> Check out this page:
>
> http://linuxvm.org/Info/HOWTOs/win2lin.html
>
> Looks like it has what you need
This script would be great, except that it doesn't actually work. I first got
an error because the end of one line was missing a \. Then it ran
I just went out and bought a brand new, fully hardware PCI modem (for
$68!), USR 56K V.90 w/ Voice (2976/3298). Unfortunately, it does not seem
to get assigned a ttyS* port during the boot process. The Modem HOWTO
gives some tips for finding out the essential information, then says
without givin
Is there a telnet client available in sarge that allows local
printing? I access my university email by telnet, and would like to
be able to print out emails locally. Thanks!
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I had some unused space at the beginning of my hard drive, with my
partition table looking something like:
5700MB free space
hda5 logical linux ext3 [/home]
hda6 logical linux swap
hda2 primary linux ext3 [/]
hda1 primary other OS
I wanted to use the free space, so I
2006/2/17, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> First step before messing with partitions: do a backup.
> Second step before messing with partitions: save your MBR on a floppy.
> Third step before messing with partitions: save the first sector
> of each partition on a floppy.
I have backups at home
> of an extended partition you created before. Or are
> you using LVM? If you use LVM, I can't help you much
> if at all.
Sorry, I didn't answer this before: no, I'm not using LVM.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ls /mnt
bin cdrom etc initrd lib media opt root srv tmp var
boot dev
(I'm including Mike's last message below for the archives, as it has
some useful info in it)
2006/2/17, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Levi Waldron wrote:
> > 2006/2/17, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> >>First step before messing with partitions
Mike, I'm going to have to add you to my holiday card list, regardless
of what happens :)
I triple-checked that I'm trying to mount the correct partition and
did it without using fstab, and that's not the problem, for example:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo umount /mnt (to unmount the root partition)
[
2006/2/16, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Remember, before doing anything to try to fix this, copy off
> your MBR, and the first sector of each partition you need to
> save. I know you don't have a floppy, but do you have a USB
> stick? Something? Anything? How about this: copy them off to
> y
So I got up this morning (on the west coast, as you hoped), booted up
into knoppix again, and started backing up my MBR and first sector of
each partition. Then I noticed an icon on the knoppix desktop listing
hda7 as a mountable partition, so I thought I'd try it again. Exactly
the same way as l
I'm on a VPN set up by a D-link router connected to a cable modem.
The internal IP address of the router is 192.168.0.1, and its dhcpd is
set up to deliver IP addresses between 192.168.0.100 and
192.168.0.199, with my MAC address bound to 192.168.0.109. The
bizarre thing is that my computer seems
No windows machines at all on the network, just this debian machine
and a mac. It's happening right now with this being the only machine
on the subnet.
As for the differing hardware addresses, very observant! I made one
of them up just for privacy, just for privacy even though I'm sure it
really
2006/3/19, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I've seen on this list that this behavior is related to the zeroconf package.
> Try purging it.
I purged zeroconf and that did the trick. Thanks! I didn't
intentionally install it; it must have gotten installed with something
else.
2006/3/20, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Sid it currently seems to be enough to have KDE installed and
> aptitude configured to automatically include recommended packages. Then
> this little pest will creep into your system via the kde > kdenetwork >
> kdnssd dependency chain and a succe
Thanks Florian, I figured out the chain of depends and recommends
which resulted in zeroconf getting installed. It came from installing
rhythmbox, then
rhythmbox Recommends: scrollkeeper, yelp, avahi-daemon
avahi-daemon Recommends: libnss-mdns
libnss-mdns Recommends: zeroconf
I would that thin
I'm trying to install Debian on a fairly new machine, a Celeron 2GHz,
ASUS P4S800 mainboard with SiS 648FX chipset, onboard NVidia Geforce
video card, Award BIOS. It worked fine with the proprietary OS it had
when I bought it.
I just ran the Debian stable business card iso install disc, and
re-pa
By the way, I just tried re-installing grub from a chroot environment
within the liveCD environment, then comparing the new MBR with the one
that I couldn't boot from. They're identical, so I don't think the
bios is overwriting my MBR.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
[EMAIL PROTECT
nd installation discs but fail when GRUB comes up, but I'm at a loss.
It's an AOPEN Geforce2 Model MX200 plug-in card. I can't see any
onboard video on this mainboard.
2006/3/24, Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm trying to install Debian on a fairly new machine,
At least, I think that's what the problem is after installing lilo on
on the the HD partitions, by booting a live CD then using chroot.
liloconfig gave me the following warning:
Warning: Unable to determine video adapter in use in the present system.
(nb. I wasn't actually able to follow through
2006/3/24, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> it probably is booting. you've got the wrong video mode for your setup. you
> should probably specify vga=ask in the kernel line of your boot also, this
> seemed appropriate:
>
> http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:iz_Ho_51kzoJ:www.linux-mag
Out of necessity to have a working system ASAP, I installed Ubuntu
which has the same problem, but does all the installation from the
blue screen which I can see. Now when I boot up, the screen goes
blank when GRUB should appear, and stays blank until the graphical
part of the boot-up. I will try
I use epiphany under Gnome 2.6.12 in Debian Testing, and just installed
epiphany-extensions, wanting to use some of its neat features like
middle-click to scroll down web pages. Installing
epiphany-extensions (apt-get epiphany-extensions) has no effect on the
epiphany-browser, and there are no clu
On 9/21/05, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Click on the Tools menu, and select the Extensions item. Then selectthe extensions that you want to activate.
This apparently is my problem: the only menus I have in my Epiphany
1.6.4 are File, Edit, View, Go, Bookmarks, Tabs, and Help. No
Tools
On 9/21/05, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Strange. I've got Epiphany 1.6.3, and the Tools menu is there. Are the
versions of your epiphany-browser and epiphany-extensions packages the
same versions? (i.e. are they both 1.6.4?)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l | grep epiphany
ii epiph
This problem, although not reported as a bug against
epiphany-extensions, is apparently already known:
http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=opensp
The epiphany-extensions package is out-of-date in testing because it
is being held up by opensp. I guess that means I shouldn't report it
o
I installed epiphany-extensions 1.6.4-2 from unstable, which installed
libosp4c2 and removed libosp4. The "Tools" menu then appeared in
Epiphany the next time I started it, and with it access to the
extensions. Thanks!
I am running a testing system with GNOME, and digikam is missing right
now from testing, I am not an apt-get expert, but I am tempted to
install the digikam from unstable by putting unstable in my
sources.list then doing:
parkdale:~# apt-get install digikam digikamimageplugins kipi-plugins
Readi
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