Prepare to upgrade

2001-10-06 Thread kerr Avon
My computer gave me this message when I tried to upgrade my debian linux 1.3. irq timeout istatus=0xd0 hdc Atapi reset complete I don't have problems on other cd's whats up. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at

Re: IPChains

2001-10-06 Thread alephtnull
sure...is it well-commented? -- *lol* Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: Prepare to upgrade

2001-10-06 Thread alephtnull
your debian cd is probably busted if your other cds can be read... maybe it's too old? I don't remember if there was ever a debian cd 1.3 -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: IPChains

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
attached is shell script set these three variables accordingly at top of script and run, I am using right now on a dialup connection :-) EXTERNALIP=207.41.66.332 could be 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 for dialup NETWORKIP=192.168.0.50/255.255.255.0 private network

Re: Webmin in woody

2001-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 10:39:28PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: Hi all, is Webmin (plus modules) included in Woody? I'm currently running Sid, but I would like to know this about woody... Not yet. Check http://packages.debian.org/. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL

Re: Letters displaying as aquares.

2001-10-06 Thread Poul Anker Gensmann
On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Poul Anker Gensmann wrote: Updating to XFree86v4 should help, as several other modifications to font configuration, adequately addressed in d-u archives. I have changed the order of font-dir's in XF86Config - but still squares... How do I upgrade to v4? Changing the

FIXED (sort of) - Re: netscape plugins in konqueror

2001-10-06 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Saturday 29 September 2001 03:24 pm, Aaron Maxwell wrote: I'm having trouble setting up the Macromedia Flash plugin in Konqueror. I have Konqueror 2.1.1 and KDE 2.1.2, on today's woody. It's working better now. When I upgraded to today's version of sid (Debian's unstable distribution), the

Re: Another debconf-db than config.dat

2001-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 08:15:11PM +0200, Alexander Hosfeld wrote: For some packages I want to use an another debconf-database than /var/cache/debconf/config.dat. In /usr/share/debconf/debconf.conf you can IMHO only change the db globaly and in the templates.dat seems to be no way, too. Is

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 11:12:51PM +, kerr Avon wrote: Hello I wish to upgrade my Debian 1.3 to 2.2.r2. I would like to know if anyone has tried that before and if so is it safe. Several people tested this around the time 2.2 was released, and it worked but required some manual

Re: Letters displaying as aquares.

2001-10-06 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 06-Oct 04:51, Charles Baker wrote: ``apt-get remove`` any XFree 3.x packages and ``apt-get install`` all the XFree 4.x packages. [snip] I did have this problem under kde2--kde2 apps worked but nedit/vmware didn't. I finally got logged into X as root (to see kde2's default setup once), and

Re: sound distortion

2001-10-06 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:59:49PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 18:46, Kevin C. Smith wrote: Installed kernel 2.4.10. Built emu10k1 as a module. Before this I was running 2.2.17 and ALSA without trouble. I am now experiencing sound distortions in some instances,

NAT woes

2001-10-06 Thread Sam Powers
I'm having some problems with nat and 2.4 and was hoping someone could help me work it out. I use the ipmasq package, because I'm not really so interested in fiddling with rulesets manually. I just want it to work. I have one ethernet card, with an aliased interface, eth0:0 Right now, I'm using

PS/2 mouse problems with kernel 2.4.x

2001-10-06 Thread Torsten Kersting
Hi all, im running woody/sid and did an update yesterday, since then I cant get my mouse to work with a 2.4.x kernel anymore. Its a PS/2 mouse that works fine with kernel 2.2.19 (console and X) but with a 2.4.x kernel I cant start gpm (no error message but ps ax shows no gpm process, oops in

Re: NIS/NFS alternatives? - dhcp

2001-10-06 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya miquel if you are worried about security - disable dhcp and use all ip# defined by the mask That doesn't make much sense. if one has a class-C ip# ..and only using 20 ip# out of the range.. it is easy for someone to plug in an unauthorise machine into your network... and

X broken for me in unstable

2001-10-06 Thread Steve Cooper
Hello all, Having done a backup, I thought I'd go for it and accept all the recent unstable updates. I had held off for a couple of weeks. Now X won't start. Before dumping logs and other information spewages on the group I'll start with some simple info to see if there's anything known or

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