df confused over disk usage

2001-06-18 Thread Nik Makepeace
Hi guys, I am not sure if this is the right place, but if I'm out please point me in the correct direction. df is reporting my disk size and usage a little oddly. The following is the df output. Note the identical /var/local, /var/log and /var sizes, and the identical /usr and /usr/local si

Re: oldtimer pc

2001-06-20 Thread Nik Makepeace
At 21:26 20/06/2001 +0200, Paul Huygen wrote: MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > so i pulled this old 486-33 machine out of the basement, it's got 8Mb > RAM, a shitty graphics card, and 240Mb of HDD space. it's ISA only, > but i want to try using an AVM FritzCard and a cheap NE2000 compatible

Re: installing KDE

2001-06-21 Thread Nik Makepeace
At 15:04 21/06/2001 -0600, you wrote: I have a friend who wants to install KDE. Other than getting all the packages from kde.org manually is there anything to "apt-get install" ? I can't find any packages for kde... From my own experience, make sure you are running woody, Xfree4, and then p

SSH takes ages to authorise

2001-06-27 Thread Nik Makepeace
When I connect to my Debian potato machine using ssh (via Putty) protocol 1 or 2, after I have entered the correct password, it takes ages (about 10 seconds, although sometimes much more) to complete the authorisation process. Looking at top while this is happening shows sshd using about 2% for

Re: SSH takes ages to authorise

2001-06-27 Thread Nik Makepeace
At 08:17 27/06/2001 -0400, Greg Rowe wrote: I saw this same problem as well. It is as you suspected, DNS. Since I had a name server on my masqed network I just created a reverse zone Thanks Greg. I have been putting off looking at DNS (learn Python, do some work, go to the park, you name it

Re: Help with ESS1888 setup.

2001-07-19 Thread Nik Makepeace
At 20:57 19/07/2001 +1000, Kieren Diment wrote: I am having great problems with configuring my Dell Laptop's sound card. According to Windows95 it is an ESS 1688 Audiodrive I/O Range 0240 - 024F 0388-038B 0330-0331 IRQs 5 and 9 DMA 00 and DMA 03 have you tried putting t