Changing the appearance of XDM
Hi, How can I change the appearance of the XDM login screen? I am thinking about changing the background and the font types. /Christian
Proper way to call window manager
What is the proper way to call the window manager? Currently, I call wmaker from ~./Xsession (or something). Does Debian have a policy on this? Something with /etc/alternatives? /Christian
Fancy features of Storm Linux
I recently visited Storm Linux's (Debian in disguise) homepage and found some fancy (not nessecarily usable) features like graphical bootloader and (framebuffered?) svga console and boot sequence. See for example http://www.stormix.com/products/screenshots/index_html?query_start=5 ...which has a nice screenshot of the graphical bootloader. Does anybody know how these nifty things are accomplished? Are the tools available to Debian users as .deb's? Does anyone intend to pack such thing, e.g. the graphical bootloader with a Debian logo? I think this would be a nice option. What do you think? /Christian
Merging a set of CD's to a local depository
DEAR DEBIAN USERS, I have multicd set containing an unofficial release of Debian Potato made a few days ago following the instructions and tools suplied with Debian. Now I would like to make a local depository on my hardrive using the packages on the CDs. I am thinking about just copying each of the CDs to directories on the HD and adding these to /etc/apt/sources.list, but I am sure there are better ways to do this. Anyone? /Christian
Re: redirecting 101
Hi. I can't work out how to do this. All the instructions I can find tell me to use ipfwadm, but Debian doesn't seem to offer it (not listed in debian packages, for example). ipfwadm is a part of the netbase package. I believe you can get a basic IP-masquerading setup up and running following the instructions in the Debian FAQ-O-MATIC: IP Masquerading / Firewall setup (resides on http://www.debian.org/fom/186.html as I am writing this). Also, having installed netbase try the manpage for ipfwadm. /Christian
Reconfiguring dpkg's options
Hi. When I installed Debian/Potato I was asked how critical configuration options had to be before thay were presented to me (low/medium/high). Now I would like to change my choice. How can I do this? Also, how can I change the look of package configuration? I would like to use the menu interface enstead of the text interface. /Christian
Re: Reconfiguring dpkg´s options
Hi, dpkg-reconfigure debconf it will ask you all the questions you want :) I tried that, and it just returns my prompt. If this is because the configuration options for debconf is not critical enough for me to see them - this is quite a funny situation. There must be some way to override this. Can anyone clue me in? /Christian
Re: Reconfiguring dpkg´s options
Sorry folks! I tried man dpkg-reconfigure and found that dpkg-reconfigure --priority=medium debconf does the trick. /Christian Christian Rishøj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, dpkg-reconfigure debconf it will ask you all the questions you want :) I tried that, and it just returns my prompt. If this is because the configuration options for debconf is not critical enough for me to see them - this is quite a funny situation. There must be some way to override this. Can anyone clue me in? /Christian -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Boot up graphics screen corruption
Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Storm has a graphical boot up which uses the frame-buffer options compiled into the kernel to display a nice graphic around a central text area which shows the boot-up messages - a nice compromise I think between no messages and a full-blown text-mode boot-up. I am afraid I can´t help you with this, I was just courious if anybody knows an easy way to set up console graphics as mentioned in this message in Debian/Potato - perhaps there´s a .deb that does the job? /Christian
Re: xstart or startx?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I'm new to LINUX. So for I have one question. How do I install X? Assuming you are using Debian and have access to an archive with software (a set of CD's or an ftp connection to a server) it should be fairly easy to get X up and running. First of all you got to be root (su and enter password). Then you want to install the task-x-window-system pseudo package which installs a set of packages essential to X. So apt-get install task-x-window-system-core ...or use dselect (select, find the package with /, type + to mark it for install, enter to proceed). During the install you will probably be prompted to configure your X-server (which handles making X show on your screen). For an easier to use configuration tool you could try XF86Setup, which can be installed as mentioned above as well. Once X is up and running you would like a window manager. I suggest WindowMaker (issue this command to install it : apt-get install wmaker). Good luck! /Christian
Re: Lilo hdb
Subject: Re: Lilo hdb Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:27:50 -1000 (HST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Alec, thanks for the info. I was useful as Win2k does have boot loader similar to NT4's. I could just make hda1 the partition with Win2k by physically swapping the drives and then use the boot loader from Win2k (given the necessary tweaks). That solutions is however more work than I'm willing to do to play with Microsoft's latest bloatware ... I mean OS, whoops. Does anyone know a way I can boot Win2k from hdb1 using LILO? Hi, perhaps this can help you. I am putting these lines in my lilo.conf to be able to boot Win95 from hdb1: other=/dev/hdb1 label=dos table=/dev/hdb map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 The trick is to make Win95 think that it is actually booting from hda :D - Christian
