Re: I screwed up and cannot boot

At 07:10 PM 3/11/00 +, Paul J. Keenan wrote: > Reinstall time? I have /home on a separate partition. Maybe not. I ran into a similar situation (bad superblock errors) and found that it was because my original rescue disk set couldn't mount the partitions. It was solved when I downloaded an

Re: I screwed up and cannot boot

At 01:25 AM 3/11/00 -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Boot from whatever rescue disk you have, mount your Linux partition(s) (you may want to fsck them first), and run LILO with the -C option to specify a config file: Still problems. I booted off the rescue disk, and then tried to mount some

I screwed up and cannot boot

I moved some partitions around and now cannot boot Debian. Previously, I had three partitions dedicated to Mandrake (/dev/hda6-8), but deleted them so I could move my Debian partitions (/dev/hda9-13) to the old Mandrake positions. First, I changed /etc/fstab in Debian to reflect the new chang

Re: Annoying potato KDE packages

TED] < /dev/null > > ---end quoted text--- -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mutt, mailing lists, and senders

g list (leaving the name of the actually sender) in > the message list. ---end quoted text--- -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

KDE and other window managers

back to the xdm banner. Any ideas? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: netscape communicator 4.7

On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 05:31:13PM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > Is there a communicator 4.7 version uses libc6 instead > of libc5 in potota 2.2? ---end quoted text--- ...It's called mozilla. (I think all Netscapes are libc5.) -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cannot compile newest Afterstep

g, and xpm dev libraries, and the make ; make install when just fine. I wish I knew this before. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apt/dpkg...screwed up bad!

This seemed to do the trick: dpkg --clear-avail apt-get update On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 06:39:24PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > I must have really messed something up. Running either dselect or apt-get > gives me this: > > E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status

Apt/dpkg...screwed up bad!

alien, then dpkg -i the deb. Nothing was working (in terms of starting the new afterstep) so I removed the package with dselect. Now, all the problems. What can I do? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cannot compile newest Afterstep

I've followed the instructions, but never get the afterstep binary after compiling the 1.8.0 tarball source. Some error messages come up during the make ; make install stage, but nothing that looks too bad. Alas, no /usr/local/bin/afterstep, no new version. Oh well. -- David J. Kanter [

Gnome always crashes...help

DE doesn't do this. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need qt1 & qt2 to set up KDE in Enlightenment.Where??

workstations. > We specialize in multiprocessor units. > We install Debian Linux at no extra charge! > > John Foster > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ# 19460173 > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > ---end quoted text--- -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ned pointers in using KDE with Potato/Enlightenment

anks! ---end quoted text--- What exactly are you asking? If you want KDE debs, put this in your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde contrib rkrusty -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is Gnome getting more UNstable?

I can log back in. What gives? I've had to re-boot to be able to try Gnome again. Is there some wild process running? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kdevelop working?

the 1.1betas? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kdevelop working?

On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 10:45:32PM +0100, Sven Gaerner wrote: > Which line did you add to your /etc/apt/sources.list to get KDE-apps. In my > dselect > package list no KDE app is shown. ---end quoted text--- deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde contrib rkrusty -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dselect confusion

kage that's installed has the lovely *** before it? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Kdevelop working?

I keep getting this error after apt-getting kdevelop: Errors were encountered while processing: kdevelop E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) What can I do to fix this? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X/fvwm forcing me to place windows

On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 09:18:35AM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 20:26:13 CST, "David J. Kanter" writes: > >I've got fvwm set up so that when it starts, I have 2 xterms and xjed on on > >page; mutt on another; and slrn on yet another. An

Re: X/fvwm forcing me to place windows

s, a la twm. For others, the > winows happily appear themselve (xterm, exmh). And occasionally > (exmh), programs that usually work force me to place windows. ---end quoted text--- -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: startx hell

onts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" FontPath "inet/127.0.0.1:7101" EndSection Don't ask me why this works better (as opposed to a long string of FontPath variables) but it does. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

parse-xf86config error?

d an error code (1) -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A quicky on kerneld and kmod.

y a make big difference? ---end quoted text--- I think the deal is that with newer kernels, the 2.2.X variety, kmod supplants kerneld. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xconsole has vanished!

Yesterday I updated my XFree86 packages, and now the iconized xconsole window that used to appear when starting fvwm is gone. If I log on as root, it's there but as a regular user it's not. What happened? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I've got sound!

think all it does is put a module in your /lib/modules/kernel-number/misc. > And what about the ALSA driver? Can it exists with Aureal's new driver? I guess. I think I have the alsa driver installed as well. Only problem thus far is kmod won't load the module; I've got to insmod

Cannot mount all CDs

king CDs, there is a little spin-up that's absent on the CDs that won't mount. Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Playing audio CDs question

On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 01:08:01AM +, Ethan Benson wrote: > also you did logout and > login again after ... This was the problem. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Update Xfree, now xterm is monocolor

the box where I can type my username and password. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Playing audio CDs question

On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 11:32:18AM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > OK, I did chgrp cdrom /dev/hdc, and then adduser david cdrom. But now I > can't play CDs. When I start xfreecd, I get: CDROM device: Permission > denied. Do I need to change the group on the /dev/cdrom as well? ---e

Re: Playing audio CDs question

on primary its /dev/hdb.. OK, I did chgrp cdrom /dev/hdc, and then adduser david cdrom. But now I can't play CDs. When I start xfreecd, I get: CDROM device: Permission denied. Do I need to change the group on the /dev/cdrom as well? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

insmod sound question

86 alias sound au8830 alias midi au8830 -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Playing audio CDs question

Just to be sure I did this the correct Debian way: to let myself play audio CDs, I added myself to the disk group. I can play CDs now, so everything works. But again I want to do this right. Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I've got sound!

ich I'd never heard in Linux before. That was a good "pop" by the way; they were turning on. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I've got sound!

I Windows CD in Linux. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: exim appropriate for dial-up?

set up. It even has an "easy set-up" setting. Like another poster mentioned, I get a lot of mail from lists. Using exim, fetchmail, procmail and mutt couldn't make me happier. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Recompile kernel for sound?

" are apparently object files. Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PS/2 Mouse Port...related question

nfiguring /etc/gpm.conf, I > don't know what device to use for the mouse. ---end quoted text--- -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New HP Printers...?

Yeah. I use the dj550c magicfilter filter. On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 06:39:54PM -0800, Lowell Voelker wrote: > Has any one been able to use the HP DeskJet 694C. ---end quoted text--- -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ntpdate and burstmode

I would like to use ntpdate in burstmode to set my sysclock when I log on to the Internet via a PPP connection. How can I do this? I cannot seem to find any documentation beyond the fact that burstmode exists. Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to install new Window manager

ork out the answer to this question for myself? /usr/doc is a good start. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Music has been too much a part of my life to try to listen to it with one ear while digging out a liver tumor with both eyes and the other ear." -- Dr. Francis D. Moore S

Re: mutt ignoring [tags]

og# recommended VERBOSE=yes# for debugging LOGABSTRACT=all INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/lists.rc # plug-in recipies start here! ~/procmail/lists.rc: :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian/ -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Music has been too much a part of my life to tr

Re: my font suddently become very ugly

gt; FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" > > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" > > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" > > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/chinese/:unscaled" > >

fvwm2 basic question

t;I" Exec gkrellm -geometry -0+0 Style e-mail* StartsOnPage 0 1, SkipMapping + "I" Exec xterm -T "e-mail" -e mutt Style news* StartsOnPage 0 2, SkipMapping + "I" Exec xterm -T "news" -e slrn -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an

Re: PGP for Windows -> GnuPGP?

without any problems. I can email > you the relevant entries from ~/.muttrc if you like... ---end quoted text--- -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences." -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University

Menus aren't updating in fvwm2

When I apt-get a package (rxvt for instance) and it installs, no menu entry is created. What I've got to do is delete ~/.fvwm/menudefs.hook, run update-menus, then restart fvwm2. I thought menu generation was supposed to be automatic? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have

Re: PGP for Windows -> GnuPGP?

Just a quick follow-up to my post: I use Mutt and have read in one place that Mutt does not support GnuPGP (in the PGP notes in /usr/doc) and in another place, the on-line FAQ, that GnuPGP is recommended? What gives? I've got the latest Mutt from the unstable branch. Thanks. -- David J. K

PGP for Windows -> GnuPGP?

e. Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences." -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University

How do I install Netscape with Debian?

which should automagically install the tarball for me. Is this off base? Why are there so many netscape/navigator/communicator packages listed when I run dselect --- smotif, dmotif, base, java, etc.? Do I need any of these, too? Information overload... -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Hum

What are glibc2.X, libc5 and 6?

ect wanted to blow away Netscape, which is a relatively new program. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences." -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University

Fetchmailconf bug?

error: fetchmail:/home/david/.fetchmailrc:6: parse error at ' Apparently, this is the offending error: [snip] '' ssl '' because I edited it to this: [snip] "ssl" and everything was back to normal. Is this a bug? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Potato from scratch. Thanks.

h around for the right packages. You should also hit the XFree site and look up your video card; it'll tell you which server to download. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences." -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University

Re: Can't Print

TECTED]> > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > ---end quoted text--- -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences." -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University

Scwm, anyone?

I'm intrigued by scwm, and wonder if anyone else isn't able to use the configuration tool. When I select Preference->Scwm options... nothing happens. Pretty much the only thing that works in the Preferences menu is the themes. Does anyone have any pointers? Thanks. -- David J.

Why is Enlightenment slow?

e anything else? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences." -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University

Cannot install Sawmill 0.18

. What? I saw it being downloaded, and see it in /var/cache/apt/archives. Any ideas? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences." -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University

Re: Slrnpull error

ever it had to do? On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 10:32:24AM +0100, Colin Marquardt wrote: > * David J Kanter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For some reason, when I try to run slrn --spool, I get this error message: > > slrn fatal error: > > slrn: pid 1549 is locking th

Re: procmail

> "|exec /usr/bin/procmail" > > Or, if using exim: > > |/usr/bin/procmail -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences." -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University

Slrnpull error

For some reason, when I try to run slrn --spool, I get this error message: slrn fatal error: slrn: pid 1549 is locking the newsrc file. For this reason, I guess, nothing shows up in the spooled slrn window. What can I do to fix this? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans

Cannot create ksymoops*.ksyms?

, etc. Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences." -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University

My ppp connection is (stalling)

I remember reading something about PPP and the 2.2.X kernels. Could that be what's going on? I've got my pon configured to use all the compressions I can. Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coinc

Adding Styles to Blackbox window manager

entries for the Styles I've downloaded? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences." -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University

Re: Cannot print after kernel upgrade

refused Make sure LPD server is running on the server job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed Still no luck. But this works: milwaukee:~# ls > /dev/lp0 Any other suggestions? On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 06:14:15PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > I upg

Cannot print after kernel upgrade

I have used lpc to stop/restart my printer, but still I cannot print to lp1, even though magicfilter is set up for lp1. Any ideas? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences." -- John Allen Paulos, mathemat

/usr/src and file permissions

12:33 src Could someone explain the difference? I tried setting chmod g=+r+w+s /usr/src, but that apparently didn't work. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences." -- John Allen Paulos, mathem

Core dumps & /proc/kcore

I'm trying to free up some disk space so hunted for core dumps. All I could find (find / -name "core" -xdev) was /proc/kcore, which is a whopping 131Mb. Is this a monolithic core dump that can be deleted? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate t

Kernel-image 2.2.10 or linux.tar.gz 2.2.10?

I've got the sources: the tar.gz file. Is the kernel-image just a generic kernel to get you running? And is the potential error with the system.map easily fixable if I were to use the tar.gz file? (Just look for where the symlink points to the new system.map, right?) Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [

Slink + some Potato = What?

id the Slink version? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences." -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University

Apting to a ZIP

est in using wget. I just want to FTP a bunch of files from a mirror onto my ZIP and go. So, what's the best way of getting the list of files apt-get dist-upgrade needs? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies

Re: emacs and word processing

On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 01:45:35AM +0100, Philip Lehman wrote: > However, when adding a > word to a paragraph or deleting some words I miss a convenient way to > re-justify the whole paragraph, something like hitting ^J in Pico. It's M-q -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] &

Gnome is a G-nightmare!

it. What gives? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences." -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University

What do I REALLY need for Potato upgrade?

I'm in the process of going from Slink to Potato, but I've got a modem. I'm not going to download all the updated packages, but what should I get to get a relatively solid Potato build? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency to attri

Scwm takes forever to load

Why does scwm take forever to load? Do I have to byte-compile something here? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences." -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University

Potato's pon/poff

pon works, but poff doesn't. poff complains that /bin/kill doesn't exist. Looking at poff, KILL=/bin/kill, and sure enough there isn't a /bin/kill. What am I missing here? Instead I've been typing killall -9 pppd. It works. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans h

Re: Sawmill window manager

the only w/o the Debian menus. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences." -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University

Sawmill window manager

Is there a pre-Sawmill intro anywhere so I can learn how to use the functions? For instance, I looked at the Popup menu info node because I'd like to add a program to the Applications menu, but have no clue on how to do it. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency

fvwm2 question

How can I get an xterm to start on a specific virtual desktop in fvwm2? I've got this in my init-restart.hook: + "I" Exec xterm -xrm "*Page:0 2 1" but that doesn't seem to work. I'm using the default Debian system.fvwm2rc with one desktop but a 3x3 virtual

Can't change window managers "on the fly"

I used to be able to change window managers "on the fly" by selecting a manager from the Window Managers menu. But after updating a few managers to the Potato version, selecting a new manager from the Window Manager menu kicks me out to the xbanner login. Any ideas? -- David J. Kan

Menus in X Windows

that all the managers can read? Or is it that the packages are maintained so nicely that part of the installation is to put menu entries in the appropriate "language" for each window manager? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significa

Jed and ispell

I've hunted around the man page, but I can't seem to find a way to have jed use ispell on anything more than one word (ESC $). Is there a way to have jed spell-check the whole document? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significan

Why use Enlightenment?

Am I the only one who finds Enlightenment bloated, too busy and too hard to read? I'm willing to listen to those who use it; but after trying it out last night, I'm not too willing to switch from my speedy and trusty fvwm2 or window maker. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "

Wvdial and non-root access

d has been added to both the dip and dialout groups. Any idea why root still is only able to use wvdial? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1

Upgrading perl problem

me, or should I override this? And if so, how do I override this? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1

Re: Installing Linux (RedHat) on NT 4.0

as good as the above > was! > > Any suggestions are welcomed! > > Cheers, > Henrik > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > ---end quoted text--- -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1

Perl problem with fvwmconf

-LoopBreak option. E: Internal Error, Could not early remove perl-base My questions are: 1. Should I proceed anyway? Some perl packages were downloaded with the fvwmconf files. 2. How do I run APT::Force-LoopBreak option? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1

Re: Error using apt-get install

I fixed the problem. Yes, I touched the ntpdate file, but then cmod +x'ed it. Now that it's an executable, everything goes OK. On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 08:10:06PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > David J. Kanter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I tried this, but I still get the

Wmload is messed up

mite thing, isn't it?) Wmload is docked with WindowMaker. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1

Re: Error using apt-get install

I tried this, but I still get the same error. Any other ideas? Thanks. On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 08:00:31PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > David J. Kanter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/ntpdate: file does not exist > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/ntpdate.pos

Error using apt-get install

le or directory dpkg: error processing ntpdate (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: ntpdate E: Sub-process returned an error code (1) Thanks for any help. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1

Re: a2ps margins

2ps margins? When using the two page default layout, it > prints just about outside of what my printer accepts, making the leftmost > column unreadable. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1

Did Mutt eat my mail?

magically appeared. What happened? Did I swamp fetchmail and it needed to catch its breath? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1

Sudo and other root-based security issues

ecure is it to run sudo on something like wvdial or slrnpull? I'm generally under the impression that once logged on as root and on-line with the Internet, anyone can crack into my system. This has got to be wrong, right? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1

hwclock and fear of rebooting

yway, if I reboot will I the hwclock settings in the drift file be affected, and therefore I'll have to start all over again? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1

My broken iceconf

I have Slink, but update the icewm and iceconf packages. Now when I run iceconf, I get this error message: Can't locate object method "add_with_viewport" via package "Gtk::ScrolledWindow" at /usr/bin/iceconf line 312 Until I updated iceconf and icewm, this didn'

WMPPP.APP and transfer rate

For some reason, my docked icon for wmppp.app (I'm using WindowMaker) will NOT show the transfer rate until about 1 minute and 10 seconds into the connection. Until then, it shows "0K0" It wasn't doing this a couple of days ago. Any ideas? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1

Redialing ppp

vdial, pon/poff, and ppp-on/ppp-off. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1

Modem connection transfer rate

: bsd_comp and slhc. Did these "magically appear" because of what I added to the above file? And if so, was I correct in installing these modules (changing the - to a +)? Thankks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1

Creating/Moving a partition

set-up files will I have to modify to make sure things go smoothly? I assume I'll have to change fstab. But then do I have to move all contents of the current /var to the new /var? Could I create the new partition using a temporary name, move all the /var stuff to it, then rename it to /var? Th

"Cleaning out" dselect

update some of my Slink packages to Potato. The problem is, dselect "remembers" all those screw ups I made; it still has a list of all those packages that I'd put on hold or flag for deletion. Is there any way to wipe the slate clean and get rid of this mystery cache list? What do

apt-get dist-upgrade problem

When attempting to upgrade, in pieces, from Slink to Potato, I got this error message when typing apt-get dist-upgrade: E: Sorry, you don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/ Do I have too small a partition, is that the problem? What can I do to fix this? Thanks. -- Da

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