Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-06 Thread Scott Henson
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 22:04, Chris Kenrick wrote: > What's the recommended approach for installing Woody > these days? > I really would not recomend installing potato then dist-upgrading. Having tried that several time, I could never recomend that. What I did is got some woody disks and did a

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread Ray Bowles
I am very thankful to all of you! I can't express how helpful you have been. I will take what you have told me and keep working on it. You've deffinately made me confident this can work. My local LUG isn't very freindly, so I thank you all very much for your suggestions and I'm sure I will be keepi

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread Ray Bowles
> > My TNT2 cards seem to worn in other systems this is my first time with a > > GeForce2 (same driver though, I believe) What did you install with? a > > stable image or woody? and did you up grade? > > "seem to worn" ?? "seem to work"? work sorry

Re: Mutt

2002-02-06 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:26:55AM +0800, Terence Ng wrote: > Thanks, Stephen, even now I get: > -rw-rw 1 ngterry mail > > If I want to delete mails in Mutt, I still get "Mailbox is read-only". Why? When I set up my /var/spool to be mounted over NFS I got exactly the same problem. It had to

Re: ATI Radion video card

2002-02-06 Thread Adam Majer
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:03:15AM -0500, Andrew Dixon wrote: > Hi all, > > Has anyone gotten XFree86 up and running with an ATI Radion video card. > I just did an install on Friday and once again X has got me stumped. > > Any tips, hints, words of wisdom, or random thoughts would be greatly > a

dns

2002-02-06 Thread Alexey
There is a dnsutils package in Debian. Is contains some utilities. Is it a Debian-specific software? I can connect to the provider, run pppd. There appears resolv.conf with "nameserver..." lines. I can ping those servers, and it's possible to browse www pages like this: "http://194.180.244.2/index

Installing a package interactively

2002-02-06 Thread Jim Woodruff
How does someone install interactively? I've searched the maillist archives and the man pages without success. I'm trying to install a package that inturn unpacks and installs another .rpm file. Neither "dpkg -i" or "apt-get install" work as they are in non- interactive modes. Jim Woodruff < [E

Re: partition types

2002-02-06 Thread Henry House
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:56:34PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > Now, when =I= go into my /dev/hda with GNU parted, or fdisk, or what have > you, what do I see? That's right, 4 primary partitions: the max you can have. > > Dumb question is: can I change my root partition to type extend

eth0 and eth1 same card????

2002-02-06 Thread Peter Donaldson
Having a small problem with a new deb box i am trying to set up. eth0 has its own ip and eth1 has its ip. I can ssh into the box using eth0's ip but for some reason i can also ssh in using eth1's ip even thou that nic is not pluged into the lan. If i plug eth1 into the lan i cannot get into

Re: UrlView strangeness

2002-02-06 Thread Steve Cooper
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 07:09:40AM +0100, Alexander Steinert decreed: > > I use mutt which uses urlview to present a list of url's in a message. > > Lately, sometimes some of the lines in that list are blank (sometimes > > they're *all* blank). If I count the url's in the message and arrow down > >

Re: delayed transfer of mail to Pine

2002-02-06 Thread Mark S. Reglewski
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:07:59PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 11:17:22 -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:53:39AM -0600, Mark S. Reglewski wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:15:38AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > >> > When I fetch my mail, my primary p

partition types

2002-02-06 Thread burningclown
OK, I've got a REALLY STUPID question here. :/ I decided recently that I wanted to try out the "Linux from Scratch" project (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org). In order to do this particular thang one has to create a reasonable sized partition on which to create the installation. Now, when =I

Re: xmms

2002-02-06 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020207 13:46]: > just installed a nice fresh 2.2r5... > > xmms plays cd's for root but not for me... > > keep in mind that i do belong to the 'audio' group... that may be so, but what are the permisions on /dev/cdrom and /dev/hdc (or where ever /dev/cdrom is link

Re: delayed transfer of mail to Pine

2002-02-06 Thread Cheryl Homiak
No, actually, I also am on dsl, but I don't leave my computer running all night usually. so when I get up in the morning I do have a big bunch, and the mail just trickles in from then on. So I've only had this problem usually once a day. I will see what happens tomorrow morning. --

Re: Mutt

2002-02-06 Thread Terence Ng
Thanks, Stephen, even now I get: -rw-rw 1 ngterry mail If I want to delete mails in Mutt, I still get "Mailbox is read-only". Why? Sincerely, Terence Ng On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:32:08PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > Thus spake Terence Ng: > > Glyn: > > > > What if I get: > > > > -rw---

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread ben
On Wednesday 06 February 2002 08:19 pm, you wrote: > ac patches? > > On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, ben wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 February 2002 05:54 pm, Ray Bowles wrote: > > > VIA686a > > > > apparently all straight 2.4 kernels are affected by this. allegedly, > > there are ac patches that fix this. > > >

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 23:16:12 -0500 (EST) Ray Bowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:54:47 -0500 (EST) Ray Bowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > You could have a flaky mobo. > > anyway to test? I dual-boot the same system wit

Re: delayed transfer of mail to Pine

2002-02-06 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 11:17:22 -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: >On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:53:39AM -0600, Mark S. Reglewski wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:15:38AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >> > I am using fetchmail and pine; lately I am noticing something that didn't >> > happen before, so I won

Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-06 Thread Chris Kenrick
What's the recommended approach for installing Woody these days? Is is still best to install a minimal Potato then dist-upgrade, or is there a better way. - Chris __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:41:57 -0800 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 06 February 2002 06:36 pm, you wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:19:29 -0800 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wednesday 06 February 2002 05:54 pm, Ray Bowles wrote: > > > > VIA686a > > > > > > apparently all strai

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread Ray Bowles
ac patches? On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, ben wrote: > On Wednesday 06 February 2002 05:54 pm, Ray Bowles wrote: > > VIA686a > > apparently all straight 2.4 kernels are affected by this. allegedly, there > are ac patches that fix this. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a su

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread Ray Bowles
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:54:47 -0500 (EST) Ray Bowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You could have a flaky mobo. anyway to test? I dual-boot the same system with WinXP and play highend games without a problem. I understand the drivers are different but I fi

xmms

2002-02-06 Thread jeff
just installed a nice fresh 2.2r5... xmms plays cd's for root but not for me... keep in mind that i do belong to the 'audio' group... any suggestions? TIA -jeff

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread ben
On Wednesday 06 February 2002 06:36 pm, you wrote: > On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:19:29 -0800 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 February 2002 05:54 pm, Ray Bowles wrote: > > > VIA686a > > > > apparently all straight 2.4 kernels are affected by this. allegedly, > > there are ac patches tha

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:19:29 -0800 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 06 February 2002 05:54 pm, Ray Bowles wrote: > > VIA686a > > apparently all straight 2.4 kernels are affected by this. allegedly, there > are ac patches that fix this. I've run with the linus kernel for 5 months now

Re: ximian Install

2002-02-06 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 12:32:05AM +, Geoff Beaumont wrote: | On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 21:53, Jason M. Harvey wrote: | > oh, i see. so, if the alias is set up right, you can use it with imap | > the same way you would with netscape and other imap clients. so, i guess | > the add-on package gives y

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread ben
On Wednesday 06 February 2002 05:54 pm, Ray Bowles wrote: > VIA686a apparently all straight 2.4 kernels are affected by this. allegedly, there are ac patches that fix this.

Re: delayed transfer of mail to Pine

2002-02-06 Thread Mark S. Reglewski
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 11:17:22AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:53:39AM -0600, Mark S. Reglewski wrote: > > > > If you are using exim as your MTA, edit /etc/exim.conf and change the value > > of smtp_accept_queue_per_connection to a sane value for your mail volume. > >

Re: OT: Hot-swappable IDE drives

2002-02-06 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:23:19 -0600 Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I know that there are removable cartridges that allow one to swap > > > IDE disk drives when the P

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:54:47 -0500 (EST) Ray Bowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a > VIA686a. Probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration. You could have a flaky mobo. [snip] > let me know. One friend from a Linux supp

Re: gnome-session multiple apps startup

2002-02-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 07:13:22PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I just installed gnome-session and when I did I start getting multiple apps > opening up at startup. Before I had one instance of xdaliclock opening > up. Now I have four. A few other apps do this as well. Instead of one > openi

Re: rp-pppoe

2002-02-06 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:16:03AM +1100, Peter Donaldson wrote: > Anyone know if there is a new version of rp-pppoe that will work with the > 2.4.16 kernel??? I'm running kernel 2.4.18-pre8 and using pppoe 3.3-1 without any problems at all! Doesn't it work for you? J. --

Re: OT: Hot-swappable IDE drives

2002-02-06 Thread csj
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:16:00 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:26:17 +1100 CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:23:19PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > * Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I know

(LPRng) How to make print job from other machines pass the filter?

2002-02-06 Thread Dongxiang
I have a Debian linux box with a HP LJ 1100 connected to the parallel port. From local machine print works fine. Now I want to send print job from a Mac OS X iBook to the Linux box. It turns out that the lpd pass the spool file (generic postscript) directly to the printer. How do I configure lpr

Re: ximian Install

2002-02-06 Thread Geoff Beaumont
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 21:53, Jason M. Harvey wrote: > oh, i see. so, if the alias is set up right, you can use it with imap > the same way you would with netscape and other imap clients. so, i guess > the add-on package gives you use of the calendar and journal stuff?? If it doesn't say in the pre

Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread Ray Bowles
I'm having a tough time all of a sudden. My non-X machines work great but I'm having a problem on my desktop. I tried every type of Debian (2.2_rev5, Woody, Sid, pseudo) download I could get and they all failed. Mostly due to my USB keyboard and mouse. I eventually got an image of P

Re: [SLL] Test module: Version conflict on a hello.o

2002-02-06 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Pann McCuaig wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 14:24, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S /usr/include/linux/version.h > libc6-dev: /usr/include/linux/version.h > > Best guess is that the current libc6 in potato was built on a machine > running kernel-2.2.20. Sorta tacky consid

Re: Perl and CPAN

2002-02-06 Thread stan
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:34:34PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:00:20PM -0500, stan wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 11:32:37PM +0100, Frodo Baggins wrote: > > > 06/02/2002 14.52.17, Paul Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > > > > >On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 0

Re: OT: Hot-swappable IDE drives

2002-02-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:23:19 -0600 Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Hi, > > > > I know that there are removable cartridges that allow one to swap > > IDE disk drives when the PC is shut down, i.e. cold-swapping. > > > > Is there a way

Re: [SLL] Test module: Version conflict on a hello.o

2002-02-06 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Pann McCuaig wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 14:24, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > > I do this: > > > > inneal:~# cat /usr/include/linux/version.h | grep 2.2.20 > > #define UTS_RELEASE "2.2.20" > > > > and doing it with 2.2.19 finds nothing. This got updated from one > > greater than the last kern

Re: OT: Hot-swappable IDE drives

2002-02-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:26:17 +1100 CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:23:19PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > * Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I know that there are removable cartridges that allow one to swap > > > IDE disk drives when

rp-pppoe

2002-02-06 Thread Peter Donaldson
Anyone know if there is a new version of rp-pppoe that will work with the 2.4.16 kernel???

Re: OT: Hot-swappable IDE drives - fun stuff

2002-02-06 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya ron i think its possible... donno why "nobody does it... per se" found some supposed "hot swap IDE drive bays"... http://www.Linux-1U.net/Parts/#SCA ( drive bays are just above it ) i think you can tell the system that the drive is NOT ready while the drive is off

RE:OT: Hot-swappable IDE drives

2002-02-06 Thread Andrew Agno
Take a look at http://www.agate.com/ And in particular, http://www.agatetech.com/products_shuttle.html I've never used it, but it looks interesting, and claims to support Linux. Andrew.

Re: Perl and CPAN

2002-02-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:00:20PM -0500, stan wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 11:32:37PM +0100, Frodo Baggins wrote: > > 06/02/2002 14.52.17, Paul Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > > >On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:33:39AM -0500, Chris Hilts wrote: > > >> The installation instructions of

Re: OT: Hot-swappable IDE drives

2002-02-06 Thread CaT
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:23:19PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Hi, > > > > I know that there are removable cartridges that allow one to swap > > IDE disk drives when the PC is shut down, i.e. cold-swapping. > > > > Is there a way to hot-swap

Re: OT: Hot-swappable IDE drives

2002-02-06 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi, > > I know that there are removable cartridges that allow one to swap > IDE disk drives when the PC is shut down, i.e. cold-swapping. > > Is there a way to hot-swap IDE drives like it it possible with > SCSI drives? The 'net research I've do

OT: Hot-swappable IDE drives

2002-02-06 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, I know that there are removable cartridges that allow one to swap IDE disk drives when the PC is shut down, i.e. cold-swapping. Is there a way to hot-swap IDE drives like it it possible with SCSI drives? The 'net research I've done indicates that it is not possible, but I wonder if I have m

Re: Perl and CPAN

2002-02-06 Thread stan
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 11:32:37PM +0100, Frodo Baggins wrote: > 06/02/2002 14.52.17, Paul Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > >On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:33:39AM -0500, Chris Hilts wrote: > >> The installation instructions of a piece of software I'm considering > >> asks me to fetch sever

Re: Perl and CPAN

2002-02-06 Thread Frodo Baggins
06/02/2002 14.52.17, Paul Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: >On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:33:39AM -0500, Chris Hilts wrote: >> The installation instructions of a piece of software I'm considering >> asks me to fetch several (ok, a lot of) modules from CPAN. Since this >> will be adding softwa

Re: freeware purify like memory checker ?

2002-02-06 Thread Carl Johnson
Leif Thuresson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anybody know a of freeware memory checker > they can recommend ? > I would of cause like to have purify, but it is way out of my budget. You might also want to look at electric-fence (debian package), in addition to those others have suggested. -

Re: A permanent block cursor

2002-02-06 Thread Leonardo F. S. Boiko
> How I can make a *permanent* block cursor? I remember setterm has a > '-store' option, but unlike freebsd, linux setterm don't know how to control > the cursor. I figured a way to do it (not very elegant, but it's better than a cron job :) CURSOR=$(echo -n -e '\033[?17;2;32c') exp

Re: Solution to: /initrd/lib/modules doesn't exist for make-kpkg made kernel--> does not boot?

2002-02-06 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Walter Tautz wrote on Wed Feb 06, 2002 um 03:31:31PM: > The solution is to edit /etc/mkinitrd/modules and add ext2 and ext3. Then > all is well and one gets a initrd kernel built properly. It should be noted If that was the solution, please file a critical bug against initrd-tools. Now.

Re: ximian Install

2002-02-06 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 09:41:03PM +, Geoff Beaumont wrote: <-- snip --> | yet. It will also only work with Exchange 2000 initially: | | http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/ximian_connector.html | | That said, if your Exchange server is set up to export it's mail folde

Re: ximian Install

2002-02-06 Thread Geoff Beaumont
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 21:17, Jason M. Harvey wrote: > by "windows exchange domain" are you referring to an exchange server or > a domain logon? 'cause samba should be able to handle all the file/print > sharing with a windows network. if you mean exchange server, well yes, > i've heard and seen (no

unsubscribe dr_safti@gmx.de

2002-02-06 Thread safti

Re: [SLL] Test module: Version conflict on a hello.o

2002-02-06 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > I'm trying to do the example on pages 13-14 of Rubini's Linux Device > inneal:~/study# insmod hello.o > hello.o: kernel-module version mismatch > hello.o was compiled for kernel version 2.2.20 > while this kernel is version 2.2.19. > > and it doesn't sho

Re: Auctex/LaTeX/Emacs problem

2002-02-06 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, February 4, Ryan Claycamp did write: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:08:52PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > Lo, on Sunday, February 3, Ryan Claycamp did write: > > > > > I have lost the color markings in xemacs when I edit a LaTeX file. I > > > am running woody and I think it happen

OpenOffice 641C won't install on woody

2002-02-06 Thread Dennis van Dok
Others have seen this bug in an earlier thread, but I was wondering if anyone had a solution. Somebody suggested installing libgpcl0, but it didn't work for me. Upon unpacking I see a popup with a progress bar, suggesting something is being unpacked, but other than the message glibc version: 2.2

WEBMASTER OPPORTUNITY

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Re: ximian Install

2002-02-06 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 12:57:47PM -0800, Tim Grogan wrote: | Thanks Jason, | | I've got kde2 up and running and I really like it. The main reason I was | looking at ximian was that it supposedly can connect into a windows exchange | domain. That way I could blow away my w2k and put debian on my

Re: ximian Install

2002-02-06 Thread Tim Grogan
Thanks Jason, I've got kde2 up and running and I really like it. The main reason I was looking at ximian was that it supposedly can connect into a windows exchange domain. That way I could blow away my w2k and put debian on my laptop. Tim > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 07:08:17AM -0800, Tim Grogan

Re: ximian Install

2002-02-06 Thread Geoff Beaumont
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 20:04, Jason M. Harvey wrote: > my very first install was storm. then i went to potato, then woody. > storm came with ximian. when i dist-upgraded from potato (w/ ximian) to > woody, gnome gave me many problems, on two machines! so, i later purged > all ximian and went with th

Re: How can I get mutt to dlete an entire thread?

2002-02-06 Thread Stig Brautaset
* stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Still tweaking on my uutt config > > I have it set up so that all threads are compressed when I enter > a folder. folder-hook . push "\eV" > I would like to be able to mark all messages in a given > thread as deleted from the index screen. At present if

Re: Re: journalling filesystems comparison (was ReiserFS, ext3 (waspraise to the debian gods))

2002-02-06 Thread John Cichy
I want to thank everyone for their thoughts on journaling file systems. Sorry for posting and not answering until now, but you all gave me a lot to review!! Have a great day... John

Re: Creating boot floppies

2002-02-06 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Bill! On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, Bill Wohler wrote: > Thanks for the pointer. This is what I was looking for. I ran: > > mkboot /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17-686-smp > > However, this creates a floppy that panics when it tries to mount the > root filesystem. Something about device 302. My root f

Re: Problem with windows partition

2002-02-06 Thread William Lacy
Thanks Andrew- that worked. Now that I have researched this I believe that grub was installed by Red Hat (which was on the machine when I started) and pointed to the Linux partition that I had overwritten- hence grub was stumped. In any event I learned a lot and lilo -u /dev/hda1 worked! Than

Solution to: /initrd/lib/modules doesn't exist for make-kpkg made kernel--> does not boot?

2002-02-06 Thread Walter Tautz
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:53:09AM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:28:58AM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > > > > I can't get a make-kpkg kernel to boot. It can't mount the r

Re: kernel panic---operator panic too

2002-02-06 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 12:15:14 -0500, dman wrote: >On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 02:24:35AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >| I just upgraded the kernel to 2.4.17 in a deb package. The install >| apparently went ok. On reboot I got the following: >| >| >request_module[block-major-31]: Root fs not mounted >|

Re: Alien/RPM keeps trying to kill KDE. Help?

2002-02-06 Thread Chris Cheney
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 02:03:09PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote: > Okay, there's a software package out there which is being tracked by > Debian, but only very slowly. Some random guy built RPMs for it, so I > thought I'd grab them, and then use either 'rpm' or 'alien' to put the > package onto my te

Re: X environment

2002-02-06 Thread ben
On Wednesday 06 February 2002 08:39 am, Terence Ng wrote: > Oh! I am so sorry. I mean after I type in startx, sometimes the window > come out is in black and white, and it is jumping. Then I have to quit and > try to startx again. Is X window not stable in Debian, or I miss some > important pack

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Re: ximian Install

2002-02-06 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 07:08:17AM -0800, Tim Grogan wrote: | Has anyone installed ximian-gnome on woody 2.2.20? Thanks. | | Tim | | hello, my very first install was storm. then i went to potato, then woody. storm came with ximian. when i dist-upgraded from potato (w/ ximian) to woody, gnome

Re: music cd not work

2002-02-06 Thread csj
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 22:55:02 -0800 (PST) "Paul 'Baloo' Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No problem! Sorry for the bad quote, figured it would be helpful to > include the line of thought that came to the solution. > > I really kinda wish it wasn't this inobvious to solve. I have to wonder >

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원치않는 메일을 받으셨다면 정말로 죄송합니다.수신거부를 하신분이 또 받으셨다면 너무 죄송하지만 마지막으로 한번만 다시 수신거부를 해주십시요. 귀하의 메일주소는 웹서핑중, 무작위로 추출한것이며 E-Mail 주소 외에,

Re: [Re: Kernel 2.4.17 (smp) problems]

2002-02-06 Thread Deva Seetharam
>> Hi All, >> i have a asuc cuv4x-d motherboard with dual pentium processors. currently, i am running kernel 2.2.19 with smp. >> now, i am trying to upgrade to kernel 2.4.17. algthough i am able to >>install the kernel-image, the machine hangs when i reboot. i have >> >>enabled RTC support, >> d

Re: Creating boot floppies

2002-02-06 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Might it be the initrd issue? You seem to be using a prebuilt kernel which uses initrd. I just tried mkboot with a 2.4.17 kernel, and it works just fine. Try examing the lilo.conf file on the floppy to see if there is an appropriate initrd line. T Bill Wohler wrote: Martin Wuertele <[EM

Re: mysterious kernel panic at start up and it's workaround

2002-02-06 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 12:22:47 -0500, dman wrote: >On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:01:34AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > >| I'm gonna feel pretty stupid about this, I think. Like Aaron, I could >| get a rescue disk to work. No amount of fiddling with "root=" or >| "append=root=" in either lilo.conf or

Re: Many apologies for auto-reply spam

2002-02-06 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, A note about Outlook Express and html M$ obligingly left html as the default setting to ensure that they could impose html as the new email standard and thus usurp the rich-text standard previously used for jollying up plain text emails. Even if you do not embolden one single line your Outlo

RE: Alsa on Dell OptiPlex GX1 (Debian/2.4.17/CS4236B)

2002-02-06 Thread Greer, Darren \(MED\)
Thanks for the input Elizabeth. I have, with your suggestion, now been able to get sound working. For future reference (and maybe help someone else along the way, this is my configuration: System: Dell OptiPlex GX1 Kernel 2.4.17 Debian 2.2 upgraded to current unstable CS4236B On Board Au

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-02-06 Thread csj
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 21:06:52 -0500 "Jeremy Gaddis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gary, > > I also run Free Agent, though just for the newsgroups. > My MUA of choice is Outlook (no flames please, I'm tired > of them) and I have actually never had any problems with > it. I do virus scanning on the m

Re: bash question.

2002-02-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:30:47 +0200 (EET) "Petrov M.I." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All. > I write small script: > #!/bin/bash > echo -e "...PJL commands..." | cat > /dev/lp0 Try adding a newline: echo -e "...PJL commands...\n" | cat > /dev/lp0 > cat /dev/lp0 ??? > When I try it run I g

Re: delayed transfer of mail to Pine

2002-02-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:53:39AM -0600, Mark S. Reglewski wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:15:38AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > I am using fetchmail and pine; lately I am noticing something that didn't > > happen before, so I wonder if it has to do with an upgrade of fetchmail. > > When I f

Re: Parsing a file name in the shell

2002-02-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:26:47AM -0500, Ron Mullins wrote: > Can someone help me this? We run a FTP server that has constant > scriptkiddie activity, i.e. uploading of warez. I would like to automate > the removing of directories, as they are always a number, but I can't > figure out how to test

Alien/RPM keeps trying to kill KDE. Help?

2002-02-06 Thread Phil Edwards
Okay, there's a software package out there which is being tracked by Debian, but only very slowly. Some random guy built RPMs for it, so I thought I'd grab them, and then use either 'rpm' or 'alien' to put the package onto my testing/unstable machine. Grief... - alien wants rpm (and so do I,

Re: freeware purify like memory checker ?

2002-02-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 16:02:55 +0100, Leif Thuresson wrote: > Does anybody know a of freeware memory checker they can recommend ? http://www.cs.colorado.edu/homes/zorn/public_html/MallocDebug.html lists a number of tools (both free and proprietary). HTH, Ray -- The Internet interprets attempts

Re: .xsession fatal to X...?

2002-02-06 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Tom Schuetz wrote: >My X-Windows works fine, until I try to employ an .xsession file. Make .xsession executable, and link it to .xinitrc (Debian uses .xinitrc in startx, other distros use .xsession or .xinitrc, meaning the same thing) Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

Re: delayed transfer of mail to Pine

2002-02-06 Thread Cheryl Homiak
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Mark S. Reglewski wrote: > > If you are using exim as your MTA, edit /etc/exim.conf and change the value > of smtp_accept_queue_per_connection to a sane value for your mail volume. > The default value is 10. For a smarthost set-up, I believe this is changed > to 100, Yes, it

Re: Mutt

2002-02-06 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Terence Ng: > Glyn: > > What if I get: > > -rw--- 1 ngterry root 494616 Feb 7 00:01 /var/spool/mail/ngterry > > Sincerely, > > Terence Ng chmod 0660 /var/spool/mail/ngterry chown ngterry:mail /var/spool/mail/ngterry All as root. Those are the defaults. Not quite sure why yo

bash question.

2002-02-06 Thread Petrov M.I.
Hi All. I write small script: #!/bin/bash echo -e "...PJL commands..." | cat > /dev/lp0 cat /dev/lp0 When I try it run I get nothing. When I run this script two time (one after the other) I get informations. I need write to & read from /dev/lp0 in one & the same script. How do this do? Any help

Re: delayed transfer of mail to Pine

2002-02-06 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I'm using the pine-bin.linux from Pine's ftp site. I did this instead of compiling from source because I've never been able to figure out how to get it to compile on debian. Using version 4.44. -- Cheryl

Re: Creating boot floppies

2002-02-06 Thread Bill Wohler
Martin Wuertele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > if you just need a boot disk to boot you system, not a rescue disk you > might want to use mkboot Thanks for the pointer. This is what I was looking for. I ran: mkboot /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17-686-smp However, this creates a floppy that panics

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Re: pppoe

2002-02-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:38:30AM -0800, Anton Graham wrote: > With Woody base frozen, is there any plan to move the pppoe package to > base? I thought it already was. Certainly debootstrap thinks it's part of base, and it's part of the basedebs.tar available in debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386

pppoe

2002-02-06 Thread Anton Graham
With Woody base frozen, is there any plan to move the pppoe package to base? This would greatly simplify setting up initial adsl connections for the majority of US adsl subscribers. As it stands now, one must download the basedebs.tgz, appropriate boot floppies and matching drivers, and the pppoe

Re: kernel panic---operator panic too

2002-02-06 Thread dman
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 02:24:35AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: | I just upgraded the kernel to 2.4.17 in a deb package. The install | apparently went ok. On reboot I got the following: | | >request_module[block-major-31]: Root fs not mounted | >VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03 | >please

Re: Power-off after Shutdown

2002-02-06 Thread dman
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 11:36:16AM +0100, Vegh Karoly wrote: | On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | > I'm compiling a new kernel(2.4.17) for my laptop, and I know this may be | > a newbie question, But what do I enable in the kernel to enable it to | > automatically power off when shutd

Re: CUPS and enscript

2002-02-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 08:23:56PM -0500, dman wrote: > What is your "raw" data? Do people always spool only Postscript, > plain text, and PCL? Well, actually, yes... > What will happen on your current setup if I try > lp -d foo.dvi > or > lp -d foo.pdf > ? There are really only two p

lockd: cannot monitor 192.168.101.101

2002-02-06 Thread Lance Heller
OK, I've got my diskless workstation up running a virgin 2.2r5 and being served from an AIX 4.3.3 host. All is sweetness and light except for long repetitions of the subject message. Both hosts are running lockd and statd but I notice that the Debian box has no files in '/var/lib/nfs/sm/'.

Re: mysterious kernel panic at start up and it's workaround

2002-02-06 Thread dman
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:01:34AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: | I'm gonna feel pretty stupid about this, I think. Like Aaron, I could | get a rescue disk to work. No amount of fiddling with "root=" or | "append=root=" in either lilo.conf or at boot would get 2.4 up and | running. Did you speci

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