hello friends,
i am trying to get a debian system on an old laptop i have copped from a
friend; it is rather old, but i couldn't give up the chance to install linux
on something else.
the system is a compaq contura 430cx, it has a floppy drive ONLY. no cd-rom,
no network (it had a pcmcia modem th
> Don't know about winXP though - that might go different.
Maybe I will rock it win2k style all...
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> That should all be fine, as long as XP doesn't get upset about the
> changed order of the disks.
Do you have experience in that it will? Or is this a more or less,
"beware this might happen".
In other words, have you seen it happen? Are there steps I can take to
avoid it?
Making sure if I s
> Welcome ;-)
Thank you.
> We do not have a security company protecting us. As a few people have
> pointed out already, this is probably a case of a virus being sent
> with a faked From header, and over-zealous anti-virus software.
The question about the security company was a "what-if", I did
> ..something on the matter: ;-)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ jwhois winram.com
> [Querying whois.internic.net]
> [Redirected to whois.dotster.com]
> [Querying whois.dotster.com]
> [whois.dotster.com]
>
> The data contained in the WHOIS database, while
> believed by the company to be reliable, is pro
In the middle of installing the packages ("Unpacking...") it asked me to
insert the next CD:
Media Change: Please insert disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0
_Woody_Official i386 Binary-2 (20020718)' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press
enter
I cannot eject the CD. I have an HP Pavilion 6545C with a
Installed kernel-image-2.4.21-1-686. Updated lilo.conf to use this as
default. Ran lilo. Now all I get when I reboot is "LIL" and it then
hangs.
What's the next step.. no boot floppy for this machine :-(
This is an uptodate "unstable" installation.
Regards,
Gr
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> OK, I'm confused.
>
> I have a javaplugin_oji.so in whatever directory I'm supposed to have it in
> according to the mozilla dev website.
>
> Nothing works. I get that stupid busted puzzle piece.
Have a read of
http://togaware.co
Received Wed 13 Nov 2002 3:53am +1100 from Mike Dresser:
> On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Graham Williams wrote:
> >
> > I'm at this moment in the throws of installing Debain 3.0 on an ASUS
> > P4B533-VM based machine.
> > ...
> I've got ... 4 of these boards i
Received Sun 10 Nov 2002 10:53am +1100 from Graham Williams:
> Received Sun 10 Nov 2002 8:08am +1100 from Bill Moseley:
>
> > At 07:22 AM 11/10/02 +1100, Graham Williams wrote:
> > > ... Debain 3.0 on an ASUS P4B533 based machine. ...
>
> > > ... Debian GNU/Linu
Received Sun 10 Nov 2002 8:08am +1100 from Bill Moseley:
> At 07:22 AM 11/10/02 +1100, Graham Williams wrote:
> > ... Debain 3.0 on an ASUS P4B533 based machine. ...
> > ... Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 installed just fine (booted with bf24 to
> > use the 2.4.18 kernel) but the on
Received Sun 10 Nov 2002 3:53am +1100 from Bill Moseley:
> Does anyone have experience installing Debian on a ASUS P4B533 based system
> that can offer any comments? I'm not finding much on-line discussion of
> this motherboard.
Hi Bill,
I'm at this moment in the throws of installing Debain 3.
rive any more. It simply kernel panics
and stops. Can still boot into the older 2.4.18 kernel (which doesn't
recognise the CMD680 IDE card)
Any ideas on what I can do here to get out of this pickle?
Thanks,
Graham
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That is the problem, I configure the mime type to use helper zless or
gunzip etc but it is not working.
AG
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> I am having trouble viewing gzipped files - typically those in
> /usr/share/doc
Greetings, hopefully a quick & easy one.
I am having trouble viewing gzipped files - typically those in
/usr/share/doc
(MIME type application/gzip files)
through either galeon or nautilus.
Any hints on the correct setup would be appreciated.
I have not found any answers looking through the archi
On Saturday 01 June 2002 5:25 am, Simon Read wrote:
> I'm considering building an Athlon XP 2100+ based system. I'd like to
> build it with a 333 MHz Front Side Bus. I'm considering KT333 based
> motherboards from various manufacturers. I'm especially enamoured
> with the EPoX 8K3A+. Does
Received Sat 01 Jun 2002 10:16am +1000 from Joey Hess:
> Graham Williams wrote:
> > I've got myself stuck somehow with upgrading some packages (am current
> > with "unstable"). After a recent apt-get dist-upgrade I now have:
> >
> > debconf: DbDriver
onf is not configured yet.
Any ideas what I've done to get myself into such a pickle? And how to
get out of it.
Regards,
Graham
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What are my options?
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apt-get install ipmasq
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On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 21:41, Richard Beri wrote:
> I would like to set up simple IP Masquerading on my machine for another
> machine on my network to connect to the internet via cable modem. In the
> past I used a nifty firewall/masquerade s
After an old SCSI CD-ROM dyin' I've replaced it with an IDE, temorarly, and
am usin' SCSI emulation on the drive, basicaly so everything is still the
same, but I've noticed when rippin CD's I get the followin' error.. I've not
seen this before is this just to do with the SCSI emulation or is it
n' Seagate
Barra' IV's, for the low noise. I have, however, moded the case to have a fan
blowin' air over the HD & replaced th PSU fan (for a, compared to the fan
that I removed, 'high ouput' Papst 612 M). This has brought the suface temp
of the segate down from 45~47°C to 34~36°C.
Graham
hey, I am wonder how can I share my cable connection
to two PCs using debian ?
ipmasq using fix LAN ip, which is I do not like.
is it possible to use DHCP server to share cable
connection to LAN ?
Thanks
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set up would be failing. A
scanbus does not find the ide-scsi CD-RW.
Thanks
Graham
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Debian GNU/Linux Guide at http://edm.act.cmis.csiro.au/debian/book/
==
could trivially write a wrapper
script to do so. As a result, when the C compiler processes a C++
source file, it doesn't know to link in the C++ library.
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#x27;s all working right. After it's all working,
uncomment (remove the '#' from) the line we added to /etc/modules. This
will cause the usb modules to autoload at any reboot.
3) Please take a look at http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide for
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th a USB
keyboard last month. The one thing I noticed with the USB keyboard
prior to using the USB modules for it was that the key repeat rate was
too high.
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On Saturday 02 February 2002 11:01 pm, Petre Daniel wrote:
> i got 2.2r4 and it says something but the package that is obsoleted when i
> try to apt-get install mpg123..
> what's happening? :)))
I know what you're talkin' about, I got it to from a 2.2r3 CD turned out that
mpg123 is only on the CD
versions you don't want. As I
understand it, the apt-howto package now only contains dependancies for
all language variants as opposed to the howto itself. Keeping (as an
example) apt-howto-en would thus keep the actual howto available and
upgradeable.
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e the root
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Received Thu 24 Jan 2002 3:18pm +1100 from Brian P. Flaherty:
> I would check the catalouge on-line at www.ctan.org, under 'Graham
> Williams's catalogue.' I would assume a package installed version
> could get old pretty quickly. But, obviously it is better than
>
oesn't provide...
>
> 1. http://www.ctan.org/
The geometry package is often the right way to go. Also, have a look
at
/usr/share/doc/texmf/help/Catalogue/catalogue.html
for a list of many LaTeX packages.
Regards,
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you have package B as well, or they
require package B in order to install package A. The former is rather
unhelpful to people new to the package, while the latter is hard on
minimalist systems.
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splitting vim into vim-{common,minimal,enhanced} in which -minimal
closely emulates vi (and is named such) and resides in /bin and
-enhanced uses all the bells and whistles. I agree that vi should be
vi-like without unexpected vim-like behaviors.
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that the client connection was refused. We need the errors before this
in the XFree86 log that actually state why the server died.
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-8859-1 generate the GTK warning (I don't
remember if en_US.UTF-8 generated it as well, and I don't have X on this
box).
Also, sorting is less than intuitive for C locale (pure ASCII order as
opposed to alphabetical)
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Okay I did a dist-upgrade to the latest SID on 5/01/2002, replaced the new
bin-utils that caused the kernel not to compile but now I can't build
netfiler, I try any kernel and any version I get the following (or something
very simlar to). This is from a clean 2.4.13 source & then patched with a
On Monday 07 January 2002 1:54 am, Dries Kimpe wrote:
> on the original and copy. While I was doing that, load also got up to 3-4.
> Looking at top, I saw that some kernel daemon (think kupdated) got *AlOT*
> of CPU. The system also started responding slow (missing eth0 traffic,
> ...)
>
> Maybe it
On Sunday 06 January 2002 3:52 pm, martin f krafft wrote:
> folks, sorry if i am posting this here, but i am sort of clueless, and
> i'd love some advise from you wise people!
>
> i have this AMD Thunderbird 1.3 GHz machine with 512Mb of SD-RAM, a 1Gb
> swap partition on a 20Gb 5400 seagate IDE dri
On Monday 31 December 2001 2:10 am, dman wrote:
> http://cdimage.debian.org/rsync-mirrors.html
I would use that page but I've yet to get a page from that server :( I can
ping it but I never get a page *sigh*. I thought it was a Freeserve problem
but it also happens on other ISP's :(... The only
okay, I'm wanting to use xlockmore to secure my machine localy.. but I
can't.. cause of that damn public logout box.. I've read the man & info pages
but I see no refrence about how to disable the damn thing. The other thing is
I also want to provent people switching to (unused)terminals I can se
The Largedisk-HOWTO is a little unclear about this, but I take it that Linux
couldn't give a monkys about the disk size specifed in the BIOS and will
address the full size of the disk (as long as it's below 127Gb). Is that
right?
Ani
is takes a minute or more per
dot!
Eventually VFS Kernel Panic. Cant mount root fs. There's also a
message about block-major-8.
Thanks,
Graham
et this driver somehow on the boot
floppy so I can reboot the machine?
Thanks,
Graham
'hdb3' or
03:43'.
However, I can still boot from my old boot floppy using hdb3.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Graham
many mounted file systems
and yet other "identical" mounts work just fine..
Any ideas?
Regards,
Graham
.
(NFS is now not working - remote hosts can not access this host.)
Any ideas?
Regards,
Graham
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everything quietly.
-t|--teaching Trace the sequence of commands performed.
-v|--verbose=n Increase (or set) the level of verbosity (to n).
Run `wajig -vv help' for documentation.
Regards,
Graham Williams
y guidance.
Cheers,
Graham
> Received Fri 20 Jul 2001 10:35pm +1000 from Colin Watson:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >I now use Graham Williams wajig shell script as a front end to apt,
> > >mostly because of the extra facilities it provides an easy interface
> > >to.
> >
5pm +1000 from Colin Watson:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >I now use Graham Williams wajig shell script as a front end to apt,
> >mostly because of the extra facilities it provides an easy interface
> >to.
> > ...
> >e2fsprogs 1.18-3 1.18
don't even seem to get to "forwarding to localhost". If I tell
fetchmail to use mda procmail (on this otherwise failing machine) it
does get the message from the POP server?
ii exim 3.22-4 Exim Mailer
ii fetchmail 5.8.6-1POP3, APOP, IMAP mail
gatherer/forwarder
Thanks,
Graham
ailable packages list and the actual
packages appearing.
Regards,
Graham
-3
eperl 2.2.14-3 2.2.14-0.6
[...]
Regards,
Graham
Thanks for all the comments I've received re my "wajig" script.
I've put the current version at http://velox.act.cmis.csiro.au/~gjw/wajig
This is a script that simply collects together some typical package
management operations into one place.
A sample iteration for me is:
# wajig update
egister service: RPC: Unable to send; errno = No buffer space available
Any ideas what might be going on or where to start investigating?
(I've had the "No buffer space available" problem in other places
also?)
Regards,
Graham
gi-bin/search_contents.pl\?word=libXt.so.6\&case=insensitive\&version=unstable\&arch=i386\&directories=yes
Regards,
Graham
ging together texpower, hyperref, ifmslides, in a
simple to use and familiar (LaTeX) environment and provides
plug-n-play glitz just like powerpoint, all presented using PDF.
http://prosper.sourceforge.net/
Regards,
Graham
it of a hack, and many things could surely be
# done better. I find it useful and in case others do I release it.
#
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# Currently it only runs as root which needs to be rectified.
# Perhaps using fakeroot or sudo when (and only when) it is req
ks in advance,
Graham
ncluded example adduser.local script from John Zaitseff.
Closes: #94245
Pointers to where such information lives might be useful if such a
tool does not exist but could be written.
Regards,
Graham Williams
n/debtopics.pdf
http://edm.act.cmis.csiro.au/debian/debinstall.
Regards,
Graham Williams
Using cdrecord 1.10a18-2 on an up to date Debian unstable installation
with kernel 2.2.18 (self compiled) trying to write to CD writer:
cdrecord: Invalid argument. Cannot get mmap for 4198400 Bytes on
/dev/zero
Any ideas what the problem is and a solution?
Many Thanks,
Graham
tion is for the user to remove /tmp/languages each time
they exit, although this does not help multiple concurrent Gnome
sessions.
Any ideas if there is something in my set up that causes this?
Seems like older versions of gnome-panel do not have anything to do
with /tmp/languages?
Cheers,
Graham
rom ppp it
takes down the local network (on eth0). How do I stop this happening?
Thanks, in advance, for any help.
Cheers,
Graham
rily looses the signal, then the new screen
comes to life! This seems to normal behaviour.
On the GeForce machine I only run a single X server and have not seen
this problem, although exiting from the evas_test program from the
evas-demo package crashed the X server.
Cheers,
Graham
xdm is the X desktop manager. It is used if you want to login from X
directly on start-up. This is not needed; you can start the machine, log in
to a console, then run startx to get X going.
xfs is the X Font Server; it is a way of providing fonts to X applications.
You can however have X configur
idly swapped between displays, I've run out of
ideas.
Cheers,
Graham
oblem was:
xmodmap -e 'keycode 22 = BackSpace'
Cheers,
Graham
o my X installation at all.
But you upgraded your box, right?
> Anybody know what's wrong? I have no idea where the server socket directory
> is.
Set the group ownership of /tmp/.X11-unix to root. Worked for me...
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sh theme and the seaGTK gtk theme, but a
little experimenting isn't conclusive about whether it is the themes
that aftects this?
I do not (yet) see this behaviour on other accounts.
Is this something controlled by the themes, and any ideas where I look
to "fix" this.
Many thanks,
Graham
My system also started life as slink, and has been potato for the past
few weeks. When I tried Helix Gnome I also got some error like yours
about a package (as I recall it was some library rather than grip). I
simply changed potato to woody in my sources.list (thought I would
take the leap) and thi
Thanks anyway but I eventually got it to work, seems that the howto is not
correct and some other packages need to be install for the `new options to
work correctly.
Thanks for you help anyway.
Rgards
Graham
On Tue, 2 May 2000 03:18:24 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, May 02, 2000 at
Hi,
I have followed the howto on securing debian but I can not change
my password i keep getting the message
passwd: Module is unknown
Does anyone know what the problem is, I think it may be a pam problem but
I'm not sure, any ideas?
Regards
G
tage.
I've seen the question/answer in the exim FAQ[1], but haven't the first idea
about what ought to go in the script it mentions.
Thanks.
[1] http://www.exim.org/FAQ.html#SEC182
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Does anyone know what is going on and how to get it working? I have run
eximconfig again and i select option 1 (internet mail) but that still doesn't
work!
Regards
Graham
her 4 !)
Have used the same disks to install successfully on both Dell Dimension 466i
(similar bios) and Dell NetPlex 450DX
Graham Woodruff
libesd0 0.2.15-12 and removes libesd-alsa0.
Have I misunderstood dpkg/apt-get or is there something wrong here?
How do I replace a library like this in-place?
Cheers,
Graham
to remove the PCMCIA module(s) but there still
seems to be some residue ?
Graham Woodruff
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e setserial commands to have an effect
(i.e., to get "pon" working again).
I'm getting by, but I'd sure like to understand what's going on, and
fix it?
Cheers,
Graham
>>>>> Dan Christensen wrote to Graham Williams on 30 Nov 1999 02:57:31 +1100:
D
Hi,
I have just upgraded my slink dist to use the latest gnome and enlightenment
releases but I have noticed that gnome-terminal now take at least 2 to 3 time
longer to start up, that is did before. Does anyone know why thats is?
Regards
Graham
Hi,
Can anyone tell me how I can get apt-get to go through a proxy.
Regards
Graham
I need to downgrade libpng2 from the current 1.0.5 in potato to the
older 1.0.3 (which I believe will fix a problem with pdflatex in
tetex-bin - Debian bug #49834).
Where do I find old version of deb packages?
Cheers,
Graham
>>>>> John Carline wrote to Graham Williams on 29 Nov 1999 17:02:13 +1100:
John> Hi folks,
John> Every time this has happened to me, it was either a bad
John> floppy or a bad floppy drive. On one occasion, the
John> connector to the drive became
to see if I were to grab the kernel/pcmcia
sources from slink whether it makes any difference.
I trust someone can shed some light on this?
Cheers,
Graham
BX: 7000
CX: 5001
DX:
I'd also welcome any suggestions as to what the problem is?
Cheers,
Graham
>>>>> Bart Szyszka wrote to on 28 Nov 1999 12:32:20 +1100:
Bart> Hi, I'm trying to upgrade my kernel and have downloaded some
Bart> of the kern
Thanks for the reply John. Below are details from my log files.
pointers to what I should be reading or exploring further are most
welcome.
>>>>> Graham Williams wrote to debian-user on 22 Nov 1999 08:02:22 +1100:
Graham> I just used "apt-get dist-upgrade" to mov
ation stored anywhere, so I might check for
other messages that I missed along the way (the apt-get download took
some 24 hours over the modem!).
Many thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Graham
ime.
Thanks for the info...
Copied to debian-user in the hope that it'll accept my post...
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nd perhaps I need to install
ALSA? Is that the only answer?
Cheers,
Graham
airly descriptive.
In case anyone is interested in it
http://www.dit.csiro.au/~gjw/linux/dlcpid300xt.html
Warning: I've been a silent user of Debian for many years but would
not claim to be a Debian expert
Of course, updates are welcome!
Cheers,
Graham
7;ve just messed it up, shouldn't the postinst script handle this?)
Or should I file this as a bug against the package?
Ali Graham.
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Hi,
I noticed this to when I have built new kernels, I didn't manage to fix it but
I had to run 'make-kpkg clean' first before it would do it. Hope this helps.
Graham
>Hello
>
>Why is that when I build a new kernel via make-kpkg, it doesn't make a
How easy would it be to upgrade from Debian 2.1 to 2.2? Are the packages all
relatively stable?
Regards
Graham
ne in Windows 95, just not linux.
Regards
Graham
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