Re: Backup strategey? (Was: Preventing windows from scr...)

2001-07-29 Thread Cormac McGuinness
http://www.Linux-Backup.net/app.gwif.html Thanks, I'll look at these > > > On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > > Cormac McGuinness muttered: > > > All my files/data were gone (I had two synchronised copies though, so I > > > wasnt really worried :) )

Re: preventing windows from screwing linux up

2001-07-25 Thread Cormac McGuinness
> > How can I prevent this (other than by deinstalling windows! - my wife > > needs to use our laptop occasionally) > > Even wives can use GNU/Linux. At least my wife can. > hi :) My wife can but she'd rather not - she already has to cope with using a Mac at work! > Are you sure Windows did n

Re: Preventing windows from screwing linux up - my own fault

2001-07-24 Thread Cormac McGuinness
gt; > -Andy > > On Monday July 23 2001 17:35, Cormac McGuinness wrote: > > Hi > > I'm hoping someone can help me with my frustrating problem... > > I have a laptop, and something installed under windows 98 has now > > (twice) overwritten the initial p

Preventing windows from screwing linux up

2001-07-23 Thread Cormac McGuinness
Hi I'm hoping someone can help me with my frustrating problem... I have a laptop, and something installed under windows 98 has now (twice) overwritten the initial part of my Linux filesystem which exists in an extended partition. How can I prevent this (other than by deinstalling windows! - my wife

Re: pppd troubles

2001-07-01 Thread Cormac McGuinness
reventing me from connecting from home. This was after I had apt-get updated to testing on Saturday June 30th. I certainly get the tcsetattr error above, but not the "Couldn't attach tty to PPP unit 0", though I don't have my log file handy as it is at home. Any thoughts ? > > HTH, > -- Kevin Cormac McGuinness PhD. etc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---

Re: afterstep

2000-02-20 Thread Cormac McGuinness
as > installed/configured. I guess that I need to inform > the afterstep package maintainer about this typo. > > Thanks for all your help! -- Cormac McGuinness ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- Electronic Structure Group, Boston University Physics Department.

Netscape Roaming, IMAP and SMTP ? help ?

2000-01-27 Thread Cormac McGuinness
'd be really grateful if anyone could address either the IMAP problem or the SMTP problem... TIA Cormac p.s running a frozen potato, and using smail as my MUA ------- Cormac McGuinness e-mail: [EMAIL

Preparing debian install for alpha (multia) on an i386?

2000-01-15 Thread Cormac McGuinness
the disk ? Yours Cormac McGuinness -- Cormac McGuinness ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- Office: (617) 353 3846 Lab: (617) 353 5980 Fax: (617) 353 9393 Electronic Structure Group, Boston University Physics Department.

2 computers, 2 modems, 2 O/S's

1999-12-15 Thread Cormac McGuinness
winmodem for free, I would like to benefit from having it. (especially when I need to download the latest and greatest .debs!) Yours Cormac -- Cormac McGuinness ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Problem forwarding X over ssh

1999-12-13 Thread Cormac McGuinness
always see this. Cormac > That's it. From my workstation to other machines things work fine. It > seems only the Debian box is having problems. > > Gary -- Cormac McGuinness ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- Office: (617) 353 3846 Lab: (617) 353 5980 Fax: (617) 353 9393 Electronic Structure Group, Boston University Physics Department.

Re: FW: FTP Install

1999-08-31 Thread Cormac McGuinness
ad the installation manual and documentation and it will tell you how, but it comes down to having a copy of the contents of the disks-i386 directory on the debian archive on your windows/dos partition. Hope I havent been rude -- Cormac McGu

Network card seizes! suggestions?

1999-08-20 Thread Cormac McGuinness
Hi I have a problem I have never encountered before with 10 Debian boxes. The problem is every now and again, particularly during large transfers of files by either ftp or samba, the network card on the computer just stops! The network card is an ne2000 compatible one (or at least that is the net

Is anyone packaging tclx8.0 as a deb ?

1999-01-12 Thread Cormac McGuinness
.deb for this ? thanks in advance, Cormac McGuinness -- --- Cormac McGuinness e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROT

Re: Can Linux Box act as gateway for IPX/Novell traffic ?

1998-08-27 Thread Cormac McGuinness
"Originally from Mario Olimpio de Menezes" > On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Cormac McGuinness wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > However, the PCs in question need to acess Novell servers on the > > campus network. > > My question, then, is whether IPX

Can Linux Box act as gateway for IPX/Novell traffic ?

1998-08-25 Thread Cormac McGuinness
Services department are very Novell-centric and I would like to investigate whether Linux could do the job before accepting their solution (whatever it might be). Thanks in advance, Cormac -- --- Cormac McGuinness

Re: [latex2html] Where is html.sty ?

1998-08-10 Thread Cormac McGuinness
Hi there, thanks for the help ! "Originally from Manoj Srivastava" > Hi, > >>"Cormac" == Cormac McGuinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Cormac> Hi, I am running Debian 2.0 (hamm) and have all tetex > Cormac> packages and latex2html insta

[latex2html] Where is html.sty ?

1998-08-10 Thread Cormac McGuinness
be in /usr/lib/latex2html/texinputs Why is it not there ? yours, perplexed from dublin ------- Cormac McGuinness e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

e2compr and Debian 2.0

1998-07-27 Thread Cormac McGuinness
is the version I am still runing at home ? Will there be libc5/libc6 problems or worse ? Yours Cormac McGuinness -- --- Cormac McGuinness e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Home Network TCP/IP with PPP ?

1998-06-14 Thread Cormac McGuinness
had ppp setup on the linux machine with a minimal amount of configuration Thanks in advance a debian user -- --- Cormac McGuinness e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Using tix AND Blt with hamm system! HELP

1998-04-16 Thread Cormac McGuinness
, but blt4.2 (actually BLT v2.3) requires tk4.2 ... This means I can't run my nice application for analysing data that we generate every day in the laboratory How can I resolve this ? TIA Cormac -- --- C

Floptical disk drives: Valuestor (Sysgen)

1996-06-30 Thread Cormac McGuinness
Linux works with floptical drives ... Perhaps someone out there could give me some kind of guidance... or at least tell me where to look thanks in advance Cormac --- Cormac McGuinness