Need Newbie installation Help~

HI:    I have a Desktop computer which already have Win2k pro and Win2k Advanced Server installed as Dual-boot. and there is a Mandrake 8.1 on my hard disk but i use floopy to boot mandrake8.1.     I am going to install Debian based on these enveriment.how can i setup the boot loa

Need Newbie installation Help~

HI:    I have a Desktop computer which already have Win2k pro and Win2k Advanced Server installed as Dual-boot. and there is a Mandrake 8.1 on my hard disk but i use floopy to boot mandrake8.1.     I am going to install Debian based on these enveriment.how can i setup the boot l

Re: Errors using "apt update"

On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 12:10:08 -0500, Jerry Mellon wrote: > Gentleman/Ladies > > I have experienced a problem using "apt update". The program appears > to work, but I end up with the list of errors. > > [...] > Run the following command: apt-key list --keyid-format LONG, then Check if you have t

Re: How to write in Chinese

On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 00:04:43 -0300, Markos wrote: > Please, > > I am studying Chinese and I need to install fonts to type ideograms > in Debian 9. > > I use Brazilian Portuguese, but I don't want to reconfigure my > computer to type only in Chinese. > > Using LibreOffice or with a specific progr

Re: How to write in Chinese

On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 08:10:08PM -0300, Markos wrote: > > [...] > > Hi Ming, > > > That's right, I think I need to choose an "input method". > > I'm gradually understanding what I need. > > I found a tutorial that explains wh

Re: Open Source Flash Alternatives

On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 06:17:32PM -0500, Kenneth Parker wrote: > On Fri, Jan 1, 2021, 10:29 AM Kenneth Parker wrote: > > > Since Adobe Flash is going the way of the Dodo Bird, I thought I'd check > > up on Open Source Alternatives, since I have some Standalone .swf files > > (games, etc). > > >

Re: If some package have serious bug and fixed on unstable and testing release, how long it will be available on stable release?

On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 05:27:30AM +, Robbi Nespu wrote: > Hi > > On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 10:58:06 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3156 > > is a timely example of how Debian deals with such problems. > > Note in particular the line > > > > stre

PAM messages on chrooted console

/syslog.conf, but it is identical to /etc/syslog.conf. I searched around but didn't find much useful. Would anybody please tell me how to redirect these PAM messages to log file? Is there any documentation I am missing? Please CC the reply to me. Thanks in advance, Ming 2003.05.29 P.S.: Is

linux boot troubles

Hi all, have some problems with Linux boot up. It all started when I was having major problems in Windows and had to reinstall Windows. Afterwards, windows kind of took over lilo and wouldn't show the lilo prompt after I hold down the key anymore. This has happened before, and I would just boot

How to intall a Modem in Linux

Hi There, I have a problem with installing an US Robotics 56K Internal Modem in a Linux system (Slink Debian 2.01). The vendor assure me it is not a WinModem. How to install it ? It Your suggestions are highly appreciated. Ming - End Forwarded Message

Problems with Adaptec 2940 U2W

Hi all, I am just wondering if anyone is having problems with the AHA2940 U2W SCSI controller. The old AHA2940 UW (without the 2 in between the U and W) worked fine under my 2.2.9 kernel. Any system with a U2W in it just won't boot. Thanks. begin:vcard n:Poon;Ming x-mozilla-html:

Re: Problems with Adaptec 2940 U2W

d between the two. > > You may need to generate a useable bootdisk, so you can get on long > enough to compile a patched kernel... > > On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 10:07:01PM -0400, Ming Poon wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am just wondering if anyone is having problems with

Re: Corel + Debian +KDE ????

ion ;-(. The Graphics suite is planned for the summer of 2000. All this should be public knowledge already. > Thanx in advance, > Greetings Arjen. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null begin:vcard n:Poon;Ming x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:www.corel.co

Re: Problems with Adaptec 2940 U2W

We changed all of our systems back to a AHA2940 UW. I am in the process of finding a new system with an AHA2940 U2W and repeating the excerise again. Once I locate the system and try it out, I will update you all again. Thanks. Gareth wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Ming Poon wrote: >

NE2000 PCI Card

as worked. We also tried to forcing recognition by putting an append line into LILO, but that didn't seem to work either. Are there any other ways to get the card recognized or did we miss a step or something? Thanks in advance, Ming Hsu "Spiritus, minitus, invustrus appares

Re: NE2000 PCI Card

your card, > >Joop > > > Ming Hsu "Spiritus, minitus, invustrus appares. Tiny spirits of fire and light, find the ones I seek tonight." -Will O' the Wisp, Gargoyles.

gtk

ell me what all that means? Thanks. Ming Hsu

Star Office installation

files but that didn't seem to change anything. And I haven't found a way to decompress all those files at once, unzip * did nothing. Sorry for the long message. Hope someone'll read it. :) Well, thanks in advance! Ming Hsu "Asians are very gifted at

Re: need help getting X server running...

On Sat, Oct 24, 1998 at 01:26:12PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I'm pretty new to Linux myself, and don't know how to redirect the output > messages of startx to a file, though I'm confident it can be done. Maybe > someone else can enlighten us on the details. > > However, what you can do, is press S

RE: php4

;.php"? Also, in my httpd.conf, php3 seems to be handled with this AddType: AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3 Does your libphp4.so exist in /usr/lib/apache/1.3? Hope this helps. Ming -Original Message- From: Ehren Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 11:

RE: Can't find ssh

installs ssh1.. but it's better then nothing. Good luck. Ming -Original Message- From: Andy Davidson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 6:54 PM To: Colin Watson Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Can't find ssh I tried inserting the lines into /etc

RE: Need help to install gnucobol

On Sunday, February 5, 2023 12:21 PM, Amine Derk wrote: > > I'm trying to use debian for the first time. and I'm not able to install > > Gnucobol. > > > > aderkaoua@LAPTOP-6B841S0M:~$ sudo apt-get install gnucobol > > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree... Done > > Reading st

Re: Launching remote applications

-dpi 100 Regards, Ming On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, =?iso-8859-1?B?RW1pbCBI5Gdlcmx1bmQ= ?= wrote: > Hi, > > I want to start applications from a remote host on > my local net and set back the display. > > What wrong and what can I configure to make it work? > > This is what

Multiple ISP setup

Dear all, Just wonder what is a good ppp dial-up setup for multiple ISPs. I want to be able to choose which ISP to dial up easily (read: without having to edit /etc files manually each time I have to switch). Is there a tool for this? -- Billy C.-M. Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Multiple ISP setup

Dear all, Thanks for those who responded. It seems that one may use the tools xisp (available as a debian package), ezppp (http://www.serv.net/~cameron/ezppp/index.html) or Linuxconf for easy switching of ISP. But does Linuxconf work in harmony with Debian? Regards, -- Billy C.-M. Chow <[EMAIL

Re: Routing problem with OpenVPN.

that ip_forward is turned on. http://openvpn.net/man.html#lbAV Scroll down to the "Routing" section... -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman

Rex install report

Dear Deianers, Just intalled rex (files downloaded via dpkg-ftp on the 4th and 5th Dec from ftp.debian.org). The installation was very smooth and things are mostly working. I have the following questions however. - When I am offered to install additional drivers (modules), how may I find ou

Wrong permissions for /tmp and /var/tmp?

Dear all, Just installed rex and found that the /tmp and /var/tmp directories do not have write permission for others. Are they supposed to be used by all? -- Billy C.-M. Chow Department of Systems Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Rex install report

Dear all, Thanks for all who responded. Bruce> From: Chow Chi-Ming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> When I am offered to install additional drivers (modules), how may >> I find out what options does a module take and its syntaxes? This >> information would make the loading o

Re: mpeg_play, can't load libXt.so.6

> "Spineux" == Spineux Alain (D M-L) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> The libraries libXt.* are in '/usr/X11R6/lib/'. I tried to make >> symbolic links to then 'ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6' ... , but >> the same message appears after trying to run mpeg_play. >> >> Can you help me? >>

Re: Debian vs. floppy install

> "-Ing" == -Ing Andreas Wehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: -Ing> : home PC. Now, with Debian there seems to be no information -Ing> whatsoever on : how to choose the packages after you install the -Ing> 4 or 5 base set : floppy disks. I know that if you use other -Ing> methods like dpkg-ftp (

Weid problem

Dear all, On my newly installed Debian pre1.2 box, I was able to do a lot of netowrking and all of a sudden all network connections are lost. The machine is not locked up but is isolated from the world (even machines on the same network cannot be reached). The /var/log/messages file recorded pag

Re: Some notes on Debian experiences

> "Alan" == Alan Eugene Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alan> During the process of upgrading, I inadvertently deleted the Alan> entire /usr/info directory. My own fault, as I freely and Alan> readily accept. However, I was not ready for what happened Alan> next: when I upgraded gcc and cp

Re: where is base deb?

> "Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dale> On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: >> Curiously, the base.deb is missing in the binary-i386/base dir. >> Where is it? It's used to be in binary-i386/base dir. Does it >> moved to a new place. >> Dale> The base package has been

Re: Help please: installation of TeTeX on a Debian machine.

> "Paul" == Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> --cut-here--- Paul> You just have to append the following lines to Paul> "/var/lib/dpkg/status": I thought the ``provides'' field should contain ONLY the ``agreed'' (discussed in

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hamish> We should certainly not force a particular editor down Hamish> anyone's throat, especially emacs :-) I think it is pretty safe to assume that many Linux people use BASH. >From the bash manpage [...] READLINE This is the

Re: A few questions.

> "Nathan" == Nathan L Cutler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nathan> I don't use the debian kernel-source package at all. I Nathan> download Linus's kernels and install them in /usr/src/linux Nathan> and compile them as per /usr/src/linux/README. I have never Nathan> had any problems with this,

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

> "Pete" == Pete Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pete> On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote: >> No, this is wrong. A new user should not have to read long >> documents prior to installation. The configure scripts which runs >> directly after the installation should make reading docs >

tar dumps core

Hi, Has anyone else seen this before? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp # dd if=/dev/zero of=file count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp # tar cvf test.tar file file [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp # tar tvfM test.tar -rw-r--r-- cmchow/cmchow 51200 Jan 16 17

Re: tar dumps core

Daniel> There is a buffer-overrun bug in (non-Debianized) tar-1.11.8 Daniel> that involves the -M flag. Daniel> Does anyone know if Debian patches this bug? Debian definitely has this bug. -- Billy C.-M. Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Department of Systems Engineering The Chinese Universit

Re: Some thoughts for Debian.

> "Matt" == Matt Kracht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matt> Debian gives me several packages to choose from, Matt> which, it turns out, are all required. Then I find out that the Matt> guy who compiled it did something weird. Lynx 2.6 doesn't Matt> compile with it. So, I go to the S-LANG home

cron doesn't start at boot up?

Hi, System: Debian 1.2 Package: cron_3.0pl1-36.1 It seems that cron is not started by postinst. Is this delibrate? How do the /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} work? Thanks. -- Billy C.-M. Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Department of Systems Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Re: cron doesn't start at boot up?

> "Bernt" == Bernt T Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bernt> Billy- Try # update-rc.d cron defaults Bernt> I had to add the links for cron after installing it to have it Bernt> start at boot time for run levels 2-5. Bernt> You should probably read about the boot process information in Bern

Re: Proftpd: change permissions during the upload

Hi, You have to change the umask from 022 to 006. Following is the steps: 1. Modify /etc/proftpd.conf. 2. Search Umask 3. Change "022" to "006" 4. Save the file 5. Remember to restart proftpd. Regards, Ming On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:26:04PM -0300, Eriberto wrote: > He

Re: Sound problem: Sorry, no mixer ...

I saw you are using ALSA driver. I think you have to load snd-mixer-oss and snd-pcm-oss too. For the details, you can check this link < http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-howto/alsa-howto.html > Best Regards, Ming On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 08:45:51PM -0400, Bernard Fay wrote: &

Re: Samba Issues

Try to check this link < http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2002-July/047202.html > It may give a pointer to you. Regards, Ming On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 10:06:11PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > I currently manage several Debian Woody servers in a corporat

Re: IDE not detected

May be your system does not load a kenrel module - ide-disk. Try to load it. And then mount your windows partition. May be you can access your ide harddisk again. Regards, Ming On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 09:43:44AM -0800, mamas wrote: > My Debian testing system (2.4.27-1-386) has two SCSI hds

Re: Passwd fails - what went wrong?

Try adduser -G users lata May be the group "lata" does not exist as you adding the new user. As I know by default debian would not create individual group for new user. Regards, Ming On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 07:07:00PM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > Hi, > > I have

Re: graphical console problem

ga=791" to your kernel. Best Regards, Ming On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 09:47:34PM -0500, Luis Finotti wrote: > Hi, > > I am running Debian on my laptop and after an upgrade, it tries to enter > in "graphical console mode". > > On boot I get: > > sisfb: Using MMIO

Re: graphical console problem

not a file store the setting of graphical console. If you want to change the graphical console mode, you have to set it as the modules is loading or by using kernel parameter. Regards, Ming On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 05:34:35PM -0500, Luis Finotti wrote: > Dear Ming and all, > > Thanks for

Re: Can I change when filesystem is checked by fsck?

You can change the change interval by using tune2fs. If you want to the filesystem is checked everyweek. You can tune2fs -i 1w /dev/hd?? hd?? are the partition which you intended to check. Regards, Ming On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 02:44:53AM -0500, Rick Friedman wrote: > Each of my filesyst

Re: Grub problem?

BR or Change the boot sequence at BIOS. So DON'T do it on a production machine. Regrads, Ming On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:38:16AM -0500, Christian Convey wrote: > Hi guys, > > (Debian newbie) > > I just burned a Debian "testing" net-inst disk. I think that makes it Sa

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

. Also if a better file system suits for such large partitions :-) http://linuxgazette.net/122/piszcz.html -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman "The system's broke, Hank. The election

Re: LVM2 snapshot question

QL, look at mysqlhotcopy. -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman "The system's broke, Hank. The election baby has peed in the bath water. You got to throw 'em both out." --Dale Gribble

Re: LVM2 snapshot question

during the snapshot? -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman "The system's broke, Hank. The election baby has peed in the bath water. You got to throw 'em both out." --Dale Gribble

Re: LVM2 snapshot question

On 5/13/06, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jiann-Ming Su wrote: > I have no experience with the LVM snapshots. I've been using rsync > snapshots as described at > http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/. Or one could skip doing all of that manually

Re: Debian sarge 3.1\apache2 not surpport cgi

On 6/5/06, Rocky Ou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can any of you give me a hint how to make my machine support the cgi please ? Any hint will be highly appreciated! Thanks a lot in advance Search for "cgi-bin" in the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file. -- Jiann-Ming Su "I h

listing last package installed?

How do I sort "dpkg -l" by date of package installation? Or, is there another way to list the last packages that were installed? -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman "The system

Re: Tor

it and privoxy with apt-get. Then follow steps 2-4 at http://tor.eff.org/docs/tor-doc-unix.html.en. -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman "The system's broke, Hank. The election baby has peed

Re: Tor

g00013.html -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman "The system's broke, Hank. The election baby has peed in the bath water. You got to throw 'em both out." --Dale Gribble --

Re: Tor

ent IP addresses in their web logs, and for security during sting operations." -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman "The system's broke, Hank. The election baby has peed in the bath w

Re: Gaim 2 beta?

can do encryption with the OTR plugin (http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr). -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman "The system's broke, Hank. The election baby has peed in the bath water. You got

Re: wxWidgets versus gtkmm

/products/qt/qt_designer_windows/image_view_fullscreen http://www.trolltech.com/images/products/qt/qt_designer_mac/image_view_fullscreen http://www.trolltech.com/images/products/qt/qt_designer_linux/image_view_fullscreen -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening

Re: ftpd error

Hi, I guess you are using proftpd and login the ftp as anonymous user. If so, you must enable the anonymous login support in /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf. Uncomment the statement between to , include these 2 tags. Then restart your proftpd. Best Regards, Ming Harald Grosse Hokamp wrote

Re: 3-D graphing software for Linux?

Not 3D, but a good plotting program: http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/ -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman "The system's broke, Hank. The election baby has peed in the bath wat

Re: Moving a Debian install in to new hardware?

would I > go about doing that without any reinstalls? > LVM. If you're not using LVM, you may have to reinstall. -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman "The system's broke, Hank.

Re: Recommendation for newsreader

> > Now I'd really appreciate your recommendation for a method or apparatus to > handle groups with large numbers of messages in a suitable and reasonably > fast manner. > slrn? -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wa

Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

On 8/23/05, Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I realized, I've had Sarge installed for a few months, and I should probably > defragment my partitions. How can I do this? > http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Partition.html#FRAGMENTATION -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to d

Re: OT: GUI Develpment for C++ program

ious about C++, Qt is the only answer. http://www.trolltech.com/ -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman

Re: OT: GUI Develpment for C++ program

toolkit (libraries, documentation, tutorials, etc) should also be considered. -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman

Re: installing sarge on server

that amount of RAM? > The default is the 386 kernel. After install, apt-get the 686 version. -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman

Re: making backup using rsync in home LAN

gt; share his/her experiences regarding this? > Mount the NTFS partition and back it up when you back up the linux /home partition? -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman

Re: making backup using rsync in home LAN

ro 0 0 It mounts as a read-only filesystem when Linux boots. In your script to back up your Linux partition, add the NTFS partition as well. -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman

Re: recommended email server-small business

hack.com/anti-spam/wiki/index.php?page=Debian -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman

Re: making backup using rsync in home LAN

it over a public network, then use rsync over ssh. If you use ssh, you'll probably want passwordless public keys. The other thing to do is look at a more sophisticated backup solution like Bacula. http://www.bacula.org/ -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightenin

Re: installing sarge on server

oot/config-2.6.8-2-686-smp: # # Firmware Drivers # CONFIG_EDD=m # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman

Re: what do i need to run QT on Debian(sarge)?

h.com. They have tutorials that should get you started. -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman

Re: Problems installing AMD 64 daily unstable build

for it to download additional > packages. It doesn't recognize my wireless. I also tried wired, to no > avail. > > HELP. > For Debian and AMD64, try Ubuntu. http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/5.04/ -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening

LILO problem.

hda2's boot sector, I thought that it is supposed to find that and hand the controll over to LILO. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here? could it be the problem with my DOS MBR, which can only load hda1? Thanks a lot. ===== Ming Feng Gu Cente

hostname in logfile?

re's no reference to "merlin" anywhere. I don't think the box has been hacked. On my other debian boxes, some use "localhost" while others use `hostname`. Why the discrepancy here? Thanks for any insight. -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally

Re: hostname in logfile?

he hostname listed in /etc/hostname. My other i386 Debian boxes uses "localhost" in its log files. Kind of odd. -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman

Re: Bootable CD

e, just burn it to a CD-R/RW. -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman

Re: Exchange replacement

i Insight Server 4.2 CommuniGate Pro Gordaona Messaging Suite 11 Scalix Server Samsung Contact Opengroupware.org Kolab Open Xchange -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman

Re: X.org transition breaks Ctrl-Alt-F* ??

On 9/9/05, Andrew M.A. Cater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone else noticed anything similar?? > Not sure if this helps, but I had to recompile the Nvidia drivers after the Xorg upgrade. -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If

Re: sarge: the worst distro?

On 9/9/05, a joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > a few days ago i installed sarge and found it the worst Debian distro > because no new features is valuable to me. > That begs the question... ;-) -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening optio

Re: announcing the beginning of security support for testing

On 9/9/05, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > deb http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing > etch/security-updates main contrib non-free How is this different from "deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main"? -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to

Re: apt_preferences: how to get cogito from unstable?

cast into /etc/apt/preferences > syntax? > apt-get -t unstable install cogito -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman

Re: weirdest network problems of my ilfe [SOLVED]

at > one time i had heard that windows boxen alternate which dns server they > use every time they send out a request, whereas Linux tries to always > use the primary. Is that plausible? > Since you've narrowed it down to your router, you may want to see if there's a firmware up

Re: Debian on AMD64?

CI express support... > Check the late August archives of this list. Ubuntu is another option. -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman

make-kpkg & initrd?

ile in the modules directory. Is there something I'm missing that's preventing the entire kernel-image package from being built correctly? Thanks for any tips. -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman

Re: dpkg error, can't install and can't uninstall libread*

On 10/17/05, phyrster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi debianers, > > When I performed a dist-upgrade from sarge to testing, the upgrade process > was not completed when I ran out of disk space. > apt-get clean apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade -- Jiann-Ming Su "I

Re: Any recomendations on C/R spam tools for Debian

-spam/wiki/index.php?page=Debian -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman

Re: iptables

et static pre-up iptables-restore < /etc/iptables.up.rules address 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman

Re: Is Debian ready for the desktop?

ux Desktop rather use coral Linux or Suse. > Check the links. > http://www.aboutdebian.com/install31.htm > http://www.aboutdebian.com/desktop.htm > Is Debian more for server applications, or is it a true Desktop like > Suse? > Try http://www.symphonyos.com/ for a Debian based deskt

Re: Debian Raid Crash Repair

ve/html/bug-grub/2002-03/msg00047.html for more details about installing grub on the other drive. -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman "The system's broke, Hank. The election baby has peed in the bath water. You got to throw 'em both out." --Dale Gribble

Re: Debian Raid Crash Repair

O will install properly on both raid devices. But, for some reason grub does not, and you have to do it manually. You may have to resync the raid array when you bring both drives back online. Also, I think grub has to be installed on a ext2/3 filesystem. So, make sure your first partition is ext2

Re: SSH attack

are some issues with the "recent" module... http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/10/msg00302.html -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman "The system's broke, Hank. The electi

Re: Debian Raid Crash Repair

in the system. Either way, as long as you know how your system behaves, it's all good! :-) -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman "The system's broke, Hank. The election baby has peed in

Re: where to point JAVA_HOME?

t; any pointers hungrily welcomed. > Installing Sun JRE on Debian: http://student.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~amayer/files/How-to-install-Java-on-Debian.html JAVA_HOME should be set to wherever the java package is installed. If you follow the instructions in the above link, it'll be JAVA_HOME="/us

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