[techtalk] apt-got xfree 4.0.1

2000-11-08 Thread Sunnanvind Briling
Well, I heard that Xfree 4.0.1 was coming in to debian-unstable, and that it was foolish to upgrade. I am that fool. :) Now, X doesn't start, what are the steps to get it running? Sunnan (I have a notebook screen and I read somewhere that Xfree 4 would not flicker as the old one does when combin

Re: [techtalk] Lilo (or is it mbr?) woes

2000-11-08 Thread Sunnanvind Briling
Laurel wrote: Yeah, the mbr manpage is sort of confusing, since it has about 50 options that you probably don't care about. Try install-mbr /dev/hda which should just install the debian mbr on /dev/hda, and then run lilo with the boot and root as the partition. I did this, but n

Re: [techtalk] apt-got xfree 4.0.1

2000-11-08 Thread Kath
Not sure about this, but try going to a console (Cntrl Alt F2), dpkg --purge the offending 4.0.1 packages, and switch back to stable and apt-get the 3.3.6 ones. But PLEASE get someone elses ok on this, I don't want to bork your system with my ramblings. - Kath - Original Message - From

Re: [techtalk] apt-got xfree 4.0.1

2000-11-08 Thread Aaron Malone
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:43:59PM +0100, Sunnanvind Briling wrote: > Well, I heard that Xfree 4.0.1 was coming in to debian-unstable, and > that it was foolish to upgrade. > I am that fool. :) > Now, X doesn't start, what are the steps to get it running? Well, it'd be nice to have some more inf

Re: [techtalk] apt-got xfree 4.0.1

2000-11-08 Thread Sunnanvind Briling
Aaron wrote: Well, it'd be nice to have some more information -- what exactly were the steps you took in upgrading, what does X say when it refuses to start, etc. I was already running unstable, I was just doing my regular: apt-get update apt-get upgrade But anyway, here's my experie

Re: [techtalk] creating filesystems - using dd

2000-11-08 Thread J. Domboski
You can dd the image directly to the physical device using the following command: dd if=/home/'image' of=/dev/hdb As Jason stated previously, this is a bit copy procedure. So, if your image file is a good dd'd image of a Solaris (ufs) partition, then the same filesystem (ufs) will be laid do