Re: Ripping MP3s

2001-06-20 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 21-Jun 01:09, Joel Mayes wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:34:23AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can anyone recommend any package for creating mp3s from CDs (yes, I do own > > them :) under Debian? I tried searching the package list but there was > > nothing obvious, only players it se

Re: QRe: Raid; mkraid /dev/md0_HELP?

2001-06-21 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 21-Jun 11:17, Frans Schreuder wrote: > ls -l /dev/md*: > > brw-rw1 root disk 9, 0 Jun 9 21:51 /dev/md0 [snip] > > Cutting it down to the important stuff: > > Jun 20 22:20:16 venom kernel: Oops ! md0 not running, giving up ! > > Jun 20 22:20:16 venom kernel: Bad md_map in ll

Re: local time

2001-06-22 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 22-Jun 05:24, Steve Kowalik wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 03:57:52AM +, John Patton uttered: > > My systems clock is set for my local time zone (or used to > > be), which always worked well before. Now it lists the time > > in UTC (correctly, meaning that the time listed is about > > 5 ho

Re: Ripping MP3s

2001-06-23 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 23-Jun 12:31, Gary Jones wrote: > ~# cdparanoia 1 > > Ripping from sector 33 (track 1 [0:00:00]) > Ripping to sector 11822 (track 1 [2:37:14]) > > Ouputing to cdda.wav > > (== PROGRESS == [> | .. 00 ] == :-P . ==) > hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 > hdb: ATAPI reset co

Re: Reiserfs and disk spindown: separate /var partition?

2001-07-09 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 09-Jul 01:51, Christian Jaeger wrote: > At 12:43 Uhr +0200 9.7.2001, Joerg Johannes wrote: > >xfs can put the logfile on another physical disk (I don't think you can > >put it into a file, but only raw partitions). So, get yourself two HD's > >(a big one and a small one), install your system on

Re: ext2 filesystem

2001-07-10 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 10-Jul 05:06, Andrew Dixon wrote: > Hi All, > I'm looking for a filesystem to put on a some-what embedded system. I > was considering ext2 but IIRC there is a minimum 4K file size. Does > anyone know if that really is the limit (I also remember that you can > resize the sectors on an ext2 file

Re: reiserfs

2001-07-11 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 11-Jul 12:18, Michael B. Taylor wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 12:14:48PM -0400, Peter Kok wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I am new in debian. What is reiserfs > > > > > It is a high performance file system, still somewhat in the experimental > stage. However, it has already (as I understand) pr

Re: RAM size

2001-07-12 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 12-Jul 08:58, Alexey wrote: > I have 128M RAM. > > dmesg: > ... > Memory: 64364k/66496k available (808k kernel code, 416k reserved, 864k data, > 44k init) > ... > > Am I right thinking that Linux "sees" 64M only? > Well, the *free* utility displays total memory at 64M. > What's wrong? Your B

Re: Specifiing Drivers at installation

2001-07-28 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 28-Jul 10:29, Michael Blood wrote: > I need to load a raid driver at installation time but am unsure of the > exact syntax and commands. > > Do anyone know of a good place to find the exact syntax and examples for the > boot: > > prompt. > > Thanks in advance, > > Michael Blood I hav

Laptop sleep

2001-08-06 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
I've been using an old laptop for a couple of days. I have the harddrive spining down after 30s but it never stays down. (I even echo'ed some new setting to /proc/sys/vm/bdflush...didn't seem to help). I was wounding if anyone has some tips on what to check; so this drive will stay asleep when ther

Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 07-Aug 08:29, P Kirk wrote: [snip] > killa.bat says killall ftpd and call killb.bat and killb does the same > in reverse. > > I know someone must have a neat shell script that does this? > -- > [a bash script] $while true; do killall ftpd; sleep 1; done; Thomas pgpS5WslsxtQU.pgp Descriptio

Re: OT: Dropped Packets

2001-08-07 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 07-Aug 03:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know how many dropped packets is common on a small 10-Base-T > Network? I get 20% or so on a flood ping. > > -- Deven G. When I had 10bT and tested with a ping flood, ~3% dropped. This was with very good cable and terminators. Between two c

Re: Help - Large Files Support

2001-08-23 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 23-Aug 01:08, David McNab wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just now managed (after a few attempts) to install deb > testing/unstable, and find Debian to be unquestionably the best Linux > distro to date. > > One thing I need help with is in getting large files support working. > Some of my uses (eg F

Re: mke2fs default mmc

2001-11-26 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 26-Nov 09:16, Sean Middleditch wrote: > Hi! > > I was wondering what is used to detemine the maximum mount count in > mke2fs. I am told the default should be 20, but I've got (when > reformatting the same partition) a result of 24 and results of 31. Why > is this? iirc, mke2fs tries to make

Re: global environment variables?

2001-12-02 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 03-Dec 01:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This I aready know. ...but seeing as I didn't ask "how do I set an > environment for my cronjobs" but "how do a set a GLOBAL evironment for > the entire system", it doesn't actually help me much. :) > > .../Nemo > [snip other answer} Just slip it in /e

Re: global environment variables?

2001-12-02 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 03-Dec 09:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:02:50PM -0800, Thomas Zimmerman wrote: > > On 03-Dec 01:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > This I aready know. ...but seeing as I didn't ask "how do I set an > > > environment for my

Re: Kernel updates for Adrian Bunk's packages?

2001-10-12 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 12-Oct 10:18, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > I have been using Adrian Bunk's 2.4 kernel packages. The > > last kernel update is 2.4.9. > > 2.4.9 isn't that old, actually. There's no harm in not having > the 'latest and greatest' versions of everything. Other then the fact that 2.4.9 has the habit o

Re: IDE CD recorder, in machine with SCSI tape?

2001-11-02 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 02-Nov 08:37, Stan Brown wrote: > K, at this point i've tried this on 2 different machines. Here's the > scenarion > > HP cd16ri CD recorder installed in machines with Aadaptec SCSI host card, > each has exactly on device on the SCSI bus. Both are Debian potato + > Progeny + 2.4x kernels ( one

Re: kernel 2.4.10 and linus vs ac VM?

2001-10-01 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 30-Sep 07:44, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > I am confused about the state of the 2.4.10 kernel. > > It seems that there are two VMs that are going to "fight it out" moving > forward: the original one (in the ac line of code) and a new one (in the > main line of code). > > Before this became clear

Re: video ram?

2001-10-04 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 04-Oct 08:09, parn wrote: > O.k. so about 4mb is ok. I am using X with gnome/enlightenment. I guess my > real question would be where and how to add the append = . > would this be correct: > > > > append videoram = 400 > or am i still clueless??? > > Again thank-you to any that rep

Re: Letters displaying as aquares.

2001-10-06 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 06-Oct 04:51, Charles Baker wrote: > ``apt-get remove`` any XFree 3.x packages and > ``apt-get install`` all the XFree 4.x packages. [snip] I did have this problem under kde2--kde2 apps worked but nedit/vmware didn't. I finally got logged into X as root (to see kde2's default setup once), and n