Re: hello?
> Does this list work? I receive it via news and now through email, but it seems spotty. Messages are missing, including my own request for help with Abiword. > > Just a simple ACK would be appreciated, thanks. Hi Jim, Just a note that this message of yours got through. Also, your query regarding abiword made it through to me as well. I'm having the *precise* same issue, so I too am watching what turns up. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
making an emergency rescue floppy
Hello list, I'm trying to make an emergency rescue floppy that will be capable of booting my system in the event something happens when booting from the MBR. The idea is to get the same floppy that the installer asks if you want to create during the installation, as an alternate way of booting into Debian. My searches turned up the boot-floppies package, but trying to apt-get it turned up the following error: Package boot-floppies has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list E: Package boot-floppies has no installation candidate I've also gotten a recommendation to use mindi, but I wasn't sure if this was the best package to use. I don't need to create a special floppy, just one that'll boot my system the same as if it were booting from the hard drive. Is there a replacement for boot-floppies that I should be using? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: network configuration problem
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 02:49, Lars Jensen wrote: > Also, how do I change my host name. I believe hostname is stored /etc/hostname -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with installation media
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 10:06:42AM -0500, Robert Ames wrote: > Hello, > I downloaded the stable release of Debian (Woody) via jigdo. I downloaded all 7 iso >images. Each time, it reported that the checksums were correct. > > When I went to install, I got the message from CD 1 that the file >/instmnt/pool/main/m/modconf/modconf_0.2.43_all.deb was corrupt. In case the download >had an issue, I re-downloaded the iso image and re-burned it. I got the same message. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Robert Ames It's a long shot, but did you happen to download from the same mirror both times? You asked for *any* ideas :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wish us all luck...
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 06:02:23AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > XFree86 4.2 has moved to testing - should be okay, but this is where we > find out... Well, I upgraded last night, and things seemed fine, but I just came back to my computer to find it with a blank screen, and locked up hard. I had to do a hard reboot. I don't see any errors in .xsession-errors or in /var/log/XFree86.0.log though, so I'm not sure how to know whether or not it was a result of the upgrade. *shrug* Other than that, the upgrade went fine for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Looking to switch to debian...
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:59:02PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: > Big question here--NVidia drivers. Does Debian handle them well? I've installed them several times now, and have yet to run into any problems. Debian has nvidia package as well to track them, as mentioned. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xauth or xhost no longer required?
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:48:13AM -0800, Roy Pluschke wrote: > P.S. Oops!! I must apologize to Karl I hit the "Reply" button instead of > the "Reply to list" button and by accident sent my reply to him personally. Do they have two buttons for these functions in Sylpheed now? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to make a boot disk??
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 05:52:39PM -0800, damar thapa wrote: > Hi, > > I am now trying to recompile kernel for the first time > in Debian. I do not have a floppy to boot the system > in case the kernel panics. How can I do that in > Debian? > > Looking at /etc/lilo.conf, it seems that I have to do, > "dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192". But it asks for > root disk, please advise. > > Damar > > Note: I sent this message yesterday, though I > actually had not subscribed the list. Since I have no > clue whether that went through or not, I am sending > this again. My apology, if the list is going to get > the same message twice. Your message did indeed go through. You can read the replies to your query in the archive at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200211/msg05797.html HTH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Testing has broken my fonts today
On 18 Sep 2002 10:05:09 -0500 DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, this bug explains the problem in more detail: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=160902&repeatmerged=yes Thanks so much for linking to this. I got panicky when none of my programs were working, and I couldn't mail debian-user because Sylpheed is a GTK app! Mozilla functioned fine though, so I could read the list. The tip offered in that bugreport did the trick for me: "Changing the /usr/sbin/update-ms-fonts script to the previous behavior by uncommenting the creation of the symlinks and commenting the deletion of the symlinks returns the system to a working state regarding these fonts." I made these changes, and ran update-ms-fonts again, and everything works now! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Testing has broken my fonts today
Oops, I realize I forgot to mention that I didn't have defoma installed, so I used apt-get to install this, as well as x-ttcidfont-conf. I also added /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType and /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID to my FontPath as mentioned by x-ttcidfont-conf as well as by Alan's message. I did all this before changing and rerunning the update-ms-fonts scripts, after which everything worked again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Testing has broken my fonts today
On 18 Sep 2002 13:51:56 -0400 "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should not need to do both. > > Defoma font management is a _replacement_ for the part of the > update-ms-fonts script that was commented out; that's why it was > commented out. Right, I understand that this is what is supposed to happen. > The "Right Way" is to not uncomment stuff from the update-ms-fonts > script, but rather to allow Defoma to manage the fonts correctly. If, > for some reason, this doesn't work automatically then you need to > report a bug on this. There already is a bug on this (I think). http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=160902&repeatmerged=yes According to the bugreport: "Defoma does not create symlinks as the previous msttcorefonts package did." and "Changing the /usr/sbin/update-ms-fonts script to the previous behavior by uncommenting the creation of the symlinks and commenting the deletion of the symlinks returns the system to a working state regarding these fonts." Simply installing Defoma and x-ttcidfont-conf.d (also adding relevent FontPath entries in XF86Config-4) did not get things working. Only after I proceeded to modify the script did things work again. I guess it's just a bug. I do appreciate that you've pointed out the *Right Way*, as it's clarified my undestanding of the situation. I'm not exactly a guru :) > Strange that you didn't have defoma installed, though, because the > msttcorefonts package Depends on defoma... how could you install > msttcorefonts without it? I had an older version of msttcorefonts installed. I gather that the defoma dependency is a new one? Though perhaps I'm wrong about this. At any rate, defoma was not installed on my system. I ended up doing an apt-get remove --purge msttcorefonts, and then apt-get install msttcorefonts to make sure that nothing was left over from the old installation. I have no idea if this was necessary or not, but I didn't think this could hurt. I think defoma was installed at the time of my fresh installation as of this morning. From other posts, it appears that msttcorefonts doesn't currently depend upon x-ttcidfont-conf.d; is this indeed the case? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mass installation on XBox
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:20:37 -0700 "deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Total curiosity here but why on Earth would you purchase 100 Xboxes to > run Linux? Weren't you complaining in the "Problem with Debian" > thread about giving money to Microsoft? > > Just curious. Since Microsoft loses money on each Xbox purchase (the idea being they'll start making a profit when the user purchases something like 3 games), in a way, this is taking money from Microsoft. I believe they're releasing new XBoxes to try and prevent people from using them for purposes other than MS intended. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: mass installation on XBox
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:22:51 -0400 Oleg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I refuse to believe this nonsense. What university is this, and what > public grant will pay for the illegal use of hardware? Even from a > purely practical point of view, XBox will not pay for itself as a > cluster component. > > Oleg How is it illegal to use hardware that he legally owns? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
