Re: 2 NIC's, assigned in wrong order

2003-12-29 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:41:29PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > Dec 28 19:11:31 ve6wvc nameif: cannot change name of eth1 to eth0: File exists > > The `file' here is the network device `eth0' -- ``ifconfig -a'' will > show both eth1 and eth0 are there, waiting to be upped. This looks like > a kern

Re: Booting Caper.

2003-12-29 Thread Jonathan Lassoff
Thanks a bunch you guys. You cleared up a lot of issues and misconceptions I had. I thought that you could boot another kernel while another was running, although in hindsight, I don't know why I thought that as the current running kernel would alredy be in high memory and such... Well, I found a

Re: Booting Caper.

2003-12-29 Thread David Z Maze
"Jonathan Lassoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to boot the debian woody install on the second drive, and have been > with a boot floppy for a few months now. [...] > Well the original disk reprted all kinds of bad sectors while > writing it, so I found a floppy that works, and it still fa

Re: Public / private IP addresses

2003-12-29 Thread David Z Maze
Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've dealt with quite a few LANs over the years. I'd like to try > something that I never have done before... > > I work with ADSL providers who allocate 5 public IP addresses (sometimes > 1) to a connection. If I have a LAN of, say, 20 workstations,

Re: X refuses to load nVidia module

2003-12-29 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 09:59:58PM -0500, Bradley Alexander wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:32:08 -0700 > "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > When you load the module manually, does it show in the output of lsmod? > > Yep. That was the first thing I checked when looking under 2.

Re: Best Practices: CGI.pm & CSS2 ???

2003-12-29 Thread Katipo
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 22:51:06 -0600 Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please, somebody point me to URL's that provide examples and best > practices of using CSS2, CGI.pm and XHTML v1.x. > > -- > Best Regards, > http://forum.johncfish.com/ Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

cronjob executing at wrong time

2003-12-29 Thread Jeff Bauer
I've got a server running Debian 3.0 r1. A job that is scheduled to execute at 8:01pm is executing at 2:01pm. The cronjob entry runs as non-root user: 1 20 * * 1-5 myjob I have the server synchronized to a time source with ntpdate and I've checked the local timezone. The 'myjob' script itself

Re: Booting Caper.

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 09:20:55PM -0800, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: > In theory, this sounds great, but it doesn't work out so well for me. When > I install GRUB to /dev/hda it posts, clears the screen, puts something > like "GRUB" and just sits there. Well as I said you need to make sure your have

Re: Best Practices: CGI.pm & CSS2 ???

2003-12-29 Thread Michael D Schleif
Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:12:29:23:57:16-0500] scribed: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:51:06PM -0600, Michael D Schleif wrote: > > Please, somebody point me to URL's that provide examples and best > > practices of using CSS2, CGI.pm and XHTML v1.x. > > Well I'm one for thorough refer

Re: Booting Caper.

2003-12-29 Thread Jonathan Lassoff
In theory, this sounds great, but it doesn't work out so well for me. When I install GRUB to /dev/hda it posts, clears the screen, puts something like "GRUB" and just sits there. I also still need to boot Windoze occasionally to play games. What I'm wondering is why when I do the "boot" command in

Re: Best Practices: CGI.pm & CSS2 ???

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:51:06PM -0600, Michael D Schleif wrote: > Please, somebody point me to URL's that provide examples and best > practices of using CSS2, CGI.pm and XHTML v1.x. Well I'm one for thorough reference material so for CSS2 and XHTML I would recommend you look through the www con

Best Practices: CGI.pm & CSS2 ???

2003-12-29 Thread Michael D Schleif
Please, somebody point me to URL's that provide examples and best practices of using CSS2, CGI.pm and XHTML v1.x. -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know.

Re: Booting Caper.

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 08:21:59PM -0800, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: > [hda] > 70 Gb windoze xp partition > 9.7 Gb Redhat 9 / (ext3) > 0.3 Gb Redhat 9 swap > [hdb] > 9.7 Gb Debian Woody / (ext2) > 0.3 Gb Debian Woody swap > Well, now I haven't a clue what to do as I can't boot my debian install > and

Re: David Grudek/COR/AXE is out of the office.

2003-12-29 Thread Travis Crump
Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:01:07AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 01:21:12 +, Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 05:39:16AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 00:50:16 +, Ken Gilmour wrote: I believe the Americans do it backwards...

Re: Sound Problems With Debian 3.0r1 testing/unstable

2003-12-29 Thread Johann Koenig
On Monday December 29 at 10:05pm "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Linux joseph-a-nagy-jr.homelinux.org 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 > 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 GNU/Linux > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > The TZ is off though, for some reason (the windowmaker clock applet > shows correct t

Beancounter and PostgeSQL?

2003-12-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
I have just installed beancounter, using PostgeSQL as a backend, and am having a problem. When I run 'setup_beancounter' it creates the empty database, but when it then tries to connect and populate the db with sample data I get an error saying: "No luck with database connection" I g

Re: Sound Problems With Debian 3.0r1 testing/unstable

2003-12-29 Thread Johann Koenig
On Monday December 29 at 10:01pm "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > apt-cache search alsa-modules > > > > Pick the one that matches your kernel version. If none exists, you > > must compile your own from alsa-source using make-kpkg. It's not > > very hard, read the docs in /usr/

Booting Caper.

2003-12-29 Thread Jonathan Lassoff
I'm in a bit of a booting pickle. I've got two drives in a given box. Their geometry looks like: [hda] 70 Gb windoze xp partition 9.7 Gb Redhat 9 / (ext3) 0.3 Gb Redhat 9 swap [hdb] 9.7 Gb Debian Woody / (ext2) 0.3 Gb Debian Woody swap I want to boot the debian woody install on the second drive,

Re: Sound Problems With Debian 3.0r1 testing/unstable

2003-12-29 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
Johann Koenig wrote: On Monday December 29 at 08:10pm "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install alsa-modules Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package alsa-modules has no available version, but exists in the database. This ty

Re: Sound Problems With Debian 3.0r1 testing/unstable

2003-12-29 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
Johann Koenig wrote: On Monday December 29 at 08:10pm "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install alsa-modules Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package alsa-modules has no available version, but exists in the database. This ty

Re: Sound Problems With Debian 3.0r1 testing/unstable

2003-12-29 Thread Johann Koenig
On Monday December 29 at 08:10pm "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install alsa-modules > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Package alsa-modules has no available version, but exists in the > database. This typically mea

Re: X refuses to load nVidia module

2003-12-29 Thread Johann Koenig
On Monday December 29 at 09:59pm Bradley Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yep. That was the first thing I checked when looking under 2.4.23. > When I tried to load the module under 2.6.0, I got the message > > FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.0/nvidia/nvidia.ko): > Invalid

modem external

2003-12-29 Thread Bruno Vane
someone can help me to setup an us robotics courier v.everything external modem on debian 3.1? my linux is detecting the modem, and the modem dials to the provider, but cant establish the connection. this is the log of the error: carnivore:~# plog -f Dec 28 05:45:27 carnivore pppd[339]: pppd 2.4.1

Re: Good front end for small postgress dtabases?

2003-12-29 Thread Andy Firman
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:23:26PM -0500, Bob Billson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 01:15:54PM -0500, Paul Morgan penned: > > > I need to create some small databses in postgress (christmas card list, > > > household inventory). What choices do I have for creating user input forms, > > > and repo

Re: David Grudek/COR/AXE is out of the office.

2003-12-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:01:07AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 01:21:12 +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 05:39:16AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > >> On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 00:50:16 +, Ken Gilmour wrote: > >> > I believe the Americans do it backwards... 1/04/

Re: Sound Problems With Debian 3.0r1 testing/unstable

2003-12-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 01:23:04AM +0100, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:00:47 +0100, Joseph A. Nagy wrote: > > Subject: Sound Problems With Debian 3.0r1 testing/unstable > > Debian 3.0 is no longer unstable ;-) Technically, it never was. Unstable doesn't get assigned a versio

Re: X refuses to load nVidia module

2003-12-29 Thread Bradley Alexander
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:32:08 -0700 "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:18:40PM -0500, Bradley M Alexander wrote: > > I just built a sid box from bare metal last week, and am having > > problems getting the nVidia drivers to load. I tried this under 2.4.23 > >

Re: Unable to boot new kernel 2.6.0

2003-12-29 Thread Terence Y. Wong
have you run lilo before rebooting? -Terence P.S. it is better to leave the original image section (i.e. the one for vmlinuz-2.2.19) unchanged and add another section for the new kernel, because your system can still be able to boot when the new kernel fails. On 2003-12-29, Shahid Bh

Re: Sound Problems With Debian 3.0r1 testing/unstable

2003-12-29 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
Sebastian Kapfer wrote: alsa-base does not contain any sound drivers. alsa-base is the init.d script which loads sound drivers (and a few other technical details). Do you have an alsa-modules package installed which matches your kernel? (I assume you're running a 2.4 series kernel. 2.6 has ALSA bu

Re: Unable to boot new kernel 2.6.0

2003-12-29 Thread Josh Metzler
On Monday 29 December 2003 06:29 pm, Shahid Bhatti wrote: > Hi All, > I have installed the new kernel deb package 2.6.0 and after configuring > lilo and rebooting I am not able to boot the machine successfully. I am > getting the following error: > --

Re: Good front end for small postgress dtabases?

2003-12-29 Thread Bob Billson
On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 01:15:54PM -0500, Paul Morgan penned: > > I need to create some small databses in postgress (christmas card list, > > household inventory). What choices do I have for creating user input forms, > > and reports in Debian? > > pgaccess I'm curious. Is there a similar progra

Re: OO1.1 fails to start

2003-12-29 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:54:14AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:14:12PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Do you guys mean MDI (Multiple Document Interface) rather than MDA (Mail > > Delivery Agent)? :) > > Slap me with a wet noodle... I didn't catch that through the entire

Re: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:21:27PM -0600, Nathan Eric Norman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:42:11AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 17:15 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: > > > > > > Even with huge internet links, radio is a problem. My corp has > > > upwards of 50,000 PCs

Re: MAKEDEV problem

2003-12-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 06:17:32PM -0600, Nick Welch wrote: | On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 07:10:36PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:48:10PM -0600, Nick Welch wrote: | > | Just did an install of sarge via the beta debian-installer image, and | > | MAKEDEV is telling m

Re: Spamassassin on Debian HOWTO?

2003-12-29 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:12:46PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > /root/woody-chroot/bin/ and copy bash into it? > > Yes, and make sure to copy any libraries it needs too. I'm hoping the root shell doesn't require much, but to simplify my life I think I'll just copy busybox there and name it "ba

Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot - Still have problems

2003-12-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 16:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --snip-- > Any help with dual booting XP and Linux with XP boot loader will be much > appreciated. Just out of curiosity, is there some reason you HAVE to use the XP boot loader? I've found it much easier to use LILO as my bootloader and just c

Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:38:23 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:36:03PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: >> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:53:11 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: >> > Whether the *battle* is something you care about... that's for you to >> > decide. >> >> Which is why I restricted m

Re: cd rom wont work

2003-12-29 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 20:10:05 +0100, Joe9747 wrote: > my cd rom will play dvds but wont read any other kind of cd? > name=GENERATOR> my cd rom will play dvds but wont read any > other kind of cd? A DVD is not a kind of CD. -- Best Regards, | Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into Sebastian

Re: Sound Problems With Debian 3.0r1 testing/unstable

2003-12-29 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:00:47 +0100, Joseph A. Nagy wrote: > Subject: Sound Problems With Debian 3.0r1 testing/unstable Debian 3.0 is no longer unstable ;-) > I have ARTS, ESD, and Alsa installed. The only program that has sound > (so far) is XMMS which uses the OSS Sound Driver. Other apps such

Re: MAKEDEV problem

2003-12-29 Thread Nick Welch
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 07:10:36PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:48:10PM -0600, Nick Welch wrote: > | Just did an install of sarge via the beta debian-installer image, and > | MAKEDEV is telling me this: > | > | /sbin/MAKEDEV: line 1: major_device-mapper=254: com

Re: MAKEDEV problem

2003-12-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:48:10PM -0600, Nick Welch wrote: | Just did an install of sarge via the beta debian-installer image, and | MAKEDEV is telling me this: | | /sbin/MAKEDEV: line 1: major_device-mapper=254: command not found This looks like it is supposed to be a shell script, and in the s

RE: USB watches [Currently a work in progress, but mostly working]

2003-12-29 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> > Andrew Pritchard wrote: > > I was given a rather funky Xmas present - a USB flashdrive/watch > > (http://www.memixdirect.com) which says it's bootable. It also claims to be > > Linux 2.4 compatible, though I've not yet tried connecting it to a Linux > > box. > > At 256 mb, that's big enough to

Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:38:23PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:36:03PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:53:11 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > Whether the *battle* is something you care about... that's for you to > > > decide. > > > > Which is why I re

Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot - Still have problems

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 05:45:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I also tried GRUB with GRUB installed on /dev/hda which is my first hard > disk. Upon rebooting the words GRUB were printed at the top left corner of > the screen and the machine simply hung after that. To install grub I would d

Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-29 Thread Johann Koenig
On Wednesday January 1 at 01:09pm "A.L.Meyers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Wed, 01 Jan 1997 13:09:41 +0100 Please fix your clock. I tried Emailing you off-list, but you do not provide a valid email address. Please fix that as well. -- -johann koenig Now Playing: The Allman Brothers Band

Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-29 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:36:03PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:53:11 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > Whether the *battle* is something you care about... that's for you to > > decide. > > Which is why I restricted my comments to PCs only. With a single user PC, > it is extreme

Re: knode: fonts appear double-spaced.

2003-12-29 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 01:09:44PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > I think this means that xterm -fa uses FreeType2 and the configuration > in /etc/fonts/. And I think this means you're wrong, since: rei $ ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm libXft.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.1 (0x40025000)

Unable to boot new kernel 2.6.0

2003-12-29 Thread Shahid Bhatti
Hi All, I have installed the new kernel deb package 2.6.0 and after configuring lilo and rebooting I am not able to boot the machine successfully. I am getting the following error: VFS:Cannot open root device "301" or unknwon-block(

Re: Slightly failed Hard-Disk-Upgrade

2003-12-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 21:57 GMT, Kevin Mark penned: > > --QTprm0S8XgL7H0Dt > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:47:18AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 12:

Re: dpkg/ucf hang (was: Re: [users] Problem in starting OOo and its reinstallation)

2003-12-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:43:32PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 12:02:58PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > | Stephen Liu([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > | > | > One problem I have encountered - during debconf when it came to; > He did, most likely. > | >

XP-LINUX Dual Boot - Still have problems

2003-12-29 Thread abhay
Hi: I have a Dell Dimension 8300 which came preloaded with XP on the first hard drive. I added a second hard drive and installed Debian Woody on it. I installed LILO with MBR on /dev/hdb1 which is my / partition. I made a dos boot CD using instructions at bblcd and used loadlin to boot into lin

Re: Slightly failed Hard-Disk-Upgrade

2003-12-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:47:18AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 12:48 GMT, Kevin Mark penned: > > Personally I use DD to copy but I know others like cp -a ;-) > > I tried to use dd to copy a 2GB hard drive onto a 20GB drive, and the > system saw the end result as a 2GB,

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:19:53 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 at 22:29 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: >> >> A bit of trivia: For any given manufacturer of both IDE and SCSI >> disks, the disks themselves are often (usually) mechanically >> identical, whether IDE or SCSI. It's just

Re: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-29 Thread Nathan Eric Norman
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:42:11AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 17:15 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: > > > > Even with huge internet links, radio is a problem. My corp has > > upwards of 50,000 PCs, you can imagine the problem and associated cost > > if rules weren't strict

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:21:40 -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: > > ...and it makes me think that I can put lines into /etc/apt/preferences > and/or /etc/apt/apt.conf that will cause "apt-get upgrade" to upgrade me to > the testing release. Is that correct? If so, exactly what do I need to put >

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:55:04AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 at 19:49 GMT, A.L.Meyers penned: > > "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ has a .list file for every package > >> on your system. I'm guessing that's what apt is looking for

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:21:40 -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: > Hello, > ...and it makes me think that I can put lines into /etc/apt/preferences > and/or /etc/apt/apt.conf that will cause "apt-get upgrade" to upgrade me to > the testing release. Is that correct? If so, exactly what do I need to p

Re: Getting the penguin on linux 2.6

2003-12-29 Thread csj
On 28. December 2003 at 1:29PM -0800, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 07:16:56AM +0800, csj wrote: > > Any pointers? > > Don't sweat the chrome if it otherwise just works. Well, I just found out that the names of some linux 2.4 .config OPTIONS= changed a little

Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.20 does not match kernel data.

2003-12-29 Thread Daryl Williams
helo everyone. i just installed debian stable unto an old pentium pro, and all seemed to go well. however, when i do a ps aux, i get the following warning: {module_list} {module_list_R__ver_module_list} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.20 does not match kernel data. what'd i do wrong? is this a proble

Re: lilo fails, /dev/sda not readable

2003-12-29 Thread Andrés Roldán
Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 3:05pm, Andrés Roldán wrote: > > :Add the line: > : > :disk=/dev/sda inaccessible > : > :to the lilo.conf file. > > Thanks! That fixed it. But why does lilo care about /dev/sda in the > first place? If you see the output of li

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 at 22:29 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: > > A bit of trivia: For any given manufacturer of both IDE and SCSI > disks, the disks themselves are often (usually) mechanically > identical, whether IDE or SCSI. It's just the controllers which are > different. > I ran this past my fianc

Re: Slightly failed Hard-Disk-Upgrade

2003-12-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 20:04 GMT, Joris penned: > Monique Y. Herman verraste ons met de boodschap: > >> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 12:48 GMT, Kevin Mark penned: >>> Personally I use DD to copy but I know others like cp -a ;-) >> >> I tried to use dd to copy a 2GB hard drive onto a 20GB drive, and the

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-29 Thread Hugo S. Carrer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:21:40 -0500 Anthony DiSante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > ... > ...and/or /etc/apt/apt.conf that will cause "apt-get upgrade" to upgrade me to > the testing release. Is that correct? If so, exactly what do I need to p

Re: X refuses to load nVidia module

2003-12-29 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:18:40PM -0500, Bradley M Alexander wrote: > I just built a sid box from bare metal last week, and am having problems > getting the nVidia drivers to load. I tried this under 2.4.23 and 2.6.0, > and in both cases, the module refuses to load. At this point, I'm not sure > i

Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-29 Thread Anthony DiSante
Hello, I've been using Slackware for a little over a year now, and have loved it except for one thing: installing programs. Most of the time it goes just fine, but the 10% or 20% of the time when it doesn't, it's incredibly frustrating. After spending an entire day last week trying to get Tux

MAKEDEV problem, and 2.6 kernel-related sound problem

2003-12-29 Thread Nick Welch
Just did an install of sarge via the beta debian-installer image, and MAKEDEV is telling me this: /sbin/MAKEDEV: line 1: major_device-mapper=254: command not found I've updated and then uninstalled libdevmapper1.00 and it has no effect, and that's the only related package I could really find. ma

X refuses to load nVidia module

2003-12-29 Thread Bradley M Alexander
I just built a sid box from bare metal last week, and am having problems getting the nVidia drivers to load. I tried this under 2.4.23 and 2.6.0, and in both cases, the module refuses to load. At this point, I'm not sure if it is a module loader problem or within X. X itself is reporting: XFree86

Re: sis900 module will not load on boot

2003-12-29 Thread ope
I knew it was more simple than what I was trying to do :-) Thanks for the response and simple solution. I will give it a try. --- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 12:10:54 -0800 (PST) > ope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > > However, if I 'modprobe sis900' the m

Re: knode: fonts appear double-spaced.

2003-12-29 Thread Ross Boylan
For those following along at home, I may have left the wrong impression. I mentioned XftConfig for my font configuration, but that's actually the earlier version of font configuration. /etc/fonts/ and the fontconfig package are the successors. I'm not sure which of these, if either, xterm uses, e

Re: Woody

2003-12-29 Thread Christian Wiedel
Thanks. I've looked it up, and I'm not as confused anymore :) On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:51:29 -0500 "Frederic Lavoie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > have a look to this page. > > http://www.debian.org/releases/ > > --- > Frédéric Lavoie > Gatineau (Hull), Quebec > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.cl

Re: Woody

2003-12-29 Thread Frederic Lavoie
have a look to this page. http://www.debian.org/releases/ --- Frédéric Lavoie Gatineau (Hull), Quebec [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clubphotopolarise.org - Original Message - From: "Christian Wiedel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 3:43 PM Subje

Woody

2003-12-29 Thread Christian Wiedel
Hi. I'm a bit confused. What's the difference between Woody and Sarge? Is it just a differnet name for two versions? I can't find it on Debians homepage... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lilo fails, /dev/sda not readable

2003-12-29 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 3:05pm, Andrés Roldán wrote: :Add the line: : :disk=/dev/sda inaccessible : :to the lilo.conf file. Thanks! That fixed it. But why does lilo care about /dev/sda in the first place? Patrick :Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : :> Hello: :> :> I've been away fro

dpkg/ucf hang (was: Re: [users] Problem in starting OOo and its reinstallation)

2003-12-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 12:02:58PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: | Stephen Liu([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: | | > One problem I have encountered - during debconf when it came to; | > Configuration file `/etc/foomatic/filter.conf' | > ==> File on system created by you or by a script. | >

Re: sis900 module will not load on boot

2003-12-29 Thread Albert Dengg
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 12:10:54 -0800 (PST) ope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > However, if I 'modprobe sis900' the module loads > without any errors and the network is available. So > the module is installed and in working order, it is > just not getting loaded when the system boots. How > can I

Re: on ./configure I get a gcc C Compiler error: what am I missing ??

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 08:58:43PM +0100, Axel Burwitz wrote: > Now: > when I want to do: "./configure" in the sources directory, I get the error > message > > "error: C compiler cannot create executables" I think this may be because you are missing libc6-dev. Without it you can't compile anythi

Re: Slightly failed Hard-Disk-Upgrade

2003-12-29 Thread Joris
Monique Y. Herman verraste ons met de boodschap: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 12:48 GMT, Kevin Mark penned: >> Personally I use DD to copy but I know others like cp -a ;-) > > I tried to use dd to copy a 2GB hard drive onto a 20GB drive, and the > system saw the end result as a 2GB, presumably due to

Re: lilo fails, /dev/sda not readable

2003-12-29 Thread Andrés Roldán
Add the line: disk=/dev/sda inaccessible to the lilo.conf file. Cheers. Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello: > > I've been away from this list for a while. Happy New Year to everyone! > > I've recently compiled a new kernel, 2.4.22, the "Debian way," but when I > go to install

on ./configure I get a gcc C Compiler error: what am I missing ??

2003-12-29 Thread Axel Burwitz
Hi, sorry for the maybe beginners question, but I have following problem: stil on my struggle to get SB Audigy2 to run in Debian Sarge, I want to use sources, her from ALSA and for emu10k1 driver. Now: when I want to do: "./configure" in the sources directory, I get the error message "error: C

Re: PATH on root login

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 04:01:30AM +1100, George Ogata wrote: > Why does the mere existence of a `.bash_profile' affect the default > value of PATH? This is from bash (1) in the section INVOCATION: "When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter- active she

sis900 module will not load on boot

2003-12-29 Thread ope
I just installed Sarge on a machine and have run into a problem getting the sis900 module to load at boot time. The machine has an onboard SIS Ethernet controller. Originally the machine the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel and could load the modules correctly. I upgrade to kernel-image-2.4.22-1-k7 and it is

Re: Problems with dpkg-reconfigure passwd

2003-12-29 Thread Laurence J. Lane
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:23:47PM -0300, Hugo S. Carrer wrote: > Whats going on? Enable md5 passwords in the various /etc/pam.d/ files, at the least. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:42:11AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > I wonder if a company could get brownie points with its employees and > save bandwidth at the same time by proxying/caching some internet radio > stations for their use? Only one "user" for as many internal users as > wanted it?

Re: Advice on usb pendrive purchase

2003-12-29 Thread Jason Lunz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Virtually all of them work. For small values of "work". It's really not so simple. I know the timestamp is a bit old, but see: http://www2.one-eyed-alien.net/~mdharm/linux-usb/ and in particular, http://www2.one-eyed-alien.net/~mdharm/linux-usb/target_offenses.txt I

PATH on root login

2003-12-29 Thread George Ogata
Hello, when I log in at the console as root, how is my PATH determined? If I have no `.bash_profile' file, I get: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin/:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11 ... but if I have even an empty `.bash_profile', it is: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/ga

Re: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-29 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Monique Y. Herman said on Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:42:11AM -0700: > I wonder if a company could get brownie points with its employees and > save bandwidth at the same time by proxying/caching some internet radio > stations for their use? Only one "user" for as many internal users as > wanted it? >

Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:53:11 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:39:52AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: >> This is no longer true. Most current IDE controllers support various >> DMA schemes. Like ATA-100, ATA-133, etc. So with IDE the controller >> now bypasses the CPU too. > >

lilo fails, /dev/sda not readable

2003-12-29 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: I've been away from this list for a while. Happy New Year to everyone! I've recently compiled a new kernel, 2.4.22, the "Debian way," but when I go to install it, lilo bails out with the error: Fatal: VolumeID read error: sector 0 of /dev/sda not readable I get the same error when I try

Re: [NAL] Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-29 Thread Rob Sims
On Monday 29 December 2003 09:39 am, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:36:49AM +, Rus Foster wrote: > > > Interesting, Paul. So are you saying that SCSI hard drives are simply > > > not worth the extra money or that the advantages of SCSI are in the > > > interface and not

Re: nvidia-kernel & 2.6.0

2003-12-29 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 03:38:19PM -0500, Jerome R. Acks wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 07:44:49PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > Hey Folks, > > > > now that there are patches for the nvidia non-free drivers > > (http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/nvidia-2.6-Debian/) > > I used this method, but had

Re: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 11:42:11 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 17:15 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: >> >> Even with huge internet links, radio is a problem. My corp has >> upwards of 50,000 PCs, you can imagine the problem and associated cost >> if rules weren't strict and the p

Re: which email server to choose

2003-12-29 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Will Trillich said on Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 01:54:06AM -0600: > so, what's the best imap/webmail solution for a woody server? :) It really depends on your site. The three most well known are probably uw-imap, courier-imap, and Cyrus. > advantages, disadvantages, why, why not... Cyrus will scale

Problems with dpkg-reconfigure passwd

2003-12-29 Thread Hugo S. Carrer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi: I'm running on a Sarge laptop. The default length of my passwords is 8 characters, well I'want more. So here' what I do: corky:~# dpkg-reconfigure passwd Password setup - -- Shadow passwords make your system more secure because nob

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 at 19:49 GMT, A.L.Meyers penned: > "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ has a .list file for every package >> on your system. I'm guessing that's what apt is looking for. > > Bingo, Monique. And precisely that directory entry apparently was o

Re: problem with menuconfig

2003-12-29 Thread Paul Schwartz
Andy Firman wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:47:31AM -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: I'm trying to build a kernel. Do 'make menuconfig' in an xterm window, and it comes back Unable to find the Ncurses libraries The following are installed [Woody] libncurses5 ncurses-base ncurses-bi

Re: Slightly failed Hard-Disk-Upgrade

2003-12-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 12:48 GMT, Kevin Mark penned: > Personally I use DD to copy but I know others like cp -a ;-) I tried to use dd to copy a 2GB hard drive onto a 20GB drive, and the system saw the end result as a 2GB, presumably due to filesystem metadata. This was ext2. Has this not been a

Re: 2 NIC's, assigned in wrong order

2003-12-29 Thread Laurence J. Lane
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 07:22:04PM -0700, Dean Allen Provins wrote: [ parts omitted ] > That seemed like such a good suggestion. I created scripts to assign > the desired names to the desired MAC addresses and placed them in > /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/, and then added invocation in the interface

Re: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 17:15 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: > > Even with huge internet links, radio is a problem. My corp has > upwards of 50,000 PCs, you can imagine the problem and associated cost > if rules weren't strict and the penalties non-trivial ("not excluding > termination") > > If you're

Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:53:11AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:39:52AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > This is no longer true. Most current IDE controllers support various > > DMA schemes. Like ATA-100, ATA-133, etc. So with IDE the controller > > now bypasses the CPU t

cd rom wont work

2003-12-29 Thread Joe9747
my cd rom will play dvds but wont read any other kind of cd?

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