Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
icient. Is that > right? Thanks. Enough RAM, anyway. I'm running woody on a 48M RAM machine at home. I'm not sure how big the system is, though. Without any kind of video acceleration, though, window operations are kind of slow. I use icewm to cut down on overhead. -- hendrik.

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
ht be useful as > a small server someday. I'm using a 48MB 100MHz Pentium as a file server, and its performance is adequate. I also use X on it, with icewm, but avoid *any* graphical user-interfacing or web-wandering on it, because the graphics is definitely too slow. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to remove debian

2005-05-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
P's boot loader? I'd expect grub to use some data that's not in the MBR. Doesn't that get found somewhere on the Debian partition? Or else where *does* grub store its code to read and understand file systems? I'd expect grub to fail, just in case. I'd be sure to be r

Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!

2005-05-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
e to access ever-larger hard disks as the number of address bits keeps being incremented by just barely enough to last the next year or two. -- hendrik > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAI

Re: Open-Source environments for Java

2005-05-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 09:55:09AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > other developers or users. Then when someone NMUs their package to I'm sorry. I don't know what MNU means. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: X and sound on debian, really wanted!

2005-05-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
it turns out just to be two separate topics. -- hendrik. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What to do with source package?

2005-05-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
f I should succeed, what's the proper way to send the changes upstream? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

hacking the debugger

2005-06-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
will reside on a garbage-collected heap. So the genreted code may be moved aroung diring execution (yes, I am aware there are technical difficulties involved in realizing this!) Is there a way of informing gdb that its symbol definitions have *changed*? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

cross-partition upgrade

2005-06-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
t woody system files, and expect the thing to work. Again, I'd have to protect the filesystems that might contain user data for this. And are there esoteric filesystems (like /proc) that need special consideration (or, possible, no copying at all)? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: How to move debian from one drive to another and keep it working?

2005-06-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 07:56:28AM -0700, David Witbrodt wrote: > > > > tar --exclude=/mnt -cvf - / | (cd /mnt/; tar -xvf -) > Check out the --one-file-system option. It keeps you from straying past mount points. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How can I share a mailbox between multiple OSes

2005-06-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
> Thank, > Dave W. Last time I did anything like this was when I was moving from one distro of linux to another. I made sure the new linux mounted the old one, and symlinked /var/spool/mail across partitions. This way, there was only one mailbox. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

nonwiping netinstall

2005-06-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
Is there any way to use the new net-installer *without* wiping clean the partition being installed to? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nonwiping netinstall

2005-06-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 11:44:53AM -0400, Robert Wolfe wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >Is there any way to use the new net-installer *without* > >wiping clean the partition being installed to? > > Not that I know of. Are you trying to up

Re: nonwiping netinstall

2005-06-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:26:28PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 11:44:53AM -0400, Robert Wolfe wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > >Is there any way to use the new net-installer *without* > > >wiping clean

Re: Clarify Sarge Release

2005-06-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:45:45PM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote: > On Wednesday 08 Jun 2005 20:17, Jim Hall wrote: > > Now that Sarge is released, do I need to point 'update' & 'upgrade' to > > "stable", or leave Sarge as the target? > > No, you can do nothing, if you like. > > Pointing it to "stable

apt-cacher

2005-06-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
m) then installing sarge's apt-cacher, and then pointing the sources.list to apt-cacher running on the very machine that is being upgraded to sarge? In the future, when further updates take place, will apt-cacher know how to update itself while it's being used to download and cache its repla

Re: apt-cacher

2005-06-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:57:06PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:37:33 -0400 > "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:09:22PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > Now that I'll be upgrading m

Re: sid upgrade

2005-06-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
x27;t had a similar problem with KDE. -- hendrik > > > > > Paras. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mutt + dovecot/squirrelmail + mbox ?

2005-06-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
e filesystem is a database". Actually, the filesystem *is* a data base. What it isn't is a data base manager. The nice thing about reiserfs is that, as far as I know, it was actually designed by someone who understands data bases. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
ntext (especially important for those reading an archive, or jumping into an ongoing conversation) * to see the reply first (for those who have just finished reading the previous message) It seems this is a problem resolvable by technology. Set the mail reader to start a message display at the bo

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:32:04AM -0400, Phil Dyer wrote: > I agree with that point exactly. > > PS: 2 points for anybody that can figure out which point, or even which > poster I'm agreeing with. I think the point you agree with is both point. -- hendrik P.S. What is the d

Re: Top posting

2005-06-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
e-browser is even a possibility. But excessive trimming, so that it becomes hard to figure out what went where, is a problem. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Google Summer of Code

2005-06-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
hould be clear to *anyone* that bothers to think about the matter. Unfortunately the world is filling up with people who don't. People who concern themselves only with what something does, not what it is supposed to do. How such people can program mystifies me. -- hendrik > > Piet

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 06:57:36PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > > So, what is the difference between a duck, Hendrik? It better be good. ;) > > Adam One of the joys of age. You can recycle jokes from fifty years ago, and you find new people to tell them to! This one has a tradid

Re: Google Summer of Code

2005-06-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
low-volume mailing list. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

woody->sarge failed: out pf disk space

2005-06-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
over? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: woody->sarge failed: out pf disk space

2005-06-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 04:46:22PM +0100, peter colton wrote: > On Saturday 11 June 2005 16:49, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > After 18 hours of upgrading on my very slow 100 MHz Pentium, > > it ended up producing an unending stream of > > > > multilog: warning: unable to write

Re: woody->sarge failed: out pf disk space

2005-06-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 07:00:31PM +0100, peter colton wrote: > On Saturday 11 June 2005 17:20, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 04:46:22PM +0100, peter colton wrote: > > > On Saturday 11 June 2005 16:49, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > After 18 hours of

Re: woody->sarge failed: out pf disk space

2005-06-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
t I am still curious how reilient aptitude is to disasters like disk-space shortage, and whether there is any way fo finding and repairing the packages that were damages or misconfigured as a result. -- hendrik > Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 > "Let your advance worrying b

Re: woody->sarge failed: out pf disk space

2005-06-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:39:44PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 05:46:50PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > But I am still curious how reilient aptitude is to disasters like > > disk-space shortage, and whether there is any way fo finding and > > r

Re: [OT] Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
our client for > skipping quoted text). You could also encourage people to delete > irrelevant quoted text when replying. > > Unlike vi v. emacs or KDE v. Gnome, there's actually an RFC about this > one. It's a dead issue. If you don't conform, people will be less &

Re: Top posting

2005-06-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
relevant parts of what lead up to that solution. In my experience, the solution(s) are presented in several messages, as the list-writers grope toward it, discover some of them work a bit and others don'e and without context you don't know which ones are the equivalend of rm -rf *. --

Re: Oldstable? Abandoned Packages? Alternatives?

2005-06-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
Python or some other language but if I do anything I want the result to > live and work happily on my Debian based computer with minimal need for > re-writes to accomodate upgrades. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Migrated OT: Top posting

2005-06-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 11:36:42PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > > >Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>What is the difference between a duck? > >> > >>(Which I _still_ don't get.) > >> > >> > >And that, I believe, is the point. Kinda like one hand clapping

Re: gunzip and Unexpected EOF

2005-06-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
that some kind of cryptographic technique should be able to recover data after a gzip corruption. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

how lilo addresses disk

2005-06-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
r and a sector number relative to the start of the partition. In paticular, if the partition containing the kernel and such gets a different partition number while otherwise remaining unchanged, will if still find what it needs? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

editors on which CDs

2005-06-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
Does anyone know which sarge CD contains emacs? pico or nano? microemacs? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: editors on which CDs

2005-06-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 03:07:06PM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote: > On Saturday 18 Jun 2005 15:10, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Does anyone know which sarge CD contains emacs? pico or nano? microemacs? > > > > -- hendrik > > Emacs would presumably be on the first CD. Nano certai

What is device 03:4c?

2005-06-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
device 03:46 is, and what /dev2/root is. It might help me figure out what's wrong! Could it be that woody can't boot when / is a reiserfs? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What is device 03:4c?

2005-06-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:26:27PM -0400, Marty wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > >Upon booting a reiserfs copy of my woody system, I am told, > > > >Can't find a Minix of Minix v2 filesystem on device 03:46 > >mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev2

Re: What is device 03:4c?

2005-06-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 05:56:04PM -0400, Marty wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > >The actual MBR used for both the failing boot and the successful boot > >are on /dev/fd0. LILO was told boot=/dev/fd0. It's remarkably safe > >to play with a floppy's MBRs,

Re: What is device 03:4c?

2005-06-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:36:04PM -0400, Marty wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >The original system can read and write the reiserfs, so I presume the > >copy would have the same drivers. > > > >Unless, of course, some boot process needs to read the root partition &

Re: What is device 03:4c?

2005-06-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 11:36:29PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:36:04PM -0400, Marty wrote: > > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > >The original system can read and write the reiserfs, so I presume the > > >copy would have the same drivers. &

Re: Upgrade woody-->sarge, KDE stops working

2005-06-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
My window manager is icewm. But the same problem. It flashes screens for a maybe five or ten seconds (I have a slow machine) and I'm back at the login screen again. So the problem may bot depend on gdm and kde specifically, at least if I have the same problem instead of just the same sy

Re: Upgrade woody-->sarge, KDE stops working

2005-06-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 11:58:15PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 05:21:01PM -0700, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Hi > > > > Got a problem with KDE after upgrading woody to sarge. > > I am running the i386 distribution. For historical > > reasons

Re: Upgrade woody-->sarge, KDE stops working

2005-06-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
on the same machine, and can still get your real work done. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrade woody-->sarge, KDE stops working

2005-06-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 12:11:23PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 11:58:15PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 05:21:01PM -0700, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > Got a problem with KDE after upgrading woody t

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-06-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 11:22:27AM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote:> Alvin Oga wrote: > > Using an extra 300GB disk is out of the question and that's precisely > why I was asking about other's experiences regarding removeable media. And later, Alvin Oga wrote: > > I'm still open to suggestions re

Re: About blackdown

2005-06-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
don't know C or C++. But it does stick you with the misfortune of programming in C++. There does seem to be a Python binding, though. But is there any problem getting your clients to use Sun's Java? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Partial success: Re: Upgrade woody-->sarge, KDE stops working

2005-06-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 12:39:01PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 12:11:23PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I certainly *never* asked xdm to be held back, nor icewm, yet > when I started an interactive aptitude session just now, > they were on the list of hel

svc: bad direction 268435456, dropping request

2005-06-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
I keep getting the following message showing up on my root consoles: > svc: bad direction 268435456, dropping request It's been a nuisance during upgrade, because when aptitude decides to ask me a configuration question while I'm eating dinner, sometimes the question is hopelessly obscured by the

Re: X Window problem after woody --> sarge upgrade

2005-06-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
I can specify what window manager to use each time I log in. This allows me to experiment, I hand-upgraded icewm and gdm, and then icewm worked. I never got KDE to work, though. -- hendrik > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "

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2002-01-29 Thread hendrik meissner
/lib/dpkg/available' near line 49989 package `libggi2' regards hendrik meißner berlin germany.

Re: Install options until Sarge lands...Can I use the installer with my 7 Woody discs?

2004-10-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
Carl Fink wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:05:41PM +, scott wrote: ... I cannot tell from any searching if the new "installer" is included on those weekly sarge snapshot ISO images. It is. I am wondering what I should do while I wait for the official Sarge announcement. Should I: a) Dow

Re: keeping woody

2004-09-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
t; (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_woody_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) > - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing files > I just took the *very helpful* advice I asked for and got this output. No problem!

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
en able to get to work with Debian is a networked HP printer. CUPS seems to be able to find things on my LAN, given the IP nomber. My Epson 777 priter is all properly configures, but when I print to it, nothing happens except that after a while CUPS thinks it has been printed. -- hendrik >

Re: keeping woody

2004-09-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
ll documented (I can recall seeing it on this > list several times before, so it's in the archives), and easily > googled. Just because you refuse to make the effort doesn't mean > everybody else will. Many (especially new) Debian users may not even realize there's a choice t

What's with abiword fonts on sarge?

2004-11-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
and down font. On woody (wisely still resident on aother partition) everything prints corrctly. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

interfaceing to ancient TRS-80 model 100 portable

2004-11-13 Thread Hendrik Boom
stuff out as a serial stream, of possibly ancient stuff like Xmodem. Does anyone have actual experience with these things? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
nimal X, I once (ten or fifteen years ago) used an X terminal with only 8 meg of RAM. It worked fine, though all my applications and even the window manager had to run on another machine! May I recommend abiword? It will also generate word files, and it's a good deal smaller tha

Re: Visual C++?????

2004-06-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 11:19:42PM +0200, Joris Huizer wrote: > > The worst thing I know of Visual C++ is, > > for (int i = 0; ) > ... > ... > ... > for (int i = 0; ) > > won't work as the thing parses as if it's still 1990 (something like > that) - this syntax wasn't legal once I

Re: Visual C++?????

2004-06-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 03:52:34PM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 06:58:35PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I have it on moderately good (but anonymous) authority that a few > > years ago it was deliberate Microsoft policy for their C++ implementation

Re: interfaces lo:1 lo:2 lo:3? (for remote ssh tunnels)

2004-06-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:05:05AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Will Trillich wrote: > > >On Sat, Jun 26 at 08:33PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > > > > I don't understand why the server would be making the > connexion request. By definition, the client does that. ^ It

IMPORTANT WARNING! Re: I'm too stupid to use find, can someone help me out, please?

2004-07-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 10:36:06AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/$ find . -type l -exec rm {}; > By now other have answered your wustion, but: VERY IMPORTANT: when yo are debugging a shell command like this one, se the echo command instead of the rm command. That wa

Re: Using Linux on a Family PC

2004-07-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
one of them are, as far as I know, designed as backup programs, but they might do the job in an interesting manner. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installing Debian and installing programs

2004-07-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
ot yet an official release. The reseller I used was the computerhelperguy, www.chguy.com. It took a few days longer than expected (he has to help his brother move house or something), but the woody CDs he sent me worked perfectly, and the slim boxes had a pleasant alternating red and blue motif. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using Linux on a Family PC

2004-07-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
to hard disk, and then installing from the copy. But I didn't have an extra 500 megabytes (that was a *lot* of disk space in those days. I was not impressed. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How Might I Help?

2004-07-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
wish you had had when you started. Or improve one that might partially already exits. The Debian wiki (http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?FrontPage) might be a good place to contribute. Or if you feel ambitious, write a book! -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Where are CUPS Brother drivers?

2004-07-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
e. Which one might it be? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Xserver aborts when idle

2004-07-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
e first machine because X crashed immediately when I used kdm -- kdm wouldn't come up at all. Maybe that's a related problem? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where are CUPS Brother drivers?

2004-07-13 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:35:35AM +0100, boo wrote: > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 00:47 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I installed the CUPS drivers for a Brother network printer on a Debian > > machine the other week, and it worked *perfectly* using the driver for > > the HL-1

Re: How do Kernel updates work on Woody?

2004-07-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
. > > Do not be put off by these warnings. Mere mortals like me can do it. Correct me if I am wrong, but a big point here is that a new kernel is installed *in addition* to the old kernel, and does not replace it. This makes a boot-time choice of kernel possible, and provides a graceful fal

Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

2004-07-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
> > $ command | less > > > >Et voila! You get the output one page at a time. > > > > > Okies, I get it now > > Thanks > > Elijah That works for regular output. However, some programs also emit error messages onto stderr. The above command will *not* r

Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

2004-07-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 03:58:41PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Fri, 16 Jul 2004 01:46:30PM -0400, Hendrik Boom insinuated: > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 10:30:53PM +0800, Duggan wrote: > > > Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > > > > >On F

Re: syncing pda + phone on linux?

2004-07-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
just never been > important enough to me. A DVD drive in a computer is a *really* good way to watch a DVD. The screen resolution is better than *anything* I've seen on TV. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian install breaks on 'Configuring Locales'

2004-07-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
a major Windows-doesn't-boot-anymore grade disaster. (happens every few months). Everyone using this system has been warned to avoid putting any essential data on the C: partition. Not that that's entirely avoidable. My conclusion? I consider Linux an essential maintenance tool if you are g

Re: Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
to use different devide names for the same hard disk? Has this weird naming happened to anyone else? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Safely Upgrading Packages

2004-07-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 04:30:45PM +0930, David Purton wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 02:43:13AM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote: > > I've been running Debian on the net for a while. I thought it's time to look > > at keeping packages up to date. But when I run apt-get update: > > > > # apt-get upg

Re: Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 08:28:02PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >(2) This one's for curiosity only, because I will be replacing my Mandrake > >soon (which I currently boot from floppy only). When I installed > >Mandrake, it used the dev

which upgrade path from woody?

2004-07-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
(3) there's probably abother approach I can't think of, -- hendrik P.S. Other related questions: I heard a long time ago that the reiser file system couldn't handle some special files, such as Hene i've avoided using it for my root partition. the ones in /dev. Is this still a p

Re: which upgrade path from woody?

2004-07-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 08:01:45AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 10:34:26PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > >I'm about to upgrade my woody system to eather testing or unstable > > >(probably unstable, be

Re: which upgrade path from woody?

2004-07-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:40:19AM +0200, Karl Hasselstr?m wrote: > On 2004-07-26 10:37:15 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > (2) Copy the entire Debain woody partition, replacing the Mandrake > > partition, adjusting .etc.fstab o the new partition so it points to > > itsel

Did that. Now no net. WAS: Re: which upgrade path from woody?

2004-07-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 11:44:20AM -0400, Alec Berryman wrote: > begin quotation of Hendrik Boom: > > > This still leaves open which is the best way to go about it -- copy and > > upgrade, or new install. > > New install. The new installer will recreate automatically mo

Re: Did that. Now no net.

2004-07-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 11:17:13AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 11:44:20AM -0400, Alec Berryman wrote: > > begin quotation of Hendrik Boom: > > > > > This still leaves open which is the best way to go about it -- copy and > > > upgr

parport printer problem under kernel 2.6 with asus mainboard

2004-07-30 Thread Hendrik Fuß
ected. mainboard: asus a7v133 distribution: unstable (sid) kernel: kernel-image 2.6.5-1-k7 $ lsmod | grep lp > lp 11268 0 > parport41672 2 parport_pc,lp -- Hendrik Fuß <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Ethernet not working in sarge. Have I done enough?

2004-07-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
I've been trying to net-install sarge using the new installer. The install worked, in the sense that I now have useless but otherwise working sarge system. The trouble is that is seems to be unable to communicate with my ethernet card, a Realtek RTL-8139, for which it has installed the 8139too mod

exim? imap?

2004-08-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
ting it all together -- especially figuring out when there are alternatives, which ones actually work smoothly. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cups thinks it prints, but the printer does not notice

2004-06-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
t all. It's an Epson Stylus 777i, connected via the parallel port. It works fine under Windows ME. Except that I have to reboot to Windows to print anything of course. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
ther. oes gdm's menu bypass it? Is there some other way? I'm running a Debian woody wywtem. -- hendrik > > > > If that does work, then try installing KDE; "apt-get install kde". > The problem is kde (-package), that seams to be a fact. My situation: I have >

Re: Debain+Fedora+Mandrake+Suse

2004-06-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
disk as /dev/hda5, whereas Debian treated it as /dev/hda1. There was some line in the lilo conf to rename the drive. I have no idea how to get a lilo that renames it only for one OS, or why on earth Mandrake wanted to renumber the drives. This may pose a difficulty for those (like me) that have the

Re: Random loss of domain name resolution!

2004-06-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:36:37PM -0500, Raiz-mpx wrote: > Dear: Fellow Gnu/Linux Debian users. > > I am at a loss as to solve this problem, other than to reinstall > Debian Sarge. I am using a cable connection, with DHCP enabled > getting a permannet IP address from my hardware Zyxel ZyWall

i810 watchdog troubles (solved, but...)

2004-06-13 Thread Hendrik Fuss
alized (0x1060). heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0) cheers, Hendrik -- Hendrik Fuß <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University of Ulster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ccing

2004-06-13 Thread Hendrik Boom
, shall we? > > Cost of a stick of 512Mb PC2700 RAM (what I us in my gaming rig)... about > $100. A little pricier if you have to replace your entire machine to gat over the 48Meg limit because they don't make mamory that old any more. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Please advise me...

2004-06-13 Thread Hendrik Boom
es that come up with things like bulleted lists, outlines, and > footnotes. I use abiword. I don't use these things. I find the user-interface too clumsy. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: i810 watchdog troubles (solved, but...)

2004-06-14 Thread Hendrik Fuss
ondition, and make sure NOTHING is > holding /dev/watchdog open... I already did. lsof /dev/watchdog yielded nothing. I think I'm going to file a bug. cheers, Hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ccing

2004-06-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 07:13:41PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > A little pricier if you have to replace your entire machine to gat over > > the 48Meg limit because they don't make mamory that old any more. > > Hrmmm, how old would that be? Jus

Re: trouble adding window manager to GDM

2004-06-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
'm using the version of gdm that comes with woody. Does it work the same? And where should I look to find this documented? I haven't been able to find it. -- hendrik > > [Desktop Entry] > Name=Xfce4 > Comment=Xfce4 > Exec=/usr/bin/xfce4-session > # no icon yet, only the

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

2004-06-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
ver got the chance. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
etc) CPUs at least have a htl() > instruction. I run a dual-boot Debian/Windows ME system. It overheats when running Windows, but not when running Debian. Ny tech told me that's because Windows ME idles in a wait loop, but Linux uses a halt instruction. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Install won't recognise second CD

2004-06-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
RT wrong FM, who knows. I once had a problem like this -- it turned out the drive was defective and was not noticing a CD change. Presumably it was just reporting what it had from cache... Or maybe it was just reporting that there was no CD present. It was a long time ago and I can't

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