X windows help!!!

2003-03-13 Thread Peter Parker
Hello, I hope somebody can help me. I've tried to do as much research on my own before subscribing and emailing to this list. I have an Sun Ultra 10 workstation and I installed Debian 3.0 (Woody) on it. Installation went fine. But I don't know what kind of video hardware the Ultra 10 has..

Re: floppy don't work on sunblade 100

2003-03-13 Thread Harka Gyozo
> > I can't mount floppy disk on my sunblade 100 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ mount /floppy/ > mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device > > there is no log information and dmesg don't show any information about > floppy disk. > I've got the same problem, but I don't know a solution yet ... C

Free Remote Network Monitoring

2003-03-13 Thread Nick Mitchell
Would anyone be interested in a "I scratch your back if you scratch mine" scenario? Maybe even more then one person/organization. Currently, we don't have a way to monitor our network from outside of our network. We would be more then happy to ping someone's router and if it goes down send an aler

Re: X windows help!!!

2003-03-13 Thread Tim Spriggs
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Peter Parker wrote: > > Symbol fbPictureInit from module > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/fbdev_drv.o is unresolved! This file is in package: x11/xserver-xfree86 > What can I do? Look for? Edit? Maybe try to (re)install this package as a first ditch attempt. > It has be

debian on sparc, how many cd's?

2003-03-13 Thread ***** charles
Hi all, >From what I understand, the latest stable Debian for Sparc is 3r1 and there is 6 cd's for it if I get the whole thing. What I need to know if I download just the first one, can I get enough of Linux on my SS20 to come up to a command prompt when I am done? Or, what is the minimal number

Re: debian on sparc, how many cd's?

2003-03-13 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 02:45:01PM -0600, * charles wrote: > Hi all, > > >From what I understand, the latest stable Debian for Sparc > is 3r1 and there is 6 cd's for it if I get the whole thing. What > I need to know if I download just the first one, can I get > enough of Linux on my SS20 to

Re: debian on sparc, how many cd's?

2003-03-13 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 14:45:01 CST, "* charles" writes: >What I need to know if I download just the first one, can I get >enough of Linux on my SS20 to come up to a command >prompt when I am done? The first CD will fully suffice for that. cheers, &rw -- -- "There are two major products that c

Re: debian on sparc, how many cd's?

2003-03-13 Thread Joshua Uziel
* * charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030313 13:01]: > From what I understand, the latest stable Debian for Sparc > is 3r1 and there is 6 cd's for it if I get the whole thing. What > I need to know if I download just the first one, can I get > enough of Linux on my SS20 to come up to a command > pr

RE: debian on sparc, how many cd's?

2003-03-13 Thread Matt Grant
Hi, You just need the first one. You can then apt-get the stuff you like. "* charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi all, > >>From what I understand, the latest stable Debian for Sparc >is 3r1 and there is 6 cd's for it if I get the whole thing. What >I need to know if I download just the

Re: debian on sparc, how many cd's?

2003-03-13 Thread H C Pumphrey
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, * charles wrote: > Hi all, > > >From what I understand, the latest stable Debian for Sparc > is 3r1 and there is 6 cd's for it if I get the whole thing. What > I need to know if I download just the first one, can I get > enough of Linux on my SS20 to come up to a command

Re: best version of debian-sparc to use?

2003-03-13 Thread Henry Schimmer
Hallo *, 14-Feb-03 * charles wrote : > I just acquired an SS20 with the following: > 128M of ram > ZX frame buffer > 1G hard drive > Sony external bootable cdrom > 75MHz cpu > 19" monitor > keyboard / no mouse Quite similar to mine, exept of having a HyperSPARC-150-CPU. You can use any

Re: X windows help!!!

2003-03-13 Thread Daniel van Eeden
Tim Spriggs wrote: one thing that works well in my experience with X verison 4.x is: # xfree86 -configure This will generally find common hardware configurations and I have experienced only minor problems with multi-headed systems. It's also a very universal way of doing it. It also works wit

Re: Free Remote Network Monitoring

2003-03-13 Thread Daniel van Eeden
Does anyone know a p2p version of mon or nagios? Daniel Nick Mitchell wrote: Would anyone be interested in a "I scratch your back if you scratch mine" scenario? Maybe even more then one person/organization. Currently, we don't have a way to monitor our network from outside of our network. We w

Re: (forw) Re: debian on sparc, how many cd's?

2003-03-13 Thread ***** charles
To Joshua - yes I am subscribed, so got it. don't know how to use the .bz2 file but I did get it. To all others - thanks for the posts, I will try to do the first cd correctly this time. I have a friend who has a cable modem. He can do

Re: (forw) Re: debian on sparc, how many cd's?

2003-03-13 Thread Joshua Uziel
* * charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030313 20:45]: > To Joshua - yes I am subscribed, so got it. >don't know how to use the .bz2 file > but I did get it. Well, you need to "bunzip2" it. It's a compression format like gzip or zip. If you want me to uncompr