It's really nice to get X up with Debian. It really can be done in a
single install (CAN be done, but maybe not the first try!).
Anyway, I took the Windows computer that works as a backup for games
and Word and installed 2.2r2 with X, and it looks and works great -
no mouse problems, nice
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
Try the following on each of your mounted partitions, starting at the
mount point:
$ du -sx * | sort -nr | cat -n | less
...which will list out your largest directories, with usage sumarized,
in size order. Track down where the storage seems to be
on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:40:24PM -0500, Bob Bernstein ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:50:51PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
/usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dssl/docbook/nwalsh/print/dbparam.dsl
In your custom dssl driver file put:
(define %paper-type%
;; Name
Please, do someone know how to install KDE 2 using apt-get?
If you go to http://kde.tdyc.com/ you'll find details on adding a
line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file which will allow you to install
KDE2 in *.deb format.
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Regards,| Need some help with Debian GNU/Linux?
.
on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 05:25:54PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
For a couple of days already I have been observing the following strange
thing:
I run
rsync -v -etcetera kdesite:: /mnt/drC/kde_mirror
Setting: drC is where /dev/hda1 is mounted. My linux runs from
on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:06:16PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
Try the following on each of your mounted partitions, starting at the
mount point:
$ du -sx * | sort -nr | cat -n | less
...which will list out your
I was astounded today when my laptop was able to play a mp3 while I was
running a game with sound effects. I don't use esound; I do use alsa
with the snd-card-ymfpci module.
I didn't realize alsa did software mixing. This rules! Am I just
particularly lucky about the sound card in my laptop[1],
Debian worked out of the box for my with my Advansys card. It seemed to be
built into the kernel. You shouldn't need to get anything from Advansys.
If you rebuild your kernel with generic SCSI and Advansys device support built
in (not as modules) it should work with no additional hassle. I'm
It was slink--it was part of the VA/SGI/ORA boxed set...
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
O'Reilly has a Debian book, I seem to recall it having a 2.1 cd in the jacket.
--
Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a
damn.
email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please, do someone know how to install KDE 2 using apt-get?
If you go to http://kde.tdyc.com/ you'll find details on adding a
line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file which will allow you to install
KDE2 in *.deb format.
You only need kde.tdyc.com if you use potato or something older.
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 06:05:13PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
snip
$ fuser -v bigfile# show process(es) using bigfile
$ fuser -vk bigfile # kill process(es) using bigfile
$ fuser -v bigfile# verify the kill worked
$ cat
I am doing some configuration now, and installing new programs, but I
would like not to desorganize the system or compromise the system
security, and I have 2 questions:
Is /usr/local the right place to put executables that are not controlled
by packages?
If some user is supposed to access
I can't boot Debian the right way. I use loadlin.exe to boot, thus I
copy my kernel images to C:\ so that loadlin can find them. This has
worked fine for me with RH6.1 (custom kernel) and RH7.0 (stock
kernel). I copied my Debian kernel to C:\, but loadlin tells me it's
not a kernel. I can
use alien. IIRC there is an RPM for it, look on rpmfind.
alien --to-rpm package.deb
Convert the package.deb into a package.rpm
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Pat Woolley wrote:
Hi
I use mandrake 7 and I am very happy with it. However I would like to be
able to install debian
O'Reilly kernel book is pretty good, definately much better than Linux
Internals.
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GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always.
Britton Kerin
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Ray Percival wrote:
I assume you mean the O'Reilly Debian book. It is worth reading online
the website not worth buying.
apt-get install ldp-nag;apt-get install ldp-sag :)
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Xucaen wrote:
Hi all,, there have been some mentions of books
on the list, but nothing definitive...
can anyone recomend a good system
administration/network administration book?
just curious to hear people's opinions.
have you run gpmconfig recently? That'd be the first step...
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Mithras wrote:
Excuse me if this question is really basic.
After installing Debian for the first time (but not Linux), I
discovered the mouse wasn't working.
It didn't move at all at first, and I found
If you can't be helpful, be silent.
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Veit Waltemath wrote:
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 07:49:06PM -, Pat Woolley wrote:
Hi
I use mandrake 7 and I am very happy with it. However I would like to be
able to install debian packages on my system. As I see it there are two
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 14:50:47 -0500 (EST)
Walter Tautz writes:
WT NOTE: I can run linux with NO difficulty. I just can't get freebsd
WT to boot...maybe someone is trying to tell me something ;-)
I suggest your using GNU GRUB. Maybe you can solve
the problem.
Well, the price was right and I grabbed a GeForce2 MX card... now I have no
X. I understood X 3.3.x support was nil, so started an X4 upgrade...!
Now, I'm not sure how to proceed, I'm still downloading one packages,
(xserver-xfree86), but if I understand correctly, I need to compile the
kernel
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:50:35PM -0800, David S. Bach wrote:
What I cannot do yet is get Debian 2.2r2 to speak with my Advansys
SCSI card. Tied to it are a couple of gigabytes of storage I would be
Which boot-floppy flavour did you use? Vanilla-boot-floppies have
advansys support included,
It's been a while since I used FreeBSD, but if I remember
correctly, you just set up your lilo.conf file for FreeBSD
the same way you do for a Winderz partition.
Try:
other=/dev/hdb3 --- FreeBSD boot partition
label=freebsd
After you setup lio.conf, re-run lilo for corrections to
become
Greetings everyone,
After much frustration in trying to get Debian GNU/Linux (my distro of
choice) installed on a Dell PowerEdge 2450, I've finally found success!
My problem was finding kernel support for the onboard PERC 3/Si RAID
Controller (Adaptec OEM chipset) so that I could store my root
Oh, and I forgot to mention
I'm not subscribed to either of these mailing lists, so please be sure to
reply privately with any comments, questions, etc.
Regards,
Kevin
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Nope, all that is in my /var/log/syslog file are 3 entries
Jan 4 02:11:13 localhost syslogd 1.3-3#33.1: restart.
Jan 4 02:11:14 localhost anacron[173]: Job `cron.daily' terminated
Jan 4 02:11:14 localhost anacron[173]: Normal
Hmmm I changed the permissions with the setting you specified, and
added my user to those permissions, but I still get the same error. I`m
wondering if i should boot to my old kernel if i want sound, and if i
want to use my cd writer, to boot to my new kernel. that would be such a
pain
For system administration...
In order to reconstruct a system...
It is easy/rivial to get a list of all the instaned
packages on a machine.
But, getting a list of the modified configuration
files (presuming any modified file is
a config file of some type) and the differences is
a little
Michael Light wrote:
I just recently bought a debian software package and I've been reading
the book 'Learning Debian GNU/Linux'. I tried using the fdisk utility
on my hard drive. One of the things I've noticed is that on my menu
there is no number 5. Change current fixed disk drive. Is
I've managed to install quake 2 and get it to run without too many
problems, but whenever I try to refresh the server list it complains
that the broadcast address of 224.1.0.0 is unreachable and no local
servers are displayed.
How can I get quake 2 to broadcast on my local network for available
I installed X4.0.2 and the nVidia drivers 0.9-5. Just take your time
and follow the steps in the docs that came with those packages and
things should work. If you have an Asus P5A (what I have) or anything
with an ALi chipset, there are a few extra steps, but they work
nicely.
As of version
I was inspired by this post at advogato
[http://www.advogato.org/article/224.html] and would like to test the
2.4 kernel. I've tested ac patches and sent in bugs to Alan Cox and
he was quick to respond with a fix. I have no idea how he does this
with the amount of email I'm sure he gets, but it
Mithras wrote:
Excuse me if this question is really basic.
After installing Debian for the first time (but not Linux), I
discovered the mouse wasn't working.
It didn't move at all at first, and I found last night that /dev/mouse
was just symlinked to some weird device, but not ttyS0 like it
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:59:32PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
- What tools to you use to produce output? I've been using sgmltools,
but am told jade is the preferred (or at least more powerful) route.
The scripts in sgmltools simply call jade. /usr/bin/sgmltools, from
Kent West wrote:
Mithras wrote:
snip
After installing Debian for the first time (but not Linux), I
discovered the mouse wasn't working.
snip
Besides this mouse problem, I'd just like to say how *pleased* I've
been with Debian. The default X environment (what I've been able to
see
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:23:30AM -0800, Xucaen wrote:
does this disable X? what if you still want to run X from the
command line using startx?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
after booting up press ctrlalt F1 to go into a console
terminal. logon as root. cd /etc/rc2.d rm S??xdm # or just
This thread about mouse configuration got me to try to get 'gpm' and X
co-operating again, and I was successful this time. Let me explain my
setup.
I have a Logitech mouse of some sort, a Mouse Man Plus, I think. It's
got two buttons, plus a wheel that also acts as a third button(plus
David Benfell wrote:
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 01:40:36AM -0500, Vadim Kutsyy wrote:
I want to recompile the kernel. I config and compiling went without any
problem (I am trying 2.2.18pre21 static on woody). Hwever, when I am
restrarting computer, Xserver starts, but gdm doesn't, so all
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