Re: Installing debian from redhat

2002-04-15 Thread Neil L. Roeth
On Apr 11, Tollef Fog Heen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Wilmer van der Gaast | Neil L. [EMAIL PROTECTED]@Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:23:56 -0500 (EST): | [base2_2.tgz] The 2_2 refers to version 2.2, i.e., potato. If you | want to upgrade to woody, then you can modify

RE: Unsubscribe

2002-04-15 Thread Dupont, Michael
Title: RE: Unsubscribe Yeah, I like the list, but can just google it when needed. Can you please help me unsubscribe, it is not working! -Original Message- From: Tim Connors [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 3:32 AM To: Josh Knarr Cc: 'debian-laptop' Subject:

Re: debian for a train hopper

2002-04-15 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 02:44:55PM -0700, David D.W. Downey wrote: (This was originally screwed up due to forgetting the s in lists so it's a repaste and post) This is in regards to Mr. Coker's Dell comments Actually I don't know what you guys are talking about. I am fiercely loyal

Re: Unsubscribe

2002-04-15 Thread Wilmer van der Gaast
Dupont, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:31:16 +0100: Yeah, I like the list, but can just google it when needed. Can you please help me unsubscribe, it is not working! To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: irda in tecra 8200

2002-04-15 Thread Norman Walsh
/ A. Demarteau (linux rules!) [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | has anyone got the irda-port on a Toshiba tecra 8200 working? | I'm using debian unstable and the kernerlsources of kernel 2.4.18 | any hints/help are very welcome. I don't think Toshiba has (yet) released the specs for the IrDA

where is http://www.webit.com/tw/linuxsis630.shtml !?

2002-04-15 Thread R.Stepanyan
Hi, everybody, Does anyone know where the site by Thomas Winischhofer is? It used to be at http://www.webit.com/tw/linuxsis630.shtml For the whole week (from the last Tuesday, I guess) I'm trying to access webit.com without any success. Is smth wrong on my side or webit.com is just down? If

Upgrade stops on pcmcia

2002-04-15 Thread Bob Koss
I haven't apt-gotten upgraded my IBM Thinkpad 770Z for a few months. The upgrade doesn't go past pcmcia-cs. Here is the error: Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/pcmcia-cs_3.1.31-7_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Re: XFree86 with Toshiba 1800-911

2002-04-15 Thread Luis Mendes
Hi, I think the Trident Cyberblade is not supported in Xfree86 4.1.0, so either you upgrade to 4.2 (but you seem to have problems with that) or you will have to use Xfree86 framebuffer support. For that you will need to recompile the kernel. Take a look at

Re: Upgrade stops on pcmcia

2002-04-15 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 10:52:36AM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: I haven't apt-gotten upgraded my IBM Thinkpad 770Z for a few months. The upgrade doesn't go past pcmcia-cs. Here is the error: Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/pcmcia-cs_3.1.31-7_i386.deb E:

Re: woody on Thinkpad T23

2002-04-15 Thread H.Heinold
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:06:25PM +0200, Vincent Poirriez wrote: Has any one had install with success a debian on a Thinkpad T23. I've still the following pb (I'm new in the debian world) 1) How to install tpctl, it seems to require some changes in /etc/modules.conf while it is written

XF86Config-4 needed for ThinkPad 560e

2002-04-15 Thread dennisk
I have two ThinkPad 560e laptops. One running Potato and WindowMaker very nicely (only Mozilla loads a little slowly) and I'm trying to get Woody and Gnome 1.4 running on the other, but have a corrupted desktop with bits and pieces floating all over. Obviously, X is not configured right. I've

Re: where is http://www.webit.com/tw/linuxsis630.shtml !?

2002-04-15 Thread gob
At 16:46 15/04/02 +0200, R.Stepanyan wrote: Hi, everybody, Does anyone know where the site by Thomas Winischhofer is? It used to be at http://www.webit.com/tw/linuxsis630.shtml http://www.winischhofer.net/ That man is my saviour! Does anyone care to enter into discussions about the

Re: Unsubscribe

2002-04-15 Thread Charles Bray
On Sun 14 Apr 2002 at 11:06, Josh Knarr wrote: I no longer wish to supscribe to this mailing list. I've mailed the admin on my particular issue and received no response. Please remove the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list. In my experience also, the Debian List unsubscribe

Re: Radeon Mobility LY supported by Debian?

2002-04-15 Thread Dutch
OK - Ive been struggling wiht gettin X to work on my new Dell Inspiron 4100 since January. It has the infamous ATI Radeon card. I read through linux on laptops, copied over different xconfig files and still nothing. Upgraded kernels, X, whatever it took or thought to try. Any

Re: Radeon Mobility LY supported by Debian?

2002-04-15 Thread Sylvain Sauvage
Mon, 15 Apr 2002 13:41:12 -0400, Dutch a écrit : OK - Ive been struggling wiht gettin X to work on my new Dell Inspiron 4100 since January. It has the infamous ATI Radeon card. I read through linux on laptops, copied over different xconfig files and still nothing. Upgraded kernels, X,

Fwd: Re: Unsubscribe

2002-04-15 Thread DTi4565459
---BeginMessage--- Dupont, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:31:16 +0100: Yeah, I like the list, but can just google it when needed. Can you please help me unsubscribe, it is not working! To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: where is http://www.webit.com/tw/linuxsis630.shtml !?

2002-04-15 Thread gob
At 19:25 15/04/02 +0200, Mark Janssen wrote: Does anyone care to enter into discussions about the Cleve/Kapok 2700 styles laptops? I am battling with a 'Rock' branded one as we speak. Fire away and check my site www.maniac.nl/linuxlaptop.html I have a clevo 2700c I'll start a

Re: Radeon Mobility LY supported by Debian?

2002-04-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 01:41:12PM -0400, Dutch wrote: I dont care about 3D or anything fancy. I just want to run windowmaker and use the bloody thing! If you don't care about 3D then you should be able to run it quite happily with the framebuffer device driver and standard Debian packages

Re: where is http://www.webit.com/tw/linuxsis630.shtml !?

2002-04-15 Thread Heather Stern
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 04:46:08PM +0200, R.Stepanyan wrote: Hi, everybody, Does anyone know where the site by Thomas Winischhofer is? It used to be at http://www.webit.com/tw/linuxsis630.shtml For the whole week (from the last Tuesday, I guess) I'm trying to access webit.com without any

Re: debian laptop for a train hopper

2002-04-15 Thread wandering jason
--- Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can afford a laptop but you can't afford a passenger train ticket? i can't really afford either, but, as i need a computer for my research and projects, i'll have to find a way to get one. train hopping is a very beautiful and empowering

Re: debian for a train hopper

2002-04-15 Thread wandering jason
thank you everyone for the advice. i'll have to do more research into the various models mentioned. sounds like if i'm buying a used system, a thinkpad may be the way to go. as far as new stuff, what do people think about the crusoe based systems? very low power consumption is something pretty

Re: Unsubscribe

2002-04-15 Thread Ivar Alm
At 19:31 2002-04-15, Charles Bray wrote: On Sun 14 Apr 2002 at 11:06, Josh Knarr wrote: I no longer wish to supscribe to this mailing list. I've mailed the admin on my particular issue and received no response. Please remove the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list. In my experience also,

Re: debian for a train hopper

2002-04-15 Thread Derek Gladding
If you're mainly interested in writing, battery life, email and portability, you might consider picking up a second-hand Psion 5 on ebay (though get a hard case for it if you're going to be knocking it around). The keyboard is the best of any PDA I've ever seen - you can actually touch-type on

Re: debian for a train hopper

2002-04-15 Thread Heather Stern
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 12:15:30PM -0700, wandering jason wrote: thank you everyone for the advice. i'll have to do more research into the various models mentioned. sounds like if i'm buying a used system, a thinkpad may be the way to go. as far as new stuff, what do people think about

Re: woody on Thinkpad T23

2002-04-15 Thread Hubert Chan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vincent == Vincent Poirriez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vincent Has any one had install with success a debian on a Thinkpad Vincent T23. I've still the following pb (I'm new in the debian world) I have an R30... [...] Vincent 3) Configure the

uninstall Debian

2002-04-15 Thread Nick
I need to uninstall Debian so I can reinstall from scratch, how can I uninstall everything. Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: uninstall Debian

2002-04-15 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobica
Just think you have a new harddisk. Ionel I need to uninstall Debian so I can reinstall from scratch, how can I uninstall everything. Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: uninstall Debian

2002-04-15 Thread Jonathan Crockett
Nick, The quickest, easiest, most complete way is to boot from a CD or floppy and follow the on screen instructions. This would be the way I would do it, especially if you don't need/want to save anything on the hard drive. HTH, jc On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 09:57:09PM +0100, Nick wrote: I need

Uninstall debian without removing windows partition

2002-04-15 Thread Nick
Formatting my entire hard disk is not an option right now because I have Windows on it. I just want to remove all of Debian so I can reinstall it. There must be a way to do that without uninstalling windows. Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: debian for a train hopper

2002-04-15 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
wandering jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: thank you everyone for the advice. i'll have to do more research into the various models mentioned. sounds like if i'm buying a used system, a thinkpad may be the way to go. Just some data here but I noticed when shopping around here in the

Re: XF86Config-4 needed for ThinkPad 560e

2002-04-15 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, On my 560E, I have lately been running RH 7.1, but use: Modeline 800x600 50 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync John _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. -- To

Re: Installing debian from redhat

2002-04-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Neil L. Roeth | On Apr 11, Tollef Fog Heen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | * Wilmer van der Gaast | | | Neil L. [EMAIL PROTECTED]@Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:23:56 -0500 (EST): | | [base2_2.tgz] The 2_2 refers to version 2.2, i.e., potato. If you | | want to upgrade to woody, then you

Linux-laptop.net (was RE: XF86Config-4 needed for ThinkPad 560e)

2002-04-15 Thread Crawford Rainwater
Try this site, http://www.linux-laptop.net/ There are four links for the IBM ThinkPad 560e listed. I am sure one has an XF86Config that can help as well, but I have not personally looked. Perhaps with some minor tweeking, but all in all, a good reference site. They have helped with my

XFree86 4.1.0-14 Problems / Compaq M700

2002-04-15 Thread mike
Debian potato with Ximian Gnome ran on my Compaq M700 laptop for over a year. What a beautiful system and laptop. I just loved it. I had to install XFree86 4.0.1 from the www.xfree86.org website originaly to get X windows to work. With a little tweaking it ran great for over a year. Now , like

gateway 2500 laptop sound question

2002-04-15 Thread Robert Hood, Ph.D.
Hi, I have a gateway 2500 laptop with NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV NMA2 sound. I've tried loading NeoMagic support in debian's installation, but it didn't recognize the sound. I would appreciate any suggestions. thanks, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian for a train hopper

2002-04-15 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 11:16, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: wandering jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: thank you everyone for the advice. i'll have to do more research into the various models mentioned. sounds like if i'm buying a used system, a thinkpad may be the way to go. Just some data

Re: uninstall Debian

2002-04-15 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 08:57, Nick wrote: I need to uninstall Debian so I can reinstall from scratch, how can I uninstall everything. I've _always_ wanted to say to someone to just: su rm -rf / And finally it is halfway reasonable advice! :-) Seriously, do an 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' and a 'df'

PCMCIA?

2002-04-15 Thread David Poisson
Howdy fellow Debianers, I've installed Debian (Woody) on my Dell Inspiron 4100 (very, very nice laptop too by the way, I'll put the specs below, but I have to admit I haven't had a single problem with it!) and I'm having a bit of problems getting a Cisco Aironet 352 wireless ethernet card

Re: Installing debian from redhat

2002-04-15 Thread Neil L. Roeth
On Apr 11, Tollef Fog Heen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Wilmer van der Gaast | Neil L. [EMAIL PROTECTED]@Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:23:56 -0500 (EST): | [base2_2.tgz] The 2_2 refers to version 2.2, i.e., potato. If you | want to upgrade to woody, then you can modify /etc/apt/sources.list

RE: Unsubscribe

2002-04-15 Thread Dupont, Michael
Title: RE: Unsubscribe Yeah, I like the list, but can just google it when needed. Can you please help me unsubscribe, it is not working! -Original Message- From: Tim Connors [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 3:32 AM To: Josh Knarr Cc: 'debian-laptop' Subject:

Re: debian for a train hopper

2002-04-15 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 02:44:55PM -0700, David D.W. Downey wrote: (This was originally screwed up due to forgetting the s in lists so it's a repaste and post) This is in regards to Mr. Coker's Dell comments Actually I don't know what you guys are talking about. I am fiercely loyal to

Re: Unsubscribe

2002-04-15 Thread Wilmer van der Gaast
Dupont, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:31:16 +0100: Yeah, I like the list, but can just google it when needed. Can you please help me unsubscribe, it is not working! To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] You

Re: irda in tecra 8200

2002-04-15 Thread Norman Walsh
/ A. Demarteau (linux rules!) [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | has anyone got the irda-port on a Toshiba tecra 8200 working? | I'm using debian unstable and the kernerlsources of kernel 2.4.18 | any hints/help are very welcome. I don't think Toshiba has (yet) released the specs for the IrDA

XFree86 with Toshiba 1800-911

2002-04-15 Thread Dominique Peyre
Hello, I try in English (!!!) - laptop Toshiba satellite 1800-911 - Card Trident VideoAccelerator Cyberblade XP Ai1 v6.4022-016B22ICDNP Memory 16 Mb - Mouse AlsPointing Device or extern (Logiteh 3 button) - Debian 2.2 (XFree86 release 3.3 included) - install XFree86 4.1.0 (-

where is http://www.webit.com/tw/linuxsis630.shtml !?

2002-04-15 Thread R.Stepanyan
Hi, everybody, Does anyone know where the site by Thomas Winischhofer is? It used to be at http://www.webit.com/tw/linuxsis630.shtml For the whole week (from the last Tuesday, I guess) I'm trying to access webit.com without any success. Is smth wrong on my side or webit.com is just down? If the

Upgrade stops on pcmcia

2002-04-15 Thread Bob Koss
I haven't apt-gotten upgraded my IBM Thinkpad 770Z for a few months. The upgrade doesn't go past pcmcia-cs. Here is the error: Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/pcmcia-cs_3.1.31-7_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

woody on Thinkpad T23

2002-04-15 Thread Vincent Poirriez
Has any one had install with success a debian on a Thinkpad T23. I've still the following pb (I'm new in the debian world) 1) How to install tpctl, it seems to require some changes in /etc/modules.conf while it is written in this module DO NOT EDIT. So How can I perform the changes? 2) How can

Re: XFree86 with Toshiba 1800-911

2002-04-15 Thread Luis Mendes
Hi, I think the Trident Cyberblade is not supported in Xfree86 4.1.0, so either you upgrade to 4.2 (but you seem to have problems with that) or you will have to use Xfree86 framebuffer support. For that you will need to recompile the kernel. Take a look at

Re: Upgrade stops on pcmcia

2002-04-15 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 10:52:36AM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: I haven't apt-gotten upgraded my IBM Thinkpad 770Z for a few months. The upgrade doesn't go past pcmcia-cs. Here is the error: Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/pcmcia-cs_3.1.31-7_i386.deb E:

Re: woody on Thinkpad T23

2002-04-15 Thread H.Heinold
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:06:25PM +0200, Vincent Poirriez wrote: Has any one had install with success a debian on a Thinkpad T23. I've still the following pb (I'm new in the debian world) 1) How to install tpctl, it seems to require some changes in /etc/modules.conf while it is written

XF86Config-4 needed for ThinkPad 560e

2002-04-15 Thread dennisk
I have two ThinkPad 560e laptops. One running Potato and WindowMaker very nicely (only Mozilla loads a little slowly) and I'm trying to get Woody and Gnome 1.4 running on the other, but have a corrupted desktop with bits and pieces floating all over. Obviously, X is not configured right. I've

Re: where is http://www.webit.com/tw/linuxsis630.shtml !?

2002-04-15 Thread gob
At 16:46 15/04/02 +0200, R.Stepanyan wrote: Hi, everybody, Does anyone know where the site by Thomas Winischhofer is? It used to be at http://www.webit.com/tw/linuxsis630.shtml http://www.winischhofer.net/ That man is my saviour! Does anyone care to enter into discussions about the

Re: Unsubscribe

2002-04-15 Thread Charles Bray
On Sun 14 Apr 2002 at 11:06, Josh Knarr wrote: I no longer wish to supscribe to this mailing list. I've mailed the admin on my particular issue and received no response. Please remove the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list. In my experience also, the Debian List unsubscribe

Re: Radeon Mobility LY supported by Debian?

2002-04-15 Thread Dutch
OK - Ive been struggling wiht gettin X to work on my new Dell Inspiron 4100 since January. It has the infamous ATI Radeon card. I read through linux on laptops, copied over different xconfig files and still nothing. Upgraded kernels, X, whatever it took or thought to try. Any ideas?

Re: Radeon Mobility LY supported by Debian?

2002-04-15 Thread Sylvain Sauvage
Mon, 15 Apr 2002 13:41:12 -0400, Dutch a écrit : OK - Ive been struggling wiht gettin X to work on my new Dell Inspiron 4100 since January. It has the infamous ATI Radeon card. I read through linux on laptops, copied over different xconfig files and still nothing. Upgraded kernels, X,

Fwd: Re: Unsubscribe

2002-04-15 Thread DTi4565459
---BeginMessage--- Dupont, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:31:16 +0100: Yeah, I like the list, but can just google it when needed. Can you please help me unsubscribe, it is not working! To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: where is http://www.webit.com/tw/linuxsis630.shtml !?

2002-04-15 Thread gob
At 19:25 15/04/02 +0200, Mark Janssen wrote: Does anyone care to enter into discussions about the Cleve/Kapok 2700 styles laptops? I am battling with a 'Rock' branded one as we speak. Fire away and check my site www.maniac.nl/linuxlaptop.html I have a clevo 2700c I'll start a

Re: Radeon Mobility LY supported by Debian?

2002-04-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 01:41:12PM -0400, Dutch wrote: I dont care about 3D or anything fancy. I just want to run windowmaker and use the bloody thing! If you don't care about 3D then you should be able to run it quite happily with the framebuffer device driver and standard Debian packages

Re: where is http://www.webit.com/tw/linuxsis630.shtml !?

2002-04-15 Thread Heather Stern
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 04:46:08PM +0200, R.Stepanyan wrote: Hi, everybody, Does anyone know where the site by Thomas Winischhofer is? It used to be at http://www.webit.com/tw/linuxsis630.shtml For the whole week (from the last Tuesday, I guess) I'm trying to access webit.com without any

Re: debian laptop for a train hopper

2002-04-15 Thread wandering jason
--- Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can afford a laptop but you can't afford a passenger train ticket? i can't really afford either, but, as i need a computer for my research and projects, i'll have to find a way to get one. train hopping is a very beautiful and empowering

Re: debian for a train hopper

2002-04-15 Thread wandering jason
thank you everyone for the advice. i'll have to do more research into the various models mentioned. sounds like if i'm buying a used system, a thinkpad may be the way to go. as far as new stuff, what do people think about the crusoe based systems? very low power consumption is something pretty

Re: Unsubscribe

2002-04-15 Thread Ivar Alm
At 19:31 2002-04-15, Charles Bray wrote: On Sun 14 Apr 2002 at 11:06, Josh Knarr wrote: I no longer wish to supscribe to this mailing list. I've mailed the admin on my particular issue and received no response. Please remove the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list. In my experience also,

Re: debian for a train hopper

2002-04-15 Thread Derek Gladding
If you're mainly interested in writing, battery life, email and portability, you might consider picking up a second-hand Psion 5 on ebay (though get a hard case for it if you're going to be knocking it around). The keyboard is the best of any PDA I've ever seen - you can actually touch-type on

Re: debian for a train hopper

2002-04-15 Thread Heather Stern
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 12:15:30PM -0700, wandering jason wrote: thank you everyone for the advice. i'll have to do more research into the various models mentioned. sounds like if i'm buying a used system, a thinkpad may be the way to go. as far as new stuff, what do people think about the

uninstall Debian

2002-04-15 Thread Nick
I need to uninstall Debian so I can reinstall from scratch, how can I uninstall everything. Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: uninstall Debian

2002-04-15 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobica
Just think you have a new harddisk. Ionel I need to uninstall Debian so I can reinstall from scratch, how can I uninstall everything. Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: uninstall Debian

2002-04-15 Thread Jonathan Crockett
Nick, The quickest, easiest, most complete way is to boot from a CD or floppy and follow the on screen instructions. This would be the way I would do it, especially if you don't need/want to save anything on the hard drive. HTH, jc On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 09:57:09PM +0100, Nick wrote: I need

Uninstall debian without removing windows partition

2002-04-15 Thread Nick
Formatting my entire hard disk is not an option right now because I have Windows on it. I just want to remove all of Debian so I can reinstall it. There must be a way to do that without uninstalling windows. Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Uninstall debian without removing windows partition

2002-04-15 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobica
Just do a normal install and when you are ask to make the partitions you can choose to keep the partitions or to change it. Then when you mount the partitions choose to activate it, so the data will be deleted. After installing Debian change the lilo.conf to be able to boot windows. Ionel

Re: debian for a train hopper

2002-04-15 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
wandering jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: thank you everyone for the advice. i'll have to do more research into the various models mentioned. sounds like if i'm buying a used system, a thinkpad may be the way to go. Just some data here but I noticed when shopping around here in the

Re: XF86Config-4 needed for ThinkPad 560e

2002-04-15 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, On my 560E, I have lately been running RH 7.1, but use: Modeline 800x600 50 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync John _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. -- To

Re: Installing debian from redhat

2002-04-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Neil L. Roeth | On Apr 11, Tollef Fog Heen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | * Wilmer van der Gaast | | | Neil L. [EMAIL PROTECTED]@Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:23:56 -0500 (EST): | | [base2_2.tgz] The 2_2 refers to version 2.2, i.e., potato. If you | | want to upgrade to woody, then you

Linux-laptop.net (was RE: XF86Config-4 needed for ThinkPad 560e)

2002-04-15 Thread Crawford Rainwater
Try this site, http://www.linux-laptop.net/ There are four links for the IBM ThinkPad 560e listed. I am sure one has an XF86Config that can help as well, but I have not personally looked. Perhaps with some minor tweeking, but all in all, a good reference site. They have helped with my ThinkPad

XFree86 4.1.0-14 Problems / Compaq M700

2002-04-15 Thread mike
Debian potato with Ximian Gnome ran on my Compaq M700 laptop for over a year. What a beautiful system and laptop. I just loved it. I had to install XFree86 4.0.1 from the www.xfree86.org website originaly to get X windows to work. With a little tweaking it ran great for over a year. Now , like

gateway 2500 laptop sound question

2002-04-15 Thread Robert Hood, Ph.D.
Hi, I have a gateway 2500 laptop with NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV NMA2 sound. I've tried loading NeoMagic support in debian's installation, but it didn't recognize the sound. I would appreciate any suggestions. thanks, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian for a train hopper

2002-04-15 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 11:16, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: wandering jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: thank you everyone for the advice. i'll have to do more research into the various models mentioned. sounds like if i'm buying a used system, a thinkpad may be the way to go. Just some data

Re: uninstall Debian

2002-04-15 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 08:57, Nick wrote: I need to uninstall Debian so I can reinstall from scratch, how can I uninstall everything. I've _always_ wanted to say to someone to just: su rm -rf / And finally it is halfway reasonable advice! :-) Seriously, do an 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' and a 'df'