Re: why debian

2004-11-12 Thread Brian Nelson
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 08:53:58PM -0600, Tim Kelley wrote: > On Friday 12 November 2004 02:11, ken keanon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > There are so many distros out there its confusing. Any reason(s) why Debian > > should be the preferred choice? > > > > Any statistics from any source(s) to proof the po

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-12 Thread Douglas Ward
downtime null wrote: in my very bried testing, everything seems to be up to date and in working order now. I remember that, in 2002/3 when KDE 3.x was first released in Debian, there were problems for some users moving from 2.2->3.x, or kde.org packages -> official Debian packages; almost all of

Re: why debian

2004-11-12 Thread Justin Rosander
Ken, I've used Icepack, my personal favorite, unfortunately the distro is extremely dormant :(. I liked it because it was simple, and technically my first real linux distro experience! I've used Mandrake, for 10 minutes. Then I decided I didn't like it and moved onto . . . Debian-woody, then De

Re: Can't mount partition on slave drive

2004-11-12 Thread Ali Alphan Bayazit
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 21:06 -0600, downtime null wrote: > > mount: /dev/hdb1 already mounted or /other busy > > It also does not show up in dmesg. What could be causing this? What > can > I do to fix it? > try using /dev/evms/hdb1 instead of /dev/hdb1. -- Ali Alphan Bayazit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: why debian - longer

2004-11-12 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 12 November 2004 22:24, Alvin Oga wrote: thanks for your response > > Well, first, some very general things: > > just some comments ... > > > 1. Debian is not a commercial organization, but a protected non-profit. > > This means they cannot be bought out. > > people can and will

Getting htdig to work with apache2

2004-11-12 Thread dbarker
I've been reading the article on setting up an htdig index on NewsForge. Everything seems to work just fine until I try and run the search form. The page comes up but whenever I click on the search button I get a download dialog because the htsearch is a "BIN file." I've been tearing my hair out

Re: why debian - longer

2004-11-12 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 08:24:14PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=independence > - lots of derivatives of debian ... good or bad ?? It was explained to me years ago that Debian was created (in part) to be a basis for other distributions. -- Carl F

Re: [OT?] recreating lost iPod database

2004-11-12 Thread Jules Dubois
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:11:22 -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i just ended up restoring the thing How unfortunate. > i tried using ephpod on a windows machine to restore the database, but > when i did, it would prompt me for each mp3 as it was stored in the It could have used some mangling of the

Re: why debian - longer

2004-11-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya just atarted to read the thread ... interesting .. hey tim.. good summary ... but ... :-) On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Tim Kelley wrote: > > Any statistics from any source(s) to proof the popularity of Debian? # # if you believe their numbers; some statistics of "popularity" vs # "downloads" v

Re: Can't mount partition on slave drive

2004-11-12 Thread downtime null
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 22:03, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:51:31PM -0600, downtime null wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 21:32, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:26:57PM -0600, downtime null wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 21:08, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > > > #

Re: Can't mount partition on slave drive

2004-11-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:51:31PM -0600, downtime null wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 21:32, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:26:57PM -0600, downtime null wrote: > > > On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 21:08, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > # mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/other > mount: /dev/hdb1 already moun

Rhythmbox and EQ?

2004-11-12 Thread Chad Davis
Greetings, I am looking for a way to EQ my output from mp3 players such as Rhythmbox. It seems the only way I can EQ any mp3s are through xmms or mpg123? Anyone know any other options? -- Chad Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Squirrelmail on stable: change_password plugin

2004-11-12 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:57:11AM -0500, Bojan Baros wrote: > Hey Carl. I would look into getting a newer version of Squirrelmail, > either from Testing/Unstable (1.43a) or getting a tarball from > http://www.squirrelmail.org/ . Actually I used debs from http://www.qbalt.com, found through http

Re: Can't mount partition on slave drive

2004-11-12 Thread downtime null
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 21:32, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:26:57PM -0600, downtime null wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 21:08, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > Disk /dev/hdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512

Re: Can't mount partition on slave drive

2004-11-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:26:57PM -0600, downtime null wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 21:08, Kevin Mark wrote: > Disk /dev/hdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > >Device Boot Start End

Re: OT: Re: why debian

2004-11-12 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:45:17PM +0700, Eddy Jacob wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:33:54 +0100, Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > http://beta.search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=best+operating+system > > > > and for sure i trust them... =) > > > > > > Andrea > > > > Surprise Wind

Re: Can't mount partition on slave drive

2004-11-12 Thread downtime null
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 21:08, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:06:10PM -0600, downtime null wrote: > > I just finished a major update thanks to several of you and to aptitude, > > but now I can't mount my slave drive. It was working before the update, > > now it's not. The entry in /et

Re: Upgrading to sarge

2004-11-12 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 12 November 2004 09:48 am, Ed Curtis wrote: > Just want to know if I'm following the correct path here. I set up a > mirror test system to see if I could accomplish this correctly before > attempting it on my production server. I currently run Woody. I ran > apt-get update then apt-get up

Re: Can't mount partition on slave drive

2004-11-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:06:10PM -0600, downtime null wrote: > I just finished a major update thanks to several of you and to aptitude, > but now I can't mount my slave drive. It was working before the update, > now it's not. The entry in /etc/fstab looks fine, but it's not listed in > the output

Can't mount partition on slave drive

2004-11-12 Thread downtime null
I just finished a major update thanks to several of you and to aptitude, but now I can't mount my slave drive. It was working before the update, now it's not. The entry in /etc/fstab looks fine, but it's not listed in the output of 'mount'. I also can't mount it with 'mount /dev/hdb1 /mountpoint'.

Re: Howto get more than 800X600 on Radon 8500.

2004-11-12 Thread Ivan Teliatnikov
Before making any changes backup your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 If you have Radeon 8500 check this link, it has very comprehensive instructions on howto build Radeon Drivers and configure XFree86. http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html If can easily do it by hand as r

Re: Off-topic? X-Accept-Language: header

2004-11-12 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Mike White: > s. keeling wrote: > >Incoming from Mike White: > >[snip] > > > >Point of order: what is the point of that ten mile long > >"X-Accept-Language:" header of yours? Is there any plausible reason > > Funny story: I used to get all sorts of Mozilla dialog boxes coming up >

Re: why debian

2004-11-12 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 12 November 2004 02:11, ken keanon wrote: > Hi, > > There are so many distros out there its confusing. Any reason(s) why Debian > should be the preferred choice? > > Any statistics from any source(s) to proof the popularity of Debian? > > I'm in the dark waiting to be enlightened. Well,

Re: Password Expiration on Samba 3.0Beta2+RC4 on Debian Testing

2004-11-12 Thread Luca Citi
I use Samba 3.0.7 without ldap or kerberos or winbind. I managed to change the password expiration time with net accounts /maxpwage:180 /domain from a WinXP client connected to the Samba server. __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-12 Thread downtime null
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 01:47, Alan Chandler wrote: > One thing to try is aptitude. Its a text based. but cursor controlled front > end to apt. You can use this to wander round the dependency tree looking to > see which packages will not install and why (or which will not and why). > aptitude i

Re: Re: Re: nvidia driver "disappeared" - SOLVED

2004-11-12 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > Anyway, you've saved me from another evening of my six-year-old daughter > > being upset about not being able to play Tuxracer. > > Yikes! very important ... bad consequences :-) .. worst than rm -rf / - rm is fixable - kids are n

Re: ip masquerading

2004-11-12 Thread Daniel Asarnow
Here's the output of iptables -L -v -t nat: Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT 1 packets, 60 bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source

Re: Off-topic? X-Accept-Language: header

2004-11-12 Thread Mike White
s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Mike White: [snip] Point of order: what is the point of that ten mile long "X-Accept-Language:" header of yours? Is there any plausible reason for all of that? Just wondering since I've never seen that done before, and you must be one primo linguist if all that's r

Re: Re: Re: nvidia driver "disappeared" - SOLVED

2004-11-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Anyway, you've saved me from another evening of my six-year-old daughter > being upset about not being able to play Tuxracer. Yikes! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Off-topic? X-Accept-Language: header (was: [Debian] AMD 64 bit architecture)

2004-11-12 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Mike White: [snip] Point of order: what is the point of that ten mile long "X-Accept-Language:" header of yours? Is there any plausible reason for all of that? Just wondering since I've never seen that done before, and you must be one primo linguist if all that's real. -- Any t

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-12 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 06:14:45PM +, Joao Clemente wrote: > William Ballard wrote: > >Including "nospam" in your email name helps a lot. > > And how do you subscribe to the list with "nospam" in the e-mail > address?!? You'll never receive an e-mail to that address! It works just fine. I m

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Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-12 Thread Robert Storey
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:03:01 + Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The good news is that there are many ways of dealing with spam using > Debian, even so far as blocking it at smtp time and so most of it > never reaches your machine. Below are a range of packages that deal > with spam

Re: why debian

2004-11-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:41:35 -0500, Rob Bochan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Friday 12 November 2004 03:11 am, ken keanon wrote: >> Hi, >> >> There are so many distros out there its confusing. Any reason(s) >> why Debian should be the preferred choice? snip> > This is a great essay written p

Re: [Debian] AMD 64 bit architecture

2004-11-12 Thread Mike White
Ron Johnson wrote: One thing that jumps right out is that the w32 codecs needed by mplayer, avifile-win32-plugin, etc are still 32 bit. Documentation for running those 32 bit binaries in a 32 bit chroot system is available. Runs flawlessly on my pure amd 64 ubuntu system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: mysql db creation: SOLVED

2004-11-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Francisco Borges wrote: » On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 07:25:38AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: It says in my README.Debian to do this: /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'enter-your-good-new-password-here' Did u do that? Hum, I guess the right answer was I thought I had... After nullman's comment,

Re: create GRUB boot disk (sarge)

2004-11-12 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A quick one (can't find answers by searching www.debian.org), but how do I > create a boot (rescue?) floppy for sarge which seems to use GRUB? (I tried > mkboot as per LILO but it didn't seem a happy bunny.) Thanks, Michael gazillion ways to make a

Re: Re: Re: nvidia driver "disappeared" - SOLVED

2004-11-12 Thread David Bruce
> Right-- you need to install the nvidia-glx package too. That indeed was the problem. The part I can't understand is how nvidia-glx got uninstalled. As far as I can tell, it somehow got removed by a recent dist-upgrade, but I don't really understand that either, because I don't have any pack

Re: Dell Latitude D800 w/ NVIDIA driver on Sarge, trouble setting resolution to 1920x1200

2004-11-12 Thread Ralph Seichter
Eric Dickner wrote: > I think you are SOL but you should ask the www.xfree86.org mailing > list to be sure. Well, the 1920x1200 resolution is fully supported by SuSE Linux 8.x and 9.x, but as I have only one D800 available, I cannot compare the SuSE settings and files with a Debian Sarge installati

Re: Squirrelmail on stable: change_password plugin

2004-11-12 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:57:11AM -0500, Bojan Baros wrote: > Hey Carl. I would look into getting a newer version of Squirrelmail, > either from Testing/Unstable (1.43a) or getting a tarball from > http://www.squirrelmail.org/ . > > 1.2 is rather old, in terms of Squirrelmail. Surely you jest.

gcj and kaffe

2004-11-12 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, I compiled the file: HelloWorldApp.java class HelloWorldApp { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello World!"); } } gcj -C HelloWorldApp.java the compiler has generated the file: HelloWorldApp.class. Then, I ran, kaffe HelloWorldApp, and I got

Re: Dell Latitude D800 w/ NVIDIA driver on Sarge, trouble setting resolution to 1920x1200

2004-11-12 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Ralph Seichter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also tried "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree82", but > I there is no > 1920x1200 resolution which I could choose (only > 1920x1440 pixels are > available, which is too big). Are there some > configuration options > which I overlooked? I don't thi

Re: now what was that font package I changed options in?

2004-11-12 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello H. S. (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > 2 or 3 days ago when I updated my Sarge box, there was a package which > asked me what kind of display I had so that it could help with the > font rendering on it. The dpkg-reconfigure that ran during > installation/upgrade of that package asked for one

Re: now what was that font package I changed options in?

2004-11-12 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 14:57:40 -0500, H. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2 or 3 days ago when I updated my Sarge box, there was a package which > asked me what kind of display I had so that it could help with the font > rendering on it. The dpkg-reconfigure that ran during > installation/upgrade o

now what was that font package I changed options in?

2004-11-12 Thread H. S.
2 or 3 days ago when I updated my Sarge box, there was a package which asked me what kind of display I had so that it could help with the font rendering on it. The dpkg-reconfigure that ran during installation/upgrade of that package asked for one one of the three choices: automatically(IIRC or

Re: Re: nvidia driver "disappeared"

2004-11-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > First of course be sure that /lib/modules/2.6.9/nvidia/nvidia.ko exists. > > That's still the standard location for that driver, AFAIK. > > Yes, it's there. > > > Run lsmod | grep nvidia. Is the nvidia module already loaded? If not, > > then modprobe nvidia. What's the result? Now ca

mozilla never starts maximized

2004-11-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! On Sarge I installed Mozilla 1.8a4 from source. I also have mozilla 1.5 from source. Windowmanager is fvwm. Use Nvidia as XFree86 driver. I once experimented with nv. Had to use modelines which I don't with Nvidia. Went back to using Nvidia. Since then mozilla never starts maximized. Not

Upgrading to sarge

2004-11-12 Thread Ed Curtis
Just want to know if I'm following the correct path here. I set up a mirror test system to see if I could accomplish this correctly before attempting it on my production server. I currently run Woody. I ran apt-get update then apt-get upgrade to make sure my system was up to date. I then changed a

People have missed the main reason (was Re: why debian)

2004-11-12 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 07:59:32 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >ken keanon wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> There are so many distros out there its confusing. Any reason(s) why >> Debian should be the preferred choice? I'm disappointed that everyone has missed the main reason to choose Debian o

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-12 Thread Joao Clemente
William Ballard wrote: Including "nospam" in your email name helps a lot. And how do you subscribe to the list with "nospam" in the e-mail address?!? You'll never receive an e-mail to that address! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: smp: am i seeing double?

2004-11-12 Thread linux
Yes, I'd clicked it was HT. I've had a quick trawl of web pages but not come up with any "make sure you turn HT off" issues so I'm going to leave it on for now. Time permitting I might play around and see if/how HT affects the running of my main codes (MPI processing of atmospheric physics/chemi

Re: smp: am i seeing double?

2004-11-12 Thread Jens Bech Madsen
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:14:28 -, linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A quick question about hardware. I'm 99% sure my box has 2 Xeon processors in > it. I had installed the sarge kernel then got the > kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686-smp_2.4.27-1.backports.org.1_i386.deb > package and installed smoo

broken dependnecies; was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?

2004-11-12 Thread Peter Robinson
(...) > > Remember, broken dependencies broken dependencies are not allowed to exist. > The dependency > database must always be consistent. > I have been noticing that apt-get deinstalls g++ repeatedly after I install other programs (mabye 50% of the time). I am new to Debian...why does this

Re: Re: nvidia driver "disappeared"

2004-11-12 Thread David Bruce
> First of course be sure that /lib/modules/2.6.9/nvidia/nvidia.ko exists. > That's still the standard location for that driver, AFAIK. Yes, it's there. > Run lsmod | grep nvidia. Is the nvidia module already loaded? If not, > then modprobe nvidia. What's the result? Now can X start? lsm

Fw: am i seeing double?

2004-11-12 Thread linux
I'll answer it myself: "hyper threading"! :) - Original Message - From: "linux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 5:14 PM Subject: smp: am i seeing double? A quick question about hardware. I'm 99% sure my box has 2 Xeon processors in it. I had i

Re: Blackdown

2004-11-12 Thread Wim De Smet
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:27:06 -0600, Rich Wellner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wim De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I must say I think that every user that uses this operating system should > > have the basic capabilities to do this stuff. If you do not, maybe it is > > time for you to lea

Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?

2004-11-12 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 11:08:35PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:46:31PM +0800, cwinl-debian-user wrote: > > But my mysql server shouldn't be remove. > > how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server? > > Of course it should be removed. The 'mysql-server' package depe

Re: Dell Latitude D800 w/ NVIDIA driver on Sarge, trouble setting resolution to 1920x1200

2004-11-12 Thread Laurent CARON
Ralph Seichter wrote: I've successfully installed the latest NVIDIA driver on a Dell Latitude D800 running Debian Sarge, but now I'm struggling with the screen resolution. The D800 LCD monitor has a unusual resolution of 1920x1200, and manually adding this mode to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 did not seem

Re: LILO menu wiped off MBR

2004-11-12 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 12 November 2004 06:09 am, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > That should not have been affected. Just edit /etc/lilo.conf to > include a suitable stanza pointing at your windows partition and > re-run lilo before rebooting. If it was only a re-install in the > same place, I'd expect your old

Re: Blackdown

2004-11-12 Thread Rich Wellner
Wim De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I must say I think that every user that uses this operating system should > have the basic capabilities to do this stuff. If you do not, maybe it is > time for you to learn them. You need to learn how to use the system you > have, not try to dumb everythin

Re: scsi with 2.6.8-smp kernel

2004-11-12 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 12 November 2004 07:26 am, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > I used the sarge debian-installer to install with a 2.6 kernel. My > My ISA adaptec scsi2 card was not found, of course, but I can't find > any adaptec drivers in the distribution, my superdisk is recognized > twice, and my ISA cdr

smp: am i seeing double?

2004-11-12 Thread linux
A quick question about hardware. I'm 99% sure my box has 2 Xeon processors in it. I had installed the sarge kernel then got the kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686-smp_2.4.27-1.backports.org.1_i386.deb package and installed smoothly using `dpkg -i `, rebooted into that kernel. I now seem to be seeing 4

Dell Latitude D800 w/ NVIDIA driver on Sarge, trouble setting resolution to 1920x1200

2004-11-12 Thread Ralph Seichter
I've successfully installed the latest NVIDIA driver on a Dell Latitude D800 running Debian Sarge, but now I'm struggling with the screen resolution. The D800 LCD monitor has a unusual resolution of 1920x1200, and manually adding this mode to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 did not seem to help. The screen d

Re: Blackdown

2004-11-12 Thread Wim De Smet
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:49:55 +, Pedro M (Morphix User) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jules Dubois escribió: > > > > >On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:10:03 +, Pedro M (Morphix User) wrote: > >>VSJ escribió: > >>>Read these instructions: > >>>http://serios.net/content/debian/java.php > >>>to build y

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Including "nospam" in your email name helps a lot. how come ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge Cd Installation

2004-11-12 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Paul Tsai (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have downloaded a weekly build of sarge and burned 9 of 13 cd's onto > rewriteables (ran out). Everything is working really nicely, and I'm > quite impressed. I am however wondering if there is a way for me to > combine the iso's (or just the pac

Re: Sarge Cd Installation

2004-11-12 Thread Paul Tsai
Thanx for the advice. I unfortunately don't have internet access at home, which is why I am working off the cd's. Is there a way to change apt.conf to look off a hard drive location? Paul Emil Perhinschi wrote: You can mirror it with debmirror ... you find debmirror in sarge. for ex., if you

scsi with 2.6.8-smp kernel

2004-11-12 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
I used the sarge debian-installer to install with a 2.6 kernel. My My ISA adaptec scsi2 card was not found, of course, but I can't find any adaptec drivers in the distribution, my superdisk is recognized twice, and my ISA cdrom r/w at hdd doesn't have any scsi emulation for writing. What happened

Re: Sarge Cd Installation

2004-11-12 Thread Emil Perhinschi
You can mirror it with debmirror ... you find debmirror in sarge. for ex., if you want to put the mirror in /home/ftp/debian, get Sarge (testing) and the sections main,contrib,non-free for i386: debmirror /home/ftp/debian/ --nosource --passive \ --host=ftp.ro.debian.org --dist=testing \

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-12 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:02:11AM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:48:16 -0500, John Hannibal Smith > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am I safe from getting spam on this list? Will my e-mail address > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) be sold or distributed? > > All mail to this list is ar

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Sarge Cd Installation

2004-11-12 Thread Paul Tsai
I have downloaded a weekly build of sarge and burned 9 of 13 cd's onto rewriteables (ran out). Everything is working really nicely, and I'm quite impressed. I am however wondering if there is a way for me to combine the iso's (or just the packages) together on my hard drive somewhere and get

Re: nvidia driver "disappeared"

2004-11-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I had been using nvidia's accelerated driver (version 6106) plus kernel 2.6.8 > without trouble with Sid until Nov 10 (I had done a dist-upgrade the previous > evening). Now, X says the nvidia driver does not exist. I noticed that > there was a newer version of the nvidia driver (6629) as w

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-12 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from John Hannibal Smith: > > Am I safe from getting spam on this list? Nope. The list does stop a lot of spam, but some does still come through. > Will my e-mail address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) be sold or distributed? Probably, and now that you've posted it, it's available to anyone wh

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/11/04 10:48), John Hannibal Smith wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Am I safe from getting spam on this list? Will my e-mail address > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) be sold or distributed? > > Just curious! Thanks! No it won't be sold or distributed but spammers harvest mailing list archives and news group

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-12 Thread Michael Marsh
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:48:16 -0500, John Hannibal Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am I safe from getting spam on this list? Will my e-mail address > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) be sold or distributed? All mail to this list is archived on the web, so your email address *will* be harvested by spammers.

Re: why debian

2004-11-12 Thread Rob Bochan
On Friday 12 November 2004 03:11 am, ken keanon wrote: > Hi, > > There are so many distros out there its confusing. Any reason(s) why Debian > should be the preferred choice? This is a great essay written precisely about that subject. Have a look: http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/talks/why_debi

Re: How to get more than 800x600?

2004-11-12 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Michael Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. How do I get above 800x600? > I am using ATI - Radeon 8500. > > 2. Where to application directories go like > "Program Files" in XP? > I am installing Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox. Edit you /etc/X11/XF86Config* Subsection "Display" De

Re: ide woes during installation

2004-11-12 Thread Chris Lale
On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 15:27, linux wrote: > I've just tried to install Debian 3.0r2 (woody) from the CDs on to my dual > Xeon > 250Gb HD box. Everything fine until: > > - made a bootable floppy > - rebooted from said floppy > > and now I get hundreds of "ide2 unexpected interrupt status=0xd0" m

Re: linking to scripts

2004-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 16:07 +0100, Silvan Villiger wrote: > Hi, > > I've written some scripts for a program and encountered a problem which > I'll try to explain simplified. Let's assume that my program is in the > directory /progpath/ and I have 2 scripts in /progpath/scripts/. script1 > calls

Re: How to configure network card for Sarge netinst?

2004-11-12 Thread Rick Friedman
Robert, Thank you very much. That's exactly what I needed to know. It worked perfectly. I did the install and have been grabbing packages with apt-get. Thanks for helping me get networking running. :) Rick -- "Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine

Re: VPN from win to Linux server: PPTP or OpenVPN or..?

2004-11-12 Thread Matt Barry
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 17:17 +, Joao Clemente wrote: > > So, anyone advicing PPTP over OpenVPN? If so, wich server? Poptop? > Thanks > Joao Clemente I use Poptop in several capacities on a mostly Windows-based network; to get it working (with encryption) you'll need the pptpd package (for popt

Debian and spam

2004-11-12 Thread John Hannibal Smith
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Re: why debian

2004-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 09:01 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 14:48 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:35:41 +0200, Emil Perhinschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > I don't like Debian very much :) > > > > You don't seem to explain why, though. > >

Re: why debian

2004-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 16:52 +0200, Emil Perhinschi wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 08:08:36 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I don't like Debian very much :). I started to understand Linux > > > when I used Slackware back in 1999, and I still daydream of > > > installing it bac

linking to scripts

2004-11-12 Thread Silvan Villiger
Hi, I've written some scripts for a program and encountered a problem which I'll try to explain simplified. Let's assume that my program is in the directory /progpath/ and I have 2 scripts in /progpath/scripts/. script1 calls script2 and I call script1 from /progpath/data/ because this is the p

Re: LILO menu wiped off MBR

2004-11-12 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
That should not have been affected. Just edit /etc/lilo.conf to include a suitable stanza pointing at your windows partition and re-run lilo before rebooting. If it was only a re-install in the same place, I'd expect your old lilo.conf to still work. -- richard Booting into Wi

Qlogic qla2xxx driver under Kernel 2.6.9

2004-11-12 Thread Reiner Dassing
Hello all! After searching the FAQ's without any success I hope to get a hint here in this list for solving my problem. I have a QLOGIC ql2200 HBA to connect to a SAN. The driver qla2xxx works well for kernel 2.4.27. After upgrading to kernel 2.6.9 and using the delivered driver of this kernel I g

Re: why debian

2004-11-12 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- ken keanon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > There are so many distros out there its confusing. > Any reason(s) why Debian should be the preferred > choice? > > Any statistics from any source(s) to proof the > popularity of Debian? > > I'm in the dark waiting to be enlightened. > >

Re: create GRUB boot disk (sarge)

2004-11-12 Thread Don Jackson
On Friday 12 November 2004 08:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A quick one (can't find answers by searching www.debian.org), but how do I > create a boot (rescue?) floppy for sarge which seems to use GRUB? (I tried > mkboot as per LILO but it didn't seem a happy bunny.) Thanks, Michael Michael,

Re: create GRUB boot disk (sarge)

2004-11-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/11/04 14:32), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A quick one (can't find answers by searching www.debian.org), but how do I > create a boot (rescue?) floppy for sarge which seems to use GRUB? (I tried > mkboot as per LILO but it didn't seem a happy bunny.) Thanks, Michael Googling for: grub debian h

Re: why debian

2004-11-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 14:48 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:35:41 +0200, Emil Perhinschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't like Debian very much :) > > You don't seem to explain why, though. I actually think he explained it extremely well. He uses Debian because it just

Re: why debian

2004-11-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 16:52 +0200, Emil Perhinschi wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 08:08:36 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I don't like Debian very much :). I started to understand Linux > > > when I used Slackware back in 1999, and I still daydream of > > > installing it bac

Re: Squirrelmail on stable: change_password plugin

2004-11-12 Thread Bojan Baros
Carl Fink said: > I've got Squirrelmail working on my server. I've added the > change_password plugin to it (since many users won't have shell > privileges). > > Problem is, it doesn't work. Clicking "Change Password" on the SM > "Options" screen gives this error from apache-ssl: "The requested U

Re: why debian

2004-11-12 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:35:41 +0200, Emil Perhinschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't like Debian very much :) You don't seem to explain why, though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why debian

2004-11-12 Thread Emil Perhinschi
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 08:08:36 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't like Debian very much :). I started to understand Linux > > when I used Slackware back in 1999, and I still daydream of > > installing it back > [snip] > > I guess I won't switch to other distribution any time

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-12 Thread James Vahn
{replying late to a message in linux.debian.user} >> On Wednesday 10 November 2004 05:15 pm, downtime null wrote: >> > I would like to upgrade to at least KDE 3 (3.3 would be nice), but >> > apt is giving me fits. I'm sure it's something simple that I'm just >> > overlooking. When I type the comma

create GRUB boot disk (sarge)

2004-11-12 Thread linux
A quick one (can't find answers by searching www.debian.org), but how do I create a boot (rescue?) floppy for sarge which seems to use GRUB? (I tried mkboot as per LILO but it didn't seem a happy bunny.) Thanks, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: mozilla 1.6 backport issues

2004-11-12 Thread Dave Howorth
Dave Howorth wrote: I run Woody and just upgraded my mozilla from Adrian Bunk's 1.2.1 to the 1.6 from backports.org. Sadly, it seems to have made things worse. Does anybody know how to fix any of the following: Let me add two more issues I've discovered in the past five minutes: composer crashes

mozilla 1.6 backport issues

2004-11-12 Thread Dave Howorth
I run Woody and just upgraded my mozilla from Adrian Bunk's 1.2.1 to the 1.6 from backports.org. Sadly, it seems to have made things worse. Does anybody know how to fix any of the following: font sizes -- I've always had problems with fonts in Mozilla but had something that was just abo

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